[English] Reading section of various English tests (length of article & subtotal of words)

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1. Domestic examination

1.1 Level 4 and Level 6 CET

Exam structure:
Whole reading section:
Level 4: 1800-1950
Level 6: 2200-2400
Choose words to fill in the blanks. The length of the chapter is 200-250 words for level 4 and 250-300 words for level 6.
The long reading part adopts one longer article, with a total length of about 1,000 words for Level 4 and about 1,200 words for Level 6.
The careful reading section requires candidates to read 3 short passages. 2 short essay comprehension tests with multiple choice questions, each with a length of 300-350 words for Level 4 and 400-450 words for Level 6

1.2 PubMed English 1/2

Entire reading section:
English 1: 7150
English 2: 6650
Use English knowledge to fill in the blanks and leave 20 blanks in an article of about 350 words
Traditional reading consists of four articles, each article is about 1500 words in length, 20 small questions in total, 5 questions for each article, 2 points for each small question, 40 points in total.
New question type, 500-600 word essay
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1.3 Public English PETS & foreign language level WSK

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The validity period of PETS test scores from Levels 1 to 4 is determined by the admissions department and the employer. PETS Level 5 test results are valid for two years for government-sponsored overseas students; if used for other purposes, the validity period is determined by the admissions department and the employer, just like Levels 1 to 4.
A total score of 60 points or more in the written test is a pass; a score of 3 points or more in the oral test is a pass.

PETS Level 4 Test Paper Structure:
Reading Section Length: 2260
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The exam consists of a written test and an oral test. The written test paper (140 minutes) is divided into four parts: listening, English knowledge application, reading comprehension and writing. The oral test paper (12 minutes) is divided into three sections to test the candidates' oral communication skills. Both the written test and the oral test are conducted in English.

Part I, PETS Level 4 Written Test Paper Structure

1. Listening part

该部分由A、B、C节组成，考查考生理解英语口语的能力，考试进行时，考生将答案写或划在试卷上；听力部分结束前，考生有5分钟的时间将试卷上的答案誊写或涂到答题卡1上。该部分所需时间约为30分钟（含誊写和转涂时间）。

A节（5题）：考查考生理解详细信息的能力。要求考生根据所听到的一段180 - 220词的对话或独白的内容，填补句子或表格中的空白。录音材料播放两遍。

B节（5题）：考查考生理解总体和特定信息的能力。要求考生根据所听到的一段280－320词的对话或独白，回答5道简答题。录音材料播放两遍。

C节（10题）：考查考生获取特定信息，理解主旨要义和详细信息，猜测词义、判断演讲者态度、意图的能力。要求考生根据所听到的三段对话或独白（每段200－300词），从每题所给的4个选择项中选出最佳选项。每段录音材料只播放一遍。问题不在录音中播放，仅在试卷上印出。

二、英语知识运用

该部分不仅考查考生对诸如连贯性和一致性等语段特征的辨识能力，还考查考生对用于一定语境中的语言规范成分的掌握，这些语言规范成分包括广泛的词汇、表达方式和结构。共20小题。在一篇240－280词的文章中留出20个空白，要求考生从每题所给的4个选择项中选出最佳选项，使补足后的文章意思通顺、前后连贯、结构完整。其中有12－15道题考查词汇，5－8道题题考查语法和篇章结构。该部分所需时间约为15分钟。考生在答题卡1上作答。

三、阅读理解

该部分由A、B两节组成，考查考生理解书面英语的能力，该部分所需时间约为60分钟。考生在答题卡1上作答A节，在答题卡2上作答B节。

A节（20题）：考查考生理解具体信息，抓文章大意，猜测生词并且进行推断等的能力。要求考生根据所提供的4篇文章的内容（总长度约为1，600词），从每题所给的4个选择项中选出最佳选项。

B节：考查考生准确理解文章的能力。要求考生阅读1篇约400词的文章，将其中5个划线部分（约150词）翻译成中文。

四、写作

This part tests the candidate's written expression ability. Candidates write a short essay of 160-200 words according to the prompt information (Chinese/English). The forms of prompt information include topic sentences, writing outlines, prescribed scenarios, diagrams, tables, etc. This part takes about 35 minutes. Candidates answer on answer sheet 2.

