IELTS Reading Test Tips - Flowchart and diagram task types.

Today's best IELTS tip is about flowcharts and diagrams in the IELTS Reading Test.

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One of the question types in the IELTS Reading Test is when you are given a flowchart or diagram and you must insert labels/headings based on information from the passage.

In this post, I’d like to share with you the list of tips I give my students when dealing with this question type:

 

• First of all you should skim read the passage to get the gist (general idea)

 

• If you are completing a flowchart, it is necessary to be aware of the order in which events happen in the passage

 

• If you are labeling a diagram, you need to understand how the different parts of the picture relate to what is described in the passage.

 

• For each stage in the flow chart / part of the diagram, you should locate the part of the passage which contains the same ideas

 

• Make sure you are aware of any word limits (e.g. WRITE NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS) and don’t exceed those word limits.

 

• Don’t alter words from the passage when labelling a flowchart / diagram.  Let me give you an example; if the passage mentions a ‘silicone chamber’ and you can see this on the diagram / flowchart, don’t change the words to ‘siliconising chamber’.

 

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Alanna