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Not answering questions– This seems like an obvious one but it would shock you how many people don’t answer the question at all.

Being tricked by the examiner– examiners love to try and trick you with ‘distractors’. Distractors are things that look like the correct answer but are actually incorrect. When you locate the correct section in the reading text, there will appear to be two or three plausible correct answers. A very common trick is matching lots of keywords from the question options to parts of the text. Just because there are lots of matching keywords doesn’t mean it is the correct answer. Also look at the context of the whole sentence and any qualifying words like most, all, always, sometimes.