Is the difficulty of the three IELTS readings necessarily progressive?

In the early days of IELTS, the first article of IELTS reading was mainly biochemistry, the second was social, and the third was a science and technology topic, and the difficulty was indeed in increasing order. But in recent years, the difficulty has not been so regular. Whether you want to adjust the order of doing the questions, mainly depends on the type of question you are best at**, for example, some people do list if headings are very good, and the first article does not have this type of question, the second article has, you can do passage 2 appropriately, this adjustment is also to accumulate enough "confidence", so as to avoid the important and light.

Of course, candidates with a higher level do not need to consider the order of the questions.

Hello classmates, IELTS mainly tests listening, speaking, reading and writing, with a full score of 9 points, full-time test, the test time is 2 hours and 45 minutes, the registration fee is 1750, the way of IELTS score is four subjects compared to dividing by 4, the test score is only valid for 2 years, and it is an English proficiency test for people who plan to study, work or settle in an English-speaking country. It is divided into academic and general classes, with the academic class for studying abroad and the general class for immigration. The same questions apply to Listening and Speaking for Academic and General Classes, and different questions are used for Reading and Writing.

Listening, Reading, and Writing must be completed on the same day, and Speaking may be arranged before or after other sections depending on the test center.

In the early days, there was a gradual level of difficulty, but recently, the difficulty is not so regular, mainly depending on what type of question you are best at.

Hope it helps.

Not necessarily. It depends on the type of question. In fact, the last question is not necessarily difficult, it may just be a little longer than the article, you have to learn to grasp the key points, and finally there are a few multiple-choice questions.

The most disgusting second question is likely to result in the Broken Offspring Problem, the so-called Paired Connection Problem. this Nima, it's hard! It's so hard! You should make a wish that this type of question will not appear.

There are also quiz questions, but they are all very simple. ......For example, if you look at my above paragraph, what is called the question of cutting off children and grandchildren? - That's probably the kind of question. Super simple.

Hope to get yours.

There is no progressive relationship in the difficulty of reading an article.

IELTS has been in China for almost 20 years, and in general, the difficulty of IELTS has changed; The questions themselves, the grading criteria are getting harder and harder. Let's talk about whether IELTS reading is an increasing difficulty, don't miss it.

1. Basic capabilities.

The difficulty of synonym substitution increases, while the overall difficulty of the range of words and the range of long difficult sentences does not change much. Synonym checking is basically a simple counterpart to two recognized words, but now it is possible that the original text and title can only recognize one word, and the difficulty of synonym substitution check has increased.

Second, the way to solve the problem.

As long as there is no change in the type of question, the previous coping methods are still effective, and the ineffective ones are the masking methods.

In the early days of IELTS reading preparation, there were some candidates who had a mediocre vocabulary, but after learning the skills, they scored above their level, and this is almost not the case now.

3. Positioning. Nowadays, there are more and more words without obvious locators, which makes it more difficult for candidates to find, requiring candidates to go through the text, and even the locator words themselves are replaced by synonyms in the original text.

In addition, there are two cases that often occur in reverse order and large spans, and in reverse order, i.e., the first question is in the third paragraph. A large span means that the interval between the first question and the second question is too long in the original text.

4. Suggestions for exam preparation.

1.Words are the foundation.

When reading an article, it is normal for new words to appear. Proper nouns are not words that focus attention, but synonyms that need to be noted that are often replaced. So, memorize more words and summarize synonyms in past papers.

2.Learn how to match.

When the body of an article is tagged by an ABCD paragraph, it may be a paragraph heading or paragraph information issue. Paragraph headings focus on the summary of each paragraph, and paragraph information matching focuses on detail investigation and information selection.

To ask such a question, first of all, it depends on whether there is more than one such hint. Then read the sentences for each question, roughly determine its position in the passage and the approximate order of the questions, and then find the key words for the target paragraph.

If there is a clear background or history in the description of an issue, the first and second paragraphs should be used to describe the context in which the writing was written. If the title description has obvious meaning, such as **, future, promotion, etc., then focus on the positioning of the last two paragraphs, mainly a summary of the whole article and an outlook for the future.

To sum up, the key to paragraph information matching problems is to read the question stem, grasp the position of the content described in the question stem before and after the article, grasp the core words, and find the synonym substitution in the target paragraph.

3.The right direction.

Although IELTS reading is getting more and more difficult, as long as you improve your basic knowledge, find the right study method, and find the right teacher, you can still effectively break through IELTS.

In particular, it is necessary to be targeted and selective to learn the methods that suit you to do the problems, and do not blindly learn methods from the Internet.

Many test takers have this question, that is, which of the three essays in the official IELTS test process is generally more difficult? Or how should the questions be arranged? Some people will think of it as basically increasing in difficulty from normal logic; There are also people who think that sometimes the second part is the most difficult, or even the first part, based on their own test experience.

The author believes that since Chinese candidates do not use English as a native language, then in the case of limited vocabulary, reading ability, and speed, the familiarity of the topic of the article and the amount of background knowledge will directly cause the subjective feeling of the difficulty of the specific test article, which actually explains why for the same test, the same article, the English level is actually not much different, and several candidates will have very different views on the difficulty of the article. In fact, this phenomenon is not uncommon in online reminiscences.

