IELTS Reading Questions Types: Tips and Information:

​IELTS Reading Questions Types: Tips and Information:

In IELTS Reading, there are different kinds of questions which are given in the ielts exam. You will usually get 3 or 4 types of questions in every passage. To ensure better score, you must practice each type of questions. Find the questions types below along with tips and techniques.

1. Heading Matching:
   1. Try to understand the questions
   2. find out the differences between the main idea and  supporting idea
   3. before reading heading, read the passage
   4. before matching analyze the heading
   5. read 1st two to three lines and last two to three lines
2. True/ False/ Not Given.... Yes/ No/ Not Given
   1. try to understand the questions
   2. it always follow the order
   3. if you find similar information in the passage that is true
   4. if you find contradictory information that is false
   5. if you don’t find main statement of the questions, that is not given
3. Information Matching:
   1. Read the 1st two line and last 2 line of the passage
   2. it does not maintain sequence
   3. Try to locate the information in the passage.
   4. you might not use all the passage as all the paragraph never contain information
4. Summary Completion
   1. first read the question with blank space
   2. try to guess the idea
   3. understand what type of word you need to fill the gap ( verb/adjective/ noun)
   4. you might get sequence of the question  most of the time
5. Sentence Completion
   1. read the question with gap and find out what types of word are needed like noun verb and adjective
   2. find out the key word in the passage
   3. Look whether the sentences are grammatically correct.
   4. This type of question maintains the sequence.
6. Multiple choice question:  ​scan for the particular information find out the key words in the passage and read the sentence.Usually question maintains the sequence  
7. Answering short questions:
   1. identify the keywords
   2. most of the answers will be in Noun
   3. use scanning techniques
   4. This type of  question maintains  the sequence
   5. read the instruction to know how many words you should write for answer
8. Completing Diagram:
   1. You will find the information in the particular one or two paragraph in the passage
   2. Answer may not maintain sequence
   3. Identify the word noun or verb to answer the questions
   4. Read the instruction to write the number of words in your answer
9. Completing Follow Chart:
   1. Answer may not maintain sequence
   2. you should be careful about the instruction and direction in the follow chart
   3. use scanning techniques
10. Completing table:
    1. First read the heading of the column of the table
    2. use scanning techniques
    3. answers are usually located at the specific part of the passage
    4. read the instruction to use the number of words
    5. try to guess the topic
11. Matching Sentence Ending
    1. First read the sentence and find out the key words in the passage.
    2. Then read the whole sentence and come back to the question and read the ending of the sentence
    3. after a brief analysis match  the ending with the sentence
    4. Sentence beginning maintains the sequence so try to find out the key word of the beginning sentence first.