涵蓋 IELTS Academic Reading 三篇文章所有難度的實戰策略：略讀掌握主旨、掃讀關鍵字、最棘手題型 Matching Headings、True/False/Not Given、句子填空、摘要填空、資訊配對，並附 60 分鐘時間分配計畫。
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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