12 Challenges of iBT to Egyptian Students

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12 Challenges of iBT to Egyptian Students
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Presenter Hanaa Soudan AMIDEAST
Egypt hsoudan_at_aucegypt.edu
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• Agenda
• Introduction
• General Challenges
• iBT 4 sections challenges
• Recommendations

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General Challenges
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1st Challenge
Time
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2nd Challenge
Topics
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3rd Challenge
Unfamiliar Vocabulary
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The Reading Section is divided into separately
timed parts Part 1 20 min 1 passage Part 2 40
min 2 passages Last question is worth more than 1
point.
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4th Challenge
Resisting the urge to read the whole passage
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5th Challenge
Contextual Clues
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5th Challenge
Example When the gas reaches the air, it comes
into contact with available oxygen from the
atmosphere and combines with the oxygen to
produce nitrogen dioxide (NO2), which is a gas
with a brownish hue.
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5th Challenge

• Example
• Q. The word hue in paragraph 1 is closest in
  meaning to
• Color
• Odor
• Thickness
• Smoke

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5th Challenge

• Example
• Q. The word hue in paragraph 1 is closest in
  meaning to
• Color
• Odor
• Thickness
• Smoke

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The Listening Section is divided into separately
timed parts Part 1 1 conversation 2
lectures Part2 1 conversation 2 lectures
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6th Challenge
Taking Notes
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7th Challenge
Students Lives in USA
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10 min Break
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The Speaking Section is divided into 6
questions Independent Question 12 you will
speak about familiar topics. 15
sec preparation 45 sec response
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What are the main characteristics of a good
friend?
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8th Challenge
Organization of Thoughts
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The Speaking Section is divided into 6
questions Integrated Question 34 you will first
read a short text, listen to a talk then answer a
question Reading 45 sec 30 sec
preparation 60 sec response
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9th Challenge
Integration
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The Speaking Section is divided into 6
questions Integrated Question 56 you will
listen to a part of conversation or a lecture,
then answer a question. 20 sec preparation 60
sec response
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10th Challenge
Summarizing
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The Writing Section is divided into separately
timed parts Part 1 Integrated Task 3 min
Reading 1 min preparation 20 min writing time
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11th Challenge
Academic Writing
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The Writing Section is divided into separately
timed parts Part 2 Independent Task 30 min
writing time
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12th Challenge
Organization Language
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Recommendations
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• Time
• Practicing for long hours
• Releasing stress technique

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• 2. Topics
• Test preparation
• Exposure to target culture

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• 3. Unfamiliar words
• Learning new vocabulary horizontally

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• 4. Reading the passage
• Start with reading 1st paragraph only

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• 5. Context clues
• Teach your students context clues.
• i.e. commas, semi-colons, dashes, brackets to
  find definitions

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• 6. Taking notes
• Teach your students the pyramid shape note taking

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Topic
Main Idea 1
Main Idea 2
Main Idea 3
Details
Details
Details
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• 7. Life in the US
• Expose your students to the target culture
  through videos, films, etc

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• Organization of thoughts
• Practice practice practice
• Use the top part of the pyramid in preparation.

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• Integration
• Students need to find the relation and state it
  in the 1st paragraph.

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Topic StatementIn this set of materials, the
reading passage discusses a technique used by
meteorologists, and the listening passage
provides an example of this technique from
seventeenth-century Holland .
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• 10. Summarizing
• Practice practice pratice
• Pyramid shape

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• 11. Academic Writing
• Copying the style and language of reading
  passages.

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• 12. Organization of Essay
• Students should follow this format

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Essay

• Paragraph 1
• Introduction Paragraph
• Paragraph 2
• Main Idea 1
• supporting details examples
• Paragraph 3
• Main Idea 2
• supporting details examples
• Paragraph 4
• Concluding Paragraph