The Reading Module GENERAL READING STRATEGIES When you go to university or college you may be
overwhelmed by the amount of reading you are
expected to do. You will have to do a lot of this
reading on your own and you will need to be able to
read discriminatingly. This means you will have to be
selective about what you read. You will need to have
the skills required to focus in on the information that
is important to you and to skim through the
information that isn't.
READING FDR IELTS The IELTS examination tests your ability to read
between 1500 and 2500 words in a fairly short period
of time in order to find out certain information. In
both the Academic and the General Training modules,
you are given 60 minutes to answer a total of 40
questions. The texts and items are graded in terms of
difficulty. If you can identify the reading skills being
tested in each set of questions, and if you have some
mastery of these skills, you will have a better chance
of completing the Reading test successfully.
Academic Reading Module The test has three reading passages and each of the passages is
accompanied by a set of questions. There may be more than
one type of question in each set. For example, you may be
asked to find detailed information in a text in order to
complete sentences; you may have to identify views and
attitudes within a text; you may have to understand how
something works and complete a diagram or chart. The
passages may be written in a variety of different styles, such as
argumentative, descriptive, narrative, discursive, etc.
General Training Reading Module The test has three sections. Section 1 contains two or more
texts which are based on social situations. Section 2 contains
two texts based on course-related situations and Section 3
contains one text that tests general reading comprehension.
The question types are similar to those in the Academic
module. The texts in the first two sections are most likely to
be descriptive and factual. The text in the third section may
contain some argument.