Tips to Solve Diagram Type Questions in IELTS Reading Test
Labelling IELTS bar graph questions, diagrams and maps are common tasks in the IELTS listening and reading sections. The tasks include reading passages to find the correct label to a particular part of the diagram. The IELTS reading test has different levels of difficulty for the academic and the general test.
IELTS listening diagram labelling has generally been found to be a part of academic tests. The passages can be anywhere from 400 to 500 words. This task could turn into a game-changer if done well as most labelling questions can be done faster than imagined.
Let’s look at an example from IELTS.org, to begin with.
IELTS Sample Reading Test
Introducing dung beetles into a pasture is a simple process: approximately 1,500 beetles are released, a handful at a time, into fresh cow pats in the cow pasture. The beetles immediately disappear beneath the pats digging and tunnelling and, if they successfully adapt to their new environment, soon become a permanent, self-sustaining part of the local ecology.
In time they multiply and within three or four years the benefits to the pasture are obvious. Dung beetles work from the inside of the pat so they are sheltered from predators such as birds and foxes.
Continuation of the IELTS Reading Test Sample
Most species burrow into the soil and bury dung in tunnels directly underneath the pats, which are hollowed out from within. Some large species originating from France excavate tunnels to a depth of approximately 30 cm below the dung pat. These beetles make sausage-shaped brood chambers along the tunnels.
The shallowest tunnels belong to a much smaller Spanish species that buries dung in chambers that hang like fruit from the branches of a pear tree. South African beetles dig narrow tunnels of approximately 20 cm below the surface of the pat.
Some surface-dwelling beetles, including a South African species, cut perfectly-shaped balls from the pat, which are rolled away and attached to the bases of plants.
Continuation of the IELTS Academic Reading Sample
For maximum dung burial in spring, summer and autumn, farmers require a variety of species with overlapping periods of activity. In the cooler environments of the state of Victoria, the large French species (2.5 cm long), is matched with smaller (half this size), temperate-climate Spanish species. The former are slow to recover from the winter cold and produce only one or two generations of offspring from late spring until autumn.
The latter, which multiply rapidly in early spring, produce two to five generations annually. The South African ball-rolling species, being a subtropical beetle, prefers the climate of northern and coastal New South Wales where it commonly works with the South African tunnelling species. In warmer climates, many species are active for longer periods of the year.
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