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English Test Specifications for Junior school , Grade three students at the beginning of a new term September, 2014 I Purpose and Description of the Test Purpose of the test: this English test is designed for junior Three students at their beginning of the new term. This is an informal test that is designed to evaluate to what degree the junior three students has achieved in English after two years’ learning in junior school. It is also expected that the test results can help English teachers to modify their teaching plan in the following months. All the students who are junior three can take the test. The test aims at testing students’ reading , grammar, writing skills. This test is served for students who are going to take National College Entrance Exam. therefore, the testing items are in accordance with National College Entrance Exam English testing items. The marks of listening section are not calculated to final results. So, listening section are excluded in this test. Description of the test: Aims of test Test takers should master the following knowledge and skills: language knowledge ?vocabulary: test takers are expected to know 3000 English words and expressions. Except their basic meanings, they should also be familiar to the relationships between words, like synonyms, antonyms and so on. The collocation relations between words like verb-preposition, adjective-preposition, adjective-noun collocations should be mastered. In addition, test takers should know about the formation of words and can recognize what is root, stem, affix etc. That is, test takers should have mastered most of the words they learned from primary school to junior school. ?Grammar: test takers are supposed to know general grammar, like sentence type and structure ,word class, tense and voice and so on. This test contains grammar section, ten items of fifteen marks are included. (2)Language skills ? reading skills