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or equivalent and Assessors must have a tertiarg qualification qualification in ianguage a TES0L qualification. A post-graduate

Registration Procedures
All

website^ test applications are taken online through the 0[T

and pagment is Candidate photos are uploaded ta the website

training in 0ET testing is desirable. Assessors r"rndergo specific

assessment methodologu. in Melbourne and All assessment is conducted at the 0ET Centre assessors to achieve preceded bg training and standardisation for optimum consistencg of standards'

must also taken online bg credit card. When applging, candidates they will provide give the exact details of the identitg document passpoffs as when sitting the test. The 0ET Centre onlg accepts candidates with a proo{ of identitg but makes an exception for test in the national identitg card, provided theu are sittingthe rigorous lD check upon countru that issued it. Candidates undergo a sub-test' The lD initial registration on the test dag and before each
check procedures have DIAC approval'
and via the website' Communication with candidates is bg email Specific details for Candldates can access sample materials'

Assessrnent of the Readingsub'test

Part A

test-takers to skim Part A is a Summarg reaclingtask' This requires a texts totai of about 650 words] related to and scan 3-4 $hort ia paragraph bg filling in the single topic ancl to complete a summarg

missingwords.
raters in Part A is marked bg a small group of experienced

sub-tests particularvenues and timetables forthe individual test' Candidate are provided two weeks prior to the dag of the
number' is sent information, including photo and identitg document test dau' to the venues for identitg verification 0n the

word] responses Melbourne. Test-takers write short-answer {1'3

the test designers.

whicharemarkedaccordingt0adetailedmarkingkegpreparedbg
Assessment of the Reading sub'test

Part B

Special provision
for' Specifications Candidates with special needs are provided t0 Venue Coinstructions for test centres are given in detailed requirements ordinators. All test centres must complg with local for meetingthe needs of people with disabilities'
The 0ET Centre makes all reasonable arrangements

test' lt is Part B is a computer marked multiple-choice IMtO] and then Wales South initiallg analgsed bg tlre Universitg of New of individual further bg tlre Universitg of Melbourne for performance
items^
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are dealt with prepared bU the test designers' Problematic scripts ail critical borderline as a group bg an experienced assessor and

including accommodate specialvisual or auditorg needs' equipment' auditorg enlargement of print texts and special

scripts are double"marked.

twice' with Writing scripts and Speaking interviews are rated Assessors use time' aberrant and unusual cases marked a third Analgsis of rater a set of criteria to rate candidates' performance' multi-faceted consistencg and severitg is conducted using
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Listening Sub-test
The Listeiring

slth-test ctnsists 0lt\,vo parts: n recorcled, sirnulated pro{cssianalp;tlent consultati*n witlr nate-tirkirrg rluestion: {Purt AJ, and a t.*coreied talk or Irc{ure on a heaitlr-re late rt topic with shcrt'*nswerrnote"teking qilestiolrs IPart B],
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nstes The farn"rat fnr Part A {the consultatior-ll r*qrrlres canrlida{es to prcrluce case under rsievant headings and tc writ* as much releva*t inf*tmation as ptssible . gfi the nuritlet-*f p*ittts il40$t que$tigns in P*rt ts {ttre lectur*] !nclude inrlicationE
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tilling in the missing wordE. Test-take rs are reqr:ired tc rririte r*spnnses for ?5.35 Saps in tc{al, r,rithin * s{rictlg m*nitorec! till.:e liriit c}f 15
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Reading and Listening
of a short answer reponse lsummarg The Reading sub-test consists questions IMCQJ test IPart AJ and a multiple-choice are marked A Part for sheets test (Part Bl. Candidate answer are computer B Part sheets for OO,*'n*O assessors and score

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These for each of the sub-tests' Results. A band score is reported derived are t0 E Ilowestl' Theg band scores range from I InighestJ skills [Writing and for the sub-tests for the productive

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and Readingi' Speakingl and receptive skills IListening

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Speaking and Writing

are marked bU trained' The Soeaking and Writing sub-tests based in Melbourne' Each candidate's

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internal consistencg and item programme, 0UESI ior overall (i'e'' with found to be performing unacceptablg Orr'ng. Ang items than less of 'Z5l are levels fit of above 1'3 orwith discrimination analgsis' removed from tlre subsequent
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ofeachotherandrlrithoutknowiedgeofacandidate'sperformance ontheothersub.tests.TheWritingandSpeakingsub.testsareeach
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The criteria for each

sub-test are:

