【Nick每日分享】Blogpost 1 - Reading tips - Monday

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雅思阅读是非题让人晕头转向？
每次都在是是非非，若有若无中苦苦挣扎？
回到原文读到头昏脑涨然而觉得并没有什么用？

YES，NO，还是NOT GIVEN，该如何抉择？ 雅思前考官有些小tips教给你。


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Nick在British Council 工作了10年，是前雅思高级考官，改过无数的雅思考卷，非常清楚考官判分要求。

他有超过二十年的教学经验，去过不同的亚洲国家教英文。他专门教授亚洲人的口语，特别清楚我们学英语的困难和弱点。他此前曾于全球著名的国际学校、顶级大学以及世界五百强的机构教授学生、CEO人数超过十万。他的很多雅思学生也在跟他学习了很短的时间内进步超过一分，有些更是拿了British Council的雅思奖学金出国。


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The Worldpath 是香港政府重點支持的網上教學機構，由美國、英國、加拿大、澳洲的雅思前考官組成，在香港多間中學及大學舉辦雅思課程，學生成績優秀，曾經接受過香港多個媒體報導。推薦他們的學生除了有清華北大的，也有香港大學及香港中文大學，更有斯坦福大学、康奈尔大学和伯克利加大的。他們堅持只用接受過嚴格雅思改卷訓練的考官教口語跟寫作，因為他們很清楚考官喜歡怎樣的口語跟寫作，可以幫學生打做一個考官會給高分的exam，但是絕對不用模板。

True/False/Not given, Yes/No/Not given questions: points to remember.

First, There is very little difference between these two types of questions. True /False / Not given questions are asking you if facts in the reading passage are true while Yes/No/Not given asks you if the passage agrees with the writer’s opinion. The techniques for answering both types are the same.

Second, it is important when transferring your answers to the answer sheet that you don’t confuse the two types. Make sure whether you need to write T/F/NG or Y/N/NG. Sounds simple but many of my students have made this mistake in the past.

Third, There is often confusion about what not given means. There are two ways a question can require a not given answer. First, if there is no information at all on the topic of the question and second, if the topic is mentioned in the text but there is not enough information to decide true or false/ yes or no. Here is an example:

You read in the question: “Girls outnumber boys in the class“   “Outnumber” means that group has more than the others. So it means there are more girls than boys in the class. Now, you will almost never find the same words in the text; the answer will be paraphrased. For example:

1.“There are more female than male students” means YES.

2.“Boys predominate in the class” means NO because predominate means outnumber so it’s not true since the question states that girls outnumber boys.


3.“There is an imbalance between the two genders in the class” is Not Given. Because it means one group is bigger than the other but does not say which one.  

Finally, don’t forget, if you find a question too difficult, don’t spend too much time on it and don’t leave it blank. You can guess T/F/ Not Given, Y/N/Not Given, and you have a 33.3% chance of being right!



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