Cara menjawab sesi Reading Cambridge 4, test 1, no. 9-13

Pertanyaan nomor 9-13 (MATCHING FEATURES)

Menjawab pertanyaan sesi MATCHING FEATURES pada Cambridge 4, test 1, no. 9-13 dengan kemampuan menganalisa KEYWORDS yang tepat.

Penting: Anda akan menemukan banyak informasi yang berkaitan dengan pertanyaan. Tugas Anda: Baca dengan teliti semua informasi yang relevant!!!

Ref. Cambridge Practice Test for IELTS 4

Cara menjawab sesi Reading Cambridge 2, test 2, no. 27-30

Pertanyaan nomor 27-30 (HEADINGS)

Menjawab pertanyaan sesi HEADINGS pada Cambridge 2, test 2, no. 27-30 dengan kemampuan menganalisa KEYWORDS yang tepat.

Penting: Bacaan dan pertanyaan HEADINGS hampir selalu mempunyai KEYWORDS yang sama !!!

Langkah 1: Pahami pertanyaan HEADINGS

Langkah 2: Lakukan skimming, scanning dan paraphrasing untuk mencari keywords yang tepat pada bacaan.

Ref. Cambridge Practice Test for IELTS 2

Cara menjawab sesi Reading Cambridge 2, test 3, no. 27-33

Pertanyaan nomor 27-33 (HEADINGS)

Menjawab pertanyaan sesi HEADINGS pada Cambridge 2, test 3, no. 27-33 dengan kemampuan menganalisa KEYWORDS yang tepat.

Penting: Bacaan dan pertanyaan HEADINGS hampir selalu mempunyai KEYWORDS yang sama !!!

Langkah 1: Pahami pertanyaan HEADINGS

Langkah 2: Lakukan skimming, scanning dan paraphrasing untuk mencari keywords yang tepat pada bacaan.

Temukan KEYWORDS !!!

Jawaban dari pertanyaan di atas:

27. Section B                  iv

28. Section C                  vii

29. Section D                 viii

30. Section E                  iii

31. Section F                  ii

32. Section G                 i

33. Section H                 x

Ref. Cambridge Practice Test for IELTS 2

Cara menjawab sesi Reading Cambridge 7, GT A, no. 8-14

Pertanyaan nomor 8-14 (HEADINGS)

Menjawab pertanyaan sesi HEADINGS pada Cambridge 7, GT A dengan kemampuan menganalisa KEYWORDS yang tepat.

Penting: PARAGRAPHS dan HEADINGS hampir selalu mempunyai KEYWORDS yang sama !!!

Langkah 1: Pahami pertanyaan HEADINGS

Langkah 2: Lakukan skimming dan scanning untuk mencari keywords yang tepat pada bacaan.  

Temukan KEYWORDS !!!

Jawaban dari pertanyaan di atas:

08. Section A                 v

09. Section B                 vii

10. Section C                 ix

11. Section D                 ii

12. Section E                  x

13. Section F                  i

14. Section G                 iii

Ref. Cambridge Practice Test for IELTS 7

Cara menjawab sesi Reading Cambridge 3 , test 2, no. 1-5

Pertanyaan nomor 1-5 (YES, NO, NOT GIVEN)

Cara saya menjawab pertanyaan sesi YES, NO, NOT GIVEN pada Cambridge 3, test 2. Mungkin cara ini juga cocok bagi Anda. Ada 2 langkah :

1. Temukan kata kunci pada bacaan,
2. Setelah menemukan kata kunci, bacalah dengan teliti. Terkadang dibutuhkan kemampuan Paraphrase untuk menemukan jawaban yang tepat.

Jawaban dari pertanyaan di atas:

Pertanyaan 1: Bush flies are easier to control than buffalo flies

Lokasi dalam bacaan: paragraf 2, baris 6-7:

“… avoiding the soft cattle dung in which bush flies and buffalo flies breed.”

Jawaban: NOT GIVEN

Pertanyaan 2: Four thousand species of dung beetle were initially brought to Australia by the CSIRO.

Lokasi dalam bacaan: paragraf 3, baris 6:

“…the CSIRO imported insects from about 50 different species of dung beetle…”

Jawaban: NO

Pertanyaan 3: Dung beetles were brought to Australia by the CSIRO over a fourteen-year period.

