Xarici dil: Oxu, Dinləmə, Yazı və Dil İstifadəsi
What the section tests
The foreign-language paper checks four separate skills, and each rewards a different habit. In reading, you must locate explicit detail, infer the writer's attitude, and follow reference words (this, they, the former) across sentences. In listening, the challenge is stamina and prediction: read the question stems before the audio starts, note keywords, and expect distractors that repeat a word from the stem but answer a different point. In writing, examiners reward task achievement, cohesion, range and accuracy in that order; a simple essay that answers the prompt fully beats an ambitious one that drifts. In language use, questions test tense, articles, prepositions, conditionals, word formation and collocation.
Traps to expect
- True/False/Not Given: if the passage never states it, the answer is Not Given, not False. False means the text says the opposite.
- Distractor numbers and names: listening scripts often mention two figures; only one answers the question.
- Negative stems: "Which is NOT mentioned" - eliminate the three that are stated.
- Word-formation items: decide the part of speech first (noun after an article, adverb modifying a verb), then the form.
- Overwriting in writing tasks: memorised openings that ignore the prompt lose marks for task achievement.
Rule of thumb
Answer the question the item actually asks. For gap-fill, check the grammar of the sentence around the gap before choosing: She has been working here ___ 2019 needs since (a point in time), while for takes a duration. For essays, spend two minutes planning a clear position and one example per body paragraph, then reserve three minutes to check subject–verb agreement and articles.
Worked example
Passage: "The museum closed its main hall in 2015, though the garden remained open." Item: The garden was closed in 2015. The text says the garden remained open, so the statement is False, not Not Given - the passage contradicts it directly.