Summary Completion
– Strategies
– Tips
– Techniques
Understanding IELTS Reading Summary Completion Questions
A summary is:‘ a short , clear description that gives the main facts or ideas about
something ‘.
In this case, it is a short summary of information from the
text that has been set for
your reading test.
For summary completion questions, you will be given :
1] The Text
2] A summary of information from a section of the text with some gaps where
words have been missed out.
You will be required to do one of the following tasks :
A] Fill in the gaps with words from the word list
B] Fill in the gaps with words from the text.
KEY TIPS:
VOCABULARY – Summary Completion questions are all about
vocabulary.You need to be able to recognize a
wide range of synonyms and
also paraphrasing to score highly
.
ANSWER ORDER – The answers are usually in the same order of the
missing words. On the rare
occasions that they are not, the key words will
help you to easily spot this.
WORDS FROM TEXT QUESTIONS – Take
careful note of how many
words you should write for your answer, e.g.
No More Than Two Words.
If you write more than this, your answer will be
marked wrong even if the
information is correct.
LIST OF WORDS in the questions – There will be more words in the list
than there are gaps in the summary to fill so you will not need them all.
Your task is to select the correct ones.