Lokasi dalam bacaan: paragraf 3, baris 6:

“Between 1968 and 1982, the CSIRO imported… species of dung beetle…”

Jawaban: YES

Pertanyaan 4: At least twenty-six of the introduced species have become established in Australia.

Lokasi dalam bacaan: paragraf 3, baris 8-9:

“ Of the 26 species that are known to have become successfully integrated into the local environment…”

Jawaban: YES

Pertanyaan 5: The dung bettles cause an immediate improvement to the quality of a cow pasture.

Lokasi dalam bacaan: paragraf 4, baris 3:

“The beetles immediately disappear beneath…”

Jawaban: NO


Ref. Cambridge Practice Tests for IELTS 3

Cara menjawab sesi Reading Cambridge 1, test 1, no. 1-8

Pertanyaan nomor 1-8 (Complete Summary)

Cara saya menjawab pertanyaan sesi Complete Summary pada Cambridge 1, test 1. Mungkin cara ini juga cocok bagi Anda. Ada 2 langkah :

1. Temukan kata kunci pada bacaan,
2. Setelah menemukan kata kunci, baca dengan teliti, lalu bandingkan, sampai Anda yakin akan jawaban yang tepat.

Hasil kerja dari 2 langkah di atas:

Jawaban dari pertanyaan di atas:

They tried to preserve burning logs or charcoal unaware that they could create

fire themselves. It is suspected that the first man-made flames were produced

by chance

The very first fire-lighting methods involved the creation of friction by, for

example, rapidly rotating a wooden stick in a round hole. The use of percussion

or persistent chipping was also widespread in Europe and among other peoples

such as the Chinese and Eskimos European practice of this method continued

until the 1850s despite the discovery of phosphorus some years earlier.

Ref. Cambridge Practice Tests for IELTS 1 

Linking words: Can I be of any use ?

Ryan Higgins has brought some practical linking words to light, used in IELTS introduction paragraph. Here is the example:

In today’s world, the use of technology is ever-increasing. Even in classrooms technology can be commonly seen. It is disagreed that technology will completely replace the teacher in the classroom. Analyzing both the inability of a technology-driven teacher to discipline students in a classroom as well as this robotic teacher’s hindrance to a student’s learning process will show this.

Ryan once says: all sentences in paragraph can be worked as one unity if there are (more) linking words to be ticked. Let’s look at how these linking words (underlined phrases) can be of any use:

Even in – this is a phrase used in English to make it clear that a topic’s characteristics match the characteristics of a topic presented before it. In the paragraph above, it is saying that technology in the classroom is also ever-increasing. Can you see how ‘even in’ links the ideas of our background sentence with our detailed background sentence?

This – probably the most commonly used linking word, here this refers to our thesis and states that the supporting ideas of lack of discipline and educational hindrance will act in support of this thesis. Can you see how the word ‘this’ causes the outline sentence to link with the idea presented in the thesis?

A key point for IELTS essay is sited in the first paragraph, known as the introduction. When the IELTS examiner peruses the introduction to your essay, then she/he should already figure out clearly what the rest of your essay will look like.

Extract from: Ryan Higgins. 

Some Criterion for Marking an IELTS essay

Some IELTS candidates like to find a teacher or a friend to work with or to buy an IELTS book in order to know how IELTS essays mark. Below, the chart shows some criterion for marking an IELTS essay.

Cara Efektif Membentuk Kelompok Speaking IELTS

Bentuk kelompok yang jumlahnya 4-6 orang. Kawan kelompok bisa berasal dari latar pendidikan manapun, yang pastinya mempunyai purpose sama, Speaking Practice. Carilah kawan yang mempunyai kapasitas bahasa inggrisnya sama dengan Anda.

Bukankah mencari speaking partner yang levelnya di atas kita jauh lebih baik? 

Ketika level partner Anda lebih tinggi, bisa jadi Anda akan menjadi passive listener atau mungkin hanya akan menggangu jalannya percakapan dengan sedikit-sedikit meminta dan bertanya transelasi kata yang tidak Anda pahami.

IELTS Reading Task: Learn the rules

Read the instruction and example. They show you exactly how your answer should be: is it a number or a name, how many words you have to write, etc. The following rules are important because they may affect your score.

Style

When filling the answers in reading, copy the example’s style and form. See the table below.