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5 Tips To Conquer IELTS Reading

If you find IELTS reading a challenge or have any issues around IELTS reading, then this post will definitely help you to overcome these. I love IELTS reading. I find the passages interesting. I love the kind of ‘forensic’ work that you have to do to find the answers. I enjoy skimming, scanning, looking for […]

Busting IELTS Reading Myths

Things I call IELTS Reading Myths are things you might be doing in your IELTS reading that are not helping you boost your IELTS reading score. In fact, they can hinder you from getting a good score. If your scores in reading are not reaching your target and you don’t know why, then maybe you are doing some […]

IELTS Reading – How to manage your time

The one thing that a lot of people post about or ask questions about when it comes to IELTS Reading is the timing. IELTS Students often tell me they have a problem with the timing. However, in my experience, their problem is rarely timing. This is because if you can do the reading well and […]

The Truth about Skimming and Scanning

Question: Do I need to skim and scan in IELTS reading? Answer: Yes you do. These are important reading skills which will help you to extract information quickly from a large body of text; this is exactly the skill that is being tested in IELTS reading. It’s important to understand the difference between them and use […]

3 tips to help with Headings in IELTS Reading

(a quick one today ) I often get asked about headings in IELTS reading so if this question type causes you some problems here are 3 things to do to try and get more answers correct. Skim the paragraph (you need good skimming skills here to make this quick), then ask yourself ‘what is this telling […]

3 Top IELTS Reading Tips

I’ve been thinking about reading a lot this week (did you see the video I posted?) – mostly because I have been working on this area of IELTS with a few students and looking at some of the things that they are doing which are stopping them from getting a good result. I thought I would […]

1 important way to improve IELTS reading exponentially!

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I did a little survey (more like a straw poll really) to find out about IELTS students’ habits in IELTS reading as I was a little surprised that so many students seem to get stuck and despite their efforts don’t seem to make any headway. One thing I learnt about how students work on reading […]

2 Quick IELTS Reading Tips

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(short and sweet today) I get asked all the time about reading and how to conquer it. To which I have 2 answers:Firstly – have a good level of English (vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure etc.)Secondly, – acquire great techniques (skimming, scanning, key words)Now practise and practise and practise and when you’ve done that, practise some more.Oh, […]

IELTS Reading made easy – the 3 SSS’s

Sometimes ‘acronyms’ can be helpful to remember things so I have come up with one for IELTS reading – SSS (sounds like a snake) but it stands for Simple – Systematic – Successful! SimpleReading isn’t difficult but it is often made difficult, in my opinion by students making ‘a mountain out of a molehill’ in […]

IELTS Reading summaries with a list

Of the two summary questions in IELTS Reading, the one where you have a list of words is the most difficult. This is because there are more steps to this type of question and also the words may not be exact synonyms but there will be words there in the box that look as though […]

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