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SUGGESTED APPROACH AND HINTS

You are given either a number of summary sentences, or some phrases in the form of headings or titles, which you have to match to the appropriate paragraph in a text.

You are being tested on whether you can understand the main idea of each paragraph

7 QUESTIONS

• Read the instructions so you know what the text is going to be about. Read the title to get an idea.
• Look briefly at the list of headings or sentences. Some heading may have more than one possible meaning - consider alternative meaning.
• Read the text once all the way through quickly to get general information. and you need to get the gist if each paragraph.
• You may find unfamiliar words. Ignore them if they do not prevent your understanding, this test is aimed at general understanding.
• Look at the headings or sentences again. Cross out the one that has been given as example in paragraph 0.
• Learn to recognize the structure of the text, what is said after what; it helps to decide on proper heading or summary sentence.
• Try to find sentences in the text that express main idea. Remember that heading match the whole paragraph.
• Match an easy item to paragraph, and continue to match doing the ones you are certain of first. Remember to look for a ?match’ between different ways of saying the same thing, and check that your choice reflects the main idea of the paragraph.
• Cross them off the list as you do them. Remember, there is an extra one that doesn’t fit.
• Read the paragraphs with headings.