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Appendix: Tips & Study Plan

This part offers a roadmap for structured preparation, including 30- and 60-day study schedules. It highlights common traps that cost marks and provides a checklist for test-day readiness. Students finish confident in both their skills and exam strategy.

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Structured Study Plan

30-Day Plan:

  • Days 1–5: Skimming & scanning drills

  • Days 6–10: Vocabulary & paraphrase practice

  • Days 11–15: Question type practice (MCQ, T/F/NG, Matching Headings)

  • Days 16–20: Full passages, timed drills

  • Days 21–25: Advanced strategies, precision exercises

  • Days 26–30: Full practice tests, error analysis

60-Day Plan:

  • Same as 30-day plan, but slower pace and repeat exercises for mastery.

Common Traps to Avoid

  • Misreading negatives (not, never, hardly)

  • Ignoring paraphrases

  • Spending too long on one question

  • Assuming answers are always in the same order as the text

  • Overlooking word limits in sentence/table completion

Mini Exercise:
Question: “All students passed the exam.”
Passage: “Only some students passed the exam.”

  • Trap → assuming “all” = “some” → Answer: False

Exam-Day Checklist

  • Bring ID, pens, pencils, eraser

  • Arrive 30 minutes early

  • Keep track of time (1.5 min per question)

  • Skim first, scan second, answer quickly

  • Mark difficult questions and return if time allows

  • Stay calm, focus, and avoid getting stuck

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