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lntelligibilitu' 0verall Communicative Effectiveness' Resources of Language' of Fluencg, Appropriateness

Grammar and ExPression

prepared detailed marking guidelines and is marked accordingto of marking' ln orderto ensure consistencg Ug tf," tu.t designers' are assessors eacl't administration piio, to th. marking session at the for As applg ttrese guidelines' trained in how to interpret and data are analgsed using 0UEST Reading sub-test, the item-level items and item qualitg' Again' ang for overall internal consistencg or 1"3 above of fit with found to be performing unacceptablg Ii'e'' the from levels 0f iess than '25J are removed

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Junior Sports lnjuries

Title:

Patterns of injury in US high school sports: A review. Authors: Field and O'Brien (2007)

OBJECTM: To characterize the risk of injury associated with 10 popular high school sports by comparing the relative frequency of injury and selected injury rates amon-q sports, as well as the participation conditions of each sport. DESIGN AND SETTING: A cohort observational study of high school athletes using a surveillance protocol whereby certified athletic trainers recorded data during the 2005-2007 academic years. SUBJECTS: Players listed on the school's team rosters for football, wrestling, baseball, field hockey, softball, girls'volleyball, boys' or girls' basketball, and boys' or girls' soccer. MEASUREMENTS: Injuries and opportunities for injury (exposures) were recorded daily. The definition ofreportable injury used in the study required that certified athletic trainers evaluate the injured players and subsequently restrict them from participation. RESULTS: Football had the highest injury rate per 1000 athlete-exposures at 8.1, and girls' volleyball had the lowest rate at 1.7. Only boys' (59.37a) and girls' (57 .07o) soccer showed a larger proportion of reported injuries for games than practices, while volleyball was the only sport to demonstrate a higher injury rate per 1000 athlete-exposures for practices than for games. More than l3Vo of the injuries restrieted players for fewer than 8 days. The proportion of knee injuries was highest for girls' soccer (79.4Vo) and lowest for baseball OO.5%). Among the studied sports, sprains and strains accounted for more than 50Vo of the injuries. Of the injuries requiring surgery, 60.37c were to the knee. CONCLUSIONS: An inherent risk of injury is associated with participation in high school sports based on the nature of the game and the activities of the players. Therefore, injury prevention programs should be in place fbr both practices and games. Preventing reinjury through daily injury management is a critical component of an injury prevention program. Although sports injuries cannot be entirely eliminated, consistent and professional evaluation ofyearly injury patterns can provide focus for the development and evaluation of injury prevention strategies.

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Paragraph 1 Physical inactivity is a substantial risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Exercise probably works by increasing physical fitness and by modifying other risk factors. Among other benefits it lessens the risk of stroke and osteoporosis and is associated with a lower all-cause mortality. Moreover, it has psychological effects that are surely underexploited. A pervasive benefit is the gain in everyday reserve capacity - that is, the ability to do more without fatigue. Nevertheless, there is much debate about how intense the exercise should be. Some studies show a dose-response relation between activity and reduction of risk, with a threshold of effect; some suggest that vigorous aerobic activity is needed and others that frequent moderate exercise is adequate - and indeed safer if ischaemic heart disease might be present. A few surveys have found a slightly increased risk of heart attack with extreme activity, though further analysis in one study suggested this applied only to men with hypertension. Paragraph 2 A commonly recommended minimum regimen for cardiovascular benefit is thrice weekly exercise for 2O minutes, brisk enough to produce sweating or hard breathing (or a heart rate 6V80Vo of maximum). Indeed, this is what the Allied Dunbar national survey of fitness among adults in the UK recommends. It conveys a simple popular message of broad minimum targets for different age groups expressed in terms of activities of different intensity. The aim is to produce a training effect through exercise beyond what is customary for an individual. Paragraph 3
The main reason why people fail to take exercise is lack of time. Thus an important message is that exercise can be part of the daily routine - walking or cycling to work or the shops, for instance. Relatively few people in the national fitness survey had walked continuously for even 1-25 km in the previous month (lI-3O7o OepenOing on age and sex), and other surveys have also found little walking. Cycling is also beneficial, however many are put off cycling to work by the danger. Certainly more cycle routes are needed, but even now life years lost through accidents are outweighed by the estimated life years gained through better health. Employers could encourage people to make exercise part of the working day by providing showers and changing rooms, flexible working hours, individual counselling by occupational health or personnel staff, and sometimes exercise facilities - or at least encouragement for exercise groups.

