The document provides information and strategies for the revised ECCE exam in three areas: Listening, Reading, and Grammar/Vocabulary sections. For Listening, it outlines the changes including unrelated monologues in Part 2 and provides strategies for both parts. For Reading, it describes the two tasks involving short texts and sets of related texts. For Grammar/Vocabulary, it notes an additional 10 minutes and strategies like eliminating choices and learning vocabulary in chunks. Overall, it aims to prepare test-takers for the revised exam format and question types through detailed explanations, sample questions, and general test-taking advice.

1. The Revised ECCE exam
Last minute
test-taking strategies

2. May 2013 changes
Listening:
• 4 unrelated monologues in Part 2
Reading:
• 2 short expository texts
• 2 sets of 4 related texts
GVR:
• 10 minutes more- 90 minutes in total

3. General Test-Management Tips
• Manage your time effectively - wear a watch!
• Read / listen to instructions carefully
• Underline key words in questions and prompts
• Read all distractors before deciding on the correct
answer
• Base your answers on information supplied in the text,
not on your general knowledge
• Mark your answers directly on the answer sheet
• Use the appropriate strategy for each test task

4. Listening Part 1: Strategies
• What does each picture depict?
• What do the pictures have in common?
• What are the differences?
• Predict the question

5. Listening Part 2: Strategies
• Focus on the orientation
statement
• Predict the context
• Use the 30 seconds given to
you to skim through the
questions. The questions
provide clues as to the content
and organization of the text
• Take notes only if it helps you
• While listening, try answering
the questions without reading
the distractors

6. Listening Part 2: Strategies cont.
• Use the 12 seconds between questions to answer
the question. You have 5 extra seconds at the
turn of the page.
• Mark your answers directly on the answer sheet
• Guess, if necessary
• Learn to recognize the types of questions you
may be asked

7. Sample Listening Part 2 Monologue
Sub-skills tested:
• understanding implication
(#46)
• understanding attitudes or
opinions (#47)
• paraphrasing (#48)
• recognizing salient details
and rhetorical functions
(#49)
• drawing inferences or
conclusions (#46, #50)
• main idea/purpose

8. Part 2 sub-skills tested
• understanding implication: What does
the speaker imply about the speech he is
giving?
• understanding attitudes or opinions:
According to the speaker, what is the
purpose of some questions asked by
adults?
• paraphrasing: What does the speaker
say about future plans?
• recognizing salient details and rhetorical
functions: What does the speaker
encourage students to do?
• drawing inferences or conclusions:
What does the speaker mean when he
says: ♪
• Now, the traditional graduation speech usually
involves someone telling you not to give up on your
dreams, telling you that you can do anything, if
you put your mind to it…Well, all that might be
true, but that’s not what I want to say to you.
• They’re really just trying to find out what kind of
person you are, what your interests might be – it’s
more like a conversation starter.
• You don’t need to know what you plan to do with
the rest of your life.
• So, my advice, when someone asks you “What do
you plan to do with your life?” is to tell them that
your first priority is to find out what your options
are. You need to learn what you like, what you’re
good at…

9. Global Strategies for the GVR section
• 90 minutes total. Practice managing your time;
see what works for you
• Practice answering directly on the answer sheet.
Use a ruler
• Don’t spend too much time on any one item.
Guess if necessary

10. GV strategies
• Read the entire stem. Guess the answer before looking at
the answer choices
• Eliminate as many answer choices as possible
• Look for clues in the stem. (tense, part of speech, etc).
• Learn the grammar of a word, not just its meaning
• Learn vocabulary in chunks. (preposition? derivatives?
collocations?)

11. Frequently tested grammar items*
• Syntax (e.g. word order, embedded phrases)
• Simple verb tenses
• Progressive forms
• Auxiliary verb use
• Infinitives
• Adverbs, adjectives
• Wh-questions
*ECCE 05 report (©2007, ELI)

12. Reading
Task 1
• Two prose passages followed by 5 multiple-
choice questions each
Task 2
• Two sets comprised of 4 texts each followed by
10 questions each. The 4 texts are related to each
other in some way

13. Reading Task 2
• 2 sets of 4 related texts
• Each set is followed by 10 questions
• Total of 550 words for the set, with each text ranging from 50 to 220 words
• The texts represent realistic text found in various domains of language use,
e.g.: advertisements, new articles, magazine articles, job notices, e-mails,
posters, etc.
• The texts are laid out with some visual and graphic material as they would
be in authentic settings

15. Reading task 2: Question types
• The first few questions assess
understanding of each of the texts
individually
• The final questions assess the ability to
integrate information from more than
one of the texts

16. Questions assess: Global and local comprehension
• Understanding the main idea

17. • Understanding opinions

18. •Understanding explicitly stated ideas

19. •Understanding vocabulary in context

20. •Identifying referents

21. •The ability to synthesize ideas from across text

22. •Drawing inferences

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