Tips for Reading and UoE Part 6
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Always read through the text with gaps in it first so that you get an overall idea of the structure of the text and the development of the writer’s ideas, before starting to do the task.
2. When you are selecting a sentence to fill a gap, look carefully at the information before and after the gap. Candidates sometimes make the wrong choices by selecting options which seem to fit the text before the gap, and neglecting to check that the text after the gap follows on logically.
3. As in Part 5, Don't rely on ‘word spotting’. That is assuming that if the same word, name, date, etc. appears in the surrounding text and one of the options, then that is automatically the right sentence to fill the gap. Try and check all the other clues carefully before making a final decision.