12/01/2025
✏️ IELTS Reading
“Try this TIME ⏰ MANAGEMENT experiment!
IELTS students often say that "not having enough time" is their biggest problem in the reading module. But is time really the problem?
Try this experiment to find out how time is affecting you:
1) Normal speed
Give yourself one hour to do a full reading test (from one of the Cambridge books). Or just take one passage and do that in 20 minutes. How many correct answers did you get?
2) Too fast
Give yourself just 30 minutes to do a full reading test, or only 10 minutes to do one passage. Use skimming, scanning, guessing, or any other 'trick' to get through all of the questions. This goes against my normal advice, but it's fine for this experiment.
3) Too slow
Give yourself 2 hours to do a full reading test, or 40 minutes to do one passage. Read everything slowly and carefully, and aim for a perfect score!
👉 Results:
What happened when you performed this experiment? What scores did you get at normal, fast, and slow speeds? Was time really the big problem, or did the experiment highlight any other difficulties?
Please COMMENT your thoughts and outcomes of this experiment. Then we will explore more on this in a future Live Class.
RESEARCH and SMART PRACTICE work magically.”
- Collected By Kazi Abdullah