<<ESL 235 annotated practice final>>
This is the Practice Final I created for Level 3 Integrated Skills this semester. It’s based on older finals that incorporated more reading, because as a department we decided that (only) writing finals may not be the best assessment of integrated skills. I gave them another practice final with added writing practice to do as homework before this, and then they had an entire class time to take this practice final (I did the whole time in part because it was new and I wasn’t sure how long they would take. Most students finished at around the hour mark with only a few using the whole time, and 1 or two finishing in under an hour.)
I marked wrong answers, but didn’t correct most of them, between class times. In the next class I gave back their practice finals and then we went over the reading and answers together using the document camera. You can see how I annotated in the attached file. We talked about reading strategies, and went over instructions in each section to prepare them for the final.
ESL and English Instructor at Yuba College and Butte College