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What should you do before you sit an exam? Check 3 options.

• Check what will be covered in the exam.

• Read your textbook cover-to-cover.

• Practice writing (and thinking) under time pressure.

• Listen to every lecture recording again and make detailed notes.

• Make sure you understand all of the core concepts in the exam.

According to the lecture, which questions should you answer first in an exam? Check one option.

• The questions that you know the answer to - get them out of the way!

• The questions you are unsure about - you can spend more time on them this way.

• The hardest questions on the test - save the easiest for

Consider the following question from a Linguistics exam: "Summarize the pronunciation issues a native Thai speaker might face when learning to speak English." What is the function word or phrase in this question? Check one option.

• Pronunciation issues

• Native Thai speaker

• English

• Learning to speak

• Summarize

In your group, what is the first thing you would do? Check one option.

• Create a brainstorm. Ensure everyone in the groups contributes their ideas and write them all down.

• Introduce yourself.

• Assign different roles to different people: one person to summarize the surveys, two people to summarize the focus groups and the last person to summarize the breakdown of the departments.

• Create an agenda for this meeting, make sure everyone has everyone else's contact details and organize a schedule for meetings.

Which two people in the group would be the best to ask to summarise the focus groups? Check two options.

• Tim

• José

• Amar

• Jenna

If you need help writing essays, what can you do? Check three options.

• Ask a friend who doesn't go to your university to write your essay for you.

• Ask a friend to read over your essay and help you edit it.

• Go to the university's writing centre or your field's library for help.

• Use online writing resources from your university (or another university!)

• Post your essay online and crowd-source the editing process.

What could (or should) you do? Check one option.

• Let it go.

• Go to your lecturer's office and ask to take the exam again.

• Ignore it.

• Stop your once-a-week tennis session, the only time you exercise, so you can use the time to study for the rest of the term.

When giving the presentation (and thus communicating your solution), who is your target audience? Refer to lesson 5.1a and 5.1b Check one option.

• Primarily (c)., but with considerations for (b). and (a).

• Your lecturer or tutor

• Primarily (b)., but with considerations for (a). and (c).

• Your classmates

• The hypothetical Board of Executives

In what style should the presentation be in? Refer to lesson 5.1a and 5.1b Check one option.

• Formal

• Informal

Which of the following are examples of active revision for exams? Refer to lesson 5.2a Check four options.

• Reading and highlighting a textbook

• Making flash cards

• Setting a time limit and doing a practice exam under exam conditions

• Doing practice essays or short answers

• Friendly debates of main theories with classmates