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I agree with Jasmine. After doing so much exercise on iGCSE Reading in Mainstream English class, I find that no matter if it is TOEFL or something else, when reading is involved, choosing relevant information is very important. So I believe we should train harder on scanning skills.

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I fully agree with Angela Mao's opinion. Essays are really helpful to our college application, and meanwhile they are also one of the decisive keys. According to Angela, they are also opportunities to us. We have to work on it early.

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As Jessica He said in her post, AO4 speaking skills can help us to have a fluent and good communication with the interviewers during the college application. Also, we need to use these skills in our TOEFL Test.

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I agree with Michelle Du, listening skills are really important during our college application, it includes understanding what is the real meaning from a person's saying. That can help us to understand when we have an interview during our college application process.

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In my opinion, listening and speaking skills play an important role in our daily life. When we are doing the TOEFL or SAT, we need these skill to achieve a high score. Furthermore, if you are going to study abroad, you probably need to communicate with local people. If you can't understand them or speak to them, you will feel upset and regret.
Sherry DU

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I agree with Eason. Speaking is really important during college application process as interview is a significant part of the college application process especially in the US and speaking fluently and with critical thinking gives the application officers a great impression. -Michelle Du

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After reading the assessment objective L4, I find listening skills are quite important during college application process. Just like the objective of L4, we need to be able to understand what is implied. For example, with this skill, we can do a great job in one of the TOEFL listening tasks, which is often asked in this format 'what did the speaker imply when he / she said this?' Also, in iGCSE listening exams, we can do better in the matching task, which offers you seven sentences and six speakers. Our job is to summarise and even find the implication of the speakers and choose the correct sentence. Therefore, AO L4 is really important in college application process. -Michelle Du

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For AO3 and AO4 for reading, we need show understanding of the connections between points and what is implied but not directly stated. Definitely these requirements enable us to find out what the author, examiner, or even college admission officer really would like to express, so that we can give a satisfying answer. Moreover, these 2 AOs can help us massively in TOEFL, IELTS, etc. on the aspect of reading. These standardized tests impact much on college application process. In addition, no one wants to know less than admissions about the recommodation letter his/her teacher writes.

For AO3, 4, 5 for speaking, basic grammar and pronouciation skills are required. Also it suggests we engage in a conversation and contribute effectively to help move the conversation forward. During the interview, our language leaves a deep impression to the interviewer. And effective conversation makes the interview fluent and favored. Apart from interviews, the AOs are able to improve our speaking section in standardized test as well.

Jay Yu

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There's no doubt that reading skills are necessary during college application. At least, I think we should be able to understand requirements from different colleges. Like R4, we should understand what is implied but not directly stated. Some key requirements need our readinding skills to discover, and it makes me feel like reading ability is the most important ability.                                                                     Also, interviews are required by most of the college. Thus, having impressive communicating skills is vital as well. Your interaction with interviewers and the way you express yourselves are all related to S3, S4 and S5. They show how well you can chat and be with a stranger, it is meaningful and useful.                                                                                                                                                      Eason Zhang

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I agree with Jessia's words. The AO3 ability can help us improve some essential skills about speaking and writing. And we can use them in TOEFL/IELTS or SA, even for classification of IB forecasts. Also, the AOs can help us with our essays' abilities to help to write better. And they are useful for college applications and make us have a better result for the application.                                 Shirley Chen

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I fully agree with what Jessica has said. AO3 skills are also essential skills to use apart from AO4 speaking skills. AO3 mainly includes finding useful information, ideas and understanding attitudes. We need to use them in standardized tests as well as college interviews and application essays. They can help us gain a better understanding of the content of articles and can thus make us gain better results.

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AO2 writing can help us write a ‘describe, evaluate and compare’ essay. It really related to our college application.  Essays are student's opportunities to reveal their best qualities and to show an admission committee what makes them stand out from other applicants.  It is considerably important for the admission committee to choose academically qualified students. Hence, AO2 wrting really helps us a lot.                                                                                                                                            Angela Mao

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As Mary said, speaking skills are very significant in college interviews because candidates need to respond to the interviewers' questions and keep the conversation going. Also, in tests like TOEFL we need to use our speaking skills to get high marks. Speaking skills are also used in our college life later.

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In the process of applying to college, inevitably there will be academic requirements. Such as TOEFL scores, the SAT scores and classification of IB forecasts. After the TOEFL and IGCSE study, we can know that, in terms of speaking and listening, we have weaknesses. However, AO4 Speaking can help us to get progress in these areas. Besides, the role of the relevant AO3. It can make our study skills improved, and enables us to meet the interviewer's requirement about our university intersection ability, innovation ability and learning ability. To put it into a nutshell, AOs plays an important role in our preparation for the college applications.                         Jessica He

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We researched the college application process and found that the basic thing it requires is standardized tests like SAT or ACT. We need a wide range of skills like AO4 reading skillls. SAT articles and TOEFL reading passages both require us to understand ideas, opinions and attitudes which are essential for answering questions. In addition, the R1 AO1 reading skill(identify and select relevant information) is also very important because tests like IGCSE have short answers.  Jasmine He

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I find that the point which Michelle demonstrated is reasonable as the question that asks the things that the passage implies is the most difficult questions for me to answer. Practicing the skill of summarizing the main points of the listening passage is essential for all of us as there is no specific technique to improve. We can only enhance the skill through daily practices.

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For AO4 Speaking, it is related to your college interview， that can let you do better in your college application.  You need to communicate ideas clearly, accurately and effectively, this may let you can keep the talk with the interviewers and let them understand you without too much mistakes on grammar.
For AO3，we use the skill of finding useful things and understand ideas, opinions and attitudes. This is quite important for university study, as we will have very long lecture in the university, we need to take notes quickly to write those key points, so that skill is very important.                                                   Mary YU

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Work as a group, and complete the following tasks:

1. Research the college application process;

2. Explore how the AOs you get relate to college application;

3. Explain in a post your findings and respond to at least two other posts.