Well, I'm feeling sorry for some PET candidates at the moment. Luckily, not any from my school.
I was invigilating the PET exam at the weekend and was very disappointed to see how unfamiliar they were with the format of the exam. Their level of English wasn't a problem. They simply had never seen a PET exam paper before.
Some of their questions:
How do you spell accessories? (Don't they know I can't help??)
Is it a problem if I write more words than this?
What do I write in this part?
Can I write on the exam paper?
What do I do here?!
What is it that makes teachers care so little about their students? Teachers who go through the motions in the classroom but never stop to check whether the students have actually aquired the necessary knowledge?
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