IELTS READING: Importance of Underlining Key Points

These tips are applicable to both academic and general reading modules.

Many teachers recommend their students to underline the more important ideas and key concepts in a reading passage in order to understand the passage and find answers to the questions which follow the passage. So how does underlining really helps? Underlining important points in a passage helps to:

• pin point key points
• quickly skim through the text to find answers
• Most questions ask for main ideas and if you have underlined them it is easier to get back to them in the provided passage.
• Finally, underlining key concepts helps us comprehend the topic being discussed.

So What should be Underlined? This is explained in detail in the post: IELTS READING: Which points should be underline in the passage?