Section C Exam Skills 1

Section C Exam Skills

Proof-reading skill
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 Tense
 Voices
 Agreement
 Nature
1. Transitive Verb(No prep.)
2. Intransitive Verb(with prep.)
 Fused sentence(2 main verbs)
1. Add(which/that/where/and/but)
 Sentence Fragment(No main verb)
1. Delete(which/that/where/and)

Before you put a tick,ask yourself whether there is anything wrong with the
meaning
 Hot XX not
 Antonyms(employer/employers)

Before you put a tick, ask yourself whether there is anything wrong with
 Meaning
 The noun(countable noun)

Steps
 Sentence level
Funded sentence(2main verbs)
Eg:who/which/that/to/-ing/end/but)
 Word Level
A. Verb(Tenses/voice/agreement)
B. Prepostions
C. Parts of speech(adj/adverb)
D. Noun(singular/phural)
E. Acticles(an/a/the)

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Section C Exam Skills 2

How can we locate the relevant in format as quick as possible

Pay attention to the following:
 Topic Sentence(Version1)
 Words around the blank(Version2)

Theme Exercise
Thematic link
 Glance through the whole passage without looking at the optious to familiarize
yourself with the theme of the passage first(the writer stance)
 Pay attention to the title
Semantic Link
Don’t just focus on the previous sentence. You need to pay attention to the next few
sentences and the theme of the next paragraph

Matching(2004)
Column B
1.Reference Noun phrase(this/these/such…)
Eg:
 this figure
 this organization
 all of these men
 this privilege
 this expansion

2.Pronuns
Eg:
 There is no big strain on them
 They are finished in shing tiles
 How are we going to deal with it

3.Contrast cusually items(Antonyms)

Eg:
 However
 Yet
 Nevertheless
 Nonetheless
 Notwithstanding

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Section C Exam Skills 3

Reading Comprehension
Key words of questions
The writer thinks……
Some people think……..

Writer attitude
1. Sentenc Adverbs

Incredibly Example:
Inconceivably (Surprise)
Unbelievably
Unthinkably
Surprisingly

2. Connectives

However Example
Yet,
But,

Nevertheless Writer’s opinion

Nonetheless
Notwithstanding
Even so

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