TEST FORMAT

READING – WRITING 3

(6 codes)

I. Reading (5 points)

03 Passages (500 – 600 words/passage)

25 questions (0.2 point/question)

- Multiple questions

- TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN

- YES/NO/NOT GIVEN

- Sentence completion (NO MORE THAN ONE/TWO/THREE WORDS)

- Matching headings

II. Writing (5 points)

1. Gap-filling (2 points)

10 gaps (0.2/gap)

Process writing

Gap: Connectors (Firstly, Secondly, Then, After that, …); Passive Voice; Noun,
etc.

2. Describe a line graph (3 points)

(2 – 3 lines)

- How to describe a trend

+ Verbs: Increase/Decrease/Remain/Fluctuate, etc.

+ Noun: Increase, Decline, Fluctuation, Stability, etc.

+ Adjective: upward, downward, small change (slight, moderate, etc.), big change
(significant, dramatical, huge, etc.)

+ Adverbs: significantly, slightly, moderately, etc.

+ Sentence structures (3 essential sentence structures)

1. The number/amount/percentage/rate/level of Noun Phrase + Verb (increase) +

Adverb + to/at + data + Time.

E.g. The number of students at HUNRE increased dramatically to 11.000 in 2020.

2. There was/were a/an + ADJ + N + to/at + data in the

number/amount/percentage/rate of NP + Time

E.g: There was a dramatical increase to 11.000 in the number of students at

HUNRE in 2020.

3. Time witnessed/experienced/saw + a/an + ADJ + N + to/at + data + in the

number/amount/percentage of NP

The year 2020/2020 witnessed a dramatical rise in the number of students at

HUNRE.

Revision:

The use of Relative Clauses (Which)

The use of simple, compound, complex sentence.

The use of comperative and superlative.

How to paraphrase (change words, change sentence structures).

E.g. show  describe/depict/illustrate/etc.

The use of some templates that I have given.

Essay structure (no less than 250 words/no more than 350 words)

- Introduction (1 sentence): paraphrase the information on the task question

- Overview (1-2 sentences):

E.g.: Overall, it is clear/obivous that ………….While A increased, B decreased/

Both A and B increased. Additionally, Also, Moreover, Furthermore, C remained

stable.

E.g.: Overall, it is clear that while the number of students at HUNRE decreased
sharply over the course of 40 years, the opposite was true for ULIS. Also, the
number of students at HANU remained stable/was the lowest throughout the whole
period.

- Body (2 paragraphs)

Paragraph 1: Looking at the graph in more details/more closely, one can see
that…………….(describe the information in details, remember to use the accurate
data).

Paragraph 2: In contrast/Similarly, …………………………………….

THE END – GOOD LUCK