英語検定ライティング準１級（第308回）

共通テスト「多すぎる問題量への対処法の話」

前のセンターテストもそうだったが共通テストは問題量が多い。正解率は高くなくても良いので全問題に眼を通すべきだという意見もあれば対処しやすい問題に絞るべきとも言われる。
Several years ago, the common entrance examination started, which has a large amount of questions, so it seems difficult for examinees to answer all of them in 80 minutes, and the number of questions is as large as that of the previous central entrance examination, we know.
Numerous those involved instruct that examinees should try to answer all the questions, in turn, the percentage of corrections shouldn’t be high, which is one advice.
On the other hand, the examinees shouldn’t try to answer all the questions provided, instead, they should concentrate on the questions they find easy to solve, which covers the 70 percent of the whole examination.

それこそ自分に合うやり方を選択するべきだが後者の方が得点率は高そうだ。特に文系の生徒にとって英語は生命線だ。得意科目にしたい。英単語の暗記力に加えて読解力も要求される。
He suggests the latter in the efficient viewpoint because there are numerous questions difficult to answer by the examinees, so they don’t have to waste precious time.
They should work on the questions easy to solve, which enables them to gain even higher scores, we assume.
The examinees in the humanities course, especially, might consider English test as the most vital lifeline.
They must want to have a superior command of English.
However, it should require them to memorize numerous vocabularies, simultaneously, they must have an ability to understand the contents well in a short while, he says.

第１番から始めると第８番までたどり着けない。だから８番から取り組みたい。そこは解答を探すだけで良いラッキー問題なのだ。探す速度は重要だが考える能力はそこまで問われない。
When they start from the first section, they are unlikely to arrive at the last one, so they should start from the eighth one, where they have only to look for the answer in the long passages, so they should consider the section as something fortunate because they aren’t required to figure out its contents well, in short, they must read it in a short while, but an examinee could ignore this advice.

グラフ問題を嫌う生徒も多いが英文を読む量が少ないので慣れることが最善策だ。第１番は解答するのに時間がかかる。ここから始めて受験生を焦らせるよう作成してあるので要注意だ。
Not a few students dislike the graphic questions, but they could change something disliked into something strong when they are accustomed to addressing them.
It is because they don’t have to read the contents written in English, in contrast, it could take them several minutes to read the sentences provided as the first section.
When they should start from the first section, they might feel too impatient, which makes negative contributions to their performances, so they should be careful about it.