Part II, PETS Level 4 Exam Paper

The oral test is divided into three sections A, B, and C to test the communicative ability of the candidates in spoken English. Each oral test takes the form of two oral test teachers and two candidates. One oral test teacher does not participate in the conversation, but focuses on grading; the other oral test teacher presides over the oral test, talks with candidates and marks them. The score given by the teacher who specializes in grading accounts for two-thirds of the candidate's oral test score, and the score given by the teacher who presides over the oral test accounts for one-third of the candidate's oral test score.

Section A: examines the ability of candidates to introduce themselves. There is no need for the two candidates to communicate with each other during this section (if necessary, they can). This saving takes 2 minutes.

Section B: Tests the candidate's ability to discuss and solve problems related to the pictures on the information cards. This section takes the form of problem-solving, sequencing, discussion, decision-making, or expressing one's point of view on two completely opposite points of view. This saving takes 3 minutes.

Section C: examines the candidate's ability to express continuously and briefly discuss the pictures on the information card. This saving takes 7 minutes.

What is the National Foreign Language Proficiency Test (WSK)? What is the relationship with the National English Proficiency Test (PETS)?

The National Foreign Language Proficiency Test (WSK) is an exam held by the Educational Examination Institute of the Ministry of Education (hereinafter referred to as our institute), which is mainly used to test the foreign language proficiency of the state-sponsored overseas students, including English (PETS-5), French (TNF), German (NTD), Japanese (NNS) and Russian (TПPЯ) five subjects. Since September 1999, the fifth level of the National English Proficiency Test (PETS) has officially replaced the original English Proficiency Test for Study Abroad (WSK·EPT). Therefore, PETS-5 is no longer a PETS test, but a It is the National Foreign Language Proficiency Test (WSK).

WSK-PETS5
reading part vocabulary: 3000

The written test paper (140 minutes) is divided into four parts: listening comprehension, English knowledge application, reading comprehension and writing. The oral test paper (15 minutes) is divided into three sections to test the candidates' oral communication skills.

Both the written test and the oral test are conducted in English.

(1) Listening

This part consists of three sections A, B, and C, and tests the candidates' ability to understand spoken English.

Section A (10 questions): examines the candidate's ability to understand concrete and abstract information. Candidates are required to judge the correctness of 10 declarative sentences based on a dialogue or monologue of 500-600 words they have heard. Recorded material is played only once.

Section B (10 questions): examines the candidate's ability to understand details, facts, main points, opinions, attitudes, etc. Candidates are required to choose the best option from the 4 options given for each question based on the content of three dialogues or monologues with an average of about 300 words. Each recording is played only once.

Section C (10 questions): examines the candidate's ability to understand and record key information. Candidates are required to answer questions or complete incomplete sentences based on a dialogue or monologue (about 800 words) they have heard. The recorded material is played twice.

Questions are not played on the recording, only printed on the test booklet.

When the listening test is in progress, the test taker will draw or write the answer on the test paper; before the end of the listening part, the test taker has five minutes to draw or transcribe the answer on the test paper to the answer sheet 1. The time required for this part is about 35 minutes (including transcription or transfer time).

(2) Application of English knowledge

This part not only examines the examinee's ability to identify segmental features such as coherence and consistency, but also examines the examinee's mastery of the normative language components used in a certain context. These normative language components are mainly vocabulary and grammatical structures.

There are 20 small questions in total. Leave 20 blanks in a 250-300-word essay, and ask candidates to fill in the blanks according to the content of the essay, so that the meaning of the completed essay is smooth, coherent, and complete in structure. About 12 of them examine grammar and paragraph structure, and 8 examine vocabulary. This part takes about 15 minutes. Candidates answer on answer sheet 1.

(3) Reading comprehension

This part consists of three sections A, B, and C, and tests the candidate's ability to understand written English.

Articles are drawn extensively from recently published literature and are authentic in form and content. The length of each essay in this section varies from 400 to 850 words depending on the question type. The total reading volume is about 3000 words.

Section A (15 questions): To test the examinee's ability to understand the main idea and details of the article. Candidates are required to choose the best option from the 4 options given for each question (one article has five questions) based on the content of the 3 articles provided (400-500 words in length each).

