The Paper consists of three tasks of 18 questions based on texts of a range of styles and genres within the framework of familiar topics. The amount of words in the text is 270-320 words.
The Paper assesses learners’ ability to work with texts, find appropriate information, analyse and answer questions using the information from the texts read.
Learners read a text and perform tasks of following types:
Task A consists of 5 questionswhere learners are expected to understand the meaning and usage of particular words / phrases in context.
Task B consists of 10 questions where learners are expected to paraphrase sentences using the words/phrases given.
Task C consists of 3 questions, one is closed-ended and two are open-ended questions where learners are expected to demonstrate reading comprehension.