Final Exams

Final exams are getting an upgrade this year. As with last term, junior high Oral Communication exams will be 75 questions instead of the usual 60, however, the questions for parts four and five will be in their test booklets, and this was very positively received by the students last term.

The due to our debate project, the junior high school third grade English Beta exam (reading) will get a major overhaul. To third grade parents: expect Beta exam grades to plummet. This exam will be one of the hardest tests in the entire NELP curriculum. One of the things that makes this test difficult is that students won't be able to simply memorize information. They'll have to understand it and apply it. This exam will cover many of the debate topics we've discovered, including organization, points and motions, fallacies and logic, and the Toulmin Method.

Also the high school exams are getting a very new look. Up to now, the high school oral communication exams were skills-based tests that involved four long listenings with 15 to 20 questions each. Now, the test will consist of ELEVEN parts:
1. announcements (an announcement followed by five questions)
2. completion (five completion exercises)
3. comprehension (vocabulary) (five exercises testing comprehension of a sentence)
4. conversations (long) (a conversation between two people followed by five questions)
5. dictation (taking notes on information in a long listening)
6. practical listening (following instructions - this term involving directions on a map)
7. picture practice (identifying five pictures)
8. pronunciation recognition (showing recognition of basic English sounds and the phonetic alphabet)
9. short conversations (five short conversations with one question each)
10. stories (a short story followed by five questions)
11. long listening (a long story or article followed by ten questions)

The tests will involve themes and vocabulary from our quizzes, so hopefully the students will be able to prepare much better for the test, and the test is a good combination of content and skills assessment, and so I feel it is a much better test than before.

Date: 2010⁄02⁄14 10:00｜Permalink｜Author：nelp

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