getting ready for the final exam

Instructions for the Final Exam

What to expect

Review all

PPT’s on

Reading Skills

& Strategies

Empirical Research

English Mitkadmim

Bet

By Julie Bordetsky

Budgeting your time correctly

Logistics

When Where

What How

Check Ruppinet for the time and place

An Unseen empirical research article

Review all relevant PPT’s;Use the strategic approach to academic reading;Budget your time correctly

Last-minute

tips

−An identification card with your picture;

− A black or blue pen (Do not use a red pen or a pencil!);

−A highlighter;

−A good English dictionary;You may use an electronic dictionary. Make sure it does not beep.Bring extra batteries

− Review: Empirical Research Format; Paragraph Structure PPTs; APA style references and citations (handouts, PPT about Academic Sources) Skimming and Scanning (!!!)

The text and the questions will be similar to those tht we have been doing in class.

It is important to read the carefully . Highlight key ideas (use first sentences). Read for detail to answer the close reading questions.

Unseen text

Read instructions carefullyPay attention to paragraph numbers, headings and sub-sections

Unseen questions

Warning! In open questions, if the instructions say answer in no more than X number of words, you will lose points for writing more.

Questions are short answers, multiple/choice, or multiple/multiple choice (check ALL correct answers), matching, True or False, and fill-ins.

Budgeting Your Time Correctly

1. PrereadHighlight the extra-textual information Let your eye follow your marker; highlight from left-to-right

Look for all or some of the following:

5-10 minutes

• The Title (the title usually gives the topic) and the research question

• The Abstract (summarizes the key points and components)

• Headings /Subtitles/Captions /Tables (this gives you text organization and possible places for essential information and repeated elements)

Budgeting Your Time Correctly

2. Section by SectionHighlight every first sentence of every paragraph.

Pay attention to the following:

Transition words (first, second, however, while, on the other hand, additional point, unlike; therefore, overall, several, indeed, in other words, etc.)

o Help you identify places where ideas are summarized;

o Help you understand the type of paragraph;o Help you notice the connection between

paragraphs;o Help you locate possible places for main

ideas/evidence/examples)

Reference words (this, these, those, such);o words we use instead of the names of people,

things, or ideas already mentioned in the text.

Budgeting Your Time Correctly

3. Answering Questions:Use them as your ‘map’ to navigate through the

text;

If you are asked to ‘justify your answer by quoting from the text’

o provide only relevant informationo put in quotation markso indicate a paragraph # and a line #