Success story

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Personal records
- Band 8.0
- Band 9.0 in reading (L:8.5; R:9.0;W:7.0;S:8.0)
- 8 years of teaching experience
- 5 years as an IELTS instructor
- Students’ results up to 8.0

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Reading
- 12 types of question
- 60 minutes
- 40 questions

1. Multiple choice
2. True / False / Not Given
3. Yes / No / Not Given
4. Matching information
5. Matching headings
6. Matching features
7. Matching sentence endings
8. Sentence completion
9. Note/table/flow-chart completion
10. Diagram label completion
11. Short-answer questions
12. Summary completion

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2 of the most challenging question types
- Matching headings
- True/False/Not given

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Matching headings:
This type of task requires you to choose a heading which
correctly summarises the whole paragraph. Often, it is
possible to find one sentence in a paragraph which
conveys the main idea - this is known as the topic sentence.

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Topic sentence
The topic sentence can frequently be found at the start of
the paragraph, but can appear in the middle, or even at
the end. Sometimes a paragraph may not have one single,
clear topic sentence at all, and the main idea can only be
understood by reading the paragraph in full.

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Let’s practice

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True/False/Not Given:
TRUE means the information matches what the text says.
FALSE means that the information is contradicted by the text.
NOT GIVEN means that the statement is neither confirmed nor
contradicted.
NOT GIVEN statements often refer to ideas that are mentioned
but not enough information is given for you to say if it is TRUE
or FALSE.