<p>I just took my first practise test, well not really. Only the reading part, my sound doesn’t work on my computer and I don’t have an head set. I going to fix that tough… I got 92% on reading on my first (fast try), pretty good I think … so, it was easy… but is reading the easiest part? and, does the real test only have 13 questions(reading part)?</p>
<p>The real test has about 13 questions per reading passage, but there will be more than one reading passage (I think I might have had 4?). </p>
<p>Score-wise, reading, writing and listening seem to be the “easier” sections. Many international students find that their speaking score is significantly lower than the other three. Not sure if we are being penalized for lack of English skills, a low-quality recording (low-quality head sets combined with a lot of background noise because every one is speaking at the same time), or for a lack of creativity. One of my two speaking tasks was, “What do you miss most when you are away from home?” All I could come up with was something along the lines of, “I might miss my cat because he usually sleeps in my room and it is nice to hear him purr. (pause) No, actually, that’s not true. I don’t really miss anything when I am gone. I have spent a lot of time away from home and I have never been homesick.”</p>
<p>Ok thanks… Yeah, I think speaking is where I’m lacking skills too. But atleast I think I’ll do fine on the other parts… and work on my speaking…</p>
<p>I feel that speaking seems like the least important… we’ll learn to speak well when we get there… until we learn, we can still speak so others understand. But without writing well, you’ll lack in academic skill… Or am I wrong?</p>
<p>The reading part is easy if you’ve taken the SAT. That’s the only section I scored 30. Speaking was also my lowest score, but I should not complain as I got 27. I personally thought that my speaking was awful. I really did not like what I said; I also wasn’t very fluent, so they do not expect perfect answers. The score report says that I screwed up the task on campus situations, which is supposedly the easiest one :)</p>