How to improve IELTS reading speed and accuracy at the same time?

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.

Don't read the whole IELTS reading, otherwise you won't be able to read it at all. Generally speaking, look at the head and tail sweep in the middle. Most of the central sentences of the paragraph will appear at the beginning and end, so if you look closely, just scan the middle part and read it quickly.

For fill-in-the-blank questions, most of them can be concentrated on a certain paragraph, and the answer words are generally picked out from the article in order, if the original words are really not found, most of them will be synonyms replaced, and the synonyms can be filled in.

true, false, not given are generally a question corresponding to a paragraph. Usually, there is only one not given, the others are either true or false, and if you have more than 2 not given in your answer, then there is an 80% chance that you are doing something wrong. Therefore, even if it is Meng, there can only be one not given

If you can't improve your speed, then you can only work on accuracy. Relatively speaking, filling in the blanks is the easiest, and the choice of paragraph meaning is the most difficult, and there has been a trend in IELTS questions in recent years, filling in the blanks is becoming less and less, and there are more and more choices corresponding to paragraph meaning. The lack of vocabulary is the root cause of inaccurate comprehension of the meaning of the paragraph, so it is important to improve the vocabulary, especially the core common vocabulary (that is, those words that are deeper than the basic vocabulary but do not reach the difficulty of professional vocabulary.

For example, the word perspective is higher than opinion, but it often appears in exams, so you should memorize it; A technical word like entreperneurship, there is no need to memorize it).

The recovery of reading ability is by no means effective in a week or two. Therefore, you should be guaranteed at least half an hour of reading every day. Through reading, the sense of language is restored.

In reading, the focus should not be on new words, but on acquiring information. If you don't understand something, skip over it first, maintain a certain reading speed, and read word groups instead of reading individual words, otherwise it will affect your comprehension. The more extensive the material, the better, as long as it is in English, whether it is newspapers and magazines, **, or manuals, you can read it.

This lays the foundation for informative speed reading in the reinforcement phase.

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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.