STANDARD STRUCTURE OF AN ENGLISH EXAM AND THINGS TO NOTE

This is an article sharing about the standard structure of an English exam and things to note when taking the entrance exam to a high school specializing in English. Based on the reference exam questions of recent years to give the structure of an English exam. In recent years, the exam has been assessed as relatively difficult, the content tests most English skills.

In addition to mastering grammar knowledge of the high school program and learning more advanced grammar knowledge, candidates must also know how to apply practical knowledge and synthesis ability to hope to achieve good results.

This can be considered the standard structure of an English exam:

A. Exam content

1. Phonetics
2. Vocabulary
3. Grammar
4. Reading comprehension
5. Write
6. Listening comprehension

Total score of the whole test is 100 divided by 10 and converted to a 10-point scale.

B. Exam structure

I. Phonetics: (5 questions equivalent to 5 points)

1. Correctly identify word stress
2. Identify the correct way to read single vowels, double vowels, and consonants
3. Vocabulary: (15 questions equivalent to 15 points)
4. Word formation
5. Collocation

 III. Grammar: (15 questions equivalent to 15 points)

1. Article
2. Noun
3. Pronoun
4. Verb (Tense of verb, form of verb, passive voice)
5. Adjective

Adverb

Preposition

Conjunction

Simple sentences, complex sentences, clauses in complex sentences

Direct and indirect speech

Conditional sentences

Determiner

IV. Reading comprehension: (30 questions equivalent to 30 points)

Test your ability to guess the meaning of words in context, predict ideas, read for main ideas, get specific and accurate information, summarize ideas... paragraphs of 200-300 words in length based on learned topics.

V. Writing: (20 points)

1. Expressing an idea using different sentence structures (Transformation)
2. Write complete sentences based on suggested words (Sentence building)
3. Write a paragraph of 100-150 words on the topic
4. Listening comprehension (15 points)
   1. Listen and identify true and false information (Decide whether the statements are True or False. (5 points)
   2. Listen and fill in each blank with word (s)/number. (5 points)
   3. Listen and answer the questions. (Answer questions: Multiple choice questions / Open – ended questions.) (5 points)

C. Question types:

The exam includes multiple choice questions combined with essay questions.

D. Difficulty of the test:

60% basic, 40% advanced

Summary of things to note when taking the English major exam:

In addition to learning vocabulary and structures in textbooks, it is necessary to expand and improve vocabulary outside such as reading foreign books and newspapers, watching movies with English subtitles, etc. Practice reading comprehension skills, analyzing paragraphs, and the ability to reason to guess the meaning of words.

A fairly effective test-taking skill that students need to master is the skill of guessing and eliminating. In case you have time to think but are not sure about the answer, you can use the method of elimination to find the wrong answer. The more wrong answers you eliminate, the higher the probability of choosing the correct answer.

Listening skills, instead of focusing on doing the test right away, candidates should spend time quickly skimming through all the questions and trying to predict, infer to guess what information they will hear to fill in the blanks or guess what type of word. Making judgments helps you narrow down the answers and increase the probability of choosing the correct answer.

To do well in the reading test, reading the questions in advance to orient the content to find in the reading comprehension is a technique that experienced test takers often use. Candidates need to grasp some basic reading skills to apply when taking the test: skimming, reading for specific information (scanning).

In terms of writing, there are three basic types of writing tasks in the English test: Rewriting sentences, arranging words into complete sentences, and writing a paragraph based on a topic. To write a coherent, complete paragraph: First, write a topic sentence that summarizes the main idea of the essay; check the topic sentence to make sure it has a topic and a controlling idea.

Then find ideas to explain the main idea by asking questions starting with question words such as What, When, Where, Why, How and then answer them yourself to create a complete paragraph. Once you have the answers to the questions, put them together into a complete paragraph.

The key here is to make sure you know what order you are using to build your sentences and to use linking words to link your ideas. The final step is to check each sentence for possible spelling and grammar errors.

With the above standard English essay writing methods, it can help your English learning process somewhat easier. However, these are just theories, and can only help you to some extent. To develop faster, you need someone to guide you.

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