Band 9 pace: 40 questions in 60 minutes
Set a pace for 40 questions in 60 minutes without losing accuracy: a time plan, anchors that survive paraphrase, a paragraph map for matching and a rule for moving on.
11 min
Module 31 · Lesson 1 of 5
In this lesson
- Plan the 60 minutes across three passages, with finish times.
- Locate answers quickly with anchors that survive paraphrase, then read those lines closely.
- Use a paragraph map for matching sets, and decide when to guess and move on.
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