IELTS General Training Reading – Task Type 10 – Classification
Task Description
What are candidates required to do?
With this item type, candidates are presented with a number of pieces of information and a number of categories each of which is represented by one or more letters. The candidates are required to assign each piece of information to one of the possible categories based on common features.
What is this item type designed to test?
This item type is designed to test candidates’ ability to recognize relationships and connections between facts in the passage, and is most often used with texts dealing with factual information; for example descriptive texts. Candidates need to be able to skim and scan the passage in order to locate the required information and to read the detail.
Understanding the Task
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Things to consider
- Would you read through the whole passage before you tried to classify the items of information?
- Would you then continue to work through the passage item by item?
- Would you look for specific words and phrases?
- Are the items found in order in the passage?
- What skills would you need to complete this task?
