Trik Mengerjakan Tes Bahasa Inggris UTBK 2023

1. Identifikasi pertanyaan terlebih dahulu. Pada umumnya, topik/kalimat topik/ide pokok dinyatakan
seperti ini:

What is the text mainly discuss/tell/deals about?

What is the topic/main idea of the text?

2. Perhatikan kata yang kerap diulang, sebab kata tersebut merupakan topik yang tengah dibahas.

3. Cukup baca kalimat awal dan akhir paragraf pertama serta paragraf terakhir. Sebab, umumnya ide
pokok ada dalam bagian-bagian tersebut.

4. Pilih jawaban yang sifatnya umum.

5. Pahami jenis teks yang diujikan, misalnya report, persuasive, exposition, descriptive, dan lainnya.

6. Apabila jenis teks tidak diketahui secara pasti, maka pahami topik paragraf. Baca paragraf awal
dan akhir atau kata yang sering diulang. Lalu, pilih jawaban yang mengandung kata yang kerap
diulangi.

7.Tujuan teks selalu bersifat positif, sehingga pilihan jawaban yang bermakna negatif bukanlah
jawabannya.
Contoh Soal UTBK SBMPTN Bahasa Inggris

In the 1930s, Chester F. Carlson was working in the patents department of a large electronics firm in
New York City. One of the major problems in his work was the length of time and expense involved
in getting patents copied, patents were lengthy legal documents, and the only ways to get them
copied were to take them to a typist or to take them to a photographer. Either way of copying
patents took a lot of time and cost a lot of money. He came up with the idea for a machine that
would copy documents quickly and efficiently. He researched the idea in the library and then worked
over a three-year period on developing a machine that used a light, an electro statically charged
plate, and powder to duplicate images on paper. The result of this work was a machine that
produced the first xerographic copy on October 22, 1938. He named the process "Xerox", which
means "dry writing". Carlson felt that he had a good idea, one that would be extremely helpful in the
business world. He tried to sell his idea to a number of large corporations, but they were not terribly
interested in his machine. A few years later he sold the process to a small family-owned company.
This small company grew into the giant Xerox Corporation, and both Carlson and Xerox became
rather wealthy in the process.

1. The text is mainly about...

A. the life of Chester F. Carlson

B. Carlson's career in a patents office

C. the development of Xerox machine

D. how the xerox machine became popular

E. the effect of invention of the Xerox machine

Jawaban: D
There's growing agreement among exercise researches that the intense physical activities offered by
most health clubs is not the only - or even necessarily the best - path to better health. In fact, the
best thing most of us can do, say the experts, may be to walk.

Yes, walk. Not run or jog or sprint. Just walk, at a reasonably energetic speed (3 m.p.h-4 m.p.h) for
half an hour or so, maybe five or six times a week. You may not feel the benefits all at once, but the
evidence suggests that over the long term, a regular walking routine can do a world of preventive
good, from lowering your risk of stroke, diabetes and osteoporosis to treating arthritis, high blood
pressure and even depression.

Walking, in fact, may be the perfect exercise. For starters, it's one of the safest things you can do
with your body. It's much easier on the knees than running and, beyond an occasional stitch in the
side, doesn't trigger unpleasant side effects. "Regular physical activities is probably as close to a
magic bullet as we will come in modern medicine," says Dr. Joann Manson, chief of preventive
medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "If everyone in the U.S. were to walk briskly
30 minutes a day, we could cut the incidence of many chronic disease 30% to 40%",

If Americans want to do that, they have a long way to go. Fewer than a third of adults in the US. get
the recommended amount of exercise cach day and 40% are almost completely inactive. The result,
as reported by the Surgeon General last month: a nation in which obesity may soon overtake
cigarette smoking as the leading cause of preventable death.

2. The phrase "If everyone in the U.S. were to walk briskly 30 minutes a day, ....." (last sentence of
paragraph 3) means that...

A. Americans are used to running

B. Americans are used to walking

C. Americans walk slowly

D. Americans do not walk regularly

E. Americans run too fast

Jawaban: D

3. All of the following statements are TRUE about Americans today, EXCEPT that...

A. Obesity is the second highest cause of death

B. They do not walk regularly every day

C. Less than a third of the adults need regular exercise

D. Almost half of the adults do not do any exercise

E. They do not prevent themselves form disease

Jawaban: A

4. This kind of text can usually be found in a...

A. Youth tabloid

B. Scientific journal

C. Sports magazine

D. Medical textbook

E. Socioeconomic report

Jawaban: D

Education is often viewed as school in a traditional, formal sense. Many people believe that true
learning can only take place in a formal classroom setting. Others feel education occurs in many
different form and environment. There may not be a definitive answer to the question of, "What is
education?" However we start thinking about the purpose of education. Is it to educate youth to be
responsible citizen? Is it to developed individual, as well as society, in order to ensure a society's
economic success? Or is it to simply focus on developing individual talents and intelegence? Perhaps
it is the balance of all three that defines education? While our answers may differ, we can perhaps
agree that education is basic human right. When that right is granted growth and development, the
society as a whole is more likely to improve in areas such as health, nutrition, general income and
living standards, and population fertility rates.

As global citizen it is our responsibility to critically think about the issue and attempt to come up with
solution to the problems plaquing education. In 1990 UNESCO launched EFA, the movement to fight
quality education for all children, youth, and adult by the year 2015. The unfortunate reality is that
for many countries, larger issues come before improving the quality of education. How can we
achieve the goal of EFA when numerous counties around the world are faced with challenges that
seems far too impossible to overcome? The answer lies in attempting to bridge some of the haps
that prevent developing nation to compete with developed nations. One example is that of
providing preater access to technology and narrowing the ever widening digital divide. In many ways
the most basic access to technology can serve as valuable education tool. Individual who are not
afforded this access area a disadvantage when trying to grasp opportunity to make life better for
themselves, their families, and their community.
5. The author's main concern in the first paragraph of the passage is that...

A. There is no exact definition about education

B. Education is a fundamental individual's right

C. Everyone has right to get quality education

D. Education occurs in any place not just schools

E. Development can be gained through education

Jawaban: A