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English · Exam Skills and Methodology

Global comprehension — text type, title, gist & idea/paragraph sequencing

Spot the text type, choose the right title, and follow the ideas in order

  • Foreign languages essential
  • Literature and philosophy essential
  • Experimental sciences essential
  • Mathematics essential
  • Engineering essential
  • Management and economics essential

6 minutes

The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.

What the syllabus expects from you

  • Identifying the type of text (newspaper article/web article/book extract/email)
  • Choosing the most appropriate title / stating the general idea
  • Putting ideas in the order they appear in the text / locating which paragraph carries an idea

The method

  1. Skim for structure (intro/body/conclusion) before answering global questions

The common mistakes

  • Choosing a title that is too narrow (a detail) or too broad (off-topic)

The kind of exercise that comes up at the BAC

  • Global comprehension block easy

    any BAC reading text → text-type MCQ + title/gist + paragraph-idea matching or ordering

From the lesson

Read this short piece. Before you check any facts inside it, ask yourself one question: what kind of writing is this?

The vocabulary

  • gist (الفكرة العامة)
  • text type (نوع النص)

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