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Reading Sub-test
Part B - Text 1: Going blind in Australia

Answer Key
Total of 10 questions
1

B B D C A B D C A B

sight problems of the aged are often treatable.

may occur in about 4-5o/o of Australians aged over 64.

3 4 5 6
7

causes a significant amount of sight loss in the elderly. must occur early to enable effective treatment. existing eye care services are not fully utilised by the eldedy.
Elderly people with chronic diseases are more likely to have poor eyesight.

poorer people have less access to the range of available eye care services.

8
9

ihe proportion of people over 65 will be twice the present proportion.

should be more active in investigating patients' possible sight difficulties. governmeni services should include prevention and health promotion.

END OF KEY

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Reading Sub-test
Part B - Text 2: Exercise, fitness and health

Answer Key
Total of 8 questions

11 12D 13B 14B 15D 16A 17C 188

weight control and decrease in levels of body fat. different levels of exercise intensity for different age groups. difficulty in fitting it into their daily routine.
Providing encouragement and advice from staff within the organisation. exercise works against the physical effects of ageing.

The need to balance aerobic activity with stretching. The need for doctors themselves to improve their own fitness levels.
Experts agree on the imporlance of both type and intensity of exercise.

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Sometimes missing information foreach paragraph of the summarU passage will be found from multiple sources i.e., from more than one ofthe texts in the Text b0oklet. You need to know when to direct gour attenti0n from one text t0 another. Again, it is a good idea to iook for 'signal' words that tell Ugu that the next missing word IsJ comes from a different text than the previous one. Often this might be a direct signal in the form of a keg word that is repeated in the heaciing for each text 0[ a referent word that directs the reader back to scmething thal
has alreadg been mentioned in the passage.

Consider the example summarU passage from the sample test posted on the 0ET website below:

Now consider the headings Efthe four Text Text

texts below informing the summarg passage above:

A1: Title: Management of rnigraine in New Zealand General Practice Authors: Spark, Vale & Mills {2006) A2:
Tabie Case

l:

Ecanomic burden of migraine in the USA

TextA3: TextA4:

studies: migraine sufferers and work

Research brrei

on njgra.i nes in the

US

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aiigi til l" minraffia . .:i2

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u. ane{.teitl r0

Egreccgnisingthesesignalwords,thesuccessful

readerwill realisethat informationforirentr'islikeigtocomefromeitherTextAZcr44

(mentioning the 'U5 report']. ltems 8"ltr wiil proba blg stem from information in Text A1. The su m ma rg passage mentions 'Spark, Vaie and Mills' authors of the text] and this provides the clue that ltem g directlg relates to the title of Text Al whereas the mention of 'the studg'

Ithe and'the authors'later in the summarg passage highlights these as referents; signallingto the readerthat all of the missing information 'fhe pofirnts s urvegetl bg Spark, Vale snd N4ills' Ia surveg [items 9-11] is probablg from the same source text IA1]. 'The stLrdg' refers back to

isatUpeof studUjwhile'fhe authars' refersbacktospark,Valeancl lvlills{tlrenamesof thepeoplewhowrotethe$tudg].

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'headgear' can probablg lheodgear] is directlg mentioned in the text. A reader who might not be familiar with the word establish the meaning of the missing word from a carefui reading of the surrounding text and link the summarg Passage t0 the relevant parl

ofthe original text. 3. Prediction based on grammaticalawareness

Rememberthe summarg passage is not a direct copg of ang of the texts. A summarU is a shortened outline 0f a longertext IsJ and accordinglq, usesporophroslng and otherwritingtechniques to present information in shortened form. The wau the summarg passage rs

written is often quite different granmaticolly t0 the originaltexts, as well as in tone or stgle. texts into Uour summarU as there is a greater chance of making a grammatical error if qou do. Even though gou might correctlg spellthe word gou choose, if gou don't chsose the correct form of the word IsJ which has
Do not therefore simplg copg words directlg from the

grammatical agreement with the summarU passage, gou will not receive ang marks.
You need to consicler the overall grammatical appropriateness of the

word Is] you decide t0 write dcwn, i.e", how the words U0u ch0ose f it into the waU the summarU passage is written and whether gou need to alterthe word {si slightlg from the wau theg appear in the originai longer text. YoLl might like to cansider, for example, such things as the irlord-en ding for a particuiar verb Ie.g., according t0 verb tense J or

whether the sentence in the summarU passage is written in sctive orpossive voice.

