Use Of English Test 15 – The Big Day

Whatever candidates may think about examiners, they are not in fact insensibleinsensitiveunsensibleunsensitive monsters, dripping red ink instead of blood, but ordinary people who will do their best to pass candidates as longfarsoonmuch as candidates follow certain basic rules of the game. Many candidates are unsuccessfulincorrectinaccurateunhappy in the First Certificate not because their English is illegibleinadequatemisguidedmisunderstood but because they are mal-informedinformedill-informeddissinformed about the requirements of the examination. Before you have satwould sitsitwill sit for the examination, make sure you know what is expected of you; you are improbablyimpossibleunlikelyunlucky to do well unless you answer all the questions set, and don’t include irrelevantilliterateillogicalindirect material. Don’t start writing as immediatelyquicklyfastsoon as you get the paper - think first, write slowerafterwardslaterafter! If part of an answer is incorrect, you willwouldshouldhave cross it out and write the preferred answer neatly above it. If your handwriting werebeiswas illegible, it will be difficult for the examiner to give you credit for it, whetherhoweverwheneverif it is right or nonefalsenonot. You will also lose marks if your essay is written in an inappropriatemisappropriatedisappropriateunappropriate style for the type of writing and intended audience.