Time management techniques to complete your IELTS Reading test in time
Time is a big huddle in IELTS Reading as the student has to complete the given task of solving 40 questions in just 60 minutes. It’s hard for anyone to accomplish the mission without any specific trick. In today’s article we will discuss some time management techniques to complete your IELTS Reading test in time.
There are specific 9 strategies to boost your IELTS reading speed and try to work on these strategies.
1. Firstly, check your requirements how many answers you need to correct.
Time management techniques, you need to divert their mind from incorrect answers as well as don’t take stress about getting all the answer correct.
If you want to get 6 band, then you need to achieve 23/40 in Academic or 30/40 in GT.
Moreover, students should not squander their time on an answer, if you are not able to find the correct answer.
Students should try to solve next question that is an easier for them.
2. Learners should have knowledge regarding text types and different types of questions
Reading speed can be developed by techniques:
1. Learners should be master/perfect to understand the vocabulary, synonyms, parallel structures, paragraphs and many more.
2. Try to recognize/ understand the demand of the question like text structure, topics and question types.
So if you want to solve all the questions in time you should work on a combination of these.
Vocabulary is also very important if you want to achieve your target so you should have a good hand in it. You should know about the text types, question types which can come in the exam and also how to solve them in a short span of time.
3. Text structures
You should have a sound knowledge of text structures as this will help you to predict answers quickly.
4. Skim the questions
You should always read and understand the questions before moving to the passage. This will help you locate answers quickly and accurately.
5. Practice all question types
You should practice all question types, you should not think that “I am very much familiar to this question type” or “I am too good in this and there is no need to practice it”. You should devote proper time to each type of question and in which you are bit weak you should focus more on them. Many students find true, false, not given difficult on the other hand some find match the headings difficult. If you find any specific question type difficult you should focus on it more.
7. Time bond practice
You should always do a time bond practice i.e. always allow yourself to complete the reading test in 60 minutes. You should divide your time in a proper way or as advised by your trainer, mostly it is recommended that you should give 20 minutes to each part of the IELTS Reading test. As you move on the difficulty level of the test increases. So in the last part the difficulty level is on hike and even the passage become lengthy so it take more time to solve the questions. To complete this part in time you should have some extra time in your hand.
8. Read fast
It is very essential that you enhance your reading speed as if you read slowly than it is hard even to skim and for completing your task you have to skim and scan whole text. If you are a slow reader and want to improve your score than you should learn some techniques by which you can enhance your reading speed.
Thank You 🙂
complete your IELTS Reading test in time
complete your IELTS Reading test in time