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Level 3 Model Exam

READING

Description of the Test

The test consists of 2 tasks and contains 20 questions. The total length of texts is between 1700 and 1900 words. The candidates have 65 minutes to read the texts, answer the questions and transfer the answers onto the Answer Sheet.

Topics

Ali topics from Professional and generał areas such as politics, economics, science , technology, culture, etc.

Text Types

Authentic informative and opinion-giving texts from the press or the Internet (articles, press releases, letters to editors, passages from scientific and factual literaturę, reviews, advertisements).

Task Types

• multiple choice Skills

•    understanding implicitly stated Information and opinions

•    understanding the purpose of the text and a writer^s attitude

•    understanding relations across sentences and paragraphs

•    understanding unfamiliar words from context

•    inferring information from the text

Rubrics/Instructions

Candidates will be given instructions in Polish before the beginning of the test. Rubrics are written in English and no examples are provided.

Marking

There are twenty questions in all. Candidates indicate answers by circling one letter on the answer sheet. Candidates are awarded one mark for each correct answer in all parts of the test and they have to score 14 out of 20 points to pass the reading test.

•    identifying the main idea of the text

•    identifying the main idea of the paragraph

•    distinguishing the main idea from supporting details

•    understanding explicitly stated information and opinions

	Text Type	Text Length	Task Type	Number of Items
	press releases, letters to editors,	13-14 texts of	multiple choice	13-14
	passages from scientific and factual	1050-1150 words	questions with three
	literaturę, reviews, advertisements,	in total	options
	article on generał or Professional	one text of 650 -750	multiple choice	6-7
	issues	words in total	questions with four
			options

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