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WorksheetsIELTS Reading Yes/No/Not Given
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
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
To be YES, the view of the writer must exactly match the statement even if the words are different.
Yes
Absolutely not!
No
What am I doing here?
If you are struggling to find the writer’s opinion it’s probably because...
...the writer's views don't make sense.
...the correct answer is 'No'
...the correct answer is 'Not Given'
...the writer isn't real, we live in the matrix.
