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Reading Test Tips for Students

The document provides tips for taking a reading test. It recommends spending 20 minutes on each of the three passages and their associated questions. Key tips include reading the passage quickly for overall meaning, thoroughly reading each question, finding the exact answer in the text, and writing answers on the answer sheet with correct spelling. Things to avoid are reading the entire passage before questions, spending over a minute on any question, leaving blanks, expecting help from invigilators, and marking multiple answers per question.

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Reading Test Tips for Students

The document provides tips for taking a reading test. It recommends spending 20 minutes on each of the three passages and their associated questions. Key tips include reading the passage quickly for overall meaning, thoroughly reading each question, finding the exact answer in the text, and writing answers on the answer sheet with correct spelling. Things to avoid are reading the entire passage before questions, spending over a minute on any question, leaving blanks, expecting help from invigilators, and marking multiple answers per question.

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Reading

Test - tips
Things to remember

1. Remember that there are three reading passages and that you only have one hour, so spend 20 minutes on each question. 2. Make sure you understand the rubric. 3. Look at the type of questions for this passage. 4. Read the passage for gist. Read anything in bold, any diagrams and the first line of each paragraph. Spend no more than 2 minutes on this. 5. Read the questions thoroughly. 6. Refer back to the text with the sole intention of finding the answer. 7. Write your answer on the answer sheet. Make sure that the numbers correlate. 8. Check you have spelt your answers correctly. If you make a mistake, the answer will be marked wrong.

Things to avoid

1. DONT read the whole text before looking at the questions. You do not have enough time. 2. DONT spend more than ONE minute on any given question. You do not have enough time. 3. DONT leave any spaces on the answer sheet. If you are not sure take a guess. 4. DONT expect the invigilator to help you by explaining any vocabulary you dont understand because s/he wont. 5. DONT mark more than one answer per question. It will be marked wrong.

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