About+the+Departmental+Tests

=About the Departmental Tests=


 * Weeks 6 and 11**

What?
1. Identify main idea. 2. Identify author's opinion. 3. Identify author's purpose. 4. Select an appropriate final sentence, or word, for a paragraph. 5. Conclude or infer from explicit or implicit information. 6. Predict what follows. 7. Infer what precedes. 8. Answer questions on specific information from the text. 9. Guessing meaning from context.
 * The First Departmental Test** will have questions to test the following reading abilities:

Topics: Astronomy, Chemistry, Physics, Antropology, Biology.

1. Identify logic progression of a text. 2. Guess meaning from context. 3. Paraphrase specific information. 4. Recognize comparison/contrast relationships. 5. Compare ideas in two texts. 6. Conclude or infer from explicit/implicit information. 7. Recognize author's purpose. 8. Recognize author's opinion. 9. Predict what follows from implicit information.
 * The Second Departmental Test** will have questions to test the following reading abilities:

Topics: computer science, anthropology, paleonthology, geology, ecology.

What else?
1. ID1-113 Departmental Tests will have readings related to the topics seen in class, so make sure you have mastered the vocabulary and content. 2. You will have to judge the validity of a given information upon the given empirical observations, experts' opinions, coherence of the argumentation and inherency of the examples.

If you missed a Departmental Test
http://usbideststudents.pbworks.com/w/page/39410712/ID1113

**PRACTICE**
Please do the more complex exercises