C1/C2 VOCABULARY

The brightest and most.........students are not encouraged to develop to their full potential.

• inattentive

• ignorant

• intensive

• conscientious

Secondly, there's too much testing and not enough learning. My fifteen-year-old daughter, for example, has just spent the last two months or so...................for exams

• cramming

• lecturing

• reading

• practising

These aren't even real, important exams, as her GCSEs will be next year. They're just .....................exams.

• false

• mock

• fake

• artificail

Is the work she's been doing really going to make her more .........about her subjects, or will she forget it all tomorrow? I suspect the latter

• knowledgable

• intellectual

• academic

• intelligent

Thirdly, the standard..............

• timetable

• lecture

• seminar

• curriculum

Doesn't give students any........... in developing practical work -related living and social skills, or in skills necessary for higher education.

• lesson

• subject

• tuition

• tutorial

How many students entering university have the first idea what the difference is between................someone else's work and making good use of someone else's ideas?

• writing

• going over

• plagiarising

• repeating

Shouldn't they have been taught this at school ? How many of them are really able to go about ................ - a skill that's essential at university because there are no teachers to tell you what to do - in an efficient way ?

• reviewing

• revision

• distance learning

• self-study

Indeed, how many students ..................... from university totally unable to spell even simple English words correctly? The system is letting our children down.

• qualify

• graduate

• depart

• exit

The Prime Minister's comments yesterday on education spending miss the point, as the secondary system also needs a major overhaul. Firstly, the system only views the weakest learners as having special.......

• requests

• desires

• needs

• wants