Multi-Asking

Oof, well I’ve finished working my way through the exam paper. That aural comprehension part remains an absolute bastard. The DAPLE paper is like the rest I’ve come across: it doesn’t leave you much time to read, some of the answers seem purposely ambiguous, but I just about held on. But the fifth section has really long, detailed sentences. I’m sorry, but I just don’t see how it’s possible to answer them all. I’m going to take a prep course from the Say it in Portuguese site that I mentioned a few weeks ago to try and hone my technique. I suspect that best strategy is probably to look at the later questions in each group and make little one-word notes about each, because by the end you’re more likely to be lost so you’ll be glad of the help. Then do teh same for any long questions so you don’t have to try and parse them while the person is talking. Maybe there’s something to be said for not even trying to answer the questions on the first reading; just make notes about what the person says and then use that in teh second round…? I dunno, that feels like a high-risk option though. Maybe divide the answers in half and try to answer the first half in the first reading and the second half in the second reading?