Kỹ thuật IELTS Academic Reading cho cả 3 mức độ Passage: skim ý chính, scan từ khóa, các dạng khó như Matching Headings, True/False/Not Given, Sentence Completion, Summary Completion, Matching Information, kèm kế hoạch quản lý thời gian 60 phút.
IELTS Academic Reading gives candidates three passages of roughly 700–900 words each, 40 questions, and 60 minutes — including transfer time. The bottleneck is rarely vocabulary; it is allocation. Most Band 6.0 candidates run out of time on Passage 3 because they over-read Passage 1.
Multiple choice, True/False/Not Given, Yes/No/Not Given, Matching headings, Matching information, Matching features, Matching sentence endings, Sentence completion, Summary completion, Note/Table/Flow-chart completion, and Short-answer questions. Each type has a different optimal strategy — for example, never read the passage before doing Matching Headings, but always read the passage skeleton first for True/False/Not Given.
"Not Given" means the passage neither confirms nor contradicts the statement. "False" means the passage actively contradicts it. The single most common Band-6 mistake is marking False when the answer is Not Given — the candidate is inferring from outside knowledge instead of from the text. The trap-patterns guide collects the 20 most common formulations.
Reading rewards recognition, not production. You need to passively understand academic phrasing — nominalisations, hedging verbs, cause-effect connectors — not write them. The Vocabulary Library's Academic Phrasing section lists the 300 highest-yield items.
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