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Exam Skills X7 · Past Papers & Examiner Feedback

X7-L12

Feedback, Targeted Repair & Transition to X8التَّغْذِيَةُ الرَّاجِعَةُ وَالإِصْلَاحُ المُوَجَّهُ وَالاِنْتِقَالُ إِلَى X8

Turn your mock feedback into concrete gains: prioritise the highest-value repairs, re-test them, and bridge into the speaking-preparation focus of X8.

ListeningReadingSpeakingWriting
01

Orient · target · prepare

Objectives and exam focus

In this lesson you will

  • Work your mock feedback under exam conditions.
  • Compare your answers against the mark scheme.
  • Identify and classify your own errors.
  • Log each error with its correction and rule.

You are exam-ready when…

Tick each as you secure it.

02

Session focus

Feedback only helps if you **act on the top two or three items**. Rank your errors by how many marks they cost, repair those first, re-test, and carry the speaking targets forward into X8.

03

Recognise · decode

Examiner & command-word vault

Exam & examiner terminology8 terms
اِخْتَرْchoose
أَكْمِلْcomplete
صِفْdescribe
اُذْكُرْstate / mention
عَلِّلْgive a reason
قَارِنْcompare
المُصَحِّحُthe examiner
مُعَايِيرُ التَّصْحِيحِthe mark scheme
Command-word mission

Fourteen mixed-retrieval rounds on command words and examiner terms — a wrong answer costs a life.

Round 1♥ ♥ ♥ 0 points

05

Paper 1 — Listening (past-paper style)

Transcript-based practice — read the script, then answer.

Listen for detail

Choose the correct option

5 marks
Listening script

تَقُولُ المُعَلِّمَةُ: بَعْدَ الاِمْتِحَانِ التَّجْرِيبِيِّ، لَا تَنْظُرْ إِلَى الدَّرَجَةِ فَقَطْ. رَتِّبْ أَخْطَاءَكَ حَسَبَ عَدَدِ الدَّرَجَاتِ الَّتِي كَلَّفَتْكَ، وَأَصْلِحْ أَهَمَّهَا أَوَّلًا. ثُمَّ أَعِدِ المُحَاوَلَةَ. وَاسْتَعِدَّ لِلْمِحْوَرِ القَادِمِ الَّذِي يُرَكِّزُ عَلَى التَّحَدُّثِ وَالتَّقْيِيمِ الدَّاخِلِيِّ.

1After the mock, what should you not look at only?

2How do you rank errors?

3Which do you fix first?

4What do you do after repairing?

5What does the next unit focus on?

0/5
06

Paper 2 — Reading (past-paper style)

التَّقَدُّمُ الحَقِيقِيُّ يَأْتِي مِنَ الإِصْلَاحِ المُوَجَّهِ لَا مِنْ إِعَادَةِ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ. اِخْتَرْ أَعْلَى خَطَأَيْنِ أَوْ ثَلَاثَةٍ مِنْ حَيْثُ الدَّرَجَاتُ، وَرَكِّزْ عَلَيْهَا هَذَا الأُسْبُوعَ. عِنْدَمَا تُصْلِحُهَا وَتُعِيدُ الاِخْتِبَارَ، سَتَرَى فَرْقًا وَاضِحًا. ثُمَّ انْتَقِلْ إِلَى إِعْدَادِ التَّحَدُّثِ بِثِقَةٍ.

Read for detail

Prove each answer from the text

5 marks
1Where does real progress come from?

2How many top errors to choose?

3By what do you choose them?

4What do you do after fixing?

5What comes next?

0/5
07

Speak · develop your answers

Paper 3 — Speaking (past-paper style)

Prompts

  1. مَا أَهَمُّ إِصْلَاحَيْنِ سَتُرَكِّزُ عَلَيْهِمَا؟
    What are the two most important repairs you will focus on?
  2. كَيْفَ تَسْتَعِدُّ لِمِحْوَرِ التَّحَدُّثِ X8؟
    How will you prepare for the speaking unit, X8?

Model exchange

Examiner

مَا أَهَمُّ إِصْلَاحَيْنِ سَتُرَكِّزُ عَلَيْهِمَا؟

Question
You

سَأُرَكِّزُ عَلَى التَّطَابُقِ وَالأَزْمِنَةِ لِأَنَّهُمَا كَلَّفَانِي أَكْثَرَ الدَّرَجَاتِ. سَأُصْلِحُهُمَا هَذَا الأُسْبُوعَ وَأُعِيدُ الاِخْتِبَارَ، ثُمَّ أَسْتَعِدُّ لِلتَّحَدُّثِ فِي X8.

Priorities + plan
08

Paper 4 — Writing (past-paper style)

Task

Write about 90–100 words reflecting on your mock: name your two highest-value repairs, how you will fix and re-test them, and your goal for X8 (speaking & internal assessment). Use past and future tenses.

  • Address every required content point.
  • Use at least two tenses and an opinion with a reason.
  • Correct agreement, verb forms and spelling.
  • Keep to the word count.
Reveal a model answer

بَعْدَ الاِمْتِحَانِ التَّجْرِيبِيِّ نَظَرْتُ إِلَى أَخْطَائِي وَرَتَّبْتُهَا حَسَبَ الدَّرَجَاتِ الَّتِي كَلَّفَتْنِي. أَعْلَى خَطَأَيْنِ عِنْدِي هُمَا التَّطَابُقُ بَيْنَ الِاسْمِ وَالصِّفَةِ، وَاسْتِخْدَامُ الزَّمَنِ الخَاطِئِ. سَأُصْلِحُهُمَا هَذَا الأُسْبُوعَ بِأَنْ أَتَدَرَّبَ عَلَى جُمَلٍ قَصِيرَةٍ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ، ثُمَّ أُعِيدُ الاِخْتِبَارَ عَلَى أَسْئِلَةِ المُحَاكَاةِ لِأَتَأَكَّدَ مِنَ التَّحَسُّنِ. بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ سَأَنْتَقِلُ إِلَى إِعْدَادِ التَّحَدُّثِ فِي X8، وَهَدَفِي أَنْ أَتَحَدَّثَ بِطَلَاقَةٍ وَثِقَةٍ فِي التَّقْيِيمِ الدَّاخِلِيِّ.

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09

Score like an examiner

Mark scheme — how the examiner scores you

Communication / Task Completion — 6 marks

  • Every required point is addressed clearly.
  • Content is relevant and developed with detail.

Range — 4 marks

  • Varied vocabulary and structures.
  • Opinions with reasons and more than one tense.

Accuracy — 4 marks

  • Correct agreement, verb forms and spelling.
  • Errors do not block meaning.
Examiner note

Papers 1 and 2 are point-marked (one mark per correct answer); Papers 3 and 4 use these band criteria. Mark yourself honestly against the descriptors, not against how much you wrote.

10

Log · correct · learn

Error log

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Reflection

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