Tips for
Paper II
Before the exam
1 Read English newspapers, magazines, stories and books as
much as possible.
2 Listen to English radio.
3. Watch English television.
4 Use English with your friends and classmates.
5 Keep a vocabulary notebook. Make lists and revise them regularly, e.g. phrasal
verbs, opposites, irregular verbs and
6 Check the grammar section of your textbooks.
7 Find words you have never seen before and try to work out
the meanings without a dictionary.
8 Choose a newspaper article and use it to practise reading
quickly to understand what it is about. Do not spend more than a minute or two!
9 Choose tables and schedules from the newspaper to practise
finding specific information quickly, e.g. TV listings, weather
report, horoscopes, letters to the editor.
10 Remember that the more English you can use and understand, the
better your score will be on Paper II. Doing
only grammar exercises and past papers will not help! Make English a part of
your life!
In the exam
1 Don't spend too long on any one question.
2 Check the time regularly.
3 Use the techniques you have been practising.
4 Remember that a guess is better than no answer at all.
5 If you don't know the meaning of a word, look at the
words around it. You may be able to make a correct guess.
7 Leave the difficult questions to last.
8 Reread your answers to check that they sound right.
9 After completing the paper, look back to make sure you have
answered all the questions.
