• Ensure your writing is clear and legible. Do not use

1. READING EXAM: Advice to students 1/3 • Ensure your writing is clear and legible. Do not use stylisedor unusual letter formation in the examination as examiners may not be able to read your answers. • Always answer in English if the question requires you do so. • Read the questions first as they will give you an idea of what the text is about. • Read the question carefully. Underline the key question word. • Practise spotting the distracters in a text. Perhaps write your own short texts with them in so that you can get used to them.

2. READING EXAM: Advice to students 2/3 Keep a list of small but important words and phrases and learn them regularly. • Always follow the example – if the example is a one word answer, ONLY write one word. • If an answer asks for two points, only include two points. You will not gain any extra marks by writing more because the examiner will only mark the first two. • If a word is written in bold in the question it means that you must focus on that word and take account of it when giving your answer.

3. READING EXAM: Advice to students 3/3 • If a question has exact or exactly in it this means that you must give full details or give a longer answer to be awarded the mark. • The questions normally relate to the order that the information is given in a text, especially if the questions relate to a longer text and you are required to answer in English. This means that the first questions will most probably relate to the first part of the text. • • Never leave a gap. Have a guess – you may be right!

4. Advice to students for the listening exam! • Write one letter in the answer box! • You will not gain a mark if you write more than one, even if one of the letters is correct! • If you want to change your answer, cross out your wrong answerand write your changed answer next to the answer box. • Ensure your writing is clear and legible. Do not use stylized/unusual letter formation in the examination as examiners may not be able to read your answers. • Always look at and follow the examplewhere given.

5. Learn vocabulary. Learn wordsa few at a time but on a regular basis. Set yourself a target of perhaps 5 words a day from the new words you have learned in class during the week. Over five days you will have learned 25 words. • Always listen to the whole itembefore writing your answer. • Use the 5 minutes reading timewisely and pay careful attention to those questions which ask you to answer by writing in English. During that time, you can make notes on the paper, of words you expect to read • Answer both parts of the question if labelled 3)i and 3)ii as you will hear it all in one go