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Nov 15, 2019
Sorry for my english. One friend has said me that is important to read the questions first, not the text. Is true?
Sorry for my english. One friend has said me that is important to read the questions first, not the text. Is true?
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My advice is to start by quickly reading the questions first to decide which reading skill is being tested skimming, scanning or reading for detail and then go to the reading passage.
Thank you. Sorry again. What do you mean with Skiming and scanning?
Skimming - means reading a passage very quickly to get an overall understanding of what it’s about and how the information is organised, to help you find the answers to the questions more quickly later on. You would do this in your own language if you had a long document to read quickly, by reading simply the nouns and verbs [the content words]. Scanning, on the other hand, is simply locating a specific word or piece of information in the text, imagine your eyes are like a wave moving up and down. A tip I tell my students, if they have problems with this, is to scan from the bottom up or right to left.