IELTS Reading- Fill in the Blanks

Fill in the blanks are the most common questions in the IELTS Reading, and Abroad Gateway categorizes this type of question into easy ones. One has to fill the gap in the given statements, paragraphs, or maybe a table. That may seem easy, but these question demands attentiveness to fill the most appropriate answer. Let us have a closer look at their classification.

Types of fill in the blanks:

Fill in the blanks with options:

As the name conveys itself, these fill-in-the-blanks are provided with options. The test taker has to choose the most appropriate option to fill the gap in the statement. And most important of all, here, the sequence of the information may not be in order same as the order of questions.

Fill in the blanks without options:

Here, the test taker is not provided with any options, and the word limit is already specified in the instructions. Most of the time, the answer in the text follows the same order as the questions but sometimes, in the case of paragraphs or tables, the information in the text may not be in sequence. 

Tips and strategies to solve fill in the blanks:

Let us dive deeper into tips and strategies emphasized by Abroad Gateway to solve the Fill in the blanks in IELTS Reading.

1. Try to understand the statement’s meaning first before reading the text. Doing this will give an advantage in locating the answers, and being clueless while reading the text will not do any good.
2. Check the word limit before answering any of the statements. If the test taker exceeds the word limit, then the answer will be considered wrong.
3. Most of the time, the information in the text follows order as of the questions, which limits the search area, and locating answers would not be difficult anymore.
4. Always check the grammar while filling the gap; no points will be awarded if the answer is grammatically wrong.
5. Remember that the answer the test taker is finding may be paraphrased or exist as a synonym in the text. So, thinking about the synonyms will add more credibility to one’s answer.
6. Spelling mistakes must be considered while writing the answer as sometimes some spellings may get unheeded by one’s eyes.