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Finding Your Way Through A Passage

Skim, scan, predict, find and check: the five moves for getting around a passage quickly.

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The Needle in the Haystack

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Imagine you are staring at a massive, messy haystack, and someone tells you to find a single silver needle hidden inside. You only have 20 minutes. If you start picking up every piece of hay one by one, the timer will run out long before you find it. This is exactly what it feels like to search for a specific detail in a dense, 900-word IELTS Academic reading passage.

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When a student uses the "scanning" technique, what are they primarily doing?

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Concept: scanning

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Finding Your Way Through A Passage

Before You Start

The Needle in the Haystack

Chapter Diagnostic

Skimming For Structure

Scanning For Evidence

Paraphrase Detection

Keyword Prediction

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Before You Start

The Needle in the Haystack

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