Diagnostic Test (taken from

Listening Section (Questions 1-30)

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1 Skill 2: Choose answers with synonyms
Skill 3: Avoid similar sounds
2 Skill 2: Choose answers with synonyms
3 Skill 2: Choose answers with synonyms
Skill 3: Avoid similar sounds
4 Skill 2: Choose answers with synonyms
5 Skill 4: Draw conclusions about who, what, where
6 Skill 2: Choose answers with synonyms
Skill 3: Avoid similar sounds
7 Skill 2: Choose answers with synonyms
8 Skill 2: Choose answers with synonyms
Skill 3: Avoid similar sounds
9 Skill 6: Listen for who and what with multiple nouns
1 Skill 2: Choose answers with synonyms
0 Skill 5: Listen for who and what in passives
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Skill 11: Listen for negatives with comparatives

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Skill 2: Choose answers with synonyms

Skill 7: Listen for negative expressions

Skill 2: Choose answers with synonyms
Skill 6: Listen for who and what with multiple nouns
Skill 2: Choose answers with synonyms
Skill 7: Listen for negative expressions

Skill 12: Listen for expressions of uncertainty and suggestion

Skill 7: Listen for negative expressions
Skill 12: Listen for expressions of uncertainty and suggestion
Skill 17:
Skill 7: Listen for negative expressions
Skill 16: Listen for two and three part verbs

2 Skill 2: Choose answers with synonyms

2 Skill 3: Avoid similar sounds

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3 Skill 17: Listen for idioms
2 Skill 8: Listen for double negative expressions
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2 Skill 2: Choose answer with synonyms
5 Skill 3: Avoid similar sounds
Skill 14: Listen for wishes
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Skill 16: Listen for two and three part verbs

Skill 10: Listen for negatives with comparatives
Skill 3: Avoid similar sounds
Skill 9: Listen for "almost" negative expressions

2 Skill 15: Listen for untrue conditions

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3 Skill 13: Listen for emphatic expressions of surprise
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Structure Section (Questions 1-8, 10-12, 14-20)
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1 Skill 1: Be sure the sentence has a subject and a verb
2 Skill 2: Be careful of objects of prepositions
3 Skill 3: Be careful of appositives
4 Skill 6: Use coordinate conjuntions correctly
5 Skill 7: Use adverb time and cause connectors correctly
Skill 15: Invert the subject and verb with quetions
6 Skill 12: Use the adjective clause connector/subjects
correctly
7 Skill 4: Be careful of present participles
Skill 13: Use reduced adjective clauses correctly
8 Skill 8: Use other adverb connectors correctly
1 Skill 10: Use noun clause connector/subjects correctly
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1 Skill 14: Use reduced adverb clauses correctly
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Skill 16: Invert the subject and verb with place expressions
Skill 9: Use noun clause connectors correctly
Skill 18: Invert the subject and verb with conditionals
Skill 22: Make inverted verbs agree

1 Skill 33: Know when to use the past with the present
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Skill 31: After "be," use the present particviple or the past
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Skill 27: Form comparatives and superlatives correctly
Skill 24: Use parallel structure with coordinate conjunctions

Reading Section (Questions 1-4, 6, 8-9, 11, 18, 19, 30, 40, 45)
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1 Skill 1: Answer main idea questions correctly
2 Skill 11: Use context to determine meanings of simple
words
3 Skill 10: Use noun clause connector/subjects correctly
4 Skill 3: Answer stated detail questions correctly

6 Skill 9: Determine meanings from word parts

8 Skill 6: Answer implied detail questions correctly
9 Skill 7: Answer Transition Questions Correctly
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Skill 2: Recognize the organization of ideas

Skill 4: Find "unstated" details
Skill 12: Determine where specific information is found
Skill 13: Determine the tone, purpose, or course
Skill 13: Determine the tone, purpose, or course
Skill 5: Find pronouns referents