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The document provides strategies and tips for answering short answer questions in reading comprehension. It emphasizes the importance of skimming the text, understanding questions, identifying keywords, and adhering to word limits. The document also suggests a systematic approach to locating answers by scanning the text and re-reading relevant sections.

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Reading 01

The document provides strategies and tips for answering short answer questions in reading comprehension. It emphasizes the importance of skimming the text, understanding questions, identifying keywords, and adhering to word limits. The document also suggests a systematic approach to locating answers by scanning the text and re-reading relevant sections.

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01.

Short Answer Questions (Reading)

Skills Tested

1. Ability to skim the passage quickly and understand the overall


meaning.
2. Ability to scan for specific information.
3. Understand the question being asked.
4. Identify keywords.
5. Think of possible synonyms and paraphrases of keywords.
Tips

1. The answers appear in the same order as the text.


2. Look at and understand the questions first before you start
reading the text. What is the question actually asking?
3. You will probably be given a word limit, for example ‘NO MORE
THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER.’ Make sure you
don’t go over this limit.
4. As stated above, the answers do not need to be grammatically
correct, just short answers.
5. Don’t give your opinion, just the answer in the text.
6. Keywords in the question will normally be nouns or noun
phrases.
7. When you find your keywords always think synonyms and
paraphrases.

Strategy
# 1 Reading the instructions very carefully taking particular note of
the word limit for your answers.

# 2 Read the questions and try to understand what is being asked.

# 3 Underline key words in the questions. Also, think about possible


synonyms for them.

Don’t worry if there are unfamiliar words. If they also appear in the
text, you may be able to work them out in context. Alternatively,
synonyms that you do understand may have been used.

# 4 Skim read the text. Be alert for the keywords and synonyms you
identified but don’t read in detail.

Read the first sentence of each paragraph in a little more detail than
the rest of the text as this will introduce the main idea of the
paragraph.
# 5 Go back and re-read question 1, then scan the first paragraph,
maybe the second as well, until you find the location of the answer.
Then read in detail to find the exact word or words you need to
answer the question.

# 6 Repeat this process for each of the questions.

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