Steps to do IELTS Reading True/False/Not Given

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True/ False/ Not Given và Yes/ No/ Not Given are the two types of questions that often confuse candidates most because… do not know which answer to choose. In this article, DOL will delve into the nature of the article as well as give a way to do it true false not given ielts niceYes/ No/ Not Given the most reasonable (apply Linearthinking) okay!

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Nov 03, 2021

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1. Test Format True, False, Not Given

FormTrue/False/Not Given và Yes/No/Not Given Both require candidates to determine if the information in the question is true to the information in the passage, as opposed to the information in the passage, or is not mentioned in the IELTS reading passage.

• True/ Yes: The information in the question matches the information in the article.
• False/No: The information in the question is the opposite of the information in the text.
• Not Given: The information in the question is not mentioned in the post.

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In IELTS Academic Reading True False Not Given , you are required to evaluate whether the information given in the question is True, False or Not given according to the passage. The important part here is to understand the passages clearly and choose the correct answer. To do this task well, you need to have good attention and all-round competence.

2. IELTS Reading Method True, False, Not Given

2.1 General principles

FormTrue, False, Not Given mainly focus on the content of the statement, so if you see some content mentioned in the passage, the answer will probably be T/F.

If the content of the statement is not mentioned in the text at all, the answer will be NG.

Pay attention not to focus on keywords because sometimes keywords are both in the article and in the comment, but the answer is NG.

2.2 Steps to do True, False, Not Given

Let's go through the following reading and practice the True / False / Not Given form:

READING PASSAGE 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below.

                         Alexander Henderson (1831-1913)

Born in Scotland, Henderson emigrated to Canada in 1855 and become a well-known landscape photographer.

Alexander Henderson was born in Scotland in 1831 and was the son of a successful merchant. His grandfather, also called Alexander, had founded the family business, and later became the first chairman of the National Bank of Scotland. The family had extensive landholding in Scotland.

Besides its residence in Edinburgh, it owned Press Estate, 650 acres of farmland about 35 miles southeast of the city. The family often stayed at Press Castle, the large mansion on the northern edge of the property, and Alexander spent much of his childhood in the area, playing on the beach near Eyemouth or fishing in the streams nearby.

Even after he went to school at Murcheston Academy on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Henderson returned to Press at weekends. In 1849 he began a three-year apprenticeship to become an accountant.

Although he never liked the prospect of a business career, he stayed with it to please his family. In October 1855, however, he emigrated to Canada with his wife Agnes Elder Robertson and they settled in Montreal.

Henderson learned photography in Montreal around the year 1857 and quickly took it up as a serious amateur. He became a personal friend and colleague of the Scottish – Canadian photographer William Notman.

The two men made a photographic excursion to Niagara Falls in 1860 and they cooperated on experiments with magnesium flares as a source of artificial light in 1865. They belonged to the same societies and were among the founding members of the Art Association of Montreal. Henderson acted as chairman of the association’s first meeting, which was held in Notman’s studio on 11 January 1860.

In spite of their friendship, their styles of photography were quite different. While Notman’s landscapes were noted for their bold realism, Henderson for the first 20 years of his career produced romantic images, showing the strong influence of the British landscape tradition.

His artistic and technical progress was rapid and in 1865 he published his first major collection of landscape photographs. The publication had limited circulation (only seven copies have ever been found), and was called Canadian Views and Studies. The contents of each copy vary significantly and have proved a useful source for evaluating Henderson’s early work.

In 1866, he gave up his business to open a photographic studio, advertising himself as a portrait and landscape photographer. From about 1870 he dropped portraiture to specialize in landscape photography and other views.

His numerous photographs of city life revealed in street scenes, houses, and markets are alive with human activity, and although his favourite subject was landscape he usually composed his scenes around such human pursuits as farming the land, cutting ice on a river, or sailing down a woodland stream.

There was sufficient demand for these types of scenes and others he took depicting the lumber trade, steamboats and waterfalls to enable him to make a living. There was little competing hobby or amateur photography before the late 1880s because of the time-consuming techniques involved and the weight of equipment.

People wanted to buy photographs as souvenirs of a trip or as gifts, and catering to this market, Henderson had stock photographs on display at his studio for mounting, framing, or inclusion in albums.

Henderson frequently exhibited his photographs in Montreal and abroad, in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, New York, and Philadelphia. He met with greater success in 1877 and 1878 in New York when he won first prizes in the exhibition held by E and H T Anthony and Company for landscapes using the Lambertype process. In 1878 his work won second prize at the world exhibition in Paris.

In the 1890s and 1880s Henderson travelled widely throughout Quebec and Ontario, in Canada, documenting the major cities of the two provinces and many of the villages in Quebec. He was especially fond of the wilderness and often travelled by canoe on the Blanche, du Lièvre, and other noted eastern rivers.

He went on several occasions to the Maritimes and in 1872 he sailed by yacht along the lower north shore of the St Lawrence River. That same year, while in the lower St Lawrence River region, he took some photographs of the construction of the Intercolonial Railway.

This undertaking led in 1875 to a commission from the railway to record the principal structures along the almost-completed line connecting Montreal to Halifax. Commissions from other railways followed.

In 1876 he photographed bridges on the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway between Montreal and Ottawa. In 1885 he went west along the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) as far as Rogers Pass in British Columbia, where he took photographs of the mountains and the progress of construction.

In 1892 Henderson accepted a full-time position with the CPR as manager of a photographic department which he was to set up and administer. His duties included spending four months in the field each year.

That summer he made his second trip west, photographing extensively along the railway line as far as Victoria. He continued in this post until 1897, when he retired completely from photography.

When Henderson died in 1913, his huge collection of glass negatives was stored in the basement of his house. Today collections of his work are held at the National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, and the McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal.

