The document provides strategies and tips for matching names to statements in reading comprehension tasks. It highlights common problems, such as difficulty in identifying key names and the importance of scanning rather than reading in order. Ultimately, it suggests a systematic approach to effectively navigate through text and questions for better performance.

1. Matching Features
Reading: Tips & Strategy

2. Reading
• Content
• What do you need to do?
• What does it test?
• Examples
• Common problems
• Tips and advice
• Strategy

3. Reading
• What do you need to do?
• You will be asked to match a person’s
name, usually an expert, a scientist, or a
researcher, to a statement from the text.
• You will be given a list of names and the
reading text will tell you what each person
has said or done.
• Often you will be given more names than
required.

4. Reading
• What does it test?
• The ability to select detailed information by
scanning a text.

5. • Example
Reading

6. Reading
• Common Problems
• Having trouble matching names that appear
several times in the text because it requires
reading multiple text sections.
• Focussing on the questions that are the
most difficult to find first, which often takes
too much time.
• Reading the entire text in order to find the
names instead of scanning for them.

7. Reading
• More Common
Problems
• Not reading the text in detail after having
found the name and, as a result, not fully
understanding what is being said before
answering the question.
• Looking for words in the text that exactly
match the keywords in the statement. It is
much more likely that the text will contain
synonyms.

8. Reading
• Tips
• Do the easy questions first. If you can’t find an
answer, move on and come back to it later.
• To find names quickly, scan the text and
underline them.
• Think of synonyms that may appear in the
text. For example, ‘to get well quickly’ might
show up in the text as ‘to make a speedy
recovery’.

9. Reading
• More Tips
• Names in the text may appear more than
once, so check the text carefully.
• The questions do no follow the order of the
text so you may have to go back and forth
between paragraphs. Use your scanning skills
to save time.

10. Reading
• Strategy
• Read the questions carefully.
• Focus on the names first and underline them
in the text. You may want to use different
colors for different names.
• Focus on the names that appear in the text
only once first, because they are usually the
easiest.

11. Reading
• More Strategy
• Read around the names you found to see
whether the findings, opinions, etc. come
before or after the name.
• Read what is said about the research and
findings and then go back to the questions
and match. Beware of synonyms .

12. Reading
• Even More Strategy
• After you have found a match between a
name and a statement, cross out the
statement. Each statement can only be used
once.
• Repeat this strategy for the rest of the
names.