How can you improve your score in a reading exam?
Well think about these things, and you should see your score go up.
1. Timing
If you dont have enough time it is because you are not reading quickly enough. You need to be able to read quickly even if you do not understand every word. To read three articles and answer 60 questions in just 40 minutes is not easy.
To answer the questions you often need to find the area where the answer is, you do not need to read everything in depth.
It is very likely that you will find a few questions that give you trouble, forget about them and move on.
REMEMBER - Practice speed-reading, skimming and scanning and accept the fact that you will not have enough time to read every word.
DO NOT - Read every word, take more than two minutes trying to find the answer to a question, take more than 20 minutes on a section
REMEMBER - In the last few minutes go back to the questions that you couldn’t answer before, you should of course put something logical. You don't lose any points if you are wrong.
2. Is one style of question harder than theothers?
A lot of students seem to have trouble with heading style and true, false, not given questions.
Identify where you are weak, then practice, practice, practice
3. Why are you wrong?
When you are doing practice tests, do you go back and see why you are right and more importantly why you were wrong.
You should be analysing why you were wrong (or you can ask us and we will analyse it for a small fee). When you understand why, you will improve a lot.
REMEMBER - A practice test should take you 40 minutes, and you should spend at least another 40 minutes re-reading and trying to understand why you are wrong.
4. Skim and scan the articles, read the question
You must understand the question if you want to get the correct answer. Consider this True, False, Not Given question:
Many people believe that public transport has been slightly improved.
To find the correct answer you need to know that
A: It is not every person who believes this
B: It is about public transport
C: It uses 'has been' (present perfect passive), so you know it started in the past and is still continuing (or has a current effect).
D: It says slight improvement
If you miss any of these points, you might get the question wrong.
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