Here is a tip I made about the reading on my free website:
http://www.onlineenglishteacher.org/stu ... s-strategy.
IELTS Reading Text Analysis Strategy
1. A key issue for the IELTS is, especially for the Academic perhaps, there is limited time to read the text, check the questions and refer to the text again - it is only possible to read once sometimes.
2. What is the solution? Clearly, you cannot read approximately 2,500-3000 words twice during the exam, without much difficulty perhaps.
3. You need to have a system, which allows you to quickly analyse the text and answer the questions and here is a suggestion for that – if you have improvements, please let us know.
4. First of all, try to underline the key words/phrases AND make a short summary next to each paragraph.
5. The first question, what are the key words/phrases? Key words can be nouns,, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and negative axuiliaries etc.. You can find out some information about these at the following link: "
https://www.englishclub.com/pronunciati ... -rules.htm" - not all will be important. For each situation, you will have to make a decision and underline them in the text.
6. Also, make sure to look at the title of the page, to try and get an idea of what the topic is about.
7. Next, make a short summary next to each paragraph for a few words, such as the following graphic.
IELTS Reading Analysis Stragey
http://www.onlineenglishteacher.org/ima ... ding.png
8. Now, when you need to, for example match a question with a paragraph, you might not have to read through everything again.