Stayed back today for the University of New South Wales English Examination. Paid RM20 for it so it better be worth it... of course it's worth it. No doubt... though it is extremely difficult with the Malaysian education to score great or excellent marks for this Australian standard exam. Unless you read lots of books, watch lots of movies, often refer to dictionaries, have super strong foundation in basic English, you'll find this paper very tough. As for me, i don't read lots of books, don't watch lots of movies, maybe refer to dictionaries but rarely, and i don't have a good foundation in the English language. Don't know what are pronouns, adverbs, etc. My English is not up to standard. The passages in the paper were extremely hard to understand, not mentioning the length of the passages and the deepness of the hidden meanings of each passage. We were only given 60 minutes to finish 60 questions. So little time, so many questions, got to read the passages and understand it too! There was like 6 questions on cloze passage and 2 on antonyms!!! ANTONYMS!!! I misread the question and though it was synonyms!!! Well, i don't even know the meaning of the word in one of the questions.... There were passages like science facts and blogs and poems. Not enough time to even finish the paper! Left 5 questions. Should have made a last minute sprint to finish by making wild guesses. But i hesitated when teacher asked us to put down our pencils... Alas, what is done is done, nothing else can be done to change what's done. Try taking next year's one.
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