A message to Donia and other TSE takers!

Nancy1993UID: 192507

Dear Donia,

I am sorry to hear that you had problem with the dilivery method of TSE questions. I am sure that many people have it too. Here is the link in which there is one complete set of TSE questions it was given the way exactly same as the real TSE. I encourage you to go over it before you take the TSE if you want to take it next time.  Hope it helps.

http://www.jdacademy.com/tse/forums/forumdisplay.php4?f=86

After reading a few posts about the questions, I can tell that your english is very good. You interperate the meaning of questions very well. You should be able to make it if you perform well in the test.

When ETS give questions, they sometimes trick you by saying lots of things before the real, short question coming out. For example, the second question of this set TSE, it was as "many people like to do several things at once, such as reading while eating. others like to do one thing at a time.(it might be even longer here in real question I think) What do you think about the advantages and disadvantages of doing several things at once?". Please be careful here, many people interperate the question as "what is you opinion about doing several things at once?" or "What do you think about doing several things at once?". However the real question is the last sentence "What is the advantages and disadvantages of doing several things at once?". It is not a opinion question. Therefore, you don't need to have any conclusion while you answer the question. You just need to tell the ad/disad directly. Here is the possible answer:

"One of the advantages of doing several things at once is that you can finish more work quickly. In adition, you can impress your coworkers by doing several things at once. However, a disadvantage of doing several things at once is that it is much easier for us to become distracted while we are doing several things at once. we can make lots of mistakes while we get distracted. Another disadvantage of doing several things at once is that we can get ourselves exhausted while we are trying to handle too many things at once. It is not a healthy way to work. From the long term view of point, your working efficiency will be lowered eventually." -------Please note, you don't have any conclusion here as what you usually do for opinion questions.

Hope it helps some people. ETS is evil, Donia is right, if it is not necessary, please don't take TSE.

Nancy

大大师UID: 143282

3ks:)