“The world is a text. Shall I help you to interpret it?”(unknown)
TYPES OF TESTS AND GRADING1 hour
Total - 45 questions
“The world is a text. Shall I help you to interpret it?”(unknown)
TYPES OF TESTS AND GRADING1 hour
Total - 45 questions
Tags: BEC · BEC - Reading
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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