• Step 1: Read the question carefully, analyze the question structure to understand the content deeplyTRUE/ FALSE/NOT GIVEN

Eg:

Question: Henderson rarely visited the area around Press estate when he was younger.

Structure of sentences: S + V when S + V

=> Meaning of the sentence: As a child Henderson rarely visited the Press Estate area.

• Step 2: Identify the information to read in the article

Since the question has a proper name (Press Estate), just quickly find the correct name in the passage.

Alexander Henderson

Alexander Henderson was born in Scotland in 1831 and was the son of a successful merchant. His grandfather, also called Alexander, had founded the family business, and later became the first chairman of the National Bank of Scotland. The family had extensive landholdings in Scotland.

Besides its residence in Edinburgh, it owned Press Estate, 650 acres of farmland about 35 miles southeast of the city. The family often stayed at Press Castle, the large mansion on the northern edge of the property, and Alexander spent much of his childhood in the area, playing on the beach near Eyemouth or fishing in the streams nearby.

Even after he went to school at Murcheston Academy on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Henderson returned to Press at weekends. In 1849 he began a three-year apprenticeship to become an accountant. Although he never liked the prospect of a business career, he stayed with it to please his family. In October 1855, however, he emigrated to Canada with his wife Agnes Elder Robertson and they settled in Montreal.

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• Step 3: Read the sentence structure of the information in the article to understand the content deeply

The information in the reading can be analyzed as follows:

Passage: Besides its residence in Edinburgh, it owned Press Estate. The family often stayed at Press Castle, the large mansion the property, and Alexander spent much of his childhood in the area.

Structure: Besides + Noun , S + V . S + V , and S + V .

Shorten sentences: Besides its residence in Edinburgh, it owned Press Estate. The family stayed at Press Castle (relative clause bổ nghĩa), and Alexander spent much of his childhood in the area.

Sentence meaning: Alexander spent much of his childhood at Press Castle (of the Press Estate).

• Step 4: Compare the content of the question with the content of the reading passage and chooseTrue/ False/ Not Given

Question: As a child Henderson rarely visited the Press Estate area.

Passage: Alexander spent much of his childhood at Press Castle (under the Press Estate)

→ I see, rarely visit # spend a lot of time so the answer will beFALSE.

4 important steps when taking TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN

3. Common problems when doing True/False/Not Given

The most common problems candidates face in this True/ False/Not Given - Yes/ No/ Not Given format include:

Problem 1: The candidate couldn't find the information in the article, so he chose Not Given by mistake

• Lee do: The failure to find information is often due to poor paraphrasing recognition. Most students when looking for information only focus on finding similar keywords or synonyms but forget that there are many other ways to paraphrase information in the lesson (such as using antonyms, using definitions, etc.).
• SolutionLinearthinking guides students to think paraphrasing information in many ways, helping to increase the ability to identify information when doing the test.

Problem 2: The candidate is not sure if the answer to choose is True/ False or Not Given (Yes/ No or Not Given)

• This problem has 2 main causes:
  • Candidates do not read the information carefully, but only skim/scan the same keywords, leading to the wrong choice.
  • Candidates do not know how to distinguish between True/False and Not Given and do not understand its essence.
• Solution: Linearthinking helps students read the sentence structure to really understand what the sentence is saying, instead of plugging in and comparing keywords. In addition, Linearthinking also provides mind maps to help students better understand the nature and difference betweenTrue/ False/Not Given (orYes/No/Not Given).

Problem 3: Candidates read the information in the article and then make their own inferences

• Lee do: Sometimes the information in the article does not refer to the information the question is asking, but the candidate makes his own inferences, according to his or her social knowledge, leading to choosing the wrong answer.
• Solution: Most students still deduce that because the sentence contains strange vocabulary, candidates do not really understand the sentence completely, so they have to add their own social knowledge to understand. Linearthinking helps students guess the meaning of words in context, thereby understanding the content in the lesson more accurately.

Problem 4: Don't know whether to do True/False/Not Given (Yes/No/Not given) before or after, how to do the test?

Lee do: Many candidates spend a lot of time on the formTrue/False/Not Given (Yes/No/Not given) This IELTS Reading because there is no reasonable strategy to do the test, does not grasp the "essence" of this type of test, but only looks at the form. Therefore, many of you when looking at the list of questions are very confused, do not know what to do first and how much time to spend on each type of question.

Solution: Instead of dividing into 14 forms according to form, Linearthinking looks at the essence and divides these question types into 2 single groups: Main Idea and Detail. Since True/ False/Not Given (Yes/No/Not given) is a Detail type of question, it is best to do it after the Main Idea question type.

Common mistakes when doing TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN

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4. Tips for doing True/False/Not Given

4.1. Pay attention to some words and phrases that define the meaning of a sentence

These phrases can be adverbs of frequency (often, barely, always, etc.), adverb of probability (likely, probably etc.), quantitative (many, most, some, etc.), and modal verbs (can, must, must, and so on.)

4.2. Use the exclusion method

When doing post formTrue/False/Not Given, remove answers before giving a specific answer. Usually the eliminated answer isTrue or False. 

4.3. The answers appear in order

Information for the questions is displayed sequentially so you will not have to spend too much time looking for answers for this type of test.

4.4. Understand the content

This format requires candidates to understand the main content of the question, so you should read carefully and understand the main points of the questionstatements what content is supposed to be.

5. Practice

Try applying these 4 steps to the following exercises:

Practice 1: Nutmeg – A Valuable Spice

Practice 2: Neuroaesthetics

Practice 3: Henry Moore (1898-1986)

6. Frequently asked questions

How many question types are there in the IELTS reading passage?

Is it possible to write T/F instead of True/False in a true false not given question?

What are the steps to do True False Not Given form in IELTS Reading?

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