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IELTS Reading Practice: Practice at Home for Free

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5xf53fi1ok IELTS reading practice tests are freely available on the internet and you can also use any reading

Students often ask me 'How do I improve my reading and listening skills?' The short answer is 'Read and listen more.' However, this is not a very

Skimming and scanning are two of the most misunderstood and misused skills in the whole IELTS test. This is mostly down to poor advice from teachers

This post will help you answer short answer questions more effectively by looking at a sample question, identifying common problems and giving you a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSIOVUYlySY Many students fail to finish the IELTS Reading test because they read at a very slow pace. The two main

Matching Information to Paragraphs In this kind of question, you are asked to match statements to paragraphs in the reading text. Click here for an

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSA9G8vaXY0 Let me tell you a secret. The IELTS reading test is not really a reading test. Sure you need to use

In IELTS Reading matching names questions, you will be asked to match someone's name, normally an expert, researcher or scientist, to a statement. In

In summary completion question types, you will be given a summary of information from the text and there will be some gaps in that summary. You will