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Question from Korea's College Entrance exam

 
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crescent



Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: yes.

PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 6:54 am    Post subject: Question from Korea's College Entrance exam Reply with quote

A minute and a half is allotted to this question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu2m5v5Ycm8
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fustiancorduroy



Joined: 12 Jan 2007

PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 7:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The English portion of the SooNeung is harder than I thought. Some of the people on YouTube claim that this question is "not that hard", but the phrasing and vocabulary is American college level and by no reasonable measure can be considered easy. That said, if you have good test taking skills, it should be pretty easy to see that choice 1 is the answer which most clearly contradicts the first part of the sentence with the blank.
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T-dot



Joined: 16 May 2004
Location: bundang

PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

English portion of the test was much easier compared to last year.
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aq8knyus



Joined: 28 Jul 2010
Location: London

PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Way too difficult for high school students and an example of everything that is wrong about the official approach to English language education in Korea.

That being said the woman in the video didn't strike me as being that bright.
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Old Painless



Joined: 01 Jan 2014

PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

aq8knyus wrote:


That being said the woman in the video didn't strike me as being that bright.



Liberal Arts.
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fustiancorduroy



Joined: 12 Jan 2007

PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Old Painless wrote:
aq8knyus wrote:


That being said the woman in the video didn't strike me as being that bright.



Liberal Arts.


I don't know what she majored in, but it clearly wasn't English, history, political science, or anything else involving critical reading.
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