Vocabulary test

Often, however, you will be given a set of words by your teacher and told to learn them for a vocabulary test. In this case you need to be sure exactly how you will be tested, because this will influence how you learn the words. There are several ways that the teacher might test your vocabulary learning, but the ways are broadly divided into two categories:

• You will be given the word and have to:
  1. write a definition
  2. use it in an example sentence
  3. translate it into your language
• You will be given:
  1. a definition
  2. a gapped example sentence
  3. the translation in your language
  and you have to write the English word.
  

If you do a vocabulary test from the second group above, then in most cases you will need to learn the exact spelling of the word and will lose marks if you misspell it. As with all tests, be sure to ask the teacher exactly how you will be tested and exactly how you will be graded. You will then avoid wasting time studying something that you will be not be tested on.

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