Practice Test 8

Question Paper

Questions 21-30

Choose the table below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Feedback Form

Course: Communication in Business
Course code: CB162
Dates: From (21) ................. to (22) .................

Please give your comments on the following aspects of the course:

	Good Points	Suggestions for Improvement
Course organisation	• (23) ................. • useful to have (24)................. at beginning of course	• too much work in (25)................. of the course - could be more evenly balanced
Course delivery	• good (26) .................	• some (27) ................. sessions went on too long
Materials and equipment	• good (28) .................	• not enough copies of key texts available • need more computers
Testing and evaluatio	• quick feedback from oral presentations • marking criteria for oral presentations known in advance	• too much (29) ................ • can we know criteria for marking final exams?
Other comments	• excellent (30) .................

Transcript Solution

ANNIE

Oh Ben - I just remembered I never filled in that form for Nick - did you do it?

BEN

The course feedback form?

ANNIE

Yes. If you want, we can do it together, I've got mine here.

BEN

Is that OK?

ANNIE

Yeah.

BEN

OK, let's have a look then. What do we have to do?

ANNIE

Let's fill in the top first, let's see, Course, Course code ...

BEN

Er, it's Communication in Business.

ANNIE

OK, Communication ... in ... Business, I do know that, but what's the code?

BEN

CB16 something, CB162, isn't it?

ANNIE

Mmm, that's it, OK and dates, when did we start? I remember, my birthday's on May 4th and it was the day after, it must have been May 5th.Q21

BEN

Gosh, doesn't seem that long ago, does it?

ANNIE

No, and we finish at the end of this week, on Friday, so that's July 15th?

BEN

Er 16thQ22, Monday was the 12th. Right, that was the easy bit, now let's have a look - "Please give your comments on the following aspects of the course", OK, what's the first one? Oh, course organisation. What do you think?

ANNIE

Er, clear? It was, wasn't it?

BEN

Yes, I think the organisation was clearQ23. OK, anything else for course organisation?

ANNIE

It was a good thing he gave us the course outlineQ24 at the beginning, in the first session, that was useful, so I'll put that down, shall I? Now, going on to suggestions for improvement, one thing that wasn't so good, I think we could have done a bit more work at the beginning, I mean at the beginning it seemed dead easy.

BEN

Yeah.

ANNIE

I thought it was going to be really easy and then all of a sudden in the second halfQ25 of the course we got a whole load of work, reading to do and essays and things.

BEN

Yes, it'd be better if it was more even. OK, now course delivery, does that mean teaching?

ANNIE

Yeah, I suppose so. Well, what I thought was really good on this course was the standard of teaching.Q26 Actually - I mean some of the teachers were better than others - but the standard generally was fine. Much better than other courses I've been on.

BEN

Yeah, I agree. Let's put that then. What about suggestions for improvement?

ANNIE

I ... I didn't think it was all that wonderful when we had great long group discussion sessions that went on for hours and hours. I don't mean we shouldn't have group discussionsQ27, just that they shouldn't go on too long.

ANNIE

Now, on to materials and equipment.

BEN

Oh, now what was good about some sessions was the handouts.Q28

ANNIE

Yes, I thought all the handouts were good actually, and some were great, with website addresses and everything.

BEN

One problem though with materials was the key texts.

ANNIE

Yes! There just weren't enough copies on reserve in the library. And if you can't get the key texts before the session, how are you supposed to do the reading?

And not enough computers. You have to wait ages to get one.

BEN

OK, testing and evaluation - well, I don't know, it's hard to say until we've got our written assignments back.

ANNIE

Don't talk about it, I only. got mine in yesterday, it was a real struggle. I hate to think what mark I'll get.

BEN

Yes, but at least we've done the oral presentation - I thought that was good, the way I got my feedback really quickly.

ANNIE

Yes, it was. And I liked the way we knew what we'd be evaluated on, we knew the criteria, so we knew we had to think about clarity, organisation, and so on.

BEN

Yeah, but I'm not so sure about the written workQ29. One thing I think is that there's just too much, it's really stressful.

ANNIE

Yes, I'd agree and I don't see why they can't let us know the criteria they use for marking.

BEN

The written assignments? But he told us.

ANNIE

No, for the final exams. What are they looking for - what are the criteria? What makes a pass or a fail?

BEN

Yeah, I never thought of that. It'd be really useful.

ANNIE

OK, any other comments?

BEN

I thought student supportQ30, was excellent.

ANNIE

Yeah, me too. OK, excellent. Other comments?

BEN

No, I can't think of anything else.

ANNIE

Nor me. OK, so that's done. Thanks, Ben.

BEN

No, thank you.

Questions 21-30

Choose the table below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Feedback Form

Course: Communication in Business
Course code: CB162
Dates: From (21) ........5th May......... to (22) ........16th July.........

Please give your comments on the following aspects of the course:

	Good Points	Suggestions for Improvement
Course organisation	• (23) .........Clear........ • useful to have (24)........course outline......... at beginning of course	• too much work in (25).......2nd half.......... of the course - could be more evenly balanced
Course delivery	• good (26) ........standard of teaching.........	• some (27) ........group discussion......... sessions went on too long
Materials and equipment	• good (28) ........handouts.........	• not enough copies of key texts available • need more computers
Testing and evaluatio	• quick feedback from oral presentations • marking criteria for oral presentations known in advance	• too much (29) .......written work......... • can we know criteria for marking final exams?
Other comments	• excellent (30) .........student support........