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Passage 02
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions following it.
Strategy is an appropriate word to use for your approach to the examination on the day. It has been said that about 50 percent of your chances of success relate to your examination skill rather than to your subject knowledge.
So check and double check your exam dates and times. Check what you are allowed and what you are not allowed to take in with you and have these ready the day before.
Budget your time. Do not waste time elaborating adequate answers if you ought to be moving to the next questions. Always attempt to answer all the questions.
Follow the instructions. It is a good idea to double check this before the exam. Read through the whole question-paper before starting to write. Take each question as you come to it and think how you might cope with it. Then move on to the next question and do the same again. By the time you get to the last question. You will have found the questions easier than they seemed at first glance. Spend at least five minutes per question thinking about and planning your answer. This is never a waste of time.
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Underline the key words in the questions that indicate what you are required to do. Again, it is useful half way through writing the answer, to check back that you are doing what you should. Make your answer legible. you can’t change your handwriting but if it is very tiny or very large use double spacing to make it easy on the eye for the reader.
2.Choose the best answer from the alternatives.
(a) Strategy means ___.
(i) Pparoach to something
(ii) planning
(iii) making suitable answer
(iv) planning or managing any affair well
(b) Before starting to write an examinee should __the whole question.
(i) Write
(ii) memorize
(iii) elaborate
(iv) read through
(c) What are the things that an examinee requires to check again and again?
(i) ideas about the subject (ii) lengthy answers
(iii) planning the answers (iv) exam. Dates and times
(d) You should spend at least ___per question planning your answer?
(i) ten minutes
(ii) five mintues
(iii) two mintues and a half
(iv) no time
(e) Thinking and planning about a question is not a ___.
(i) misuse of time
(ii) good idea
(iii) right approach
(iv) requirement
(f) 50 precent success in the examination depends is not a ___.
(i) merit
(ii) talent
(iii) examination fear
(iv) examination competence/skill
(g) Here the word “elaborate” means___.
(i) in short
(ii) in a nutshell
(iii) in detail
(iv) in brief
(h) To think over each question for five minutes is___.
(i) wastage of time
(ii) abuse of time
(iii) misuse of time
(iv) not wastage of time
(i) he word “legible’ means___.
(i) distinct
(ii) indistinct
(iii) hazy
(iv) dirty
(j) The questions do not seem easier___.
(i) first time
(ii) second time
(iii) third time
(iv) fourth time
(k) strategy is a ___.
(i) memory test for exam
(ii) test of activeness
(iii) skill for exam
(iv) syllabus for exam.
(l) ‘Budget your time’ means___
(i) to determine one’s income
(ii) annual calculation
(iii) to fix up time
(iv) mainataining time
(m) The key words should be___.
(i) underlined
(ii) read
(iii) marked
(iv) indicated
(n) What does the phrase ‘at first glance’ mean?
(i) At first attempt
(ii) When something is seen for the first time
(iii) When something is done for the first time
(iv) When something is begun for the first time
(o) ___Contained in the questions are to be undrliend.
(i) central ideas
(ii) important sentences
(iii) Main words
(iv) Decisive items
3. Write whether the following statements are true or false. If false, give the correct answer.
(a) A student should make a proper division of his time in the examination hall.
(b) When an examinee begins to write a particular question, he/she should think for the question.
(c) The answers of the questions should be lengthy.
(d) An examinee cannot change his/her handwriting if he/she wishes.
(e) An examinee should always attempt to answer all the questions.
(f) An examinee should try to answer all the questions.
(g) An examinee need not go through the questions before answering them.
(h) An examinee should not go through the questions
(i) One should always attempt to answer essential questions.
(j) Following instructions are thought to be defective idea.
(k) One’s examination skill has no less importance than one’s subject knowledge.
(l) It is strongly recommended to change candidate’s handwriting.
(m) Necessary things should be made ready before the examination.
(n) If one answers some questions elaborately, one will get good marks.
(o) Legible answer is not necessary to get expected marks.
3. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the box below.
| budget | move | turn | cope | dates | begin |
| last | easier | answer | check | read | allowed |
(a) Exam strategies (a) ______with the beginning of the exam day. It begins with checking and double checking of the exam (b) ______and time. One should check what he is (c) ______and what he is not allowed to take with. Then one should (d) ______one’s time. Before starting to write (e) ______an examinee should (f) ______through the whole question paper. He or she should take each question as it comes to him or her and think how he/ she might (g) ______with it. Then he / she should (h) ______on to the next question. By this time he/ she will get it the (i) ______question, he/ she will find it (j) ______¾ than he/ she found it earlier.
| Checking | Seem | Mean | Allowed | With | Strategic |
| To | Unwise | Attempted | Checked | Depends | Reading |
(b) Strategy plays an important role in examination. So students be (a) ______. Exam strategies (b) ______ exam skills.50 percent chances of success (c) ______ on exam skills. (d) ______ again and again exam dates and time is a part of Exam strategies. A student should take only (e) ______ things (f) ______ him/her. It is (g) ______ to write elaborate answer in the examination. All the questions should be (h) ______. It is good (i) ______ through the whole question paper. Question (j) ______ difficult at first glance.
