Hi guys! It's Asiya. And for today's video, I've analyzed some of the trickiest questions in IELTS Reading, which are True - False - Not given and Yes - No - Not given.
I've taken the official IELTS practice tests for the last three years and I've done all the questions of these types in order to find any patterns or any tricks that will help you find answers more easily. And I have found some and that's what I'm going to talk about in this video.
I will talk you through some example questions too. So let's get started!
What have I found out? Well, first of all, almost all tests have them unfortunately.
Usually True False Not given are in the first passage which is the easiest or sometimes in the second. And Yes No Not given are usually in the third passage which is the most difficult or sometimes in the second.
And the next tip is really easy but it's very powerful and I was so excited when I discovered that. Basically you always need to use all three answers.
Sometimes you have four questions in a set, sometimes five. Let's say you have four, so one is going to be true, one is false, one is not given and the last one is one of the three.
However if you have five questions, it's still not likely that three of them are going to be true or three of them are going to be not given, answers are usually evenly distributed. So if the answers to the first four questions are like that, what do you think the fifth answer should be?
My bet is: it's not given. However IELTS may change that in the future, so I would say don't change your answer because of this tip but use it to help yourself decide what answer you should go for or to guess the answer if you can't find it.
The first thing you need to do is to locate the correct bit of the text which contains the answer. The good thing is you'll find answers in the same order as questions are asked.
