Hi there! It's Asiya. Today I want to take a full section of the IELTS Reading Academic test and solve it together with you.
You'll be able to see my strategy that got me 8.5 and hopefully a 9 soon and you'll be able to practice too. The material is coming from the official practice test published on the British Council website.
The link to the full test is going to be in the description box below. If you want links to more practice materials, download my IELTS study plan too.
And now, let's get started! Okay, we have our passage on the left and questions on the right.
The very first thing to do is to read the title "The Triune Brain". I don't know the word triune but I know the word brain, that's what inside our head and we know that the whole text is going to be about it.
Okay, now before I start reading the passage I look at the first set of questions. Classify the following as typical of reptilian, limbic or neocortex.
Okay, I know that cortex is part of our brain and we have three options ABC. Now we look at the questions.
So for each of them we need to say whether it's A B or C and we have a number of questions. Most likely these questions are not going to be in the same order as the information is in the text, that means that we need to read all the options before we start reading the text.
And I actually want to read them quite carefully and try to memorize what we're going to look for. Giving up short-term happiness for future gains, and I underline keywords.
Maintaining the bodily functions necessary for life, okay, bodily functions. Experiencing the pain of losing another, okay, the pain of losing.
