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Find the answer and the sentence that proves it.
17 topics · Explanations are in the language of this page (Azerbaijani where there is no translation yet), with examples in English.
Learn the difference between a contradiction and missing information, using a short text.
Finding the same word in the text is not proof of the answer.
Learn when to get the big picture and when to search for a specific detail.
Choose the main idea of the whole paragraph, not a small detail.
Check the words from the text, the word limit and the grammar of the gap together.
Locate specific information such as an example, a reason or a comparison.
Tell the writer's own view from the opinion of someone they quote.
Work out just enough meaning from context, and keep the question in mind.
Spot options that use words from the text but link them in the wrong way.
Don't look only at your score: decide what you will change next time.
This strategy lesson teaches you not to freeze when you meet unknown words in IELTS Reading passages, to recover the meaning with definition, contrast and example clues, and to know when it is simply right to skip a word and move on.
You have no time to read every word in IELTS Reading: in this lesson you will learn the difference between skimming and scanning, a 60-second skim routine and sets of timed drills you can do alone at home.
This material teaches the difference between Matching Information and Matching Features questions in IELTS Reading, why the answers do not follow paragraph order, and the name-and-feature anchoring technique, with full analysis and practice on original passages.
Learn how to stay within the word limit, predict the part of speech of a gap and follow the paraphrase trail through the passage in summary and sentence completion tasks — with an original passage and fully explained answers.
A realistic plan for fitting three long passages into 60 minutes: minutes per passage, the 90-second skip rule and answer-sheet discipline — all in this strategy material.
This strategy covers the skimming technique that catches the main idea without reading every paragraph word by word, where the topic sentence hides, and the traps that lead you away from the correct heading.
Learn once and for all what each of the three verdicts means, how to find the exact evidence sentence in the text, and how simple NOT GIVEN actually is.
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