CCL Spanish Training provides the opportunity to upcoming test takers to assess the required interpreting skills through Mock tests. In the Mock tests, candidates will be assessed and marked according to their performance. Feedback will be provided and the candidate will be informed about their level and the skills that they should improve to obtain a better score in the test.
Each Mock Test consists of two dialogues from any of the potential NAATI domains for the test. The candidate will experience the actual test conditions and learn how to manage all potential scenarios that can arise during the actual test. Each Mock Test runs for approximately 45 minutes.
This Mock Tests are a suitable tool for candidates who have been training and preparing for the test on their own, want to assess their level and identify the skills where they will have to focus before the actual test.
What is a Mock Test?
Mock Tests are model tests for practice for future exams. Trainers and teachers try to make Mock Test almost same as any actual test. This helps upcoming test takers to self-assess and finally provide them with a chance to improve before the actual exam.
Advantages of Mock Tests
Mock exams let students practice revision strategies that are proven to be more helpful and discover what works best for them.
Testing yourself is an effective way to improve your knowledge and ability to recall information. In a study on mock exams (pdf), researchers found that students who did a practice test after a period of revision did better on the final exam than those students who didn’t do the mock exam and had just spent the whole time revising.
Instead of seeing an exam as a potentially threatening event or as some sort of judgement on their ability, it would be great if trainers and teachers could help students to see their mock exams as a handy way of improving their knowledge and memory.
Also, if students have a particularly bad mock exam, better to have the shock in the mock, than the final exam. It can act as a call to action that perhaps they need to do more work, change revision strategies and develop skills needed to perform under pressure.
Pressure can do funny things to test takers. For some, it can lead to nerves, anxiety, frustration and sloppy mistakes, culminating in poor performance. For others, pressure allows them to concentrate more, work harder and perform better. It takes time and practice to perform well under pressure. If it is the first time taking the NAATI CCL test, test-takers will experience these conditions, it is a lottery as to how you can react.
Mock exams are a great opportunity for test-takers to figure out and practice what works best for them. Techniques to manage exam nerves could include actively slowing down, channelling any nerves into helpful behaviour or listening to some relaxing music beforehand.
Doing mocks early enough gives you time before the real thing to target areas that need improvement. Mock exam results can identify how best to spend the coming weeks for test-takers.
Once these areas are identified, it is then a case of putting in the hours. It is not enough to think about what you need to do better; it is the action and the doing that really makes a difference.
Mock exams can be used as a way of getting test takers to feel comfortable receiving feedback, which paves the way for further improvement and learning.
In Summary
Mock exams, if framed right, can be incredibly beneficial for test-takers. Helping them to see that is part of the challenge. They can help test takers to start revising early, to practise effective revision strategies, to improve their knowledge, to familiarise themselves with pressure, and act as a guide moving forward.
Source: https://blog.innerdrive.co.uk/the-psychological-benefits-of-mock-exams
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