Heather my name is Emma and in today's
video we are going to learn about the
reading section of the IELTS so it's
very important before your test day to
learn as much as you can about the test
if you know what's going to happen on
the test you're going to feel less
nervous more comfortable and you'll do a
better job so in this video I will
explain what happens in the reading
segment of the test so first thing to
know is there are two different versions
of the IELTS one is for general and one
is for academic if you're doing the
IELTS for things like immigration you
will probably be doing the general
whereas if you're doing the IELTS for
four to get into a university in Canada
England Australia you will probably be
doing the academic so there are a lot of
similarities in terms of the reading
passages on the general and academic
versions of the IELTS the readings are
different but there are some things that
are the same in both cases on the
general and the academic the reading
module lasts for one hour so it lasts
for one hour in this hour you are going
to see three texts or three passages so
there's three sections another thing to
know is that you will also have to
transfer your answers onto an answer
sheet that will also be a part of this
one hour for both the general and the
academic there are 40 questions the text
in the general usually our social work
related there's often one academic text
as well whereas in the academic all
these texts are maybe something you
would read in an undergraduate or
graduate course in terms of also the
general you might see advertisements you
might be reading
um about you know comparing different
products whereas in the IELTS they're
usually more scientific or more academic
articles another thing to keep in mind
is for both tests usually the readings
go from easy to difficult so the first
part of the the test is going to be the
easiest part second section is going to
be a bit more difficult and the third
section is going to be more difficult
than the second so keep this in mind
when you're planning your time for the
IELTS because if you spend all your time
on the first section that's actually the
easiest it's better if you spend less
time on the first section more time in
the middle and the most time at the end
so in both the academic and the general
you're going to see a variety of
questions okay there are many different
question types and the best way to
prepare for the IELTS is to learn about
these question types you might see
multiple choice where they'll want you
to pick ABCD sometimes e short answer
sentence completion you might see tables
charts diagrams you might have to read
something and then fill in a diagram
based on the information you read
sometimes there's summary completion
paragraph headings where you have to
match a heading with the correct
paragraph you might need to locate
information you might have to write
about a writer's view or claims you
might get a question on classification
or you might get a matching question so
the main point here is that it's
important to know there are many many
different question types you can get on
the IELTS in terms of the IELTS also
it's very important before you do the
IELTS to take a deep breath and to relax
yourself especially with the reading
section you might see a
what of passages you have to read take a
deep breath you will do fine it's also
important to know with the reading
module of the IELTS where it comes on
the test the first thing you do on the
IELTS is listening the second thing will
be reading and then after that writing
so just so you're aware of where it
comes reading is in the middle so I
invite you to take our quiz to see if
how much you know about the IELTS the
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good luck until next time