Percentage Uniform Marks (PUM) Explained: A Comprehensive Guide
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In Questions 1-6 of the Listening papers, you hear a series of short spoken items. The sentences are not connected. For each item, you answer one question as briefly as possible, often with just one or two words.
In Questions 7-10, you hear continuous, connected speech, and the questions may require you to complete a table of information, or complete some notes, or answer individual questions with short responses.
In the exam, you will be given time to read the questions before you hear the cassette/CD. Make sure you use this time well. Read all the questions and underline the keyword(s) in each one.
Decide what type of information each question requires; for example, a number, a place, a street name.
Some time, you’ll hear how some words are changing with the stress on different part of the words. For example: notice how the word interviewer changes to interviewee.
When spoken, the stress on these two words is different: interviewer, interviewee.
Other examples are employer and employee.
There are a small number of other ‘person’ nouns in English which end in -ee.
The last question in the Listening papers usually requires you to answer questions based on a talk or an interview. The questions may ask you to identify people’s feelings and attitudes, as well as testing you on general comprehension.
Note: make sure that you write clearly and that you include all the necessary information.
Listening papers contribute 30% (15% for private candidates) on your overall scores for your English as Second Language certificate. Don’t make the assumption that Listening paper is not important thus not making any attempt to learn the tactics and skills.
In fact, Listening papers could determine either you score A* or not in your IGCSE E2L paper.
The average preparation needed for Listening skills is one year. Best is two years, from getting acquaintance to mastering.
Akshaya S T
Singapore
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Hi I am Asma and I would like to ask about the way I should write the timing in my listening paper. In my recent mocks paper there was a question about the timing and I heard the time on the record player as 20 past four so I wrote it just like that but I got the answer wrong. Is this a wrong way or should I write it as 20:04 or 08:04?
The answer of question 1-6 should be in complete sentence ?necessarry or depends ?
For listening, you just need to write the correct points. Complete sentences are not necessary.
do you know where i can get or find the mark scheme of 1995 to 2001 past papers ?
do yo know where i can find the mark scheme of 1995 to 2001 past papers
hey, how to register for ur online tutoring?
Hello Mayar,
Just click on this link: https://igcsecentre.com/cambridge-igcse-revision-courses/
Scroll down to the bottom to choose your subjects that you want to register.
I wanted to know if the person loses marks In very small spelling mistakes in the listening exam
Hi Rawaa,
Ideally, you should provide the exact spoken words and the correct spelling. You can make spelling mistakes and still get your mark if the misspell word is close to the correct word. Examples: chanse instead of chance, realy instead of really. However, even though you provide the correct answer, you won’t get your mark if the misspell word: if it is very different from the correct word (example: bioutifoul instead of beautiful) and if it forms another recognised English word (example: plane instead of plain, bare instead of bear).