English teacher – about the exam: I think the top ten will also pass this exam

The examination started in all of Lithuania at 9 in the morning. morning and lasted three hours. The foreign language (English) exam task consisted of three parts: understanding a spoken text (listening comprehension), understanding a written text (reading) and creating a written text (writing). The first part: the audience lasted 30 minutes.

The Ministry of Education, Science and Sports has previously announced that 18,653 students have chosen to take the state English test.

The impressions of the graduates are various.

Delfi visited Rudamina, Vilnius district. At the Rytas Gymnasium, he asked how graduates felt after the exam. The first twelfth to come out after the exam was a bit confusing, but he assured that if you were studying all the time, then it shouldn’t have been difficult.

“The exam didn’t turn out to be too difficult, I did all the homework. Not only did I learn English during the lessons, but computer games also helped to improve the language. I think I really should maintain, after all, everyone does. Probably “he explained briefly.

Another graduate said she did not want to take the English exam, but at the last minute, her brother convinced her to do so. According to her, she wants to enter Vilnius College, therefore she is determined to this challenge.

“Perhaps the easiest part was writing, but I hope I have done everything right. I will wait for the results, “he said.

Another twelfth grade student said she would like to study cosmetology, so she also had to choose this exam. “I did my best, but it wasn’t very easy.”

The third graduate met up claiming that she did not need English in her major and did not use it after school anyway.

“However, the letter and essay seemed easy to me because I was ready to write on similar topics.”

Writing topics – about coronavirus and distance learning

The students said that the themes of the letter and the essay were related to today’s problems. They had to write a letter to reject tickets to the event due to a coronavirus pandemic, and the essay had to tell them about the advantages and disadvantages of distance learning.

According to twelfth-grade students, teachers were determined that such issues could occur, so students were not surprised by the assignments they received during the exam.

“Of course, we read both Delfi and other news portals. There may have been too much information, but if you have been following the news and seeing insights for the past few months, you really had something to write about during the exam,” he explained. one of the graduates.

Most twelfth grade students supported that the writing assignments were positive, although there were problems with the listening part.

“When we listened to audio recordings with different situations, echoes were sometimes heard, making it difficult to understand what he was talking about. But I’m not too worried and I think we can keep it. “

He was able to keep the tenth

Denis Petrina, English teacher at the Alpha Class Additional Education Academy, commented that
Compared to last year’s exams, this year’s exam was certainly not a challenge.

“I think a well-prepared tenth would also pass this exam (I had the impression that the exam was dominated by B1 level tasks). It is true, in my opinion, the decision to make the exam a little easier is deliberate, because the quarantine is still it prevented the students from preparing completely. The audience part turned out to be especially easy: this year the third task was a little more “twisted” than the fourth, although in most cases the latter is more difficult for students “, said.

According to the teacher, in the reading part, as usual, the third task was the most difficult, although it turned out to be much more logical and consistent than in recent years, and the writing part was really easy.

“The writing themes were ‘standard’, programmatic, so it’s doubtful they could have set foot.” Separately, I would like to congratulate the exam organizers on relevant and interesting topics (intergenerational relations, quarantine, the place of the young person in the modern workplace), which, in my opinion, slightly expanded the functional field of the exam: not only assessed graduates’ English skills. their horizons. “

The exam session started later than usual.

The main session state maturity exams will begin in 2020. June 22 and run through July 21.

The repetition exams will take place from July 22. until the 4th of August.

The results of the main session state maturity tests will be announced before August 5.

For the majority of students who passed the state enrollment tests, schools could begin offering certificates of maturity on August 7.

The results of the appeals and the new session will be announced before August 17.

VBE 2020 ANSWERS

LISTENING

Part 1

1. C (take these books to my sisters’ flat)
2. C (I considered renting a car, but my cousin did not recommend it to me … Take mine then …)
3. B (while walking through the airport … towards the duty free shop … he hurried past the bookstore)
4. A (the plane is still being decided)
5. C (I remember having a lemonade stand, and I also changed sports cards)
6. C (when I was on a raft)
7. B (Immediately at the management meeting)
8. A (you promised to buy my wireless headphones)
9. B (I ordered two weeks ago … I couldn’t buy them in the library)
10. B (had been placed with orders last week)

Part 2

11. A (instant, open, unlimited)
12. C (Understanding young employees is the first step … They don’t seem to be motivated by the same things as their predecessors)
13. C (Improvement of company culture)
14. B (Reduces stress and fatigue)

Part 3

15. D (champions keep practicing until they do well)
16. B (We are able to develop specific and precise plans to achieve my goals … meticulously developed training programs)
17. C (we long for validation from the outside world)
18. F (some degree of tension can help me perform well … I accept strong feelings … as part of the experience of competing in sports)
19. E (Please learned to stay focused and resist distraction)

Part 4

20. founders
21. characteristics
22nd edition
23. financial
24. stretching
25. dependency

READING

Part 1

26.E
27. B
28. D
29. F

Part 2

30. visit
31. create
32. attention
33. continues
34. does
35. advantage

Part 3

36. F
37. B
38. G
39. C
40. D
41. I
42. H

Part 4

43. closer
44. holder
45. probable
46. ​​rest
47. town
48. collisions
49. spot
50. detection

WRITING

Part 1. Graduates had to write a semi-formal letter (therefore, they had to follow a semi-formal record: for example, start with the letter “Dear Mr. Felix Quoted …”, end with “Sincerely, …, do not use abbreviations.) The letter had to describe the event (what event is taking place, where and when), give the DVI reasons for choosing that particular event and decide what to do with the tickets (or request a refund or change it to another date).

Part 2. Unlike last year, students did not have to write an opinion essay, but an “for and against.” This means that graduates had to discuss both the advantages and disadvantages of virtual learning. Trial registration, as usual, is semi-formal.

In the introduction, graduates had to clearly articulate that the phenomenon in question (lessons taught online) has both advantages and disadvantages.

The first paragraph of the main body had to start (“On the one hand”, etc.) and expose and explain at least two advantages of virtual learning.

The second paragraph of the main part had to start (“On the other hand”, etc.) and expose and explain at least two shortcomings of virtual learning.

Conclusions can: (a) describe your arguments in concise terms; or (b) express their views on whether virtual learning has more advantages or disadvantages.