Reading Part 2
This part pairs a picture with a piece of writing. You read a diagram - a floor plan, a schedule, a set of options - and then use it to complete a message that refers to it.
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Reading to Apply a Diagram asks you to do something the other Reading parts do not: move back and forth between a visual and a text. The diagram might be a seating plan, a timetable, a price list, a set of tour packages, or a building layout.
You then read a short message from someone who is using that diagram, and answer questions or fill blanks that only make sense if you can locate the right cell, row, or label.
The reading itself is not hard. The difficulty is navigational - knowing exactly where in the diagram to look, and noticing when the message describes something slightly different from what the diagram shows.
Spend the first 45 seconds reading the diagram as a diagram: what are its columns, what are its rows, what units is it in, and what is the one thing it is organising. Do not read it left to right like prose.
Then read the message once for its purpose before answering. Give the eight questions about seven minutes, returning to the diagram for each rather than trusting what you remember, and keep the last 30 seconds to re-check any answer where two options looked close.
Treat this as its own skill and practise it separately. Candidates who are comfortable with the other three Reading parts often lose ground here purely because they have practised it least. The habit to build is simple: read the diagram first, name its organising logic out loud, and only then read the message.
Quick answers about Reading Part 2.
Something practical and everyday - a schedule, a floor plan, a price or package comparison, a registration form, a tour itinerary. It is always something an ordinary person would genuinely have to read and act on.
No, but you do need to understand how it is organised. Knowing what the rows and columns represent is what lets you find each answer quickly; reading every cell in detail is a waste of the nine minutes.
Because it tests navigation rather than vocabulary. The words are easy; the work is moving accurately between two different formats under time pressure, which is a skill most candidates practise least.
Eight, and they run in roughly the order the message does, so you can usually work top to bottom rather than hunting.
The diagram, briefly - about 45 seconds to see how it is organised. Reading the message first means you meet references to a diagram you cannot yet navigate, and you end up reading both twice.
No. All 38 Reading questions combine into one Reading CLB level, so a weaker part can be offset by the other three.