PAPER 4: LISTENING (APPROXIMATELY 40 MINUTES) 30 questions in total to answer – 40 points in total
PAPER 4: Listening - Part 1 - Multiple-Choice - Specific tips to remember while in the exam
Part 1: MULTIPLE-CHOICE on eight different extracts - 8 questions; 8 marks XY-YX-XX
Specific tips to remember while in the exam
- In the exam hall, the invigilators will first test the CD/sound system to make sure it functions properly.
- Once it has been checked and no candidate has a problem, the exam then begins.
- No time is given to review questions in Part 1 so the idea is to ignore the first part of the instructions that are given and go directly to the questions once the CD begins.
- You will hear each part twice. The question introduces the each extract and you hear each extract twice.
- Careful here! The question part is not repeated again.
- You will hear a ‘Buzz’ indicating the listening is being repeated a second time.
- Each extract will make some reference to all three options.
- In most cases you are asked to interpret what you hear from the speaker(s) expression or tone of voice.
- Don’t jump to conclusions just yet!
- Don’t take it for granted that an option is correct merely because the same word or words appear in the answer.
- Read and re-read each answer option carefully before you listen.
- Be vigilant while listening!
- “Word spotting” Be careful not to select an option just because it contains word, or words, you hear.
- Listen out for changes as to how each speaker starts and finished their ideas.
- Make sure they don’t change their ideas. If so, note them down.
- Listen out carefully also for verbal communication like well, but, if, not, etc.
- The speaker, or speakers, may change his/her/their mind(s) half-way through the extract. So listen carefully for negatives/positives.
- Use one box for each answer.
- Make a good educated guess at least!
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:
XY-YX-XX where X = True and Y = False
When you eliminate what you know to be untrue or not stated 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
PAPER 4: Listening - Part 1 - Multiple-Choice - Specific tips to remember while in the exam
Part 1: MULTIPLE-CHOICE on eight different extracts - 8 questions; 8 marks XY-YX-XX
Specific tips to remember while in the exam
- In the exam hall, the invigilators will first test the CD/sound system to make sure it functions properly.
- Once it has been checked and no candidate has a problem, the exam then begins.
- No time is given to review questions in Part 1 so the idea is to ignore the first part of the instructions that are given and go directly to the questions once the CD begins.
- You will hear each part twice. The question introduces the each extract and you hear each extract twice.
- Careful here! The question part is not repeated again.
- You will hear a ‘Buzz’ indicating the listening is being repeated a second time.
- Each extract will make some reference to all three options.
- In most cases you are asked to interpret what you hear from the speaker(s) expression or tone of voice.
- Don’t jump to conclusions just yet!
- Don’t take it for granted that an option is correct merely because the same word or words appear in the answer.
- Read and re-read each answer option carefully before you listen.
- Be vigilant while listening!
- “Word spotting” Be careful not to select an option just because it contains word, or words, you hear.
- Listen out for changes as to how each speaker starts and finished their ideas.
- Make sure they don’t change their ideas. If so, note them down.
- Listen out carefully also for verbal communication like well, but, if, not, etc.
- The speaker, or speakers, may change his/her/their mind(s) half-way through the extract. So listen carefully for negatives/positives.
- Take care with literal interpretations of what each speaker says!
- Concentrate on the function in context of the speaker’s words used.
- How many times have you heard a real speaker, for example, use an exclamation like ‘No!’ Does it necessarily mean that the speaker is responding negatively? Maybe not! It could also mean that the respondent is in fact surprised by what they have heard!
- NB. Remember that the perspective that you hear may, and more than likely will, not be the same perspective as you read from the information given to you in the question format, so note-taking will help you see the active/passive perspectives. E.g. You hear active but you read passive - you hear direct speech, you read indirect speech, etc.- Use one box for each answer.
- As for writing any mistakes/errors: any trace of lead from your pencil, not rubbed out completely can be traced by the correcting machines which check your answers. So rub out, as best you can, any errors!
- If two answers are present in this part, both answers will be count as zero. Rub out the one you do not want, and rub it out good!
- Don’t leave any answers in blank. - Make a good educated guess at least!
- You don’t lose points for incorrect answers.
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:
XY-YX-XX where X = True and Y = False
When you eliminate what you know to be untrue or not stated 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
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