| Elaborately | Strategic | Successful | Checked | Allowed | Skillful |
| Readied | Ends | Answer | Questions | Approaches | Taken |
(c) When examination (a) ______ an examinee should be (b) ______. An examinee can be 50 percent (c) ______ in his examination if he is (d) ______. So, exam-dates and time should be (e) ______ and the (f) ______ things to be (g) ______ with him should be (h) ______ by him the day before. An examinee should not write the answers (i) ______ so that he can (j) ______ all the questions.
| Face | Follow | Only | With | Making | Connected |
| Answering | Best | Success | Achieve | Related | Acquire |
(d) Student should remember that they need to (a) ______ some examination skills (b) ______ a view to making good result. Mere knowledge of the sufficient matter can’t help a student to (c) ______ a better result. The (d) ______ in the examination depends not (e) ______ no the suffcient knowledge but also on the proper planning (f) ____to the examination work. Every student should make the (g) ______ use of his time in the examination hall. He must avoid (h) ______ wastage of time so that he has to (i) ______ no difficulties in (j) ______ all the questions in the examination.
| Answers | Before | Manage | After | Recheck | Hall |
| Utilize | Thing | Important | Start | As | Depends |
(e) As the examination gets near a student has to (a) ______ planning. The success of a student (b) ______ on the examination skill (c) ______ much as on knowledge of his own. (d) ______ The day of the exam, a student should (e) ______ the day and time and the (f) ______ that are to be taken in the examination (g) ______. While taking the test, time management is very (h) ______. A sudden this expected to consider the time and (i) ______ it in such a way that she/he is able to (j) ______ questions within the time limit.
| Budget | Move | Turn | Cope | Dates | Begin |
| Last | Easier | Answer | Check | Read | Allowed |
(f) Exam strategies (a) ______ with the beginning of the exam day. It begins with checking and double checking of the exam (b) ______ and time. One should check what he is (c) ______ and what he is not allowed to take with. Then one should (d) ______ one’s time. Before starting to write (e) ______ and examinee should (f) ______ through the whole question paper. He or she should take each question as it comes to him or her and think how he/she might (g) ______ with it. Then he/she should (h) ______ on to the next question. By this time he/she will get it the (i) ______ question, he/she will find it (j) ______ than he/she found it earlier.
| Ready | Answer | Examination | Check | Waste | Helps |
| Plays | Unnecessary | Through | After | Before | Elaborate |
(g)Examination skill (a) ______ an important role in the examination. Examinees should (b) ______ and double-check his exam date and times. He should make his necessary things (c) ______ before the (d) ______ day. He should not (e) ______ his answer, by writing (f) ______ things. He should attempt to (g) ______ all the questions. He should read (h) ______ the whole questions paper before starting to write. Thinking on each question for few minutes is not (i) ______ of time. It (j) ______him for thinking about and planning his answer.
| Mistake | Spend | Planning | Chances | Easier | Relate |
| Checking | Thinking | Read | Through | Follow | strategy |
(h) As regards to the examination (a) ______ is very important. It is because 50% of (b) ______ of success depends on technique. Dates and times necessitate proper (c) ______. Before the start of the examination an examinee should (d) ______ the whole question so as to avoid (e) ______. All the questions appearing hard become (f) ______, if he goes (g) ______ the whole question paper. He could (h) ______ five minutes in each question (i) ______ and (j) ______ on it.
| Budget | move | turn | Answer | allowed | Cope |
| Dates | Beign | Last | Check | Read | Easier |
(i) Exam strategies (a) ______ with the beginning of the exam, day. It begins with checking and double-checking of the exam. (b) ______ and time. One should check what he is (c) ______ and what he is not allowed to take with. Then one should (d) ______ one’s time. Before starting to write (e) ______ an examinee should (f) ______ through the whole question paper. He or she should take each question as it comes to him or her and think how he/she might (g) ______ with it. Then he/she should (h) ______ on to the next question. By this time he/she will get to the (i) ______ question, he/she will find it (j) ______ than he/she found it earlier.
| Kept | Do | Success | Only | Support | Master | Making |
| Helps | Aequire | Work | But | Related | Bear | Also |
(j) Examinees ought to (a) ______ in mind that they need to (b) ______ some examination skills with a view to (c) ______ good result. Mere subject wise knowledge can not (d) ______ an examinee to (e) ______ a better result. The (f) ______ in the exam depends not (g) ______ on the subject knowledge but (h) ______ on the proper planning (i) ______ to the examination (j) ______.
