How to effectively improve the speed of IELTS reading and problem solving

First of all, the reading ability needs to be improved.

1. Improve your reading skillsImproving our reading ability is mainly reflected in being able to read the text quickly, and the difficulty that hinders us from reading the article is usually too many words and sentences that are too difficult. Due to the wide range of topics in IELTS articles, from nature and culture to economics and technology, you will encounter a large number of new words when reading IELTS articles. In order to cope with these new words, in addition to strengthening the memory of IELTS reading words, you also need to improve your guessing ability.

In addition to new words, there will also be some long and difficult sentences that are difficult to understand in the IELTS essay. For the study of long and difficult sentences, you can refer to the explanation of IELTS grammar. Most of the common long and difficult sentences are compound sentences composed of inverted sentences, conditional sentences, and noun clauses.

Familiarity with the splitting techniques of long and difficult sentences will also be of great help to our understanding of long and difficult sentences.

2. Master appropriate reading methodsIn addition to the intensive reading method that we are accustomed to, the more important IELTS reading skills that we need to master are skimming and scanning reading skills. This is due to the fact that the IELTS reading texts are very logical and follow the structure of the argument for the total score. Therefore, if you still use the intensive reading method, it is easy to show average effort when doing the questions, focus on the details and lose the grasp of the whole article.

The IELTS Reading test has a strict time limit and requires candidates to complete all the questions within the allotted time. Therefore, you need to master the speed reading skills to find the correct answer quickly. It takes a lot of training.

Here's how to improve your IELTS reading speed, take a look.

Look for locators.

Each question in IELTS Reading has a location information that can help us locate the focus in the text and find the answer. So grasp this rule and find the core words in the article. Some of the locators are obvious, such as name, date, number, location, etc.

At the same time, to find the locator word, it is necessary to consider whether the locator can be synonymously converted.

There is no need to understand the full text.

When doing reading questions, your task is to find the answer quickly. Most questions test your ability to quickly locate information and understand sentences. In the IELTS Reading test, there are only two types of questions that can test your comprehension of the full text – title matching questions and multiple-choice questions.

Therefore, according to the time situation, you can answer the orange eggplant question, and you don't need to understand the gist of the whole text to grasp the correct answer.

Increase your vocabulary.

A small vocabulary is one of the main reasons why you can't get the desired score. Learning vocabulary is not only about learning the meaning of a word, but also about paying attention to the skill of using a word. At the same time, it is also necessary to pay attention to the collocation of words, such as gerund collocation.

You can jot down common synonyms as you prepare for exams, or you can jot down synonyms that prevent you from looking for answers as you practice. Learn vocabulary through regular reading exercises.

Consolidate grammar. In some IELTS reading questions (e.g. summary and fill-in-the-blank), candidates are required to form a correct grammatical sentence after filling in the blanks. As a result, by improving grammar and the ability to understand long sentences quickly, the range of correct answers can be quickly narrowed.

Habit hard article.

Before you take the exam, you should constantly improve your reading skills and become familiar with complex texts on different topics. You can choose to read BBC news and develop a good reading habit, which will not only broaden your horizons, but also allow you to learn more about foreign information.

There are many types of IELTS reading questions, and on the basis of being able to effectively master the skills of each question type, it can improve the efficiency of answering questions in the test.

1. Basic words.

Generally, IELTS reading involves a large vocabulary, and many of them are professional vocabulary, which is rarely exposed to at ordinary times, generally speaking, there are about 4,000 words, that is, the level 4 can take the test.

For students with weak vocabulary, it is necessary to supplement basic vocabulary such as common verbs and conjunctions in time to lay a solid foundation for reading training.

It is also necessary to strengthen the understanding of the meaning of the word, it is easy to forget or confuse the meaning of the word, leading to a wrong understanding, so pay attention to the understanding of the general meaning and extended meaning of the word.

How to make flashcards. You can make flashcards with instructions in both English and Chinese on the front and back. Make a plan to memorize a certain number of new words every day, repeat and keep adding them. This approach requires persistence, and it can only be effective through persistence.

2. Read the sentence.

When it comes to sentence comprehension, a common mistake is to understand it based on your own experience. Some questions in IELTS reading: The comprehension of a sentence in a passage requires contextual understanding, and it is also necessary to have a deep understanding of compound sentences.

