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OET Exam Awareness 1
- February 15, 2020
- Category: OET, QUIZ
Hope you have all had a great Valentine’s day! 💕Especially the cardiologists among you! 😉 We get a lot of queries about coaching for OET, and unsurprisingly, many who wish to take coaching only want to do so because they are not always aware of the nuances of the test. They have command over language
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There, Their, and They’re
- February 4, 2020
- Category: IELTS, PTE, QUIZ, TOEFL
We at First Academy have the fortune of learning on the job. As teachers of English, we are naturally among the first to encounter the most common mistakes people make and encounter them on a regular basis. The one mistake that usually takes the cake is the difficulty most people face in understanding the difference
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Importance of variety
- June 26, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, OET, PTE, QUIZ, TOEFL
Understanding how sentences work is very important. For you to be able to do that, you will have to know how to construct them. This short quiz will present you with 8 different sentences. Try and reconstruct those sentences using the word in bold. You might have to use phrases and idiomatic expressions where necessary.
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Using Idioms – Quiz
- June 19, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, PTE, QUIZ, TOEFL
The only problem with my sister is that she is always splitting hairs. Does it mean that she’s a hair dresser? Or does her hair have split ends, and that she needs to visit a salon or a hairdresser? Not really. Expressions of this kind have become part of everyday English, and have naturally filtered
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The Understanding Series – Part 2 – Another vs. Other
- May 10, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, OET, PTE, QUIZ
In the second part of the series, we will look at use of Another and Other, and along the way also take a look at use of Articles. Most of us already know that A and An are articles to indicate non specific nouns, while the is used for specific nouns. Extending from this, Another
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Understanding Reading Texts
- April 26, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, OET, PTE, QUIZ, TOEFL
Reading in the IELTS, GRE, PTE, OET, TOEFL tests is not about reading aloud but being able to understand the texts. Sometimes understanding texts can be difficult due to unfamiliar words or challenging sentence structure. There are various reasons for unfamiliar words. One of them could also be culture. For instance, an American may
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Paraphrase – Understanding – 🎧
- April 25, 2019
- Category: IELTS, OET, PTE, QUIZ, TOEFL
Paraphrasing refers to the restructuring on language / sentences in such a way that the meaning remains the same while the form changes. This is an important language skill. In listening and reading, several questions test your ability to understand paraphrase. In the listening section of many tests the words you hear might be completely
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Life is Hard – So is Reading Comprehension
- April 16, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, OET, PTE, QUIZ
Life and Reading Comprehension We get it. Life is hard. but then, the same could be said of reading comprhension. It does not matter which reading comprehension you are talking about. It could be PTE, IELTS, GRE, or even the French or the German exam that you are taking. There are more similarities between
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Spelling is hard – IELTS Listening
- April 13, 2019
- Category: IELTS, PTE, QUIZ, TOEFL
IELTS listening is not just about listening to the tape and noting down the answer. It is essential that the spelling is correct. It does not matter whether the spelling is as per British English or the American version. For eg, in the USA, its color, but in the UK, it is colour. Both answers
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Vocabulary Resource for IELTS | PTE
- April 11, 2019
- Category: IELTS, PTE, QUIZ
All of us want to be (not always openly) Sashi Tharoor. He is has become the god of all memes language. This post is dedicated to all those who want to dazzle the examiner using big words. This is for all those who want to ace the one descriptor of IELTS that is the most
