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SHINYWAY EDUCATION ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT SHINYWAY EDUCATION PLACEMENT TEST FOR IELTS listening reading speaking writing correct band Student Name Date Phone number 新通国际教育事业部 学术管理部 Shinyway Education Academic Department SHINYWAY EDUCATION ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT PART1 LISTENING 15 Min SECTION1 Question 1 10 Questions 1 3 Choose THREE letters from A F Which THREE events have recently taken place A an earthquake B a tsunami C a giant wave of water D a chain reaction E measuring of the earthquake F airlifting of villagers Questions 4 5 Choose TWO letters from A E Which TWO items below describe the previous disaster in Mandaland A almost 1000 people killed and large areas devastated B 2000 buildings destroyed and people killed C the economy damaged and buildings destroyed D sea walls collapsed E thousands killed and long recovery process Questions 6 10 Complete the notes below Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer Building reconstruction large buildings near the coast including 6 fast and easy exit to the rooftop is a requirement 7 Contact telephone lines 8 so don t phone direct only contact 9 on the hotline SHINYWAY EDUCATION ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT Updates stay tuned for 10 Section2 Question11 20 Questions 11 15 Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer 11 Which company does Julie work for 12 What diploma course did Julie take at college 13 What does Julie like most about her job 14 What is Julie s main responsibility when on duty 15 Why does Julie regularly change the time on her watch Question 16 20 Complete the table below Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer Changes Benefits seats 16 to the consumer Entertainment 17 to the consumer Smoking restrictions 18 19 Economy class meals 20 to the consumer SHINYWAY EDUCATION ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT PART2 READING 15 min Passage 1 Questions 1 12 TERTIARY COMPARISON GUIDE A After purchasing a house and a car the next major life expenditure is almost certainly the cost of tertiary education The question is are prospective university students getting value for money Paying up to 40 000 for a university education they need reliable information in order to compare institutions and courses B There are now two official guides comparing universities but not courses As a result academic controversy has arisen over their adequacy and because of concerns about comparability and accuracy of data When comparing universities one should be aware of what exactly is being measured and whether the information is useful Professor Brian Smith Vice Chancellor of the University of Western Sydney says There is as much variation within on university as between universities no university has all the best activities and no university is without its strengths C It takes little sense for prospective students to choose to go to a university simply because it has an excellent reputation It is wiser to look first at the overall characteristics and reputation of a university and then at the faculty or discipline desired To do this one must have access to quality data for each discipline D Let us look at three ways we can now rank universities A government appointed Quality Review Committee made the first ranking of universities in 1993 It divided the 35 universities in Australia into six quality bands based mainly on research and teaching outcomes In the top band only two universities were represented one from NSW the University of NSW and the other from the ACT the Australian National University SHINYWAY EDUCATION ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT E Sydney and Wollongong universities were both in the second ranking Wollongong was the only newer university to make such a high grade Macquarie and the University of Technology Sydney were in band four Charles Sturt Canberra New England and Newcastle were in band five In band six were the Australian Catholic University and the University of Western Sydney F This ranking has drawn much criticism since it was based on what universities spent on research and not on the quality of teaching However it should be stated that this was the first year of a continuing quality review Next the Quality Review Committee will assess the teaching record of universities G The Department of Education Employment and Training DEET has published 50 indicators of diversity and performance of Australian universities This lists comparative data on everything from academic staff ratio and percentage of staff with PhDs to expenditure on library grants The document says it does not rank universities and is designed to assist students to make informed comparisons But the universities can be ranked by each measure using a key indicators of success positive graduate outcomes which combines the percentage of recent graduates in full time work and or full time study H Here the University of Technology Sydney emerges as the leader in NSW with 83 2 of its graduates in work and or study just behind the ANU with 83 5 Sydney has 79 8 Charles Sturt 75 5 Wollongong 74 1 Macquarie 73 2 UNSW 73 1 Newcastle 72 5 New England Southern Cross 72 and Western Sydney 69 7 I Professor Gannicort a Professor of Education at Wollongong University has developed his own performance table ranking Australian universities using some of the DEET data including the number of government research grants and grants from industry as well as the number of recent graduates in full time work or study This time the University of Queensland tops the league Sydney is third UNSW fifth ANU sixth Macquarie 10th Newcastle 15th and all the other NSW universities well down in rankings He says this show that the key factors which determine better university performance are what has always been SHINYWAY EDUCATION ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT supposed that is high quality students numerous well qualified staff and non proliferation of courses J Interestingly Ms Barbara Bell the National Recruitment Manager for the Institute of Chartered Accountants claims employers are not so much interested in the university as in the skills and all round quality of graduates Those graduates who lack communication skills for example are at a big disadvantage Ms Bell quotes a recent survey that found a quarter of employers of graduates chose not to rank universities because they said there was no correlation between the university and performance K Dr Michael Dack Public Affairs Director of the Institution of Engineers has commented that the prestige of a university does not count The smaller universities are tailoring courses and products to the marketplace better than the large universities They are trying harder to produce graduates who are acceptable to industry and employers Traditional universities are often more academic and less industry linked He argues strongly the case for more broadly educated graduates For example the trend in engineering was to produce graduates with a broader education communication and financial skills and knowledge of the environmental and political context Engineers with other skills were able to weather times of economic recession much better Questions 1 5 The reading passage contains 11 paragraphs A K Which paragraphs includes the information below 1 Advice regarding the best way to judge the worth of a particular faculty within a university 2 The case for a non traditional approach to choosing the best university and an example within a particular discipline 3 Negative comment on the Quality Review Committee s first ranking of universities 4 Ranking universities using three well known key factors 5 A discussion of how it is possible to rank universities according to how likely graduates are to achieve success after graduation SHINYWAY EDUCATION ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT Questions 6 9 Look at the following statements Questions 6 9 Write YES if the statement agrees with information in the passage NO if the statement contradicts information in the passage NOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the passage 6 Prospective students should consider the reputation of the university before choosing the faculty 7 The university ranking system by the Quality Review Committee was well received by students 8 The Quality Review Committee s basis for determining the ranking was the quality of tuition 9 The Committee will next review the