English contest part 1
2012-03-15 @ 13:46:09
So the contest took place yesterday at 10 in the morning. Difficulty was a bit higher than I expected. There were 50 closed questions in which 4 answers were chooseable but only one was correct. 22 questions were mostly about idioms. That was the hardest part. Another 23 questions were about grammar which I liked as it was not too hard. In the end there was short article with 5 questions included which turned out to be the easiest part of the contest.

Today scores were announced. It was possible to get 50 points. I forgot to check how many people participated but it was about 70-80. Only top 10 of them qualified to the final.

I got 2nd place. Comparing to last year it's better score as I had 4th place then and in the final 4th place which let me win really decent headset. I did not expect such score. I was a bit afraid I wouldn't get to the final part because of lack of knowledge yesterday as I didnt now meaning of some words. My score is 36 points which is 72% correct answers. My mate with top score had 41 points. There were few persons that had 35 points so if I had made 2 more mistakes I wouldn't have been so high.

The final will take place in a month. This time it will be about conversation between me and examiner. I hope I'll have some luck while choosing subject of conversation. Last year there were valuable prizes for 1st-4th place. And pendrives, t-shirts, pens etc for 5-10th. This year the main award is tablet. I'll post when I get through.

Cya ; ]
Gone for good
2012-03-10 @ 22:00:36
I haven't been visiting my blog since May last year so I decided that's high time to update my blog.

I've just read my last post in which I wrote about how my last english contest finished like. There is another another that will take place on Wednesday which means it's 4 days left. There will be 2 parts just like last year. First part focused on choosing the right answer from examples marked as ABCD. To qualify to the other part at least 10th place has to be achieved. Last year there were about 130 people writing it. Many of these were there because they had nothing better to do therefore people who organise that contest decided to let less people participate this time. I have no idea how many people is gonna be trying to make it to the final but I'm sure it won't be as many as it used to be.

Final which is 2nd part will take place in April. In that part there will be eye to eye conversation with one of 3 examiners. Final consist of 2 tasks. First one is just like polish matura exam. In fact it's enough to say 5-6 sentences and it's done. Second part is worse than the previous one. It's kind of conversation between you and the person examining you. The subject is real life related. Last time I had to discuss about proper ways of careers for women. I think I've read too much from piece of paper that I prepared while before as I had 4 mintues to prepare answers to questions. The guy (my friend) that had quite problems speaking fluently got 2nd place then. I was answering questions way more flunt than him but I read too much from that paper and I think that made my place worse than it could be. The main problem wasn't how to say some things but what to say. Sometimes it's harder to make up something than translate it.

I'm also thinking of passing certificate FCE this year and CAE maybe another year or in near future.
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