Practice activity 4.3: Question type: true/ false/ not given
Testing understanding details
IELTS uses a variety of question types to test your ability to distinguish details. One of these
is True/False/Not Given questions. With these questions, you are principally being asked to
identify factual information in the text. They can be used to test your ability to distinguish
and understand both details and main ideas. You need to determine whether a statement is
true, i.e. stated in the reading, or false, i.e. contradicted in the reading (often the opposite
of the statement) or whether the information is not given, i.e. there is no information on the
statement in the reading. When you look for an equivalent statement in the reading, you will
usually not find the exact words but a paraphrase (rewording) or synonym (word with similar
meaning). or word with an opposite meaning (antonym).
What do you need to do?
- Step 1 Quickly survey the text - look at the title, and any other clues, read the first and
last paragraphs, look at the overall organisation of the text, read the first Line
of every paragraph.
- Step 2 Identify key words in the question.
- Step 3 Scan the reading for the relevant part.
- Step 4 Identify key words in the reading.
- Step 5 Match by identifying words that are the same (synonyms). opposite meanings (antonyms). parallel phrases, or not mentioned.
- Step 6 Decide whether the answer is True, False or Not Given.
Optional: transfer your answers now to the answer sheet. Check spelling and grammatical accuracy as you go.
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