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14/12/2022
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📰🎧 Use these strategies to score.
Answering strategies are specific answering techniques that you'll need to adopt in order to prevent yourself from getting thrown off-balance by tough questions. In this post, you'll learn all the answering strategies needed to excel in the Linguaskill General Reading & Listening test. Before you start, make sure you've read · · Understanding what is being tested in Reading & Listening.
Part 1 |
Strategies for Listen and Select questions.
In the latest version of the Listening test, audio clips are played automatically. (Previously, a "play" button needs to be clicked in order to start the audio clip.)
In order to answer listen and select questions successfully, you'll need to adopt the following strategies.
- Make sure you're always ready for the audio clip, as the audio clip will only be played twice.
- There is usually some waiting time before audio clips are played. *** *** **** ** ******* **** *** ******** *** ********** **** ***'** ***** *****.
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- If the answers are texts, ******* **** *** ***** ** *** ** **** **** *** **** ** ****** ***. ****, ****** *** *** *********** ** *** ***** **** ***** ** ** ***** ******. register
Part 2 |
Strategies for Extended Listening questions.
Similar to listen and select questions (see Part 1), audio clips will be played automatically.
However, unlike listen and select questions, audio clips in extended listening questions are much, much longer and usually involve two people speaking (sometimes three).
In addition, five to six questions will be asked in succession based on the extended audio clip, making it quite a difficult time-and-information-retention challenge.
In order to answer extended listening questions successfully, you'll need to adopt the following strategies.
- There is waiting time before extended audio clips are played. *** *** ******* **** ** ******* **** ******* *** *** *********.
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- Extended audio clips will be played twice. ****** *** ********* ** *** ***** **** *******, **** ** *** *** *** **** ***** *** *******.
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- Never wait ***** **** **** ******** **** ***** ****** ********** *** *********, register as you will likely find it very difficult to remember every single information presented in the audio clip.
Part 3 |
Strategies for Reading questions with answer choices.
This part applies to:
- Read and select questions.
- Gapped sentence questions.
- Multiple-choice gap-fill questions.
- Extended reading questions.
- Read the question(s) and answer(s) carefully. Unlike traditional multiple choice questions, ******* *** ******** *** ******* *** ****** ** ********** ***** ** *** *********.
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- Read the question(s) for meaning. ** *** *** ** **** "********" ** *** ********(*) ** ****** ** *** ******.
- Very few questions at the higher CEFR bands will provide direct answers. **** ********* **** ****** *** ** *** ******* *********** ** **** *******. (*** *******; *******; **** ** ************?)
- In gapped sentence and multiple-choice gap-fill questions, **** **********, ******, ***** ***********, ************, *** ******* ***** will be tested. When you absolutely do not know the answer, ****** *** ****** **** "******" ***** ** *** **** ******* ** ***. register
Final |
Strategies for Open Gap-Fill questions.
Open gap-fill questions are similar to multiple-choice gap-fill questions, except that answer choices will not be given.
A few paragraphs (usually three to four) will be presented to you with five to six gaps for you to type in your answer.
Since you can type in any answer, open gap-fill questions are among the hardest questions you can encounter in the Linguaskill Reading & Listening test.
In order to answer open gap-fill questions successfully, you'll need to adopt the following strategies.
- The first thing you'll need to know is this: gaps are always one-word answers. Do not type in multiple words into a single gap.
- This quickly helps you narrow down your choices. In particular, focus your thinking in the following items:
- ************.
- ******* *****.
- ***** *****.
- ************.
- ********.
- ********.
- ****** (************).
- ***** *********** (************). register
- The following items are not tested, so you may rule them out:
- *****.
- **********.
- *****.
- *******. register
- If you are unfamiliar with the items listed above, make sure you read · · What is parts of speech? for a quick refresher course.
