Mid-Term Exam:Mid-Term Exam Paper Review Results

As promised, I carried out a careful review of the mid-term examination papers today taking into account submissions made by a number of students with respect to certain questions and the way they were answered. As a result I have increased the marks of a number of students and these results will be reflected in a revised list of the marks in the next couple of days. The results when published will be the final ones.

Please have a look at the answers to the questions that were posted last week here and try and determine where you made the errors you did. As the final 'theoretical' exam will be closely modeled on the one you have just done, if you managed to address your learning gaps, then your chances of getting a much better mark in the next exam will be much greater. As always, if you need my help in trying to address some of these gaps, just ask.

Mid-Term Exam:Paper Review

I just want to let you know that I will be undertaking a review of all the exam papers tomorrow [Sunday]. While I doubt that many of you will find much happiness in the review [I am generally a careful marker], there is a possibility that some of you will receive new marks.

The reason for the exam paper review however is actually not to see if I have made any mistakes. What I aim to do is to find out which questions you had particular problems with so that I can try to address some if these learning gaps in class.

That said, I think I need to say that I was not particularly worried about the exam results and felt that they were a fair representation of students English abilities. I would also like to remind you that if you have any concerns about aspects of your English, I am more than happy to speak with you about them anytime.

Mid-Term Exam:Some Comments on Particular Questions

Thanks for coming to the exam today. Just in case your are a bit confused about the answers to some of the questions, I thought I'd comment on just a couple of questions which were answered incorrectly by quite a few students.

Q1. Line 1 which: changing the composite of food - while I accepted 'the digestive process' the answer is clearly 'changing the composite of food'. According o the sentence, the digestive process starts with changing the composite of food which in turn begins with the teeth and the chemical effects of saliva. .

Q5. Line 18 which: an obvious exterior depression - it was necessary to write the whole expression. Writing 'an obvious exterior' was not enough. The word 'depression' after all is the noun.

Q8. The process of economic change affects all our lives. it is definitely 'process' but I allowed 'creating' because of the confusion caused by the 'of'. Creating is a verb, the better word would have been 'creation' which is the noun

Q26. Who does call you every morning? / Who calls you every morning? The 's' in calls was essential.

Q28. All human beings has the skin. / All human beings have skin you needed to remove the 'the' in addition to changing 'has' to 'have'

That's all for now, be good and happy, best wishes, Simon

The Mid-Term Exam:Last Words

I am still having phone calls about the exam in which people are asking about things that I thought I had covered clearly in class.

Just so that all is clear, the following points should cover all questions:

1. The exam is on Tuesday morning at 8:30 and will last 60 minutes.

2. There will be 30 questions which will consist of:

- 5 'what do these words refer to' questions based on the passage;

- 5 'complete these sentences' questions with words / expressions drawn from the passage;

- 5 'multiple choice' questions based on the passage;

- 5 'true/false' questions based on the passage;

- 5 'true/false' questions related to the listening; &

- 5 'correct these sentences' questions drawn from the first three chapters of the textbook.

3. The reading and listening will focus on the mouth.

Find below links to the stmep.blogspot.com posts related to: the mid-term sample paper based on chapter 1; the original post on the topic of the exam;

Links:
1. Sample Mid-Term Exam [stmep.blogspot.com]
2. Mid-Term Exam Update [stmep.blospot.com]