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Level 3 Model Exam

READING

Description of the Test

The test consists of 3 tasks containing 20 questions in aII. Total length of the texts is between 1550 and 1850 words. The candidates have 60 minutes to read the texts and answer the questions, and 4 morę minutes to transfer the answers onto the Answer Sheet.

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

Text Types

Authentic informational and opinion-giving texts from the press or the Internet (articles, interviews).

Task Types Used

•    multiple choice;

•    matching.

Skills

•    identifying the main idea of the text;

•    identifying the main idea of the paragraph;

•    distinguishing the main idea from supporting details;

•    understanding explicitly and implicitly stated information and opinions;

•    inferring information from text context;

•    understanding the purpose of the text and a writer's attitude;

•    understanding relations across sentences and paragraphs;

•    understanding unfamiliar words from context. 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 are asked to indicate answers by shading the right 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.

	Text Type	Text		Tested Skills	Task Type
		Length				of
	articles on military issues	two texts of		understanding explicitly/implicitly	multiple choice	6
		500 - 600		stated information or opinion	questions
w					with three
{-		in total			options
	interview on generał or	one text of		understanding the main idea of the	matching	7
	military issues	400 - 500		paragraph	questions to
rc		words		understanding relations across	answers
				sentences and paragraphs
	article(s) on generał issues	one or two		understanding explicitly/implicitly	multiple choice	7
		texts of 650		stated information or opinions	questions
		-750 words		identifying the main idea of the text	with four
				identifying the main idea of the paragraph	options
				distinguishing the main idea from
				supporting details
1-				understanding the purpose of the text and a writer's attitude
				understanding unfamiliar words from context
				inferring information from text content