4. Prediction based on changing verb forms

Part of the summarU passage with a'gap' Ispecificallg item

l9l is highlighted

below:

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t0 [directlg copging from the text]

because there is some

similaritg between the wardings of the text and the summarU passage. However, a cioser reading of the summarU passage shows that the
sentence is written in the simpie past tense " shown clearlg bg the use af'ed-ending'verbs Iobserved, and accounted] and the past tense marker'were'"
A reacler

who responds bg using the 'ing' form 'requiring surgerg' Ias copied directlg from the text], would not receive ang marks as 'requiring surgerg' does not conform correctlg to the grammatical stgle of the summarg pa$sage (X ='ing' form following a relative pron0un

'thof']. The more correct response would be:

8ryW
Note that the meaning here is kept. The correct vocabularg items required for tlre respotrse are found in the longer text but the form of tlre

words neecied to be altered to make sure the summarU text remained gram maticallg consistent. Ihe skill for the reader is to recognise the

important meaning of the text and then carr9 that meaningthrough to the shortened summarU passage makingong grammaticalchonges
as needed"

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Prediction based on passive vs. active voice

test with
a 'gap' [rtern

An example from the summarg passage from another

?t J is highlighted below:

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Ihe part of the reading text that contains the missing information {item ?lJ is shown below:

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careful readerwill note that the focus in the original text is on 'csr accidents'Iat the beginning ofthe statement] as the,agent,or subjec.! As the agent ofthe action [to cause] the crctlve voice ofthe past sirnple verb form is used with the object oftlre {caused] sentence being'?2% of alt iniuries'.ln tlre summarU passage, the construction is reversed, with 22% af att injuries the main focus of the sentence fwith the action being'clone' bg'car accidents'].
A

ofthe sentence.

The

readerwill recognise that the summarg passage requires the use of passive voice [verb'to be'+ past participle] to conveg the same meaning as the text. Ihus the correct response below:

Recognising where the subject or focus of the sentence has changed between the wording of the text ancl the wording of the summarg passage [with the meaning staging the same] will help the reader to predict whethe r active orpasslve voice is needed in the response.

Using abbreviated words

Alwags use the correctlg spelt full form of the words. lf gou wrote inst., for example, to mean the word institutian,gou would not receive anU marks. 0ther wrong examples might include 'yr' {or gear,'No' for numbers and ,fe/, for telephgne.
The exception to

this is when an abbreviation is included in the text and is necessarg for gour response.

.,,,,.,.

Considerthe example belowfrom the practice test:

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The original

text is betow:

u):l:#;llN:;f,F;:!

Clearlg, 'DRABCD'can be ccnsiclered a correct response

lor

item

l6

as

writing down each word individuallg would g0 overthe three word

limit. ln the exarnple above, the abbreviated response is allowecl.

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Text A1
Title: Management of migraine in New Zealand General Practice Authors: Spark, Vale & Mills (2006)

OBJECTMS:

To determine the proportion of patients who have a diagnosis of migraine in a sample of New

Zealand general practice patients, and to review the prophylactic and acute drug treatments used by these patients.

DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: A cohort of general practitioners collected data from about 30
consecutive patients each as part of the BEACH (Bettenng the Evaluation and Care of Health) program; this is a continuous national study of general practice activity in New Zealand. The migraine substudy was conducted in June-July 2005 and December 2005-January 2006.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Proportion of patients with a current diagnosis of migraine; frequency of
migraine attacks; current and previous drug treatments; and appropriateness of treatment assessed using published guidelines.

RESULTS:191 GPsreportedthat649 of 5663patients (lI.5Eo) hadbeendiagnosedwithmigraine.Prevalence

was I4.97o in females an:d 6.17o in males. Migraine fiequency in these patients was one or fewer attacks per month in 77.17o (4761617), two per month in 10.57o (65/611), and three or more per month in 12.3Vo (76/611) (missing data excluded). Only 8.3%, (541648) of migraine patients were currently taking prophylactic medication.
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prophylactic medication (19.77o and25.07c" respectively) than those with less frequent migraine attacks (3.87o) (P < 0.0001). Prophylactic medication had been used previously by 15.)Vo (961640). The most common prophylactic
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patients were curently using acute medication as required fbr migraine, and 60.6Vo of these medications conformed with recommendations of the National Prescribing Service. However, non-recommended drugs were also used, including opioids (38% ofacute medications).

CONCLUSIONS: Migraine is recognised frequently in New Zealand general practice. Use of acute medication
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despite the availability of several other well documented efficacious agents, and some use inappropriate drugs for migraine prevention

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