Especially in compound sentences, the sentence structure should be considered and analyzed from the perspective of grasping the subject-verb structure. Be sure to base on the original text and locate the original text. This requires a lot of practice, familiarity with the framing style of IELTS reading texts, and adaptation to the reading of long and difficult sentences and various sentence patterns.

3. Understand the full text.

IELTS Reading pursues a combination of speed and accuracy, and mastering some reading skills while practicing will get twice the result with half the effort.

The key to a quick read is to grasp the main idea of each paragraph while going through the full text, and mark it so that after reading the full text, you can have a general idea of the structure of the article.

In addition, when reading texts, try to avoid bad habits such as using words as units and pausing on new words.

1. IELTS reading knowledge.

1.Academic.

Applicable to: Applying for undergraduate, graduate or above or professional qualifications for studying abroad.

Exam content: 1) 3 paragraphs and corresponding questions.

2) Genres range from descriptive to factual, from prose to analytical.

4) Positive Lee articles of authentic publications.

2.Training.

Suitable for: Entry applications or training and non-diploma courses in English-speaking countries.

Exam content: 1) 3 paragraphs and corresponding questions.

4) The third paragraph is a long article on a certain topic.

5) Articles of authentic publications.

2. Exam preparation skills.

1.Familiarize yourself with the past questions and exam time.

Be sure to practice in strict accordance with the 60-minute test time when doing the real questions, and consciously reserve time to fill in the answer sheet, so that the test time is more accurate and familiar.

2.Read the article intensively.

3.Analyze the answer and find out the intent of the question.

When completing a set of reading questions, in addition to analyzing the reasons why you did the wrong questions, you should also make an analysis of the questions. Learn to analyse the intent of the question and think about why you are doing it from the perspective of an IELTS examiner.

4.Synonym substitution.

There are a lot of synonym substitutions in the IELTS test, whether it's reading, listening, writing or speaking, and Mori Kiyoshu has these types of words sorted out.

Because the words in the options or questions are not necessarily the words in the reading article, you should pay more attention to the synonym substitution of words and pay attention to the morphological changes.

Here are a few ways to improve your reading:

1 is the number of words that everyone knows. Words are the basis of all English tests, when your vocabulary reaches the point where you know 90% of the words in an IELTS reading, then your speed of reading the passage and your correct rate must be faster and higher than those students with low word volume, so if you want to improve your IELTS reading score, you must first improve your word volume.

2. It is a long and difficult sentence, many students have a doubt that I know all the words in a sentence, but I just can't understand what this sentence is saying.

If you can get about 100 IELTS reading long and difficult sentences before the test, then you will not be afraid to go to the test room. The purpose of learning grammar is to help us understand sentences and write correct sentences, so in the IELTS reading review, you don't need to know those very small grammar knowledge points, you just need to figure out the subject-verb-object of the sentence and find its backbone, then you will naturally be able to understand these sentences, so understanding 100 long and difficult sentences between exams will be of great help to improve your reading score.

3. In the case of enough words and can understand long and difficult sentences, what you also need to do is to understand the problem-solving skills of various question types, only when you understand all three, you will be able to read IELTS.

Below I will start from different question types and share some methods:

2. Fill in the blanks (summary): The test method of this question is to abbreviate or rewrite the main content of the original text or several paragraphs in the original text into a small paragraph of text, and there will be several blank parts in this text that we need to fill in. When doing this kind of question, first look at the first sentence carefully to find out which part of the article it is, and then go to the original text to find the corresponding words with the words before and after the space, so as to determine what to fill in the blank part, and then fill in the corresponding vocabulary according to the part of speech, grammar, question requirements, etc.

4. True or false question (true false not given): first locate and find which sentence or paragraph in the article corresponding to this sentence, if the following situations occur, then it is true, for example: the title is a synonymous expression of the original text; The title is an inference or generalization made based on a few sentences in the original text.

It is false if the title is directly opposite to the original text (usually with antonyms, not plus synonyms and antonym structures), the original text is a juxtaposition of multiple conditions and the title is one of them, the original text is people's theory or feeling about something while the title emphasizes objective facts, the words in the original text and the title indicate the range frequency possibility differently, and so on. Not given if:

Some of the content in the title is not mentioned in the original text, or the scope of the title is smaller than the scope of the original text, etc.