MULTILPE CHOICE QUESTIONS FOR ADVANCE LEVEL LEARNERS

INSTRUCTIONS: This test is designed to assess the students’ knowledge about the book.
Students are required to tick the correct answers, underlying , drawing a circle and double
ticks will cause the mark detection. Try to attempt the whole paper in the given time.

TIME: 20 minutes

1. What is the main reason behind low reliability of oral production tests?
a) Administration time
b) Subjective scoring
c) Behaviour of students
d) Construction style
2. Supporters of oral production tests think which of the following thing must be included in
the test setting?
a) Natural speech situation
b) More administration time
c) Outsider examiner
d) Reading aloud
3. What would be the one important suggestion to make oral production test more authentic?
a) Presence of class teacher
b) Administration time
c) Task talk
d) Set up a timer
4. Why interruption of examiner/ teacher is encouraged in the oral production tests?
a) To distract student
b) To prolonged the talk
c) To make testees comfortable
d) To kill the time
5. What is the chief danger of conducting the interview with pair of students?
a) Dominance of one
b) Wastage of time
c) Difficulty in scoring
d) None of the above
6. What types of activities can be introduced in the interviews of oral production tests?
a) Reading aloud
b) Problem solving
c) Puzzles
d) Both b & c
7. What kind of knowledge is assessed in oral production tests along with grammar and
vocabulary?
a) Knowledge of linguistics
b) Effectiveness of communication
c) Fluency
d) Knowledge of phonemes
8. When will the oral interviews should be scored?
a) In the presence of student
b) When student has left
c) After a few minutes break
 d) In the middle of the conversation
9. The value number 4 on the scoring scale shows the .
a) Satisfactory verbal communication
b) Extreme difficulty in communication
c) Fairly satisfactory communication
d) Very good communication
10. Why the even-numbered scale is often preferred because it avoid awarding..?
a) Middle marks
b) Band 2
c) In fraction
d) None of the above
11. Why many examiner bodies prefer fairly short descriptions of grades?
a) That helps examiner
b) Is in favour of student
c) To make scores unreachable
d) None of the above
12. For lower levels or just for school tests the rating scale should be designed by whom?
a) By the class teacher
b) By the students themselves
c) By the school authorities
d) By the higher examiner bodies
13. For scoring the teacher must wish to consider each student’s achievement in terms of
accuracy, ……….. and fluency?
a) Range
b) Flexibility
c) Appropriacy
d) Size
14. The rating scale given in your book is for which level of learners?
a) Beginner level
b) Upper intermediate level
c) Lower intermediate level
d) Advance level
15. How the interviews of the oral production test should be designed?
a) Spontaneous
b) Natural and realistic
c) Pre-planned
d) With some order
16. How many questions should be asked in a oral production interview at least?
a) Five
b) Eight
c) Fifteen
d) Ten or twelve
17. Which one of the following is the best way of assessing oral production tests?
a) At the spot scoring
b) When student has left
c) By recording interview and later
d) Both b and c are correct
18. What are some other techniques for oral production tests?
 a) The short talk
b) Reading aloud
c) Reading a small passage
d) Jigsaw
19. Studies show what type of test more reliable in a sense that each member of the group
show interest and talk more?
a) The short talk tests
b) Reading aloud
c) A pair conversation
d) None of the above
20. The group discussion and role playing tests help examiner to determined which ability of
students?
a) Thinking
b) Target language
c) Both a & b
d) The pronunciation skill

KEY

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