Up the odds
Eliminate bad answers
What is Process of Elimination (POE)?
The 4 sections in order
What are the reading, listening, speaking and writing sections?
Reading with a purpose
What is active reading?
Listening with purpose
What is active listening?
The worst thing to happen when writing under a time limit
What is writer's block?
Know the question types and choose the order to answer them
What is Personal Order of Difficulty (POOD)
Scratch paper is provided
All sections
The central message or point of the passage
What is the main idea?
Briefly state the main points
What is summarize?
You should spend 5 minutes doing this before you write
What is brainstorming (organizing)?
1st, you knock out the easy questions. 2nd, you do the difficult questions.
What is the two-pass system?
You have a 60 seconds to deliver the response
What is the speaking section?
Words that change the direction of a passage
What are direction markers?
What is comparing and contrasting?
Words you use to connect ideas in speech or writing
What are transitions?
Take several of these before the final exam
You have only one chance to listen to conversations/lectures in these sections
What are the listening and speaking sections?
This question asks you to find what is implied or suggested by the passage
Inference question
You need to have good command of this if you want to score well in the speaking
What is grammar? or
What is vocabulary?
The "meat" of the essay where you develop ideas
What is the body?
A "plan of attack" of what to say or write to certain questions
What is a template?
You are not allowed to skip questions or return to them later in this section
What is the listening section?
This question type asks you the meaning of a word or phrase
What is a vocabulary question?
Phrases in conversations or lectures that reverse the direction
What are reversal transitions?
For this task, you must read, listen and write
What is the integrated writing task?