Name: IELTS Reading: Read faster & remember more
Uploaded: 2018-09-04T01:35:55.000Z
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Are you doing an IELTS exam or will you
be doing an IELTS exam in the future?

Special shoutout to Pedro, thank you for
helping me on this, and rock your exam.

If you're studying IELTS, there's one
section in the test that is difficult.

They're all difficult, but
it's the reading section.

So, when you're doing your test, you have to
read the passage quickly, you have to get

all of the wonderful information, and
then you have to answer the questions.

So, what I want to help you do is something
really cool called speed reading.

When I was in grade 2, my teacher
taught me something that was amazing.

Usually when you read something, you take your
little finger and you read along like this.

So my teacher taught me at the young age of
eight to get a bookmark, and instead of reading

each word, you're going to read one
whole sentence with an eyescape.

So, instead of reading word by word with your
little finger, you're going to put a bookmark

on the sentence and you're going
to focus on the sentence.

This allows you to read
something much faster.

So, put your little finger away and
grab a bookmark or a piece of paper.

It helps you absorb the
information faster.

Another thing that you can do or not do is
when you're reading: "The pizza was a wide

It was the most exiting
flavours, it was..."

Two reasons: One, there're other people around
you that you're probably disturbing, and there's

probably been a scientific study that if you
move your lips, you're doing extra work and

Don't: "Ra-ra-ra-ra" under your
breath, don't move your lips.

This helps you go through it faster and ultimately get
that high score that you've all been looking for.

Another tip is to pay attention
to important key words.

So, these are going to be things like dates
and times, numbers, and proper nouns.

So, please tell me you know
what a proper noun is.

So, one really, really good thing you can
do is you can take your little highlighter

When you come back to the reading section
or when you've read it, it sticks in your

Some articles and some things
have special punctuation.

Dashes are a little line here
and a little line at the end.

There's a very, very good reason why they've
used dashes, and that is they're telling you

that this information
is really important.

It's giving you something extra or something
that changes the idea about the sentence.

So, the information between dashes or even
between commas is put there for a reason,

and it's probably got some wealth of information,
maybe the answer to question number seven.

Some readings that you have not necessarily
on IELTS, but a newspaper if you're reading

Yeah, they do read for fun, Ronnie.
Okay.

So, if the words are bold which means they're
bigger; or if they're written in italics which

means, like, handwriting; or if the words
are underlined - this is going to give you

some really strong information that it's
important because they made it like this.

When you first begin your IELTS test in the
reading section, always read the questions

first, then you'll know what
information you're looking for.

If you just read it
willy-nilly without thinking

about the questions, you've
wasted a lot of time.

So read the questions first, then go back
and get the information that you need.

And about paragraphs, this is
a tricky thing that they do.

I want you to read the first sentence,
it's called the topic sentence.

We'll say "the meat" or the
importance of the paragraph.

Maybe in the middle of the paragraph they've
got some information and it's useless, really,

So, the best thing you can do is read the
first topic sentence, skim the rest of it,

and concentrate on the last, because maybe the
idea has changed halfway through the sentence.

If you're going for
your IELTS, good luck.

For more IELTS tips, stay tuned.
Bye-bye.

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