Categorise

IELTS exam writers select a range of specific types of texts. Learning to recognise the type of text you are reading can help you predict its structure and therefore understand it more quickly. There are four types of IELTS texts a analytic texts, which discuss the reasons why something happened or make recommendations or explain a concept b descriptive texts, which describe a situation, explain how something is done or categorise something c discursive texts, in which different opinions are expressed about an issue and d narrative texts, which explain a chronological sequence of events.