Archive for May, 2012
Unit 21 – Imports & Exports Data Interpretation
Difficulty: Medium/Hard
Time: 4 minutes 30 seconds
Two companies, A and B, import raw materials and manufacture them into products. These products are then immediately exported to a wholesale distribution company. Below is a graph of the ratio of the value (measured in money) of Exports to Imports.
Unit 20 – Comparing Songs: Elbow, Editors & the Cap’n
Not the best formatting I’ve ever done with WordPress, but anyway… you usually want to spend an average of 1 minute 30 seconds per question on section 1. However, some questions are easier and quicker to complete than others. If you get the easy ones done quicker you can afford to spend more time reading and thinking about trickier ones such as those below.
Difficulty: Hard
Time: 7 minutes 30 seconds
Song 1: Song 2:
Song 3
Unit 19 – A Cartoon About Old People
Difficulty: Medium
Time: 1 minute 30 seconds
The following is a Creative Commons-licenced illustration from sangrea.net
Unit 18 – Tricky Questions on Classic Poetry
Difficulty: Hard
Time: 4 minutes 30 seconds
Below is an extract from Like Dolmens Round My Childhood…, a poem by John Montague
Like dolmens round my childhood, the old people.
Jamie MacCrystal sang to himself,
A broken song without tune, without words;
He tipped me a penny every pension day,
Fed kindly crusts to winter birds.
When he died, his cottage was robbed,
Mattress and money-box torn and searched.
Only the corpse they didn’t disturb.
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