Section B (5 questions): examines the candidate's understanding of discourse features such as coherence and consistency. The content of this part is an article of 750-850 words, in which 5 paragraphs of text are blank, and there are 6 paragraphs of text after the article. Candidates are required to choose from the 6 paragraphs of text according to the content of the article and put them into 5 blank spaces in the article. of 5 paragraphs.

Section C (10 questions): examines the examinee's ability to identify specific information using skimming or skimming. Candidates are required to complete 10 multiple-choice questions based on the content of an article (750-850 words) provided.

This part takes about 50 minutes. Candidates answer on answer sheet 1.

(4) writing

This part tests the candidate's written expression ability.

Candidates are required to write a short essay of about 250 words based on thematic or situational prompts or questions.

This part takes about 40 minutes. Candidates answer on answer sheet 2.

(5) Oral test

The oral test is divided into three sections A, B, and C to test the communicative ability of the candidates in spoken English.

Each oral test takes the form of two oral test teachers and two candidates. One oral test teacher does not participate in the conversation, but focuses on grading; the other presides over the oral test, chatting with candidates and grading at any time. The score given by the teacher who specializes in grading accounts for two-thirds of the candidate's oral test score, and the score given by the teacher who presides over the oral test accounts for one-third of the candidate's oral test score.

Section A: Tests the candidate's ability to understand general questions and to answer them appropriately. The examiner asks some self-introduction questions about the candidate's life, work, study, etc.

This saving takes 2 minutes.

Section B: Tests the candidate's ability to conduct discussions in English. This section can take the form of problem-solving, sequencing, role-playing, discussion, decision-making, or making your own point about two opposing points of view.

This saving takes 5 minutes.

Section C: Examine the candidate's ability to express continuously. Candidates choose a topic from the three given topics to express continuously, and ask and answer each other on this topic.

This saving takes 8 minutes.

1.4 Great Britain Championship NECCS

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Taking the 2020 category C preliminary test questions as an example, the vocabulary is extracted:

There are about 8313 words in the whole volume, and there are 5300 words in the listening part .
A reading is about 600-800 words

2. Examination abroad

2.1 Academic IELTS

The total length of all articles is between 2000 and 2750 words.

There are a total of three reading articles in the IELTS reading test, so how many words should I read in each article, and the number of words in each IELTS reading article is about 1,000 words.

The reading part is about 4000 words with questions.

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2.2 TOEFL

TOEFL reading words: between 2100-3500.

The new TOEFL reading consists of 3 or 5 articles with a length of about 700 words each. Including the time for reading the articles and answering the questions, the reading part of each test has a total of 60 minutes (if 3 articles are tested) or 100 minutes ( If you test 5 articles). During the exam, the first article counts down independently, and the length is 20 minutes; the second and fourth articles and possibly the fourth and fifth articles are counted down every two articles, and the length is 40 minutes each. Therefore, the entire reading test of the new TOEFL can be regarded as consisting of two (when testing 3 articles) to three (when testing 5 articles) parts that are timed separately, and each part is independent of each other and carried out successively. Therefore, the Examination Research Center reminds candidates to pay attention that the 60 or 100 minutes of examination time cannot be freely allocated to different articles and topics. There are a total of 39 questions in TOEFL reading, not 43, 45, only 42, which is the original score, which corresponds to the final score of 0-30, and some questions have 2 points for the original score.

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2.3 Duolingo

The Duolingo test consists of three parts:

Pre-test preparation: quick setup (5 minutes) to help understand test rules and requirements, and debug equipment;

Part 1: Adaptive test (45 minutes) Formal test, which is a graded test of the four modules of listening, speaking, reading and writing;
listening: sentence dictation, listening and distinguishing words, and talking about words in pictures
; oral language: reading sentences aloud, speaking in pictures, and answering questions
Reading: Cloze, spelling judgment
Writing: Picture description, essay writing

Part 2: Video interview (10 minutes) Orally answer a number of open-ended questions, this part will not be graded, but the video will be recorded.
Interview (not counted in the score, but will be used as supplementary material for English proficiency): topical speaking, topical writing

The total duration of the Duolingo test is about 45 minutes. It is divided into five types of questions: vocabulary, listening, reading, speaking, and writing. Related questions will appear randomly for each type of question, and they are not separated independently.

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