Updated version

May 2019

5 things you need to know about Reading – Part 3 & 4 (Info transfer):

1.Watch your spelling.

Spelling is crucial for this part, marker would not give you your mark even with just a single spelling mistake. So, if it is something that you are copying from the text, make sure you don’t allow yourself to get it wrong! It will be a shame if you lose a mark like that.

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2. Capital Letter for SPECIAL NOUNS.

Again, these words are normally taken from the text, not only you want your spelling right, you also want to follow whatever CAPITAL LETTERS used in the text, if the answer is in CAPS, you better do it too!

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3. Never write a full / long sentence, take necessary words, leave out the examples.

Many students lose mark because they take too much from the text.

Part 3 – no more than 3 words or/and 1 number

Part 4 – no more than 5 words or/and 1 number

You have to make sure you only take the main answers and not the explanation or something unimportant.

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4. Answers must fit in with the given sentence starter.

The more challenging part is to make sure the flow of the answers is right. This can be a tricky part. However, bear this in mind and be more careful when you put in the later part of the answer, make sure it fits with the starting phrase given by the question (if there is)

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Notice that after the word ‘must’, we cannot use ‘ing’ , therefore you must make sure all words follow after ‘must’ do not have ‘ing’, ‘s’,’es, or ‘ed’

5. Make it a point to know these words.

These words are popular words used in Part 3. It wouldn’t hurt to learn what they mean before the test would it?

So those are some tips to help you out, let me  know if you discover some other tips so we can help more people out there.

Happy Learning, Happy Teaching.

Grace.