Versant practice: Passage reconstruction 2

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Practice part H of the test: Passage Reconstruction

"Passage Reconstruction is similar to a task known as free recall or immediate recall. Candidates are asked to read a text, put it aside, and then write out what they remember from the text. In this task, a short passage is presented for 30 seconds, after which the passage disappears and the candidate has 90 seconds to reconstruct the content of the passage in writing. Passages range in length from 45 to 65 words. The items sample a range of sentence lengths, syntactic variation, and complexity. The passages are short stories about common situations involving characters, actions, events, reasons, consequences, and results.

In order to perform this task, the candidate must read the passage presented, understand the narrative, and hold the concepts and details in memory long enough to reconstruct the passage accurately in writing. Individual candidates may naturally employ various strategies when performing this task. Reconstruction may be more or less verbatim in some cases, especially for shorter passages answered by advanced candidates. For longer texts, reconstruction may be accomplished by paraphrasing and
drawing on the candidate’s own choice of words. Regardless of strategy, the end result is evaluated based on the candidate’s ability to reproduce the key points and details of the source passage using grammatical and appropriate writing. The task requires the kinds of skills and core language
competencies that are necessary for activities such as responding to requests in writing, replying to emails, recording events or decisions, or summarizing texts.

Example:
Robert went to a nice restaurant for dinner. When the waiter brought the bill, Robert reached for his wallet, but it wasn't in his pocket. He remembered having his wallet when he came into the restaurant. The waiter looked around the floor near his table. He found the wallet under the table.

The Passage Reconstruction task is held to be a purer measure of reading comprehension than, for example, multiple-choice reading comprehension questions, because test questions do not intervene between the reader and the passage. It is thought that when the passage is reconstructed in the
candidate’s first language, the main ability assessed is reading comprehension, but when the passage is reconstructed in the target language (in this case, English), it is more an integrated test of both reading
and writing (Alderson, 2000)." ("Student placement test", 2019)

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