Preparing for Exams

Cloze test: Choose the most appropriate word to complete the text.

         amount   grade   matching   reviewing   rewarding   routinely   scored   yourself

If you have kept up with course work and have made sure that you understood the material,
1_______________ for examinations can be an important part of learning. Without spending an undue
2_____________  of time, you can pull your knowledge together, refresh your memory, and—what is
most 3_____________ —gain new insights about the subject.
Of course, you have the right to ask your instructor before the exam what kinds of items to expect
(i. e., all multiple-choice questions or some combination of objective questions, essay questions,
writing summaries, 4____________________items or paragraphs and titles ? etc.). You can also ask
your instructor how the items are 5__________________ and, if an exam contains several parts, how
the parts count toward the overall 6__________________. Many instructors provide this information
7____________________in the information system or on a web site, along with other helpful
suggestions about their exams. Don't forget that your instructor wants you to do well in the
course, too. Your success reflects credit on him or her as well as 8 _______________!

Students say that they can/may/must/need more practice on multiple-choice questions and sentence
transformations, particularly.



Academic vocabulary

Choose the most appropriate word to complete each sentence.


1.    Environmental topics / issues / principles should be at the top of today´s political agenda.

2.    The data confirmed / lacks / underlines his hypothesis.

3.    The study confirmed / lacks / underlines the fact that very little research exists.

4.    The study confirmed / lacks / underlines solid evidence and therefore its conclusions are
doubtful.

5.    I would like to enroll for / in / on / to  the seminar.   (more possibilities)

6.    We must convince people about  / for / of / with need for water conservation.

7.    We really should dispose carefully about  / for / of / with waste material.

8.    Geologists have been unable to critically / firmly / thoroughly establish a connection
between the two types of fossils.

9.    We shall now briefly / closely / simply discuss the evidence for the existence  of dark
matter.

10. Our aim is to critically / firmly / thoroughly examine the effects of stress.