PAPER 1: Reading - Part 1 - Multiple-Choice - Tips

PAPER 1: READING (1 HOUR) 30 questions in total to answer – 40 points in total

PAPER 1: Reading - Part 1 - Multiple-Choice - Tips to remember while in the exam

Part 1: MULTIPLE CHOICE – Choose answers from A, B, C, or D - (8 questions)    16 marks YY-XY-YX-XX

Tips to remember while in the exam

- First read the whole text in one go.

- Read the text at least twice. Three times if you are not sure.

- Once finished reading it twice and are familiar with its content then look at the questions.

- You may have to search for specific/general answers in the text/extract so read and reread parts of the text again in minute detail.

- “Word spotting” Do not select an answer to a question just because it contains words that appear in the text.
- You will need at least 5 minutes to transfer all your answers in to the boxes on the separate answer sheet before you finish the test.

The following guide/formula, paraphrased from Sherlock Holmes’ precept - Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four (Doubleday p. 111) is employed in this exam part:

YY-XY-YX-XX where X = True and Y = False

When you eliminate what you know to be untrue or not stated (YY), or half true (XY), half false (YX), whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth (XX). The questions are not necessarily about choosing the right answers but eliminating what you know to be untrue.  © 1998 The FIRST Guru