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• !rite the ronunciation down. Try to write down the phonemic script of
any vocabulary that you learnt in class, then check in your dictionary that you
have used the right symbols.
• &earn the answers #y heart. If you have done a difficult (istening art %ne
or Two question in class, it can help your e$am preparation "and your abilityto speak fluently too# if you learn the whole sentence of the correct answer.
/ou can then test yourself by looking again at the picture from art %ne or the
question on the tapescript of art Two and see if you can say e$actly the same
sentence as was used in the practice e$am.
• 'ake a good "oca# list. The basic rule of learning vocabulary is that the
more time you spend on it, the easier it is to learn and the quicker you will be
able to understand it when you read or hear a word in the test. &opying the
words from your lesson notes or te$tbook onto a separate vocabulary list or
notebook is a good start. In order to be able to understand the vocabulary
quickly in the test without translation, try to write the meaning, pronunciationand grammatical information about the word in !nglish rather than your own
language, e.g. by writing a gapped sentence with the word you are learning
taken out and trying to remember what word it is before you check your
answers in the other column or other page in your notebook. It is then vital
that you go through the list at least 0 times over the ne$t few days to make
sure you remember the new vocabulary.
• (ead the taescrits carefully at home and check that you know the
meaning of and how to ronounce all the words and hrases in it. If your
teacher doesn't usually give out tapescripts, ask them at the end of the class if
you can have it ne$t week.
• Take another class. In order to learn quickly and get an all round good level
of !nglish, you will need to study at least twice a week. If you can make those
classes a mi$ of a one to one "private# class and a group class, and maybe a
mi$ of General !nglish, 1usiness !nglish and T%!I& e$am preparation, that
would be perfect.
• )lan your homework and re"ision. If you only have a class once a week,
you will need to do some study in midweek to make sure you don't forget the
language from the last lesson and are fully prepared for the ne$t class. 2or
e$ample, if your class is on a onday, do your homework on Thursday or
2riday and certainly not on onday evening or 3unday evening4
• Do electronic dictionary re"ision. If you have an electronic dictionary, you
should be able to look at a list of the most recent words you have looked up,
e.g. ones you asked about in class. )ecide which of these words are most
useful to learn and copy them down into your vocabulary list or notebook.
• *eak. 3ome students are not happy about speaking in a T%!I& class because
they don't need to speak during the test. 5hile no more than 67 or 68 minutes
of an hour T%!I& lesson should be speaking, there are lots of useful things
you can do in that time. racticing the pronunciation of new vocabulary and
using it in conversations will make sure that you learn it properly and that youwill understand it when you hear it in a listening te$t. Talking about tactics for
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taking the e$am will help you decide your own best way of, for e$ample,
reading quickly. *nd a 8 minute speaking activity at the beginning of the class
will wake you up and make your brain switch into !nglish mode so that you
will remember what you studied in class once the lesson has finished.
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!rite a study lan. To make the most of your classroom time, you will needto study between two and 67 times as much outside the class as you spend in
class, i.e. one hour of class time means two to ten hours of self study. In order
to make sure that you really do spend that much time and that the time is used
well, it is best to write down your weekly study timetable and then tick off
each part when you have finished it.
• %ring one +uestion to e"ery class. 2or most people, their !nglish teacher is
the only person they can ask questions about the tactics and language for the
e$am, so any class where you just do e$ercises you could do at home and don't
ask a question is probably wasted time. 9eep a mental note that you should
ask one question during the ne$t lesson, and write down the most importantquestion you have before you go into class. Try to decide if it is a question that
everyone will be interested in hearing the answer to, in which case you should
ask the teacher during class time. If not, please ask the teacher before or after
class or when all the other students are busy doing something else. !ven if
there are some classes when your teacher doesn't have time to answer your
question, you might find writing it down and thinking about it makes you find
the answer yourself.
• (ead out loud. *t home, try to read the tapescripts of a listening test out loud
with natural speed and rhythm. /ou can also try recording your voice.
• (e,do old homework or class work e-ercises. If possible, write the answers
to all homework e$ercises on a separate piece of paper, or write them in pencil
so you can erase the answers. /ou can then go back and do e$actly the same
homework e$ercise and see if your score has improved and if you remember
the things you learnt at that time.
• )rioritie your "oca#ulary learning. If you are an Intermediate level student
or below, you will probably find that there are more than 677 words in each
T%!I& practice test that you don't know. :owever, many of these words are
not important to learn. *part from listening to your teacher when they tell you
which words you should learn, the easiest way of deciding which words are
important is to look in a good !nglish!nglish dictionary that marks the most
important 6777 words 8777 words etc. in !nglish with special symbols. If you
have already learnt these words, the test will also give you some hints on
which words are important to learn and which can wait until later. /ou should
not learn a word if it starts with a capital letter or if it is in a part of the te$t
that is not important to answer the test questions, e.g. at the beginning or end
of an email. )o learn the word if it is in the e$am question or the same word
is used two or more times in tests you do.
• !rite the tis and tactics down. If your teacher tells you a good tip on how
to read a te$t quicker or guess an answer, when you get home write the tip
down "in !nglish if possible#, so you can read it the day before the e$am to
remind yourself what to do.
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• Come to class ready to study. To make the most of the time and money you
are putting into studying in a T%!I& class, make sure that you are mentally
and physically ready to really learn in the class. ake sure you have the right
equipment "sharpened pencil, eraser, notebook, and dictionary#, that you feel
healthy and awake, and that your concentration won't be affected by needing
to eat, drink, go to the toilet or remember something you have to do outsideclass.