![]() When you think you’ve improved enough, raise your level of speed-reading and reduce the time to 30 seconds. Don’t take more than 1 minute for every 100 words (as a beginner) for skimming.It often gives a summary of the whole text. Notice any italicized or boldface words or phrases and mark them.Notice any pictures, charts, or graphs.Mark and read any headings and sub-headings.Mark and read the first sentence of every other paragraph.If it is too long, read the first and last few sentences. Read the introduction or the first paragraph.Read the title and think about it for a moment.Here’s the one way I feel the best for everyone to practice: There are 2/3 ways how you can do skimming. Otherwise, they’ll lose both valuable time and marks. You are not looking for anything specific.įor some questions in the IELTS test and other English Language exams, like Matching Headings, Choosing a title for the passage and, in some cases, Identifying information, candidates need to do skimming. Here, you’re looking for the context, gist, overview or summary of the text. Skimming means the method of speed-reading only main ideas within a passage to acquire an overall impression of the content of a reading text. Take a very careful look at the following picture that differentiates Skimming from Scanning. Let’s learn the difference between reading skills scanning and skimming first. This sample passage has 6 paragraphs and about 900 words. ![]() If you are a beginner in IELTS Test, this lesson can help you a lot to understand and practice Skimming and Scanning easily and successfully.Īll the questions that have been used in this lesson are original and designed by the author of this blog.īut first let’s take a look at the sample text from where we’re going to practice the skills: And which two Reading Skills have you suggested to others? SKIMMING and SCANNING, right? But most often, students and candidates get confused on understanding these skills because of their lack of knowledge and confusion. If you have ever appeared in the IELTS test, or any English Language test of the same kind, TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, SAT, whatever it is, you have faced Reading tests there and probably you have been asked by others about the Reading Skills needed there. Here, you’ll find discussion, strategies and examples to practice and apply these two reading skills effectively in your IELTS and hopefully, all the Reading sections of any English Language Test. The questions are originally made by the author. The sample passage is taken from Cambridge IELTS Series 13 Test 2 Reading Passage 1entitled ‘Bringing Cinnamon to Europe’. This post deals with two of the most important and valuable skills of IELTS Reading Skimmingand Scanning.
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