1st MUET CEFR Batch at SMK Majakir, Papar

Well, finally the long wait is over. My first batch of Majakirians have jumped all the hoops and made it to the finishing line with big wide smiles. 

I am happy to report that the new CEFR aligned MUET marking seems to be very fair and more accurate then the previous ones, and I do like the fact that there are no more heartbreaking Band 1s and 2s. 

Here's the current benchmark... hopefully, next batch will do better. 

We got 

6 Band 4.5 (6.5%)

41 Band 4.0 (44%)

33 Band 3.5 (35.5%)

12 Band 3.0 (13%)

1 Band 2.5 (1%)

If you plot this, the chart is indeed the expected Bell curve. Congrats to all! 

I told the kids, don't worry about the Band 5 & 5+, that's native speaker proficiency... and it also gives room for the juniors to better this 1st try results. I actually have 1 student in the junior group who is definitely B5 material.. hopefully it will materialise as he really is that good! 

Special thanks to colleagues Sunita and Aishah, ex-colleague Fairuz.. and the support of all Pre-U teachers and students at Majakir. We can do it! 

Anyway.. hv also been doing a series of talks.. but this one stands out.. my first YOUTUBE LIVE streaming 3hr session. Those of you who would like to listen to my tips and tricks, do watch the session. So thankful to PPD Sipitang for setting up the whole session and doing all the techie stuff. Wishing all students and teachers a fruitful year ahead! 

MUET Reading Session 3 January 2022 Suggested Answers

Heyyyyyy.. It's a brand new year... sorry hv been slacking off on the blog for some time now.. but I've been writing new materials to update my two books by Pelangi. We are rushing to change all the 4 sets in the Model Test Book... and I'm revising the materials in the MUET MY WAY textbook.  

Anyway.. below are my answers for the 3rd Session of the MUET Reading paper, 22nd Jan 2022. 

Happy marking! If you want to estimate your band, just use your result x 360 and then divide by 40. You can then check to see what band your reading level is. 

Ok .. so here are my suggested answers. 

1. A (tricky... why is MPM making kids do math in the first question?)

2. C

3. A

4. B

5. A

6. B

7. A

8. C

9. B

10. C

11. A

12. B

13. A

14. A

15. B

16. A

17. C

18. A

19. B

20. A

21. E

22. B

23. A

24. F

25. G

26. D (sentence previous listed things, sentence after mentioned seafood, awkward to put C as C is not the final sentence in the paragraph) 

27. B

28. C

29. C

30. D

31. B

32. D

33. B

34. C

35. B

36. B

37. D

38. D

39. D

40. B

Please leave nice comments, no fighting in the comment boxes. Tq! 

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