Ege English language online tests. Ege in English

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And at the same time I will tell their “case history” - how it all began and what we came to, including an analysis of the mistakes made in the exam. I hope my experience will help you in your preparation!

This year, I had two girls taking the exam in English - Anastasia and Irina.

Anastasia

Anastasia came to me a year and a half before the exam with a confident level intermediate. She had been studying with English tutors since elementary school, but she turned to me because she did not feel progress in her classes with the previous teacher.

Anastasia made me happy with the ease of perceiving the language, quickly memorizing new structures and words, but frustrated me with mistakes at the Elementary level. And it would be nice if they were fossilized, that is, permanent. But these very errors behaved like in a resort - they appeared once and disappeared without a trace ...

Trial version the student wrote about 75 points, excellent for someone unfamiliar with the exam format. Therefore, the purpose of the preparation was to teach the girl how to squeeze her good English into the exam format.

And after a year of classes, Anastasia changed her mind about choosing a university and said that now she needs the exam in literature, and not in English. But they decided to pass the exam anyway, since so much effort has already been put in.

The last, pre-exam samples, Anastasia wrote about 90 points, and this was the result that we expected at the exam.

Before the exam, according to her, she was not at all worried and was confident in her answers. But, having received the results, both were disappointed - 78 points!

The table clearly shows how the student wrote the samples and what happened on the exam. The columns indicate minus how many points the student received.

It is especially offensive for grammar with vocabulary and essays. Let's look at essay mistakes according to the criteria for assessing the USE in English:

The theme of the Moscow Region this year is “The best holidays and festivals are those with specific traditions for celebrating”. Yes, tricky. It would be interesting for me to see how the person who invented it would describe it by 14 points, I am especially worried about the solution of the communicative task - none of my students received the maximum for this item.

For decision communicative task(KZ) Anastasia has 2 points out of 3. This means: “some aspects indicated in the assignment are not fully disclosed; there are some violations of the style of speech. Since everything is in order with the style (no abbreviations and informal vocabulary), some aspect is not disclosed.

In my opinion, Anastasia distorted the topic. In the introduction, we see the opposition “old traditions - specific traditions”, which is not entirely true. Rather, it should sound like this: “no particular traditions - specific traditions”, for example March 8th / February 23rd - Halloween / New Year. This incorrect opposition is repeated throughout the essay, because of this, a point was deducted.

Behind text organization(OT) we have 2 points out of 3: “the statement is basically logical, there are some deviations from the plan in the structure of the statement; there are some shortcomings in the use of logical links; there are some shortcomings when dividing the text into paragraphs”. I did not notice any shortcomings when using means of communication, the division into paragraphs is correct, which means we are dealing with a violation of the logic of the statement.

In the 2nd paragraph, where the student's opinion is indicated, the first and second arguments are similar - 1) the old traditions are boring; 2) they cannot surprise tourists.

In the 3rd paragraph, where the opposite point of view should be expressed, we read about the old traditions of the countries, which show the ancient culture of the country. The counterargument in the 4th paragraph states that in such countries it will be more interesting for tourists to participate in specific celebrations in order to understand the uniqueness of the country. It is illogical, because ancient traditions also distinguish one country from another.

Here they could also put a minus for this bundle in the 2nd paragraph: “Personally, in my opinion, …” Although I personally don’t see any crime in it.

Behind vocabulary removed 1 point. “The vocabulary used corresponds to the set communicative task, however, there are some inaccuracies in the use of words (2-3 words), or the vocabulary is limited, but the vocabulary is used correctly.” I don’t know where in this topic with vocabulary it was possible to turn around, so, probably, points were removed for the incorrect use of vocabulary:

celebrate with old traditions/ … are celebrated by old traditions… 1,2 paragraphs our world does not stand on one place, 5 paragraph

On the grammar also minus 1 point - “there are a number of errors that do not make it difficult to understand the text (no more than 4)”.

the old traditions, paragraph 2 (no clarification on which ones)

… are popular with tourists who want to visit a country again and again, paragraph 2 (there is about a specific country)

tradition make any country is different …, 4 paragraph

… the best holidays and festivals are not those which are celebrated ordinary..., paragraph 5 (not that part of speech)

Behind spelling and punctuation also deducted points. “There are a number of spelling and/or punctuation errors, including those that make it slightly difficult to understand the test (no more than 4).”

