Reading a passage in an interview
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Reading a passage in an interview
When a school gives a child a passage to read in an interview and then they are asked questions, do you think they'll be looking for hidden sub-texts or will it be a general understanding of the meaning and things like authorial (is that a real word?!) devices?
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Re: Reading a passage in an interview
It is just spoken comprehension. Exactly the same as doing a comprehension paper. It will be literary devices, language, sentence structure etc. DG
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Re: Reading a passage in an interview
My dd read a passage and was asked about inferences and her opinion about what the subject was feeling and why. She was also asked to read a scene from My Fair Lady with expression. My husband and I could hear her through closed doors reading passionately and with a dodgy cockney accent!
Re: Reading a passage in an interview
Thank you for the swift responses! We'll have a little practise this weekend.
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Re: Reading a passage in an interview
Don't do what I did interviewing for South Hampstead in 1983: I was asked to read a passage out loud, I thought it was just a test to see how well you read. I read it beautifully but didn't take it in at all and then had a shock when I was asked questions on the passage. I just wanted to cry and was too shy to explain. Hence no place
So glad children are better prepared these days.
So glad children are better prepared these days.
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Re: Reading a passage in an interview
That's so funny!Middlesexmum wrote:Don't do what I did interviewing for South Hampstead in 1983: I was asked to read a passage out loud, I thought it was just a test to see how well you read. I read it beautifully but didn't take it in at all and then had a shock when I was asked questions on the passage. I just wanted to cry and was too shy to explain. Hence no place
So glad children are better prepared these days.
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One might also hope that perhaps the interviewer could make what they wanted a little clearer, by adding something like, 'and then we will have a chat about what you've read to us', before the candidate started?Middlesexmum wrote:Don't do what I did interviewing for South Hampstead in 1983: I was asked to read a passage out loud, I thought it was just a test to see how well you read. I read it beautifully but didn't take it in at all and then had a shock when I was asked questions on the passage. I just wanted to cry and was too shy to explain. Hence no place
So glad children are better prepared these days.
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Re: Reading a passage in an interview
Yes you'd have thought so toadmum. Even as a 10 year old I thought it was unfair they hadn't told me in advance what was expected.