祝4月8号参加IBT的同学好运！！

yinzheng66

如题！！

祝大家考试顺利，发挥超常！！！

chaseone

GOOD LUCK GUYS~~~~

vv2533

Good luck!

greenpuma

Unfortuately, the server's down at my testing center. The staff called off the test after spending almost an hour trying to get the thing back to the track. This accident drove people crazy since it happened right after the listening section. Some of them might have probably finished the reading and listenging sections pretty well. I could see that anguish was written all over the face of every fellow test taker.

We were *politely* given a chance to reschedule another test on the other day. ETS sucks. dfajfoierja

Who did get through the whole thing today? Speak up, people! Any jj yet?

ciao.

F

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mikeyi

good luck

keven_chen

Good luck

yinzheng66

以下是引用greenpuma在2006-4-9 11:07:00的发言：

Unfortuately, the server's down at my testing center. The staff called off the test after spending almost an hour trying to get the thing back to the track. This accident drove people crazy since it happened right after the listening section. Some of them might have probably finished the reading and listenging sections pretty well. I could see that anguish was written all over the face of every fellow test taker.

We were *politely* given a chance to reschedule another test on the other day. ETS sucks. dfajfoierja

Who did get through the whole thing today? Speak up, people! Any jj yet?

ciao.

F

greenpuma 在哪里考的？

同情…… 前人发的帖子也有说过同样的问题，估计是考试刚刚起步，一切都不健全吧。上个月不是还有同学说在tronto 考试，开始时间晚了一个多钟头！

[此贴子已经被作者于2006-4-9 16:29:15编辑过]

greenpuma

something maybe helpful:

Reading part:

1, pace yourself, pace yourself, pace yourself!!!

Don’t be screwed up with the ‘too short time to complete’ scheme by ETS

--- only 20 mins for the 1^st passage (750 words)

---- then, 40 mins for the next 2^nd, 3^rd passages(750 words each)

2, I feel that we could only saccade the whole passage in 3 mins, and then quickly move on to the question part. Or you don’t want to follow this scheme at all. You might want to start with answers, and do some co-referential work all the time.

3, 1^st and ‘2^nd ,3^rd passages are timed separately. It means that when you have completed the first one and moved to the ‘2^nd,3^rd ’, you cannot go back to check your answers to the 1^st passage.

Listening part:

1, harder than ever

2, no short conversation , eg., having only 4 sentences.

3, longer conversations and long lectures. Topics can be drama, biology, zoology, psychology etc..

4, choices to the questions become implicit as well, taking longer time to decide on

Something beyond the test:

1, the test no longer measures your basic English knowledge, but your advanced and consistent understanding and participation in a full English environment, at least for 3 hours.(personal opinion)

2, some questions referring to complicated spatial or time sequences are used to test examinees’ listening and reading comprehension.  

3, unlike before, it tests the memorizing capability of your brain (passages are unbelievable long). And generalization skills are required as well. Think GMAT / GRE where a tons of information are impacted in one passage.

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I don't understand why ETS has complicated the test. Which purpose does the iBT serve for?

I cannot be a test as GMAT or GRE.

Anyone here has good strategies to attack the reading section???

Good luck.

F

yinzheng66

非常感谢greenpuma 分享经验，重考日期定在什么时候了？？ 加油加油！！