Tlumaczenia? Translation? No problem!

“The world is a text. Shall I help you to interpret it?”(unknown)

TYPES OF TESTS AND GRADING1 hour

Total - 45 questions

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SUGGESTED APPROACH AND HINTS
You are given either a number of summary sentences, or some phrases in the form of headings or titles, which you have to match to the appropriate paragraph in a text.
You are being tested on whether you can understand the main idea of each paragraph
7 QUESTIONS

Read the instructions so you know what [...]

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SUGGESTED APPROACH AND HINTS
You are given a text which six or seven sentences or paragraphs have been removed; these have been put in a mixed-up order after the text. The task is to decide where in the text the sentences or paragraphs have been taken from.
5 QUESTIONS

Read the text through once.
Look at the sentences, cross [...]

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SUGGESTED APPROACH AND HINTS
You are given a text followed by seven or eight four-opinion multiple choice questions. The questions tests detailed and general understanding.
6 QUESTIONS

Read the text carefully and slowly; you may need to read it , or parts of it twice.
Four possible answers are given and it is important to remember that three of [...]

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SUGGESTED APPROACH AND HINTS
In this part you must fill a gap in a text by choosing one word or phrase from a set of four. There are 15 gaps. The emphasis is on vocabulary.
15 QUESTIONS

Look at the title of the text. It is a kind of summary of what you are going to read, and [...]

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SUGGESTED APPROACH AND HINTS
In this part you must identify errors in a 17-line text. Some of the lines are correct but most of the lines contain an extra wrong word which should not be there.
15 QUESTIONS

Read the title of the text - it’ll help you to know what’s next.
Read the text through quickly.
Read through sentence [...]

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“Words differently arranged have different meanings,
and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.”
Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)

DURATION OF THE WHOLE PART (PAPER)
45 minutes

Part 1 is worth 1/3 of the total number of marks you can receive for the Writing paper, Part 2 - 2/3 of the marks, so try to divide your time between [...]

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Try to write clearly. Illegible handwriting means no marks at all!!!
Keep within the word limit. If you write less than 25% words than the task asks you to, you will not get any marks. You will also lose some marks for writing too much over the word limit.
You can take notes on the qestion sheet, [...]

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SUGGESTED APPROACH AND HINTS
Task procedure:

Read the instruction and the prompt with bullet points carefully [you will be given bullet points with information to include but you may also need to invent some other facts].
Write the rough draft of your answer, keep the sentences short and simple [Hint: use the mnemonic technique and remember the word: [...]

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SUGGESTED APPROACH AND HINTS
Task procedure:

Read the instruction and and all other input material carefully.
Underline or highlight all the points in the input which should be included in your text.
Write your first draft, check if you have included all the required points.
Check the length, edit out unnecessary words, add words where necessary if it is too [...]

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