IELTS Reading made easy - The Three S strategy

Sometimes ‘acronyms’ can be helpful to remember things so I have come up with one for IELTS reading – SSS (sounds like a snake) but it stands for Simple - Systematic - Successful!


Point 1 - Simple

Reading isn’t difficult but it is often made difficult, in my opinion by students making ‘a mountain out of a molehill’ in their zeal to find shortcuts, tricks and speedy results. In my experience these things don’t really exist in language and all that happens is that you end up ‘tied in knots’, ‘none the wiser’ and with a low score. There is no substitute for rolling up your sleeves and tackling the issue head-on. So keep it simple – like this:

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