4. Read the passage again. Now, write a paragraph based on the information about the examinees. Use the clues in the box below. Write the information in a logical sequence as it appears in the text. The paragraph should not exceed 70 words.
| strategy | examination | skill | check | spend |
5. Anwer the following questions in your own words.
(a) What is strategy?
(b) What should you do before writing?
(c) How many times should you spend per question thinking and planning about it?
(d) Why should you underline the key words in the questions?
(e) Why is strategy important in an examination?
(f) Why is strategy impotent I the examination?
(g) How can a student do well in the examinations?
(h) Why should you underline the key words in the questions?
(i) What should an examinee do before starting to write answer?
(j) How can an examinee make proper use of his/her time in the examination hall?
(k) Why should students budget their time
(l) What is the use of double spacing in writing answers to questions?
(m) why is examination skill important?
(n) What has equal chances to your subject knowledge?
(o) What is useful half way through writing answer?
6. Fill in each gap with a suitable word of your own, based on the information from the passege.
(a) Check and double check (a) ––– exam dates and (b) –––. Check what you (c) ––– allowed and what you (d)––– not allowed to (e) ––– in with you and (f) ––– these ready the (g)––– before. Budget your time. Do not waste (h) ––– elaborating adequate answers if you ought to be (i) ––– to the next question. Always attempt to answer (j) ––– the questions.
(b) A student who (a)___strategic knows well how to (b)___good result in an examination. In order to (c)___ time a student should avoid (d)___unnecessary lengthy answers (e)___getting the question paper in hand a student (f)___ read thoroughly. Key word of the questions should be (g)___. Spending five minutes per question is not a (h)___of time. Handwriting is very important factor (i)___cannof be (j)___.
(c) It is (a)___for an examinee to (b)___some instructions. Checking and doubole checking of exam schedule are (c)___ of exam strategies. A student should (d) ___ writing elaborate (e)___in order to (f)___ time. After (g)___the question paper in (h)___,he/she has to read it (i)___. He/she should also be (j)about handwriting.
(d) It is very important for an examinee to be (a)___about the examination. To follow the (b)___of the examination is mandatory. One should (c)___the whole question paper before (d)___to write answers. Students should avoid writing (e) ___lengthy answers. The examinee must make a (f) ___of time so that he/she can get (g) ___time to answer all the questions . As a student starts writing, (h)___he/she will have found the questions difficult, (i)___of the vital things that students should keep in mind that they should write in (j)___a way that the examiner does not find any difficulty in reading it.
(e) Student should (a)___writing unnecessarily lengthy answer . (b)___ getting the question paper in hand, he should read (c)___. Then the (d)___should be written. As a student, (e)___ writing(f)___ the questions that (g)___to be difficult. A student should (h)___ at least for five minutes on thinking about (i)___ questions and (j)___the questions.
(f) Check and double-check (a)___ exam dates and (b)___check what you (c)___ allowed (d)___and what you (e)___ not allowed to (f)___ in with you and these ready the (g)___ before. Budget your time. Do not waste (h)___ elaborating adequate answers if you ought to be (i)___ to the next question. Always attempt to answer (j)___the questions.
(g) Students should be strategic about their examination. It is (a)___ for an examinee to (b)___some instructions. He should go (c)___the whole question before he (d)___ to write. He must make a (e)___of his time so that he can (f)___enough time to answer (g)___questions. He mist write his answer (h)___. He should be (i)___about his handwriting. He can (j)___double spacing if his handwriting is tiny or very large.
(h) An examinee needs to (a)___to answer all the questions and to (b)___the instructions. It is a good (c)___to (d)___through the entire question paper before (e)___ the answers. Then what he has to do is to (f)___ the (g)___word as to know what he (h)___ asked to (i)___. Answers are of course , to be made (j)___.
(i) Dear children, there are my exam tips for you. Always attempt to answer all the question (a) ___ the stipulated time. Read (b) ___ the whole question paper before (c) ___ to write. Take each question as you come to it and think how you might deal with it. Then you are (d) ___ to move on the next question and do the same again. You may have found questions easier than they (e) ___ after you got the question paper. You can pay out five minutes per question speculating about and planning your answer. This is (f) ___ a misuse of time. Highlight the key words in the questions that (g) ___ out what you are required you do. Plan your answer in (h) ___ a way that you can (i) ___ writing within the give time. Then check (j) ___ that you are doing. What you should.
(j) Exam strategies (a) ___ from the beginning of the exam day. It begins with checking and double checking of the exam (b) ___ and time. One should check what he is (c) ___ and what he is not allowed to though the whole question paper. He or she should take each question as it comes to him or her and thinks should he/she might (g) ___ with it. Then he/she should (h) ___ on the next question. By this time he/she will get to the (i) ___ question, he/she will find it (j) ___ than he/she found it earlier.
7. Read the passage again. Imagine, you are an examinee. Now write about 70- 80 words starting what you should do and what you should not do when you are in the exam hall.
8. Read the passage again. Now write the main ideas of the passage in your own words in not more than five sentences.
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