2020-11-11 TOEFL: R purpose, L test

Homework: Finish exercise 4.2 - answer the questions about passages 4 and 5
10 D - “Both writers called for a new style of architecture.”
11 A - The paragraph states that post-modernism evolved from modernism, but doesn’t explain how.
12 C - The examples given after “such as” are architectural features often found in old buildings.
13 D - The pink granite and furniture-like tower on top are decorations. The Guggenheim museum looks like an abstract sculpture.
14 B - A few languages have only one, so A is wrong.
15 C
16 A
17 D - It’s not C because while those are useful rules, the author doesn’t imply that they’re the only useful rules.
18 A
19 C
20 C
21 B
22 A
23 A
24 B
25 A
26 D
27 D
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ETS 1.2 listening set 2
When you’re finished, submit your answers on the form I send you
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Question 17 is a good example of when the main topic is different from the main purpose of the conversation. (The students wants advice about an assignment, but then they mostly talk about whether or not she should be in the class at all.)
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Reading: 54 or 72 minutes to answer questions about 3 or 4 passages
Listening: 10 minutes to choose answers in a long set (like we did today), 6.5 minutes for a short set (only one lecture)
Break: 10 minutes
Speaking: about 17 minutes total (each part of each task is timed separately)
Writing: about 55 minutes total, but 20 and 30 minute limits for the actual writing
Total = about 3.5 hours including time to get set up, hear instructions, and take your break
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Raw percentages on the reading and listening don’t translate directly into TOEFL scores. Instead, ETS does “secret math” to convert them to scores out of 30.
(A “direct translation” would mean that 20/36 questions = 55% = 17/30, which is a good rough guess.)