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 \nSCAN ME  \nIELTS  \nThe Complete Guide toAcademic Reading  \nPlus 5 Complete Practice Testswith answers  \nPhil Biggerton  \nNTV  \nCong ty TNHH  \nNhân TríViệt  \nIELTS The Complete Guide to Academic Reading  \nCopyright C2013 by Phil Biggerton  \nPublished in Vietnam,2014  \nThis edition is published in Vietnam under a license Agreement between Godiva Books,UK and Nhan Tri Viet Co.,Ltd.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted,inany form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or otherwise,without the prior writtenpermission of the copyright owner.  \nThe Author  \nPhil Biggerton has been teaching English in Europe and Asia since 1992.In thelast 10 years he has specialized in IELTS,and for three years he taught English forAcademic Purposes(EAP)pre-sessional courses at the University of Birmingham inthe United Kingdom.He also trained as an IELTS examiner and has worked for theBritish Council in Taipei,Taiwan as an examiner.  \nHe has been responsible for teaching reading,writing,listening and speaking exam-ination techniques for the IELTS test and preparing new IELTS practice material.In addition,he has also prepared and conducted placement tests for new students andhelped to train new IELTS teachers.  \nHe is Director of Studies of an English language school in Cebu,Philippines wherehe develops material for 150 students from Korea,Japan,Taiwan and Vietnam.  \nHe also runs Godiva Books,a small publishing company,with the aim of helpingfellow teachers and authors publish their books.He has recently published IELTS-TheComplete Guide to Task 1 Writing.  \nContents  \n\n| Page Numbers   |\n| --- |\n| 5  \u003Cbr>Getting Started The IELTS Exam,Common Question Types,The  \u003Cbr>Purpose of This Book,Active &Passive Reading   |\n| Unit ONE  \u003Cbr>11  \u003Cbr>Scanning and Skimming   |\n| Unit TWO  \u003Cbr>21  \u003Cbr>Selecting Keywords   |\n| Unit THREE  \u003Cbr>31  \u003Cbr>Reading Techniques   |\n| Unit FOUR  \u003Cbr>41  \u003Cbr>Question Types   |\n| 42  \u003Cbr>1.Short Answers   |\n| 47  \u003Cbr>2.Sentence Completion   |\n| 52  \u003Cbr>3.Summary Completion   |\n| 4.Multiple Choice  \u003Cbr>58   |\n| 5.Table Completion  \u003Cbr>64   |\n| 70  \u003Cbr>6.Labelling Flow Charts/Processes   |\n| 77  \u003Cbr>7.Matching   |\n| 84  \u003Cbr>8.Paragraph Selection   |\n| 9.True/False/Not Given  \u003Cbr>86   |\n| 93  \u003Cbr>10.Yes/No/Not Given   |\n| 96  \u003Cbr>11.Heading Matching   |\n| 106  \u003Cbr>12.Labelling Diagrams   |\n|  |\n| Practice Tests 1-5  \u003Cbr>109   |\n| Test 1  \u003Cbr>110   |\n| Test 2  \u003Cbr>123   |\n| Test 3  \u003Cbr>135   |\n| 148  \u003Cbr>Test 4   |\n| Test 5  \u003Cbr>160   |\n|  |\n| 173  \u003Cbr>Blank Answer Sheets   |\n|  |\n| 179  \u003Cbr>Answers   |\n\n# Getting Started\n\nReading is an essential skill to learn if you want to be fluent in a language.Withoutthis ability,you would miss out on the chance to obtain information from a wide rangeof different types of material like newspapers,magazines,journals,books,leaflets andbrochures.Certainly,you would never be allowed to enter a university to study if youwere unable to read academic literature.  \nAs a student entering either an undergraduate or postgraduate course,you are ex-pected to have reached a reasonably high level of ability in all four skills -reading,writing,listening and speaking.How high these levels need to be varies from student tostudent (partly because of the subject they have chosen to study)and from university touniversity.It might be possible,for example,to start a postgraduate course at a universitywith an overall IELTS score of 5.0 on the condition that a pre-sessional course is takenfirst at the university.  \nHowever,due to the amount of reading required to complete your studies at univer-sity,it is far better to aim for an IELTS score of at least 6.0 in reading before you go tostudy.For some students,this score or higher would be a basic r","cbCaiqzRS5NCv57H","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqzRS5NCv57H","pdf",24941325,195,"English","# Getting Started\n# The IELTS Exam\n## Reading test format and scoring\n## Band score conversion","[{\"question\":\"What does the IELTS Reading test consist of?\",\"answer\":\"The Reading section includes three passages, each about 700 to 1,000 words. 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