IELTS Advantage: Reading Skills is a fully comprehensive resource for passing the IELTS Academic Reading Test with a grade of 6.5–7.0 or higher. Students who are taking the General IELTS Test can also benefit from the book. This book teaches a range of key strategies for reading more effectively and for understanding texts more easily, such as skimming, scanning and speed-reading techniques , helping students to get a better result in the Reading paper. Each of the ten units provides a variety of long and short texts that cover major topic areas likely to appear in the exam. Each unit is divided into different sections to help students: • get to know the many question types and how to approach them • develop skills to cope with the amount of reading in the test • learn strategies which help in making the most of the time in the exam • develop vocabulary and collocations, with particular attention paid to synonyms and paraphrases, essential for a good exam result