Reading

The reading test is a test of how quickly you can find answers to the questions. Check the strategies that will help you increase your reading speed and practice them regularly.

Strategies to increase your speed in reading.

ü Skim the title and the questions. They give you a summary of the passage.

ü Skim the text to obtain general information. Think about the general information not the detail.

ü Scan for the specific detail, don’t concentrate on the meaning of the text. If you start to read, you will find it difficult to locate the words your looking for.

ü Skim and read – skim the text, stop at particular points to look at meaning. Use the questions to be your guide or compass around the text.

ü Skim and scan – when you scan a text for a specific word, your eye touches the other information only lightly. Because your focus is on scanning, your eye skims the text naturally and does not slow you down.

ü Read the first sentence of a paragraph and then skim the beginning of each sentence in that paragraph. Ignore and don’t underline words you do not know.

ü Skim the verbs in each sentence. Start at the verb in each sentence and look at everything after that. The verb usually marks the beginning of new information in a sentence.

ü Skim the text to understand the theme. Are there facts or are there ideas?

ü Mark the connecting words (moreover, in addition, however).