1. The document provides a strategy for determining if statements are true, false, or not given in IELTS reading questions.
2. It recommends a two-step approach of underlining keywords and locating them in the passage to find the answer.
3. A statement is true if the passage directly supports it, false if it contradicts information in the passage, and not given if there is no information one way or the other.
1. The document provides a strategy for determining if statements are true, false, or not given in IELTS reading questions.
2. It recommends a two-step approach of underlining keywords and locating them in the passage to find the answer.
3. A statement is true if the passage directly supports it, false if it contradicts information in the passage, and not given if there is no information one way or the other.
1. The document provides a strategy for determining if statements are true, false, or not given in IELTS reading questions.
2. It recommends a two-step approach of underlining keywords and locating them in the passage to find the answer.
3. A statement is true if the passage directly supports it, false if it contradicts information in the passage, and not given if there is no information one way or the other.
1. The document provides a strategy for determining if statements are true, false, or not given in IELTS reading questions.
2. It recommends a two-step approach of underlining keywords and locating them in the passage to find the answer.
3. A statement is true if the passage directly supports it, false if it contradicts information in the passage, and not given if there is no information one way or the other.
Resolutions: Is it True, False or Not Given? A successful strategy to defeat these tricky questions
Many people find hard to determine if a statement is True, False or
Not given. People always confuse between False and Not given (or No and Not given).
I find a simple strategy but effective which could help you answer these questions correctly. In this presentation, I will show you:
1. The differences between True, False or Not
Given and Yes, No, Not Given 2. A simple but useful approach to succeed in T/F/NG (or Y/N/NG). 3. How to Identify T/Y, F/N, and NG statements. 1 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN AND YES/NO/NOT GIVEN Lets start by distinguishing these 2 types of questions! True, False or Not given is identifying information when the passage is about FACTS. Yes/No/Not given is identifying writers views/claims when the passage is about WRITERS VIEWS/CLAIMS HOWEVER...
The difference is not important
The technique to solve is the same The only thing you should do is determining whether a statement is correct, incorrect or not given 2 Approach to succeed in TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN (or YES/NO/NOT GIVEN) A simple but useful strategy KEYWORDS TECHNIQUE The fundamental approach to address all question types in IELTS reading test. For detail please visit: http://selfstudymaterials.com Step 1: Question skimming and keyword underlining
Assumption: What to do next:
You have read the topic heading - Skimming over the questions (if any). This helps us in our - Underlining keywords in the identifying keywords process. questions - Focus on small words Step 2: Locating these keywords into reading passage and comparing these keywords to find the correct answer
Assumption: What to do next: Note:
You have finished skimming - integrating keywords in questions Keywords in reading through the reading and in the passage to find the passage may not be exactly passage and underlining relevant paragraphs and the same with the keywords keywords in it. sentences by scanning in questions, but equivalent - read the sentences in detail to in meaning find the answer. they are synonyms I have shown you 2-step approach to solve a T/F/NG or Y/N/NG question
Now, I will guide you how to
decide a statement is True, False, or Not Given (or Yes, No, Not Given). 3 How to decide a statement is True, False, or Not Given (or Yes, No, Not Given) Identifying TRUE/YES statement
A statement is TRUE if the
passage tells us this is correct. You give a statement a YES if it agrees with writers view/claim. To be correct, a statement has to meet two requirements at the same time
Existence: the Accuracy: this
information information is true mentioned in the according to the question must Existence Accuracy reading passage appear in reading or it agrees with passage writers views/claims Identifying FALSE/NO statement
A statement is FALSE if the
passage tells us this is incorrect. You give a statement a NO if it disagrees with writers view/claim TIPS If the sentence in a question contains one of these words: usually, often, many, some, all, almost, most of, always, never, hardly, unique, only or can, could, likely, probably, possibly, may, must, should the answer is normally False or No. Beware of exception so please read carefully. Identifying NOT GIVEN statement
A statement is marked Not Given
if you cannot say for sure that its true or false with only the given information in the passage (lack of information) A not given statement may have the following characteristics
The information in the passage can not No information be used to regarding it can be OR determine whether found in reading the statement in a passage question is true or false SUMMARY Dont worry about the difference between T/F/NG and Y/N/NG question because you can 01 use the same technique to solve them Adopting the 2-step approach to solve these types 02 of questions
Checking whether a statement meets 2
03 requirements to be marked as T/F/Y/N
A statement is not given if no information regarding it can be
04 found in reading passage OR the subject matter of the statement is mentioned in the passage, but the information agreeing or contradicting the statement cannot be found THANKS!
Any questions? More techniques can be found @ www.selfstudymaterials.com