Therefore, a more rational approach is to face up to the objective difficulty stability of the test questions on the one hand, and actively adopt ways to avoid or at least reduce the negative impact of the subjective difficulty of the essay on the other hand. We recommend:

Candidates should use the shortest time (no more than one minute) to get the whole paper in the shortest time (no more than one minute) as soon as they receive the instruction from the examination room.

Rearrange the order of the questions in the whole volume according to the individual's familiarity and interest in the topic, taking into account the overall impression, the most obvious repetitions, and all the available information such as the full text title, paragraph subsection headings, and illustrations.

After this processing, the passage 1 2 3 of the exam is no longer the order indicated in the question booklet in the candidate's hand, but subjectively for the candidate, the passage 1 2 3 is arranged in the order of increasing difficulty coefficient, and the first to complete is the article that the candidate feels the most confident and kind, that is, the easiest article.

Please note that in the context of the IELTS test and the amount of questions, the psychological state of most test takers in the test room greatly affects the final level performance. Therefore, it is recommended that candidates practice and familiarize themselves with the overall sequencing of a complete set of questions in the pre-test comprehensive mock test, so as to have a better one in the actual exam in the future. It is important to note that the issues discussed in this article are specific to academic reading.

The time for reading the three IELTS texts should be allocated as follows: ?To train the ability to complete an essay in 16 minutes. For example, if an essay consists of three topics, which are 5, 5, and 3, then according to the proportion of the difficulty we are talking about, the topics that can be determined and made by the reincarnation should be:

Then we only need to determine the position of the topic in the original text and narrow its scope according to the classification of the options. This is also called "doing useful work".

Because, as long as it is uncertain to sell it in front of it, it can only be "blind"; However, "blindness" should also have a direction and not be "blind". And there is no need to waste time on "blinding". In this way, the whole three articles should be done in about 54 minutes, and you can be sure that you can do it

Answers" of 25 questions; Next, use the remaining six wisdom sparrows to tease the minutes to "blind" the "15" to the difficult problem (40%) that has determined the degree of difficulty, because it is an "effective mask", according to the probability of the probability of being blinded, the probability of being correct will be close to 50%, that is, about 7.

After deducting the 25 questions that have been made due to sloppiness or other reasons, students of the latter ordinary level can also complete 26 questions within the specified time. This is the application of tactics, rationally allocating your resources to maximize utility.

1. Word difficulty: to memorize words, candidates can memorize by making word cards, writing English spelling on the front and Chinese paraphrasing on the back. Memorize a certain amount of new words every day, and keep adding them, and it can also be out of order.

Of course, the most effective thing is to memorize words in context, that is, in the text, each word has a context, and it is more solid to remember words in a certain context, and you also know how to use words.

2. Difficulty in long sentences: When encountering more complex sentences, you should calm down and analyze the sentence structure from grasping the main stem of the sentence and the subject-verb structure one by one. No matter how difficult a sentence is, remove it from the main part and grasp the main part of the expression, then it will not be a problem to understand the article.

However, how to grasp the backbone of long and difficult sentences really needs to be practiced by candidates, and candidates can start from the grammar aspect.

3. Speed difficulty: Master some reading skills, get rid of some bad habits, will help to speed up when reading the article, the key to fast reading is to grasp the main idea of the paragraph when scanning the article, and make marks, and have a general understanding of the structure of the article after reading the article.

Hello classmates:

The IELTS reading test can be said to be getting more and more difficult, the length is increasing year by year, in the face of dense words, we sigh at the same time, we do have to speed up, fast reading as a necessary skill for the IELTS reading test, how should we hold fast reading, get a high score in the reading test?

Candidates should make it clear that the IELTS test mimics the use of language in real life, so IELTS Reading follows the real-life reading habit of information retrieval. The principle of IELTS Reading – not reading comprehension, but just reading questions. When doing a question, you should first look at the question, and then take the question to find, retrieve, and locate information in the text, rather than trying to understand every sentence.

In addition, learn to make marks where you can't read. One of the major obstacles to reading speed is looking back at difficult points repeatedly. In fact, if you don't know what to expect after reading a sentence twice, you should put a question mark next to it and skip reading the rest of the sentence.

If the question mark is about the question, go back and read it again.

The real reading process should look like this. First, read the opening paragraph, this part of the introductory material gives us an idea of the main idea of the article; Secondly, read the first sentences of the following paragraphs, which can give us a general idea of what the article is about; Again, read the last paragraph, which helps us to summarize what we are reading. Finally, we also note the following:

1.Take advantage of the printing details.

For example, preview skimming of the article's title, subheading, subheading, italics, bold words, footnotes, punctuation, etc. **Skimming should understand the author's thinking, style (pattern) in order to grasp the gist of the article, relevant details and their relationships.

2.Read the topic sentence and closing sentence of the paragraph.

Grasp the main idea of the paragraph by grasping the topic sentence, and then omit the details and not read it, in order to improve the reading speed.

3.Pay attention to inflections and sequence words.

Inflections such as however, moreover, in addition, etc.; Sequence words such as firstly, secondly, etc.

4.If you don't need to, you don't have to read the details.

Business Week. The Economist:

Financial Times:

The Guardian:

Read daily. National Geographic.

New scientists. Science USA:

Look at the question first, and then position it in the article.

If the article has subheadings, you can read the subheadings first to understand the structure.

IELTS is a longer reading, you have to learn to read quickly, learn to orient, and change words.