Galicia PAU English - First Foreign Language study guide
Galicia PAU English - First Foreign Language · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Galicia PAU English exam is the first-foreign-language paper of the Proba de Avaliación para o Acceso á Universidade, the university access assessment taken by students in Galicia after the bacharelato. It is designed for candidates who have completed upper-secondary English and need a language score as part of their access or admission process. The paper is delivered monolingually: instructions, texts and expected responses are in English. Its structure combines reading comprehension of a short authentic-style text, lexis and grammar tasks set in context, and a guided composition where you write a short text on a given prompt. The Galicia PAU English - First Foreign Language study guide has 5 sections and about 1,985 words.
01Reading comprehension: global understanding
Domain 1 - Reading comprehension: global understanding. In the Galicia PAU Lingua Estranxeira: Inglés , you choose Opción A or Opción B, read a text of about 300–350 words and answer a set of questions.
378 words, about 2 min02Reading comprehension: specific information and inference
Domain 2 - Reading comprehension: specific information and inference. This domain covers questions that send you back into the text: locating a fact, deciding whether a statement is true or false and justifying the answer, and drawing a conclusion the text supports but does not state directly.
393 words, about 2 min03Lexis and grammar in context
Domain 3 - Lexis and grammar in context. The PAU use-of-English block tests vocabulary from the reading text and grammar through transformation tasks.
421 words, about 2 min04Guided written production: composition
Domain 4 - Guided written production: composition. In the PAU you write a composition of 120–150 words on a prompt connected to the reading text.
392 words, about 2 min05Orthography, punctuation and textual cohesion
Domain 5 - Orthography, punctuation and textual cohesion. This domain is not usually a separate question in the Galicia PAU; it is assessed in your composition and in the transformed sentences.
401 words, about 2 min