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IELTS Worksheet
📕 Reading Strategies
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Match strategy to question typeManage time per passageDistinguish skim/scan/detailPlan a 60-minute session📚 Quick Recap
🎯 What you'll practice: Skimming, scanning, detailed reading, and time allocation across the three Reading passages.
🧠 Section A · Concept Check ● BEGINNER 4 × 1 = 4
1Skimming is used to find:
2Scanning is best for:
3Passage 3 gets the most time because it is:
4Total Reading time is:
🧮 Section B · Problem Solving ● INTERMEDIATE 2 + 3×3 = 11
5Detailed reading takes about –2 minutes per question.
6Passage 1 has questions.
7Which strategy would you use to find a specific date mentioned in a passage?
8How many minutes are recommended for Passage 2?
9Which question types require detailed reading rather than scanning?
🚀 Section C · Challenge ● CHALLENGE 5
10A test-taker spends 25 minutes reading Passage 1 in full detail before answering any questions. Explain what likely goes wrong with their overall Reading section, using the time management data above.
💭 Reflection — the most useful thing I learned:
A ___/4 B ___/11 C ___/5 Total ___/20
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1-B 2-B 3-B 4-B | 5 = 1 6 = 13 7 = scanning 8 = 20 minutes 9 = True/False/Not Given and sentence completion | 10 = They've already used up more than the 17 minutes budgeted for Passage 1 alone before even starting the questions, leaving roughly 35 minutes for Passages 2 and 3 combined instead of the recommended 43 — this kind of front-loaded, over-detailed reading is exactly why strong readers who never learned to allocate time by passage often fail to finish the Reading section at all.