Spelling: “they long to try something knew“, 2 paragraph

Punctuation:

The others have an opposite opinion ...__ and I can understand this point of view, paragraph 1 (compound sentences without a comma before the union)

… they sing their national songs, do not dance as usual , but make cool tricks ... 2 paragraph (homogeneous members, no comma needed)

As a result, events, which make people surprised…, are the best, paragraph 4 (subjective, not separated by commas)

... events, which are celebrated by specific traditions, paragraph 4 (subjective definitive, not separated by commas)

Here is the essay and its analysis. If you do not agree with me in assessing the essay or in something else, write in the comments!

Irina

Now let's talk about Irina. We studied with her for exactly a year before the exam, she also came to me from another tutor, from classes with whom she did not see any benefit. Before that, I didn’t study the language with teachers, the exam in English was needed for admission to the university. Language level - the beginning of Intermediate, probe wrote 67 points. Gaps constantly popped up in the elementary, like: Are there a vegetarian menu? But unlike Anastasia, these mistakes were already deposited in the subcortex.

During the year, we practically did not touch the vocabulary, the stock of which was enough to write an essay, but tightened up the grammar and pored over the exam format. A school teacher, an USE expert, made a great contribution to the preparation, she shared materials for preparation and suggested points that I did not know. Huge thanks to her for this!

Before the exam itself, the probes showed 85 points, so Irina passed - on the expected 85 points. I was especially pleased with the essay with a difficult topic, which she managed to describe and speaking without errors.

Comparison table:

Let's also break down her essay according to the criteria:

In this work, 1 point is lost on KZ And grammar. I will pay attention only to them, I will not touch errors in other parameters that did not affect the loss of points.

So, KZ. For me personally, the topic is open, the only place where I don’t see logic in giving an example to my statement is the 3rd paragraph with a counterargument: “They consider that unusual celebrations can be dangerous because people do not know what they should do there”. For me, the word dangerous does not stand for “people do not know what they should do there”.

Grammar found 4 errors:

… because ___ unusual way of spending your free time …, paragraph 2 (no article)

Moreover, you can go with your friend which was there earlier ..., paragraph 4 (which instead of who, was instead of has been)

In conclusion, I would state that specific festivals are __ very exciting way of spending your free time, paragraph 5 (no article).

Results

What have I made for myself? conclusions?

FROM Anastasia I didn’t work out the psychology of passing the exam - I had to repeat many times before the exam that she should not relax and be careful not to make mistakes. Perhaps it was her self-confidence that let her down.

This is an example of the fact that a person with a good knowledge of the language (by the end of our classes, Anastasia had a confident Upper-Intermediate) cannot always adjust it to the format of the exam. And the Unified State Examination is a lottery, this year with unpredictable texts, sometimes above the required level, and a tricky essay topic.

FROM Irina everything is logical, she wrote as much as she deserved. Of course, I would like her to get about 90, but given the difficult listening (2 task), reading (3 task) and essay topic, it could be worse. So here we are satisfied.

Here I concluded that the Intermediate level is sufficient to successfully pass the exam, the main thing is to master the format and strategies for solving tasks where there is not enough knowledge to fully understand the text.

This concludes my reflection on the work done. It will be great if you share the results of the exam 2016!

Have a good holiday everyone!

