ONE STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS The IELTS Reading section consists of 3 passages with 40 questions. Focus on Matching Headings and True-False-Not-Given which account for $40\%$ of the score. TWO TIME LOGISTICS Allocate exactly $20$ minutes per passage. Spend no more than $60$ seconds on easy questions to save a $5$ minute buffer for checking. THREE TRAP RECOGNITION 1 The Not Given trap: Information that seems logical but is missing from text. 2 Synonym Overload: Using a word from the text in a wrong context in the options. 3 Absolute Statements: Using words like Always or Never to create false negatives. FOUR OPTIMIZED EXECUTION 1 Keyword Anchor: Circle nouns and dates in the question before scanning. 2 Sentence First: Read the first sentence of each paragraph to grasp the main idea in $10$ seconds.