Reading: About Me & Global Students
Read short profiles and forum posts about students around the world.
Reading comprehension means understanding a text. You need to find the main idea (what it is mostly about), specific details (facts and numbers), and guess the meaning of new words from context. For short texts about people, pay attention to names, countries, ages, likes and dislikes, and family members.
Key terms
| Strategy | What It Means | When to Use It |
|---|---|---|
| Skim | Read quickly to get the main idea | Before looking at the questions |
| Scan | Look for key words to find details | When a question asks for a fact or number |
| Use context | Look at the words around an unknown word | When you find a new or difficult word |
| Infer | Make a smart guess from clues in the text | When the answer is not directly written |
Four strategies to help you read and answer questions better.
- 1Step 1: Read the whole passage once without stopping.
- 2Step 2: Ask yourself: 'What is this mostly about?'
- 3Step 3: Look at the choices and cross out the ones that are too small (only one detail).
- 4Step 4: Choose the answer that covers the whole text.
Many students read the questions first and look for the answer word by word. This often leads to wrong answers because you miss the full meaning. Always read the whole passage first.
The answer to every question is somewhere in the text. If you cannot find it, read the passage again slowly.
Do not use your own knowledge from outside the passage. Only the information in the text can help you answer correctly.
Rules
- 1Read the whole text first before looking at the questions.
- 2Look for key words like names, ages, countries, and hobbies.
- 3Every answer can be found in the text — no guessing.
- 4If you do not know a word, use the words around it to understand.
- 5Read all four choices before picking the correct one.
- 6For main idea questions, think: what is the text mostly about?
Practice
4 easy · 4 medium · 4 hard
10 random questions per test