What is IELTS Sentence Completion?

IELTS Sentence Completion is a reading task where you fill in gaps in a text with missing words from a given list, testing your ability to understand context.

How can Grad-Dreams help with IELTS Sentence Completion?

Grad-Dreams offers practice materials, strategies, and expert guidance to improve your Sentence Completion skills, ensuring better IELTS scores.

What's the key to success in IELTS Reading Sentence Completion?

Success lies in understanding the passage context and recognizing clues for the missing words. Practice, practice, and more practice are essential.

2021-01-08 |

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IELTS Reading Practice: Sentence Completion 2024

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IELTS Reading: Sentence Completion

Sentence completion questions are a regular question type in the IELTS Test.You will be given a set of questions with blanks. You will have to find the appropriate words to fill the blank. A word limit will be set, and you will have to adhere to it. For example, the question might state, ‘no more than two\three words’.

#What are the skills required for the Sentence Completion section for the IELTS Test?

Here is a list of skills you will require for solving the Sentence Completion section

The ability to recognize synonyms
The ability to understand paraphrases
The ability to scan the test and identify the keywords

#Essential tips for solving the Sentence Completion questions

Read the sentence carefully and try to predict the missing words.
First, read the sentences than the text. Doing so will familiarize you will the sentences, and you will know what information to look for.
The sentences should be grammatically correct. So try to figure out which form of the words will fit the grammatical structure of the sentence.
The answers follow a particular order. The missing word for the second sentence will be just after the missing word for the first sentence.
Make sure you follow the word limit.

#What are the answering strategies for the Sentence Completion questions?

Read the instructions carefully. Pay attention to the word limit. Find out whether you have to use the exact words from the text or their synonyms.
Mark the keywords in the sentence and then look for their synonyms and paraphrases in the text.
Predict the missing word before looking for it in the text. Try to figure out the word’s form, such as adjectives, nouns, verbs, etc.
Once you have located the missing word, check if it fits the grammatical structure of the sentence.
Repeat the same process for all the sentences.