Tips to prevent failing in English for the 2023 National High School Exam

Tips to "prevent failing" in English for the 2023 National High School Exam provide tips and experiences to help students achieve maximum scores in English in the upcoming important exam. Thereby, it will help some students who are poor in English escape from failing grades.

Besides, it also provides tips for making phonics, stress, and reading comprehension exercises. Tips to increase the probability of winning points for bad bets. The 2023 high school graduation exam is approaching, this is also a sprint time for students to review for the exam. So please refer to the tips for "anti-slip" in English in the article below:

Tips to "prevent failing" in the English multiple-choice test

• Notes when taking the English test
• Types of questions appearing in the English test
• Tips to increase the probability of winning points for bad bets
• Tips for doing phonics and stress exercises
• Tips for doing reading comprehension exercises

Notes when taking the English test

• Go through the exam questions: When given the exam questions, the examiner will give candidates about 5 minutes to check the exam questions. Instead of taking advantage of this time to write the exam, candidates should skim through the exam questions to see which parts they can definitely solve right away.
• Do easy questions first: Easy questions are usually low recognition, comprehension or application questions. This type of question can be read and the answer can be immediately known, or the date can be calculated with simple formulas. . Therefore, to optimize time, do the test quickly and firmly and circle the answer right in the easy questions section.
• During the process, you should do it in parts to avoid missing questions : If you haven't completed any questions, circle them and leave them there. After completing the other questions, they will come back. It is also important to note that you should not focus too much time on a question that has not been thought of because the scoring scale for all questions is the same, so you need to allocate time appropriately.
• Color directly on the test: There is not much time to copy, so candidates should color directly on the test. When coloring, you must fill in the correct sentences, avoid erasing multiple times.
• Go back to the questions you haven't done yet: After completing a round of questions you are sure you can do, candidates go back to the questions they missed and wondered before to find the most appropriate answer.
• Choose all one answer for the questions you can't do: In this step, you should summarize the answers in the questions you did, see which answer appears the least often among answers A, B, C, D. Then choose all the answers for the remaining questions in that answer. For example: In your work, there are 14 answer A, 5 times answer B, 8 times answer C, 7 times answer D. Thus, the total number of answer B in the test is at least 6 questions. If you can't do the rest, please circle all answers B.

Types of questions appearing in the English test

There are some types of problems that are very common in the English exam:

• Phonetic
• Stress
• Find synonyms
• Find antonyms
• Find mistakes
• Grammar sentences such as articles, conditional sentences, tenses, connecting words, prepositions....
• Questions about communication functions
• Fill in the words in the reading passage
• Read and understand the text
• The sentence closest in meaning to the given sentence
• Join 2 sentences into one sentence

Once you have mastered the types of lessons, you need to try to remember the formulas and formula memory tips. For example, there are easy-to-remember tips for typing accents. In terms of grammar, memorize tense formulas, how to use tenses, conditional sentence formulas, and relative clauses (just remember a few basic things like user "who", object "which")... These questions will be at the level of awareness and understanding, so if you remember the formula and how to use it, you can do it and pass point 1 easily.

Tips to increase the probability of winning points for bad bets

First, use the elimination method, which means immediately eliminating completely wrong options, focusing on considering the remaining options to choose the correct answer. The more incorrect options you eliminate, the higher the probability of choosing the correct answer.

Specifically, when doing the test (especially when encountering long, complex sentences), we should consider 4 options at the same time, from the outside in. If we see any option that is different from the other 3, we immediately eliminate it. Then consider the next paragraphs, if there is one choice different from the other two, then eliminate it. In the end, there are only 2 options left, so we look at where they are different and focus on that difference to deduce right from wrong. If we can't deduce, the only way is to choose 1 of 2 because that also increases the chance. It's exactly 50:50.

For example:

A. She has to………
B. She has to………
C. She had to………
D. She has to………

Seeing that sentence C is different from the other 3 sentences, it should be eliminated, then consider further:

A. She has to have it taken……….
B. She has to have it taken ……….
C. She had to………
D. She has to have it to take ………

Seeing that sentence D is different from the other 3 sentences, you should eliminate it, then see where the remaining 2 sentences are different and compare them with the question to find the correct sentence.

If there is an anagram in the answer, there is a high probability that that sentence is the correct answer

For example:

Only if you promise to study hard ________ to tutor you.

A. will I agree
B. agree I
C. I agree
D. I will agree

Among the 4 answers, there is a high probability that answers A and B are the correct answers. Of course we will eliminate B because the inversion structure is not correct, it must have an auxiliary verb to be correct. So the correct answer is A.

- The answers given in multiple choice questions usually fall into 3 groups:

• Correct answer (only 1);
• The answer is completely wrong (usually there is only 1 and is easy to determine);
• Wrong answers are misleading (usually 2 or more, with characteristics that easily make candidates think the answer is correct);

In case there is no time to read the question carefully, candidates should not leave the answer blank, the best way is to choose any letter.

- In a sentence you know absolutely nothing about semantics, lean towards the answer that you feel is the strangest/least common.

A. happy
B. sad
C. fun
D. razzmatazz < favor="" answer="" answer="">

Tips for doing phonics and stress exercises

Students need to memorize the rules of stress, do many tests to know how to pronounce and stress words, and note exceptions.

For example: Find the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently:

A. blessed B. curried C. crooked D. kicked

Many students mistakenly choose B, but the correct answer is D.

Specifically: The pronunciation of these words is as follows: blessed /blesid/, curried /ˈkɜːrid/, crooked /krukid/, kicked /kikt/

Thus, kicked has the underlined part pronounced as /t/ , the rest is pronounced /id/ .

Tips for doing reading comprehension exercises

When doing the reading comprehension section, there are specific tips. For those who are weak in English, just remember the following tips:

If you encounter a question:

• According to the passage, why/ what/ how…? (According to the passage, Why? What? How?…)
• EXCEPT… (except), NOT mention…. (not mentioned), LEAST likely… (less likely to happen…)

=> Find the passage containing the question, then choose the answer if there is a similar word in that place. This method is quite unlucky. Those who are good at English need to pay more attention to analyzing the answers to avoid being "cheated".

If you encounter a question:

• What is the topic/ the main idea /the subject of this passage? (What is the topic of the article?)
• It can be inferred from the passage that… (Can be inferred from the passage that…?)
• Why does the author mention ____ ? (Why does the author mention…?)
• The author's main purpose in paragraph 2/3 is to… (The author's main purpose in paragraph 2/3 is to…)
• What is the author's opinion / attitude of ____? (What is the author's opinion/attitude expressed in the article?)

=> The answer is usually at the beginning or end of the paragraph.

If a difficult question confuses you because you don't understand the meaning, the answer will likely be a word you rarely encounter, because it's an exam and rarely gives a familiar answer that everyone knows.

At the same time, during the test, you need to pay attention and allocate time appropriately to avoid spending too much time on one difficult question and not doing the remaining questions.