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COURSE OUTLINE

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TUTORIAL

INTRODUCTION TO
MUET
MALAYSIAN

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LECTURE

UNIVERSITY ENGLISH TEST (MUET)

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PREPARATORY
PROGRAMME 2016/2017
Registration information and
protocol.
Overview of MUET (Papers 1-4, testing
and scoring).
PAPER 3 READING
Overview of types of questions, texts, skills
tested.
Skills: Comprehension (Skimming &
scanning, extracting specific information).
PAPER 3 READING
Skills: Comprehension (identifying main
ideas, identifying supporting ideas, deriving
meaning from context, understanding linear
& non-linear texts, understanding
relationships, recognising paraphrases).
Texts: Newspaper articles, electronic texts.

PAPER 3 READING
Skills: Application (predicting outcomes,
application of concepts, understanding
language functions, interpreting texts).
Texts: Interviews, speeches.

PAPER 3 READING
Skills: Analysis (relevant vs. irrelevant, fact
vs. opinion, making inferences) &
Synthesis (relating ideas & concepts,
argument development, summarising
information).
Texts: Academic texts, magazine articles.

PAPER 3 READING
Skills: Evaluation (Appraising information,
making judgments, drawing conclusions,
recognising and interpreting views,
attitudes, intentions).
Texts: Literary texts, journals.

PAPER 3 READING
Review of skills and types of questions and
texts.
PAPER 4 WRITING
Overview of types of questions and
formats.
Question 1: Report writing (evaluation
criteria).
Skills: understanding the question,
identifying variables & key features.
Writing outlines.