IELTS Reading

Resolutions: Is it True,
False or Not Given?
A successful strategy to defeat
these tricky questions

Many people find hard to determine if a statement is True, False or

Not given.
People always confuse between False and Not given (or No and Not
given).

I find a simple strategy but effective which could help you answer these
questions correctly.
In this presentation, I will show you:

1. The differences between True, False or Not

Given and Yes, No, Not Given
2. A simple but useful approach to succeed in
T/F/NG (or Y/N/NG).
3. How to Identify T/Y, F/N, and NG statements.
1
THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN TRUE/FALSE/NOT
GIVEN AND YES/NO/NOT
GIVEN
Lets start by distinguishing these 2 types of
questions!
True, False or Not given is identifying information
when the passage is about FACTS.
Yes/No/Not given is identifying writers
views/claims when the passage is about WRITERS
VIEWS/CLAIMS
HOWEVER...

The difference is not important

The technique to solve is the same
The only thing you should do is determining
whether a statement is correct, incorrect or not
given
2 Approach to succeed in
TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN
(or YES/NO/NOT GIVEN)
A simple but useful strategy
KEYWORDS
TECHNIQUE
The fundamental approach to address
all question types in IELTS reading
test.
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Step 1: Question skimming
and keyword underlining

Assumption: What to do next:

You have read the topic heading - Skimming over the questions
(if any). This helps us in our - Underlining keywords in the
identifying keywords process. questions
- Focus on small words
 Step 2: Locating these keywords into
reading passage and comparing these
keywords to find the correct answer

Assumption: What to do next: Note:

You have finished skimming - integrating keywords in questions
through the reading and in the passage to find the
passage and underlining relevant paragraphs and
keywords in it. sentences by scanning
- read the sentences in detail to
find the answer.
Keywords in reading
passage may not be exactly
the same with the keywords
in questions, but equivalent
in meaning
they are synonyms
I have shown you 2-step
approach to solve a T/F/NG or
Y/N/NG question

Now, I will guide you how to

decide a statement is True,
False, or Not Given (or Yes,
No, Not Given).
3
How to decide a
statement is True,
False, or Not Given (or
Yes, No, Not Given)
Identifying TRUE/YES
statement

A statement is TRUE if the

passage tells us this is
correct.
You give a statement a
YES if it agrees with
writers view/claim.
 To be correct, a statement has
to meet two requirements at
the same time

Existence: the Accuracy: this

information information is true
mentioned in the according to the
question must
Existence Accuracy reading passage
appear in reading or it agrees with
passage writers
views/claims
Identifying FALSE/NO
statement

A statement is FALSE if the

passage tells us this is
incorrect.
You give a statement a NO
if it disagrees with writers
view/claim
TIPS
If the sentence in a question contains one of these words:
usually, often, many, some, all, almost, most of, always, never,
hardly, unique, only or can, could, likely, probably, possibly,
may, must, should
the answer is normally False or No.
Beware of exception so please read carefully.
 Identifying NOT GIVEN
statement

A statement is marked Not Given

if you cannot say for sure that its
true or false with only the given
information in the passage (lack
of information)
A not given statement may
have the following
characteristics

The information in
the passage can not
No information
be used to
regarding it can be OR
determine whether
found in reading
the statement in a
passage
question is true or
false
SUMMARY
Dont worry about the difference between
T/F/NG and Y/N/NG question because you can
01
use the same technique to solve them
Adopting the 2-step approach to solve these types
02 of questions

Checking whether a statement meets 2

03 requirements to be marked as T/F/Y/N

A statement is not given if no information regarding it can be

04 found in reading passage OR the subject matter of the statement
is mentioned in the passage, but the information agreeing or
contradicting the statement cannot be found
THANKS!

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