Tham khảo tài liệu 'ielts sure success 3', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | difficult. The difficult questions are the ones you are most likely to miss anyway so it isn t a big loss. If you have time left over as you review the skipped questions start at the earliest skipped question spend at most another half a minute and then move on to the next skipped question. Lastly sometimes it is beneficial to slow down if you are constantly getting ahead of time. You are always more likely to catch a careless mistake by working more slowly than quickly and among very high-scoring test takers those who are likely to have lots of time left over careless errors affect the score more than mastery of material. Scanning For Reading passages don t waste time reading enjoying and completely understanding the passage. Simply scan the passage to get a rough idea of what it is about. You will return to the passage for each question so there is no need to memorize it. Only spend as much time scanning as is necessary to get a vague impression of its overall subject content. Copyright 2003 by Linguistics at Nicon. You have been licensed one copy of this document for personal use only. Any other reproduction or redistribution is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved. 3 Secret Key 2 - Guessing is not guesswork. You probably know that guessing is a good idea on the IELTS- unlike other standardized tests there is no penalty for getting a wrong answer. Even if you have no idea about a question you still have a 20-25 chance of getting it right. Most students do not understand the impact that proper guessing can have on their score. Unless you score extremely high guessing will significantly contribute to your final score. Monkeys Take the IELTS What most students don t realize is that to insure that 20-25 chance you have to guess randomly. If you put 20 monkeys in a room to take the IELTS assuming they answered once per question and behaved themselves on average they would get 20-25 of the questions correct on a five choice multiple choice problem. Put 20 students
