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SO WHAT’S NEW?

Weighting

DurationNumber of texts

Number of questionsQuestion types

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What are the

skillsthat students require to

answer questionsin 800/3,

theReading component?

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In Malaysia, employees inmany companies todaywork longer hours than

employees did in the1970s. They also takeshorter vacations. It seemsthat Malaysians areworking harder today thanever before. Or are they?A management consultant,Meyer, decided to find out.For three days he observed

an insurance executive atwork.

1. Who is Meyer?

SANDAKAN: Sen is four 

months old and an orphan.

Forlorn without his mother, Sen

needs someone to feed, batheand care for him so that he can

continue to live. And care is

what Sen gets when he is hungry

or when his diapers are soiled.Sen is rescued from a newly-

cleared plantation and has a

chance to return to his natural

home in the forest one day.

1. Who is Sen?

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TEXT 1Wetlands are areas where water covers the soil. It may be wetall year or seasonally wet. Wetlands fall into four categories –marshes, swamps, bogs and fens. Marshes are dominated by

soft-stemmed vegetation adapted to saturated soil. There aremany kinds of marshes such as those ranging from coastal toinland, freshwater to saltwater. Marshes recharge groundwatersupplies and moderate stream flow by providing water tostreams. They also help to reduce damage caused by floods by

slowing and storing flood water.MUET October 2005 p3

Question:

From the text, we know that marshes are important because they

A) store flood waterB) are beneficial to manC) provide water to streams

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i. Marshes recharge groundwater supplies and 

moderate stream flow by providing water tostreams.

ii. They also help to reduce damage caused by 

floods by slowing and storing flood water.

How did you arrive at the answer? 

After considering the following factors:

What skill is tested? Drawing conclusions

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I am someone who hasalways loved language. Ispend a great deal of timethinking about the way it canevoke an emotion, a visual

image, a complex idea or asimple truth. Language is thetool of my trade. And I use

them all – all the Englishes Igrew up with.

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Question 1:Question 1: In the text, what do theIn the text, what do thefollowing words refer to?following words refer to?

A. it refers to …A. it refers to …B. they refers to …B. they refers to …

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What information in the text enabled you to answer the question? 

Language is the tool of my trade.And I use them all – all the Englishes I

grew up with.

What reading skill is tested by this question?  making inferences

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For millennia, grey whales had wintered in Laguna San Ignacio, one of 

many isolated lagoons along the Mexican coast. They were not bothered by

the presence of natural enemies around them. Then, in 1845, two whalers

sailed into this lagoon and discovered that it was a breeding sanctuary.

The grey whales, however, were not easy prey. Protective females were

demonic defenders of their newborns. They  charged whaling boats and

injured or killed crew members. Whalers had dangerous encounters with

other types of whales, but the greys were the only ones they called ‘Devil

Fish’.

In the end, the greys were no match for their hunters. The whalers

blocked the lagoon and turned it into a giant trap. What followed was a

methodical slaughter  that made the once-quiet lagoon run red with

blood of dying whales. Their carcasses were floated to the beach, and the

blubber was boiled on the spot for oil. Whalebone and baleen were taken to

be sold for corset stays, brushes and umbrella spokes. As petroleumreplaced whale oil as fuel, the greys were killed primarily for pet food.

Extracted from ‘The Mystery of the Friendly Whales’ By Paula McDonald,Reader’s Digest, October 1995 

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2Predicting outcomes

1Deriving meaning from thecontext

1Understanding relationshipsbetween sentences

3Making inferences

1Identifying main ideas

1Extracting specific

information

LEVELSKILL

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Predicting outcomes6

Deriving meaning from thecontext

5

Understandingrelationships betweensentences

4

Making inferences3

Identifying main ideas2

Extracting specific

information

1

SKILLQUESTION

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If the

statementagrees 

with thequestion.

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If the

statementcontradicts

theinformation.

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If there isno information 

on this.

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Questions:

1. China’s consumer market is increasing rapidly.

A TrueB FalseC Not Stated

How did you arrive at the answer? 

Consumer market increasing rapidly – a booming consumer market.

What skill is tested? Using contextual clues 

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2. The real estate business seems to contributetowards making billionaires in China.A True

B FalseC Not Stated

How did you arrive at the answer? 

What skill is tested? 

Drawing Conclusions

 After considering the following factors:From the linear text 

iii. Driven by a jump in home-buying (paragraph 2) and iv. …fortunes have been made……..real estate companies………..market 

(paragraph 4).

From the non linear iii. 4 out of the 10 billionaires mentioned are involved in real estate

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