LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES

Matching sentence endings + Multi choice

  • Instructions first
  • same order
  • skim & scan
  • same order
  • questions first
  • keywords
  • predict
  • Options are the bad guys of the middle school, you need to predict the answer yourself and search the passage before choosing an option
  • The options must match the first half of the sentence’s grammar, syntax and meaning

Classification Type

  1. read the instructions first
  2. NOT same order
  3. skim and scan
  4. questions first
  5. keywords
  6. categories usage >= 0

Completion tasks & Summery completion

  1. read the instructions
  2. Not same order
  3. predict
  4. questions first
  5. keywords
  6. skim & scan
  7. grammar and syntax, and the words are taken from the passage

Matching information to paragraphs ?????

  1. last question to answer
  2. instructions
  3. Not same order
  4. questions
  5. keywords
  6. paragraphs can be selected more than one time

TIP

keywords (names, numbers, Locations, …) and things that are hard to be paraphrased

WARNING

skimming and scanning isn’t only about searching for individual words but understanding the overall meaning also

TIP

options, choices, and completions are the pain in the ass, don’t waste your time staring at them before reading the questions and the passage to get exact answers