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IELTS Reading
Note, table and flow-chart completion
Complete notes, a grid or a process chart with exact words from the passage.
The instructions, word for word as the test writes them
Complete the table below.
Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.
What this task is
The passage's information reorganised into a structure. Study-style notes, a comparison table, or a flow-chart of a process, with gaps to fill from the text.
The structure is chosen to match how the passage organises the information, which makes it a map. A table means the passage compares things. A flow-chart means it describes a sequence, with the sequence words waiting in the text: "first", "following this", "the final stage".
The traps
These are built in on purpose. Know them by name and half the danger is gone.
Table answers follow the passage's order when the grid is read left to right, top to bottom. Fill cells in that order and the passage cooperates. Jump around and it fights you.
When the rubric says ONE WORD ONLY, it means it. Two words score nothing, even when the pair is correct.
What to do next time
- Use the structure before the text. Headers and stage labels tell you what each gap wants and roughly where it lives.
- The gap's neighbours in the structure paraphrase the answer's neighbours in the passage. Scan for the idea, then copy the word.
- Read your completed row or stage back. If it misstates the passage, you copied from the wrong place.
Now meet it under a clock. Start a free mock. Every note, table and flow-chart completion question you get wrong comes back with the sentence that proves the answer, and the reason the trap was tempting.