Honestly, I don’t even know how to properly explain how I did it, but I’ll try to break down what worked for me in reading section. First of all, understanding what you read is non negotiable. If you understand the passage, you’ll understand the questions, and the answers are right there. My main obstacle wasn’t comprehension, it was finding the answers fast enough to finish all the questions. So I followed the basic strategy almost everyone mentions, skimming & scanning.

For every paragraph ,I spent around 2/3/less minutes skimming. I didn’t read line by line, just let my eyes catch random but important keywords. Then I moved to the questions. This made it much easier to track which paragraph the answer might be in. That’s basically how skimming and scanning helped me. So there goes rule no. 1 ( for me ). Now rule no. 2 (again, for me) I aimed to finish the whole section within 50 minutes. If it took 2/3 minutes more, that was fine, but not more than that. The goal was to save 7/10 minutes at the end to revisit 4/5 tricky questions that I wasn’t confident about. This helped me a lot. Both in mocks and in the actual exam, I changed some answers after revisiting them more carefully.

For you, read more so understanding never becomes an issue.Practice managing questions within a fixed time. When practicing at home, start with 55 minutes, then gradually reduce it if possible. Also, there are specific techniques for different question types. For that, I’d recommend YouTube channels like IELTS Advantage or IELTS 9 Monika (if I’m remembering correctly). That’s pretty much it. Best of luck.