‘Re-order Paragraphs’ assesses reading skills. It requires you to be familiar with the organization and links between ideas in academic texts and arrange text boxes in a single correct order.
Number of items | 2-3 |
Prompt Length | Text up to 150 words |
Scoring | Partial credit (for each correctly ordered, adjacent pair) |
Communicative skills, enabling skills and other traits scored | Reading |
Subskills tested | Reading: Identifying the topic, theme or main ideas; identifying supporting points or examples; identifying the relationships between sentences and paragraphs; understanding academic vocabulary; understanding the difference between connotation and denotation; inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words; comprehending explicit and implicit information; comprehending concrete and abstract information; classifying and categorizing information; following a logical or chronological sequence of events. |
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