Mcgraw Hill Listening Test 2 Answers

[Aline Braunbeck]

Doesanyone have recommendation regarding practice questions and exams online? I want to use those questions not only to test my knowledge but also to increase my speed at test-taking, and get used to long computer exams. I looked at paeasy, lange Q&A, mcgraw hill, but can't figure out which one to buy. Does anyone know or have any other Q-banks in mind that you guys found best matched the PANCE? Which one is the best?

Let me start by saying that no review book or question bank was anything like the PANCE. It is its own weird animal. I just passed it with a comfortable margin - fairly similar score to my PACKRAT. Here is what I did...I studied every day (even on the weekend) and did one online review course (Rutgers/UMDNJ). Then I did loads of questions. Questions help you think critically and highlight your weaknesses. The RUTGERS/UMDNJ lecture course and overall that was a good review if you like listening to lectures and using power points (that works better for me than just using a review book). They also have a nice set of questions. I also used the question bank from the Davis book (Davis's PA Exam Review: Focused Review for the PANCE and PANRE). There are loads of questions in the book and it comes with a CD of questions. Good luck to you!!

When I had to take the PANCE I also used Exam Master. It was a good test bank, but the questions really were more targeted to the USMLE than PANCE. I remember one Exam Master question asked me to read a FISH test to determine how to treat my breast cancer patient. I barely knew what a FISH test was, and had no clue how to read one. And I still can't read one, and probably never will have that need in a Family Practice Clinic!

1. Most of the software and questions were a distillation of USMLE prep which is a bigger market for these companies to focus on. They seem to be extending their product by modifying it to reach the PA market. Does that distillation equate in being able to pass the PANCE/PANRE though?

2. PA easy and PANCE Master marketed themselves as being written by PAs who have had some association with the exam in the past, whether they were item writers or faculty at programs don't know because they failed to list whom contributed the questions. If you go to the PANCE Master site, their video makes me feel like I am storming Omaha beach but I found the sparse info a concern.

3. Rosh Review had a nice 2 part component to it, primary question with rationale for answer followed by associated reinforcing question and rationale. They also state PAs write the exam questions but dont state whom.

5. I walked away impressed by some features of some products but not enough to encourage someone to part with their money for one above the others. Answering 5 questions out of 1000-2000 possibilities does not give a good representation of the content.

6. All gave a money back guarantee or use our software till you pass guarantee. I dont believe there are any studies but plenty of anecdotal experience that these test banks help but those with this experience seem to discount their overall preparation over the course of the last 2 years prior to taking this exam!

As another of the posters have said it's own animal no review book/course will prepare you for the exam (you should be relying on your training) however in regards to question prep I found the PANCE to be significantly easier then Kaplen Exam master. And the UMDNJ course adequate as a quick review.

Curious - why is PAEasy so bad/to be avoided? Questions too simplistic, not representative of true PANRE content? Or something else? I'm considering buying a month or two to ROSH Review, although Kaplan Q-Bank is still in the running as well. Any thoughts/feedback on those? How about this PA Life guy's PA Academy PANCE/PANRE prep course?

I take the test in two months so I don't have the time for something involved or the need for 12 month access. Having been in ED/UC since graduation, I feel like my knowledge base is still solid though. I also sat through one review course already, but not sure how much I absorbed as a 4-day review conference just gets mind-numbing after a while! Still have the manual and plan to review that when I'm able, though.

When I used it in the 2011-2012 time frame, it was too error-prone to be reliable. I hear they've completely redone it, but I still haven't heard "boo" from all the feedback I gave them at the time--detailed explanations, with references, of why their answers were incorrect. My email address hasn't changed...

I just posted a query about Rocket Languages for Spanish, and in my search for life post-Duo, I also looked at Speakly. I tried the 'short free trial. I'm pretty bummed. I took the placement test and got fed up. More than once the sentence to translate was written in the simple preterite, but wouldn't accept the same as an answer.

Example: 'did you speak with them? only accepted 'has hablado con ellos?', not 'hablaste'. What???

There was no ability to accept alternate correct answers and no explanation was given for this choice, even in the lesson. There was only one correct answer for every question, heaven forbid you know another one and try to use it.

And the voices are very robotic.

Why is Speakly getting such rave reviews on You Tube.? I don't get it.

Do any of you have any thoughts on this?

I was in contact on the support chat last year.

Wow, that's a very usable contact method.

They directly answered me some questions and got the system working again shortly after being in contact with their admins internally.

For the French text and listening examples for the three beginner I-III chapters 1-3 for each course (they split them by three) I noticed they heavily make use of more advanced grammar and verb tense concepts which I haven't learned on the Busuu A1 French course.

Imperfect comes much later in the A2 course, same for direct/indirect objects and other stuff.

With Portuguese I had the chance to at least run through the whole shorter Duolingo PT course (69 skills, 406 lessons) within my first year in 2017 so I knew the 2+ futures, several past tenses and the four Subjunctive forms.

Placement tests:

I have only tried the Android app and initial test for French, not the trial and no real lessons.

Got placed a few times in French beginner III, chapter (2 or) 3 of 3.

Last time I managed to place at Intermediate I chapter 3 as an exception; but the beginner placement looks more accurate.

In the Speakly test I often either A) have to guess the answers or B) can't understand yet the full sentence meaning and C) all shown vocabulary or D) wouldn't be able to construct the shown sentence and puzzle all parts together (recalling) on my own.

But as I said, the early beginner examples contain the Imperfect which I can't answer correctly.

So I probably would start with Beginner I - chapter 1, totally from scratch, not to skip by accident over any useful dialogue practices.

I already found that the Busuu French placement test is not so easy either and always seems to put me way down from the last finished A2 37 lessons (it somewhere starts at A1 lesson 50 or maybe 30 if you gave too many wrong answers).

There is a min and max threshold for important language concepts/words and it never can't find the right mid position where I really stand.

Maybe it would also work out by reading the Duolingo French Web Tips & Notes (contributor tree3, German FR notes) or consulting my other Dr. French grammar university and Fastlingo Android apps to check examples, grammar concepts verb tenses,...more dynamic from case to case.

Maybe I could wade through Beginner I chapter 1 that way amd get around (if difficulty is really that high like in shown chapter examples).

With Busuu I'm stuck again at A2 lesson 39 (speaking/writing) and next lessons are all locked on the free account.

I learned a lot, but with my speaking (repeating aloud) focus a lot is still on the weaker side including single words.

But to be honest, the LingoLegend game isn't doing it much different exposing me too early to unknown concepts I have not learned before so I'll need to find a new learning approach.

For Spanish another game Langlandia exists.

Maybe more usable for a beginner (haven't installed or tried it)?

Is there upper-intermediate content?

You know, your Spanish CEFR course from English is ultra-long.

A beginner can't quickly grasp most grammar aspects with it.

But you've written already that you're finished with it (golden owl, L5 + further L6 Legendary), twice, within the last two years.

For a true Romance beginner (not you):

Duolingo alone might take you 2.9-3.88 years and longer and that previous calculation was only some simple math for finishing L0->L1 crown sessions (+ L1 reviews), not forced snake repetitions, based on my own Portuguese progress (pre-crown era).

A L1-L3 tree might be realistic too as I had re-strengthened my PT tree for the first 40-60 to max 70-75% tree half in the pre-crown area and that tree was later migrated and several skills were converted for L2, only a few are on L3.

But then you need to do much more lessons than only 1-2 L0 crown lessons per day + on top higher crowns lessons / snake repetitions.

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