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B. EXTREMELY DANGEROUS
C. SADLY DISAPPEARING
D. RARELY BEATEN
E. SURPRISINGLY SUCCESSFUL
F. QUICKLY GROWING

	A B C D E F	Draughts (or ‘checkers’ as the Americans call it) is one of the most popular games around the world. The rules are simple. Even young children have no problem working out how to play. The top players study moves in the same way chess players do but anyone can pick it up and have a go. Getting to a high standard takes a lot of hard work and practice but the basics are not particularly difficult.
	A B C D E F	Since 1997, when the game of Ultima Online has become popular, many thousands of people have played all kinds of games online – and the numbers are still increasing rapidly. Every year, more and more people discover the pleasures of playing over the internet and the next generation of games consoles are being designed with that in mind. There seems to be no sign that this explosion in online games will stop any time soon.
	A B C D E F	It has been called the greatest phenomenon in the history of games, but when Trivial Pursuit was created by two friends in 1981, few people had any idea what a hit it would be. It was a quiz game and none of the games companies expected it to do well, until an American company became interested in it. Many millions of Trivial Pursuit games have been sold since then in 19 languages and 33 different countries.
	A B C D E F	Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian was chess world champion from 1963 to 1969. He dominated the game during those years and almost never lost. He was known as a player who was strong in defense and very few players got the better of him. In fact, his defensive play was so good that he was known as 'Iron Tigran'. When he did lose, it was big news in Moscow chess circles.
	A B C D E F	It seems that there have been some big changes in the British playground. Twenty years ago, traditional games were played in every school across the country during the break. These days, they are quickly being replaced by hand-held games consoles and other electronic games. Before long, there is a danger that traditional games could die out. Once they are forgotten, it may be impossible to bring these enjoyable pastimes back to the playground.

Although I left university with a good degree, I suddenly found that it was actually quite hard to find a job. After being unemployed for a few months, I realized I had to take the first thing that came along or I’d be in serious financial difficulties. And so, for six very long months, I became a market research telephone interviewer.

I knew it wasn't the best company in the world when they told me that I'd have to undergo three days of training before starting work, and that I wouldn't get paid for any of it. Still, I knew that the hourly rate when I actually did start full time would be good. So, I thought of the money I’d earn and put up with three days of unpaid training. Whatever those three days taught me, I wasn't prepared for the way I would be treated by the supervisors.

It was worse than being at school. There were about twenty interviewers like myself, each sitting in a small, dark booth with an ancient computer and a dirty telephone. The booths were around the walls of the fifth floor of a concrete office block, and the supervisors sat in the middle of the room, listening to all of our telephone interviews. We weren’t allowed to talk to each other, and if we took more than about two seconds from ending one phone call and starting another, they would shout at us to hurry up and get on with our jobs. We even had to ask permission to go to the toilet. I was amazed how slowly the day went.

It wouldn't have been so bad if what we were doing had been useful. But it wasn't. Most of our interviews were for a major telecommunications company. We’d have to ring up businesses and ask them things like, ‘Is your telecoms budget more than three million pounds a year?’ The chances are we’d get the reply, ‘Oh, I don’t think so. I'll ask my husband. This is a corner shop. We've only got one phone.' And so the day went on.

The most frightening aspect of the job was that I was actually quite good at it. ‘Oh no!’ I thought. ‘Maybe I’m destined to be a market researcher for the rest of my life.’ My boss certainly seemed to think so. One day - during a break, of course - she ordered me into her office. ‘Simon,’ she said, ‘I’m promoting you. From tomorrow, you're off telecoms and onto credit card complaints. I'm sure you can handle it. There's no extra pay, but it is a very responsible position.'

Three weeks later I quit. It was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

	Why did the writer become a market research telephone interviewer?
	A	He had completely run out of money.
	B	He had the right university degree for the job.
	C	It was the first job he was offered.
	D	He knew it was only for six months.

	The writer had doubts about the company when
	A	they only offered him three days of training.
	B	they told him he wouldn't receive payment for his training.
	C	they told him he had to be trained first.
	D	he was told what the hourly rate would be.

