2020-10-21 TOEFL: campus vocab, R paraphrase

Campus Vocabulary - In a breakout room, read the example sentences and try to agree on what each word means.
It’s usually spelled advisor in American English.
An elective may still be a degree requirement, but you can choose from among several options.
Financial aid is usually need-based, while scholarships are often merit-based.
undergraduate / undergrad = someone studying for a bachelor’s (4-year) or associate’s (2-year) degree
grad(uate) student = someone studying for a master’s or PhD after they have a bachelor’s degree
senior = someone in their fourth/final year of university
	(freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior can also refer to 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade)
In addition to a major, many students also have one or more minors.
(You can sometimes also do more than one major. I have a BA in mathematics and philosophy.)
A credit or credit-hour is often 1 hour per week for a full term.
room and board = housing and food
fee = money you pay in addition to the basic cost of something, not including taxes
prerequisite / prereq = another class that has to be taken before this one
corequisite / coreq = another class that has to be taken at the same time as this one
A GPA is usually out of 4 points. You can basically translate to letter grades:
	4.0 = A
	3.0 = B
	2.0 = C
	1.0 = D
	0.0 = F
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If you want to do some more practice with parts A and B on the handout, that is optional homework.
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Reading paraphrase / sentence simplification questions -
“Choose the sentence that best expresses the essential information of the highlighted sentence. Incorrect answers may change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.”
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Usually the highlighted sentence has two main parts or clauses, so you need to choose the answer that includes both pieces of information and correctly explains the connection between them.
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Handout 1, p. 2, exercise 5.1 - Is the restatement Correct, False, or Incomplete.
1 incomplete - It doesn’t include the information that modern reptiles can’t fly.
2 correct
take 7 minutes to finish page 3 of the pdf (sentences 3 through 9)
3 false - The town’s name was Muncie, not Middleton.
4 false - team sports became more important in the 20th century
5 correct
6 false - They all have two-word names, but the second word is “formation” if there are multiple types of rocks.
7 correct - (The details of the automobile example are not essential information.)
8 incomplete - It’s true that there’s an international board for chess, but this leaves out all of the information about checkers, which is the main topic of the original sentence.
9 false - It didn’t become famous because of Handel, it became famous many years later. (You should also be able to infer from this sentence that Handel wrote before the mid-nineteenth century.)
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Handout 2 - Choose the correct restatement out of four choices. Pay close attention to what things do what actions to what. (Pay close attention to the subjects, verbs, and objects.)
1 B
2 D
3 C
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5 D
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(You can also finish exercise 5.1 and handout 2 as optional homework.)
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Homework (required): handout 1 pages 7-12