There are other tactics to locate answer sentence.
1. Most of IELTS questions are of a sequential order, which means for ONE TYPE of questions, eg. Multiple choice, filling the blank etc, if the answer for 1st question is in paragraph 1 and answer for 3rd question is in paragraph 3, then the answer for 2nd question must be somewhere between para.1 and para. 3. Obviously, this may not be applicable to List of Headings.
List of Headings
Even for this type of question the paraphrasing tactic is still applicable, but this time the answer sentence becomes answer paragraph. And to my way of thinking, key words in the example by and large should not appear in the heading.
Filling the blank
I'm afraid we have to use the EXACT word(s) that are used in the original context to fill in the blank. NO change in plural, tense, or whatever you could think is reasonable. If you firmly believe that the word(s) need to be modified in order to comply with the grammar, then you definitely find the WRONG answer sentence or answer. You have to relocate answer sentence or the word you find in that sentence.
For TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN questions, I suppose it is a safer way to spell the entire word rather than T/F/NG.
And one way to distinguish FALSE and NOT GIVEN is to change the question into negative. If the negative question is true, then this question should be FALSE. If still cannot decide, then question should be NOT GIVEN.
Example:
Original text: A
Question:
Actually to my way of thinking, we don't need to UNDERSTAND what the passage is really talking about, but rather to FIND where the answer is. So I rarely read the whole passage, but rather read the questions and scan the passage to locate answers. This will significantly save your time.
If you have a reasonable level of vocabulary and grammar knowledge(hard to quantify though), then just do the Cambridge IELTS Exam 3-9, and make a summary of the questions that we do wrong. Then I'm afraid it would be hard for you to fall below 7 in IELTS listening and reading.
1. Most of IELTS questions are of a sequential order, which means for ONE TYPE of questions, eg. Multiple choice, filling the blank etc, if the answer for 1st question is in paragraph 1 and answer for 3rd question is in paragraph 3, then the answer for 2nd question must be somewhere between para.1 and para. 3. Obviously, this may not be applicable to List of Headings.
List of Headings
Even for this type of question the paraphrasing tactic is still applicable, but this time the answer sentence becomes answer paragraph. And to my way of thinking, key words in the example by and large should not appear in the heading.
Filling the blank
I'm afraid we have to use the EXACT word(s) that are used in the original context to fill in the blank. NO change in plural, tense, or whatever you could think is reasonable. If you firmly believe that the word(s) need to be modified in order to comply with the grammar, then you definitely find the WRONG answer sentence or answer. You have to relocate answer sentence or the word you find in that sentence.
For TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN questions, I suppose it is a safer way to spell the entire word rather than T/F/NG.
And one way to distinguish FALSE and NOT GIVEN is to change the question into negative. If the negative question is true, then this question should be FALSE. If still cannot decide, then question should be NOT GIVEN.
Example:
Original text: A
Question:
Actually to my way of thinking, we don't need to UNDERSTAND what the passage is really talking about, but rather to FIND where the answer is. So I rarely read the whole passage, but rather read the questions and scan the passage to locate answers. This will significantly save your time.
If you have a reasonable level of vocabulary and grammar knowledge(hard to quantify though), then just do the Cambridge IELTS Exam 3-9, and make a summary of the questions that we do wrong. Then I'm afraid it would be hard for you to fall below 7 in IELTS listening and reading.
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