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CAEL Tip#2: General

4/6/2018

Making Quantitative Goals

We are goal-driven creatures that rely on all our various career aims to motivate ourselves beyond our current condition. Studying any standardized test is frustrating and we need goals to help us through the hardest moments.

If you, as most students enrolled in a standardized test do, define your goal as merely passing the test you may find this not particularly motivating. It may be far better to have more quantifiable goals.

For example, how many new words are you targeting? Even if you do not make your broader goal of reaching entrance level requirement , you will have improved if your specific targets such as 20 essays or 10 new passages in reading are reached.

Some suggested goals are:

1.     Vocabulary – How many new words can you commit to in a day?
2.     Reading – How many new passages will you read in a week?
3.     Practice Tests – How many full and partial tests will you get through in one week, a month, 3 months?
4.     Essays - How many essays are you going to write each week?
5.     Grammar- How many targeted grammar structures will you strive to master per day or per week?
6.     Listening – How many listening dialogues or lectures will you listen to? Don’t forget the importance of casual listening on YouTube as well.
7.     Pleasure English – How many movies, books, outside conversations will you engage in?

Remember it is not enough to just say you will do more of it. You need to have quantifiable goals

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Tip #1 Note taking for the integration of reading, listening and writing

You will need to have a note taking strategy so that you can refer to them as you put together your writing task.

Notetaking

Take notes in a way that is easy to access. Try to use a zig-zag format (see below example)
Number lists and have supplemental information on a far right angle

Notes Example

Thermoregulation – heat internal
— Common mammals
— Contrast –external
— 2 mechanisms
1.Josabin
-Most common
2. E.g. humans
-Form of sweat
2.In-out regulation
- 2nd most common
- mouth
E.g. dogs
— most efficient is 1st
- Adv more adaptable

Don’t over-take notes. Write notes in fragments
Don’t write complete sentences
Only take down important key words
E.g. date, place, names, adj, adv,
Look at your key words

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CAEL Tip#2: General

Making Quantitative Goals

February 04th, 2018

Tip #1 Note taking for the integration of reading, listening and writing

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