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Test Specifications Statement of the problem There is a need for an achievement test to be administered at the end of a semester of English course for students in junior three. The main purpose is to establish how successful students have been in achieving the course objectives. Course objectives are expressed in ‘communicative’ terms. Language skills, including listening, reading and writing, must be covered in the test, but speaking is not taken into consideration because of certain limitations. Given the test takers are junior three students and will take part in the The English test of Senior School Entrance Exam in Beijing when they graduate, the test format and difficulty level is similar to the entrance test just mentioned. Backwash is not a serious consideration. The test must be brief (no more than 100 minutes in length), quick and easy to administer, score and interpret. Specifications CONTENT Addressees Junior three students in Beijing Topics Topic should be familiar to junior school students and as ‘neutral’ as possible. Operation Part I Listening Comprehension Micro-skills Interpretation of intonation patterns 1, 7, 13 Recognition of function of structures 8, 16 Macro-skills Listening for specific information 2, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 15 Obtaining gist of what is being said 3, 6, 10, 14 PartⅡ Grammar Vocabulary Multiple Choice Pronouns 27 Prepositions 32 Conjunctions 22 Adjectives 24 Adverbs 30 Tense 21, 31 Passive voice 23 Modals 34 Non-finite verbs 28 Agreement 25 Complex sentences 29, 33 Synonyms 26 Fixed phrases 35 Cloze Pronouns 44 Prepositions 38 Adjectives 40 Adverbs 43 Tense 37 Passive voice 41 Modals 42 Non-finite verbs 36 Agreement 39 Complex sentences 45 Completion Fixed phrases 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 Part III Reading Comprehension Micro-skills Deduce the meaning of words by contextual clues 57 Understand explicitly stated information 51, 54, 60 Identify referents of pronouns 55 Macro-skill