	His workplace could best be described as
	A	large and noisy.
	B	silent and dirty.
	C	untidy and crowded.
	D	old-fashioned and uncomfortable.

	What would have made the job more bearable?
	A	knowing that he was carrying out a valuable service
	B	being able to phone much larger companies
	C	not having to talk to shopkeepers
	D	not having to ring up businesses

	What was unusual about Simon's promotion?
	A	It showed how good he was at his job.
	B	It meant he would be phoning different people.
	C	It involved greater responsibility.
	D	There was no increase in salary.

11	The Russian writer Anton Chekhov, who was born in 1860 and died in 1904, made an enormous to modern literature. His	CONTRIBUTE
	success was a remarkable , and came despite the fact
13	that Chekhov's family lived in severe poverty for much of his .
	Chekhov’s works have had a great influence on 20th century literature in many ways, particularly in terms of plot and narrative structure, and character .
	Even today, more than a hundred years after his , Chekhov's stories are extremely popular all over the world.

Ruth knocked on the door. Dr Johansson opened it and led her excitedly inside. She had called him the day before to (16) ______ a b c d _______ a few facts for an article she was writing for the newspaper – Dr Johansson was a leading expert in physics – and he had invited her to go and see his latest experiment. At first, she had tried to (17) _____ a b c d _______ out of it, remembering the hours of physics lessons she had sat through at school. However, he had insisted (18) ______ a b c d ______ seeing her, saying that she wouldn't regret it. As they walked into the laboratory, Ruth wondered exactly what she was letting herself in for. A cat sat on a workbench. It opened one eye lazily and looked at her. There was a black box connected to a computer and another black box on the other side of the room.
‘Now, Miss Evans,’ said Dr Johansson, with a slight foreign (19) ______ a b c d ______. ‘What are you about to see may change the world forever!’
He pushed a couple of buttons and a low hum filled the room. ‘I have been conducting experiments on this for three years, and finally I have succeeded.’
Dr Johansson picked up the cat and placed it in the black box, closing the lid gently. He stood Ruth next to the other black box.
‘The transportation of a living creature!’ Dr Johansson said triumphantly, and he pressed a final button. There was a spark of electricity in the air. He opened the box and the cat had disappeared.
‘You…you’ve killed it!’ Ruth shouted. Dr Johansson smiled and pointed to the black box next to her. He (20) ______ a b c d ______ her to look inside. She slowly lifted the lid. The cat looked up at her, then closed its eyes and settled down for a nap.

This page contains demonstration versions of the exam in English for 2003 - 2019.

Starting from 2015, USE in English consists of two parts: written and oral, which includes five sections: "listening", "reading", "grammar and vocabulary", "writing" (written part) and "speaking" (oral part).

For the tasks of the first three sections in the demonstration versions, answers are given, and for the tasks of the fourth and fifth sections, evaluation criteria are given.

In comparison with the criteria for evaluating the performance of task 40 of the “Writing” section in the written part of the exam, as well as the wording of task 40, in which the exam participant is offered a choice of two topics of a detailed written statement with elements of reasoning “My opinion”, are specified.

Demonstration versions of the exam in English

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	Demonstration version of the Unified State Examination in English for 2003
	Demonstration version of the Unified State Examination in English for 2004
	Demonstration version of the Unified State Examination in English for 2005
	Demonstration version of the Unified State Examination in English for 2006
	Demonstration version of the Unified State Examination in English for 2007
	Demonstration version of the exam in English for 2008
	Demonstration version of the Unified State Examination in English for 2009
	Demonstration version of the exam in English for 2010
	Demo version of the exam in English for 2011
	Demo version of the exam in English for 2012
	Demo version of the exam in English for 2013
	Demo version of the exam in English for 2014
	Demonstration version of the Unified State Examination in English for 2015 (written part)
	Demonstration version of the Unified State Examination in English for 2015 (oral part)
	Demonstration version of the Unified State Examination in English for 2016 (written part)
	Demonstration version of the Unified State Examination in English for 2016 (oral part)
	Demonstration version of the Unified State Examination in English for 2017 (written part)
	Demonstration version of the Unified State Examination in English for 2017 (oral part)
	Demonstration version of the Unified State Examination in English for 2018 (written part)
	Demonstration version of the Unified State Examination in English for 2018 (oral part)
	Demo version of the Unified State Examination in English for 2019 (written part)
	Demonstration version of the Unified State Examination in English for 2019 (oral part)

