The questions which proved easiest in this part were 17, 19, 21 and 30 Part 3 ‘Key’ Word Transformations In 31, a number of candidates changed the prompt word...

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Many candidates in 32 inserted an incorrect ‘to’, i.e. ‘let us to park’.
The most common error in 33 was to produce a wrong tense, i.e. ‘if I have seen’. A more careful reading of the initial sentence in 34 would have prevented candidates from making ‘a hole’ into ‘holes’. In both 36 and 39, candidates had problems in producing the correct word to follow ‘attention’ and ‘efficient’ respectively. Number 37 produced, perhaps predictably, confusion between ‘lending’ and ‘borrowing’. In 38, a good number of candidates produced
‘might not remember’ thus losing sight of the past tense in the initial sentence. Despite these errors, most candidates performed quite well on this part of the paper.
Part 4, A letter of complaint
Error Correction
The two questions which gave the greatest amount of difficulty were lines 45 and 49. Line 45
was, in fact, a correct line but many candidates decided that the word ‘for’ was wrong. It is true that the line makes sense if ‘for’ is omitted, but the inclusion of ‘for’ in no way makes the line incorrect. In this part of the paper the answer to any one incorrect line must be a word that is actually wrong in the context, not simply one that is superfluous. In line 49, once again ‘for’ was often judged to be incorrect even though its presence here was vital for the meaning of the sentence. Some candidates still fail to follow the instructions for indicating a correct line and use their own system. Misaligned answers were also quite common.
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Part 5, Airports
Word Formation
A large number of candidates failed to produce the correct answer for number 60. Although most were able to form ‘communication’ from ‘communicate’, relatively few realised that the word needed to be in the plural because of the following verb. It is not enough to look at the base word (the word in capitals) and simply to form a new word from this, it is necessary to look at the whole of the sentence to decide upon the final form of the word.
• Candidate performance
Syllabus 0102 (Saturday)
Please note that the report below is based on performance in December 1999. The report on June 2000 will be available at a later date.
Part 1, Harbours
Multiple Choice Cloze
Although there were some questions which turned out to be fairly easy (e.g. 2, 3 and, particularly, 7), this was by far the most difficult part of the paper for candidates. Numbers 4, 13 and 14
caused considerable problems. In 4, option A (‘whole’) was a popular choice with the weaker candidates, whilst those of the more able candidates who failed to choose the correct option tended to settle for C (‘high’). In 13, a large number of candidates decided (wrongly) that A (‘up’) was the appropriate particle to go with ‘bring’ in this case. Although few candidates in question 14 chose options B and D, the question proved difficult as a great number chose C (‘system’).
Part 2, Images of life
Open Cloze
There was a fairly wide range of difficulty in this section. Questions which candidates found very easy were numbers 17, 19, 20 and 28. On the other hand, questions 21, 23 and 26 turned out to be very difficult for most candidates. In question 23, ‘their’ was a common choice. This would seem to be quite a reasonable answer if one reads only the first half of the sentence. However, when one reads the second half, the meaning shows that the missing word must be ‘its’. In 26, it was clear that the use of ‘would’ to express repeated events in the past was not known by many candidates. Question 25, although generally well done, did quite often produce the spelling error of ‘then’ instead of the key ‘than’.
Part 3 Key’ Word Transformations
Most of the questions here were answered quite well with numbers 31, 39 and 40 causing the greatest number of problems. When deciding what must be put in the answer, it is of course necessary to make sure that the completed sentence (i.e. the frame and the key) covers all the elements of the stimulus sentence. In 31, many candidates failed to gain the full two marks because they omitted ‘for us’ which is, of course, one of the elements of the stimulus sentence.
In 39, some candidates chose to write ‘can be’ or ‘could be’ at the beginning of their answer; these were not acceptable (although ‘will be’, ‘would be’ as well as ‘is’ were accepted). A variety of answers appeared for 40; some candidates wrote ‘no doubt that Mary’ assuming that ‘want’
was a third person singular form of the verb.
Part 4, Job interviews