Tips for the English Exam - Bac

Suggested by Mrs Houda RJAB, English Teacher, Tamaghza School, Tozeur, Tunisia

1) Reading comprehension:

• Read the questions carefully before reading the text.
• Do not waste your time looking for the answer of one question, if you don't understand a question move to the next.
• Write clear answers and do not write in more than the given space.
• Use quotation marks for the true/false questions.
• Skim the text to answer the questions, that is, do not read the whole details, read just to answer.
• Do not get frustrated when the text is long, the longer it is, the easier it will be.
• Do not spend more than 40 minutes for the reading comprehension.

 

2) Language:

• Read the whole paragraphs before starting the answers.
• Read the words before and after the blanks to know the right form.
• In the matching activity, (match the sentence parts from both columns to form a coherent paragraph...) read the ends of the first part and the beginning of the second parts.
• For the blank filling activity, read all the words in the box and categorise them according to their form: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs...
• Do not devote more than half an hour for the language activities.

 

3) Writing: 

• Write short, clear sentences.
• Do not overuse linkers and use only the appropriate ones.
• Do not overuse "and".
• Do not copy ideas from the text.
• Do not repeat the words of the essay.
• Do not bother the corrector with extra ideas.
• Write only ideas which have relation to the topic of the essay.
• Follow the writing process.
• Do never let writing space blank spot.