C1 Advanced · Reading & Use of English · Part 8
Match each statement to the right person or section of the text.
A set of statements to match against sections of a text, or against several short texts. It is a scanning task under time pressure, and it is placed where it is on purpose — near the end of the paper, when concentration is thinnest.
Read the questions first here, unlike the other reading parts, because you are looking for specific information rather than building an understanding of the whole. Expect paraphrase: the question will not use the text's words, and if it does, that is often the wrong section. And watch the sections that answer two questions — the same paragraph frequently supplies more than one match, so a section already used is not disqualified.
At C1 the statements are abstract and the paraphrase is heavier: a statement about "reluctance to accept help" may be matched by a section that never uses any of those words. Scanning by topic is much less reliable, because several sections will share the topic and differ only in the attitude they take to it. Read each section for its stance, not its subject.
Yes. Do not rule out a section because you have already used it — the task is built so that some sections carry several of the answers and others carry none.
Generally not, for this part. Skim it for the shape of each section, then work question by question. Reading it closely first costs more time than it saves, and this is the part where time runs out.