Changes in the demonstration versions of the exam in English

Demonstration versions of the exam in English for grade 11 for 2004 - 2008 included five sections: "listening", "reading", "grammar and vocabulary", "writing", "speaking". The tasks of the first three sections in the demonstration versions were answered, and for the tasks of the fourth and fifth sections, evaluation criteria were given.

Demonstration versions of the exam in English for grade 11 for 2009 - 2014 already consisted of four sections: "listening", "reading", "grammar and vocabulary", "writing". The tasks of the first three sections in the demonstration versions were given answers, and for the tasks of the fourth section, evaluation criteria were given.

Thus, from demonstration versions of the Unified State Exam 2009 - 2014 the "speaking" section was excluded.

IN 2015 USE in English began to consist of two parts: written and oral. Demonstration version of the written part of the USE 2015 in English Compared to the demo version of the USE in 2014, it had the following differences:

Numbering assignments was through throughout the variant without letter designations A, B, C.
Was the form of recording the answer in tasks with a choice of answers has been changed: the answer has become necessary to write down the number with the number of the correct answer (and not mark with a cross).
Listening tasks A1-A7 demo version in 2014 were transformed into task 2 written part of the 2015 demo.

IN 2015 in USE in English again returned section "speaking", now in the form oral part of the exam.

IN demo versions of the USE 2016 - 2018 in English compared with demo 2015 in Englishthere were no significant changes: the wording of the tasks of the oral part of the exam and the criteria for their evaluation were clarified.

IN demo version of the USE 2019 in English compared with demo 2018 in English the criteria for evaluating the performance of task 40 of the “Writing” section in the written part of the exam were clarified, as well as the wording of task 40, in which the exam participant was offered a choice of two topics of a detailed written statement with elements of reasoning “My opinion”.

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The exam, in any language, has always raised many questions. But the exam in English does not cause so much negativity. It's just that most schoolchildren studied from textbooks, in which a huge number of tasks were built in the test version. Since schoolchildren are accustomed to such tasks, the exam is psychologically comfortable. But there are still many questions for future employers. Are tests able to show the level of language proficiency. After all, writing is one thing, and pronunciation and oral speech skills are another. But the rules are the same for all subjects and the format of the final exam is just that, and you need to prepare for it.

Types of preparation for the exam in English

Since oral skills will not help you pass the exam, then classes with a tutor can be wasted. If the classes consist mainly of oral communication, then they will not help prepare for the exam. The same is true with English courses. There is a huge amount of online on the Internet. So basically they improve their oral skills, then the results of the exam from them will not get better. In this regard, the question arises: what is the best way to cook to USE in English?

How to prepare for the exam in English?

The first step is to identify gaps in your knowledge. After that, start to eliminate them. The best way to see your problems is to go through trial online tests of the Unified State Examination in English. On the educational portal Uchistut.ru, you can take trial tests of the Unified State Examination in English an unlimited number of times. During the test, your time is not limited, and you can open the textbook to refresh your knowledge. To pass the tests, you do not need to register or send SMS from your phone. After you have identified topics in which you do not feel confident, you can turn to specialists or independently pull up the material. But self-study threatens with mistakes that can cost you dearly on the exam. Therefore, it is worth choosing such English courses that will focus on knowledge gaps and help prepare for the exam. Preparatory courses are best for