The Students’ Problem IELTS Reading Answers
The Students’ Problem IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘The Students’ Problem’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 1 – 14. Beyond the questions, you will find the answers along with the location of the answers in the passage and the keywords that help you find out the answers.
The Students’ Problem
Answers
| Question number | Answer | Keywords | Location of keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | D | commuting is just too expensive, stressful and difficult. | Paragraph D;
Last line |
| 2 | A | students are being forced to sleep rough, share a bed with strangers – or give up on studying altogether. | Paragraph A;
Line 1 |
| 3 | B | Commutes – which would once have been considered ridiculous – are now normal, | Paragraph B;
Last line |
| 4 | C | With 165,000 full-time students in Ireland – and that figure expected to increase to around 200,000 within the next 15 years –fears remain that there aren’t enough properties to accommodate current numbers. | Paragraph C;
Last line |
| 5 | F | According to the Irish Independent, it’s the ‘Google effect’ which is to blame. | Paragraph F;
Line 1 |
| 6 | G | The Grand Canal costs €2,100 (£1,500) per month to rent. Another two-bedroom apartment at Hanover Dock costs €2,350 (almost £1,700) with a three-bedroom penthouse – measuring some 136 square metres – sits at €4,500 (£3,200) per month in rent. | The whole of paragraph G |
| 7 | H | It is very worrying that all of the progress in opening up access to higher education in the last decade – particularly for the working poor – is being derailed because of an entirely foreseeable accommodation crisis.
|
Paragraph H;
Last line |
| 8 | E | Those who have been lucky enough to find a place to live have had to do so ‘blind’ by paying for accommodation, months in advance, | Paragraph E;
Last line |
| 9 | TRUE | The deputy president of the Union of Students in Ireland, Kevin Donoghue, said the problem has become particularly acute in Dublin. | Paragraph B;
Line 1 |
| 10 | FALSE | Commutes – which would once have been considered ridiculous – are now normal, | Paragraph B;
Last line |
| 11 | FALSE | With 165,000 full-time students in Ireland – and that figure expected to increase to around 200,000 within the next 15 years | Paragraph C;
Last line |
| 12 | NOT GIVEN | – | – |
| 13 | TRUE | Rent in the area soared by 15 per cent last year | Paragraph G;
Line 1 |
| 14 | NOT GIVEN | – | – |
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