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Applies to English Language Skills for Academic Purposes.
The Reading and Writing Examination will take place in April/May 2020听and is timetabled by 香港六合彩中特网听Student and Registry Services. Your examination timetable, which includes dates, times and locations, will be available on in March 2020.
Date: April/May 2020
Duration: 2.5 hours
Candidates should not indicate their identity through the use of their own names etc, especially in the Writing task. Only candidate numbers should be used.
General information听
Language of questions/tasks: English
Number of words required: 500 words
Dictionaries are not permitted.
1. Ability to summarise and evaluate a text
14 points (Reading Competence) [see below regarding Linguistic Competence points for this task].
2. Ability to extract specific information, to understand detail, paraphrase, explain and infer meaning
29 points (Reading Competence) [see below regarding Linguistic Competence points for this task].
3. Ability to respond to a text
14 points (Reading Competence (Evaluation)) [see below regarding Linguistic Competence points for this task].
The above tasks are awarded points as follows:
- 57 points for Reading Competence (as allocated above);
- 12 points for Written Linguistic Competence.
4. Writing task (essay)
31 points (Linguistic Competence).
This task is awarded points as follows:
- 23 points for Written Linguistic Competence;
- 8 points for Content.
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