Valencian Community PAU Foreign Language II - English (Lengua Extranjera II: Inglés) study guide
Valencian Community PAU Foreign Language II - English (Lengua Extranjera II: Inglés) · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The PAU Foreign Language II - English examination is the English component of the university entrance assessment used in the Valencian Community. It is taken by secondary-school students finishing Bachillerato and by candidates entering through other routes who need a foreign-language score for admission to Valencian public universities. The Valencian Community PAU Foreign Language II - English (Lengua Extranjera II: Inglés) study guide has 8 sections and about 4,130 words.
01Reading comprehension I: main idea, gist and global understanding
This domain covers the whole-text items of the reading task: the best title, the writer's main purpose, the overall stance, and any statement that claims to summarise a paragraph or the passage as a whole. These questions cannot be answered from one line; they are answered from the architecture of the text, which is why a fast first reading done for shape is worth more here than a slow reading done for words.
538 words, about 3 min02Reading comprehension II: specific detail, inference and reference
This domain covers the items that send you back into the text: locating a stated fact, drawing a conclusion the text supports without stating, and resolving what a pronoun or determiner points to. Detail questions reward precision; inference questions reward discipline; reference questions reward grammar.
553 words, about 3 min03Lexical competence in context: vocabulary, collocation and word formation
This domain covers the gap-fill and vocabulary items: choosing the word that fits the slot, deriving the right form of a given root, and selecting a collocate rather than a mere synonym. Three things decide the answer - word class, meaning, and the words that usually keep company with it.
465 words, about 2 min04Grammatical competence in context: tense, aspect, voice, modality and syntax
This domain covers the grammar items and the rewriting (rephrasing) task, where you must express the same meaning using a given opening or a required structure. Marking is binary: the transformation either preserves the original meaning exactly or it does not.
509 words, about 3 min05Written production I: task achievement, organisation and coherence
This domain covers the writing task itself - usually a short text of roughly 120–150 words on a prompt that names a genre and asks one or two questions. It is scored on whether you did the task, not on whether you had interesting opinions.
513 words, about 3 min06Written production II: linguistic range, accuracy and register
This domain covers how the writing is marked as language rather than as content: the range of structures and vocabulary you control, the accuracy with which you deploy them, and whether the register matches the genre you were asked for. A short text with two well-handled complex structures and no basic errors scores better than a long one full of half-controlled ambition.
515 words, about 3 min07Text-type and discourse awareness: genre, purpose, tone and cohesion
This domain covers the questions that ask what kind of text you are reading, what it is doing, how the writer feels about the subject, and how its sentences hold together. It also underpins your own writing: the same features that let you recognise an opinion column let you produce one.
518 words, about 3 min08Mediation and reformulation: summarising, paraphrasing and transferring meaning
This domain covers the mediation items: summarising a passage or a section in a set number of words, paraphrasing a sentence or expression, relaying information from a notice, chart or timetable into connected prose, and adapting a message for a different reader - for example turning a formal announcement into an email to a friend. What is assessed is fidelity plus reformulation: the meaning must survive, and the words must change.
519 words, about 3 min