Does it take you too much time to look for answers in long,complex IELTS reading passages? Many test takers have the same problem.

It is really baffling to locate the answer to one questionwhile you are under the pressure of exam conditions and a required band score. IELTS reading texts are also complex and require full attention.

These are not what stop you or make you move over the textslowly. Lack of skills in certain requirements, including reading comprehension,exam techniques, finding clues, etc. must be our main area of focus.

The skill under practice today is locating the informationusing both comprehension and exam techniques. I have used first text of test 4 on Academic Cambridge IELTS 18, so you can have that in front of you to takethe most. Now let’s move to the book:

So to recap:

1.     Review  the questions to understand what you arelooking for

2.     Go from the first paragraph and find the topic sentence

3.  Search in the questions to find relevant questions