Examples:

Source: Cambridge IELTS 11, Test 1 – Reading, Passage 3, Questions 37 – 40

Source: Cambridge IELTS 11, Test 2 – Reading, Passage 1, Questions 5 – 8

Strategies:

1. Read the instruction => check if any option can be used more than once
2. Look at the option list => scan and highlight them in the passage
3. Carefully read the statements => mark the key words
4. Read around the first item (A) you have marked in the passage and compare that with the statements
5. Repeat step 4 for the other items

Tips:

• The items in the box usually follow the passage order, but the statements are in random
• The items may appear more than once in the passage, so find them all.