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To answer a good proportion of regarding questions in IELTS, the following procedure is recommended.
1. Do not read the text first. 2. Just read the title (and the subtitle if there is any) 3. Go to the first question. 4. Underline keywords in the question. 5. Search those words in the passage. ( the exact same word may not be given; look for synonyms, antonyms and paraphrases) 6. If you find the keywords in the text, underline them. 7. Read that part of the text carefully. 8. Try to get the answer. |
Steps 4 and 5 are very important: They are usually called Keyword Techniques.
More points
- Read at normal speed. - Only scan for names and numbers. - Since time is very important, miss the difficult questions if you face any: Go for the next question. |
Example: let's read the following questions (True/False/Not
Given) and underline the key words.
1. Coconuts were probably transported to Asia from America in the 16th century.
2. Coconuts found on the west coast of America were
a different type from those found on the east coast.
3. All the
coconuts found in Asia are cultivated varieties.
4. Coconuts are cultivated in different
ways in America and the Pacific.
Now, lets read the text below and find the key words.
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There have been centuries of academic debate over the origins of the coconut. There were no coconut palms in West Africa, the Caribbean or the east coast of the Americas before the Voyages of the European explorers Vasco da Gama and Columbus in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. 16th century trade and human migration patterns reveal that Arab traders and European trailers are likely to have moved coconuts from South and Southeast Asia to Africa and then across the Atlantic to the east coast of America. But the origin of coconuts discovered along the west coast of America by 16th century Sailors has been the subject of centuries of discussion. Two diametrically opposed origins have been proposed: that they come from Asia or, that they were native to America. Both suggestions have problems. In Asia, there is a large degree of coconut diversity and evidence of millennia of human use - but there are no relatives growing in the wild. In America, there are close coconut relatives, but no evidence that coconuts are indigenous. These problems have led to this intriguing suggestion that coconuts originated on coral islands in the Pacific and dispersed from there. |
Explanations
1. As you see, the answer to question number one is False because the text information contradicts that of the question.
To understand what happened, make a sentence using the words in the text which are in green shade.
"Arab traders are likely to have moved coconuts from Asia to America in 16th century.
2. To answer the second question, read the parts of the text shaded in yellow. There is no comment about "difference".
Thus, Not Given is the answer.
3. The answer to 3rd question is in cyan colored part, which is True
4. No information is given about different ways of coconut cultivation in the text. Hence, the answer is Not Given.