IELTS Reading Yes/No/Not Given

STATEMENT:

At least twenty-six of the introduced species have become established in Australia.

PASSAGE:

Of the 26 species that are known to have become successfully integrated into the local environment, only one, an African species released in northern Australia, has reached its natural boundary.

• YES

• NO

• NOT GIVEN

• No idea

Which skill is NOT used when doing an IELTS reading test?

• writing a summary

• identifying keywords

• skimming

• scanning

STATEMENT:

 It is easier to manage a small business than a large business.

PASSAGE:

There is an abundance of evidence to support the motivational benefits that result from carefully matching people to jobs. For example, if the job is running a small business or an autonomous unit within a larger business, high achievers should be sought

• YES

• NO

• NOT GIVEN

• No idea

STATEMENT:

 Exposure to different events forces the brain to think differently.

PASSAGE:

The best way to see things differently to other people is to bombard the brain with things it has never encountered before. Novelty releases the perceptual process from the chains of past experience and forces the brain to make new judgments.

• YES

• NO

• NOT GIVEN

• No idea

You should read and understand every single word in the text before you start answering questions

• Good idea - it is important to understand everything

• No - read only the interesting parts and leave out the boring details

• You do not need to read the whole text, just look for keywords so you can answer the questions

• You should only read the introduction and the conclusion

You finished the test and you only answered 'yes' or 'no' to questions. What should you do?

• You finished the test so you should just relax and listen to some music

• Check your answers again - there will be at least one 'yes', 'no' and 'not given' answer in the test

• Chill - the teacher that wrote the questions wanted to make it easy to mark the test

• Write a poem on the back of the test paper to impress the examiner.

'Not given' means

• The statement is right (according to the writer).

• The statement is wrong (according to the writer).

• The writer is not sure what their opinion is.

• There is no information on the writer’s point of view about this statement in the text.

'Yes' means...

• The statement agrees with the writer's view

• The statement disagrees with the writer's view

• The writer's view is correct in your opinion

• The writer is a pretty cool person, so they must be right.

Which statement is correct?

• The answer to the first question might be in the last paragraph of the reading.

• The answers appear in the same order in the text as the order of the statements.

• The answers appear in random order.

• The IELTS exam is not real - it only lives in our nightmares.

'No' means...

• NO!

• The statement agrees with the views of the writer

• You don't agree with the writer's point of view

• The statement disagrees with or contradicts what the writer thinks