READING AND USE OF ENGLISH EXAM
Part one: how to answer multiple-choice close questions
Firstly look at the words surrounding the gap to see if they fit with the answer. Are they part of a
phrasal verb, idiom or collocation? Is there a preposition that will only fit with certain words?
If you are not sure of the answer, eliminate ones you know are incorrect to narrow it down and give
you a better chance.
Finally, read through the sentence with the answer to make sure it makes sense, sometimes things
are grammatically correct but they dont make sense
Part two: how to answer open close questions
In this part of the test, the missing word is also likely to be an article, a preposition, a pronoun, or
the building blocks of language: something which is needed to make the sentence grammatically
complete, rather than something which adds meaning to the sentence.
Part three: how to answer word formation questions
You have to study the vocabulary
Part four: key word transformation
Part five: how to answer reading multiple choice questions
You have to look for clues to see what people are thinking, or how they feel.
To prepare to this part of the test is useful to read stories interviews or maybe blog post.
Read texts which focus more on people, their thoughts, opinions and feeling
Part six: how to answer missing sentence questions
Pay attention to the words before and after the gap.
Think about what kind of idea is missing: is it an example, a contrasting idea, an extension of an
idea already in the text, or something else?.
Look for any clues that confirm or eliminate a possible answer, remember that there could be more
than one way to find the right answer
Part seven: how to answer multiple matching questions
The most important skill here is skimming: you need to be able to read a text quickly and find the
most important pieces of information
