November 12, 2008
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The Bureau of Education Testing has released a document ประกาศรายชื่อ เลขที่นั่งสอบ และห้องสอบในการสอบวัดระดับความสามารถในการใช้ภาษาไทย (Competency Test) สำหรับชาวต่างประเทศ with details of the seat numbers and room numbers for all the applicants. There will be 8 rooms each with 30 people in (a slight improvement over the one room last year). In the afternoon there will be 12 rooms each with 20 people for the speaking section.
At the end of the list of names there are the exam rules, pretty standard stuff.
I’m still feeling a little underprepaired but as anticipation sets in hopefully I’ll pull my finger out and do some revision.
Good luck everyone!
November 11, 2008
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Sorry it’s been a while. I’ve unfortunately been a little busy at work and not as busy studying as I would have liked.
The good news is I’ve registered for the new competency test. The webpage http://bet.obec.go.th/competency/applicants/apply appears to still be open, but I was under the impression that registration was only open until the 20th of Oct.
You’ll notice that despite the modern look of the site it still requires that you write your father’s name in Thai and your home address (because being a foreigner in Thailand means that you actually live somewhere else, right?)
I was starting to lose faith in my teacher as I didn’t feel we were really getting anywhere with our lessons. Part of the reason I haven’t uploaded any homework for a while is that I didn’t feel it was really helping me learn anything and I have been a little dissapointed with the seeming lack of thought put into the choice of assignments by my teacher. Thinking up a random essay title and telling me to try and write it from memory even though we haven’t actually been studying anything that might assist me writing it is a bit pointless as far as I’m concerned. As well as this, essay writing, although very important in the old P6 exam, is really only one writing skill and hopefully one the new test will stear away from.
My teacher has been trying her best recently in class though in setting my exercises more similar to what she believes will be in the new test. It is difficult for everyone, of course, because no one is 100% sure exactly what the new test will be like.
The test is at the end of the month and I’ll be honest I’m not as confident as I was last year. My main concern is spelling, but I’m hoping that if I spend the next couple of weekends cramming then I’ll be OK.
