MUET Duet

Hi there folks! How is your week so far???
Mine started off with me sitting for my English exam known as MUET in Malaysia~ (Muet stands for Malaysian University English Test)

The test I sat for today was a speaking test and just like any other ordinary test, exam nervousness attacked me first thing in the morning! YIKES!

Lucky for me my test session was the 1st of the day and it started at 8am in the morning!!!! Yes I am not kidding! 8AM! In fact, all speaking candidates of session 1 had to gather at the exam venue by 7.30am! ugghhh..... I was sleepy and nervous! Not a cool combination at all!!!!

My test went quite smoothly I should say... I probably should thank my groupmates for this as well ... :) We were grouped into groups of 4 and each group had a time slot for their exams. My time slot was at 9am so I didn't have to wait long in the quarantine room before the test started.

In the QUARANTINE room~
The quarantine room was really dull this morning... Possibly because it was really early and most of the candidates had been yawning since I first saw them outside of the quarantine room. Can't blame them for yawning though as I myself had been yawning every 2 minutes before my group was called out to enter our speaking test designated room. MOst of the candidates slept on the table, some even chatttered away to let the nervousness subside... What did I do? I did the former of course :p

My groupmates were a bunch of joyful Indian girls~ (they were the ones chatting non-stop in the quarantine room haha!) But the fact that they had already known each other prior to this test made me feel a bit left out during our group discussion (part B of the speaking module. Part A was an individual presentation). However, not all is lost as they were nice girls and they did give me chances to speak out my viewpoints as well as to voice out my opinions :) Thank you girls~!

The speaking test topic: The people important in our society
I would say that our test topic was rather vague as the term 'important in our society' gave this question a lot of ways of tackling it. But we did not go so deep into segregating each importance and just stuck to important as being 'IMPORTANT.' (I hope that you guys get me here...)

The choice of people given: Teachers, Doctors, The police, Religious leaders
Each of us were given a fixed role to talk about. We could not choose our choice of people yet in Part A of the speaking test. Guess which group of people did I have to vouch for? I'll give you a hint~ It's a group that handles very sensitive issues in our society~

Each of the candidates in our group was given 2 minutes each to present~ trust me 2 minutes in a speaking exam can seem like foreverrrrrrr~ I spoke less than 2 minutes which is rather odd for me as I usually can speak for hours/minutes with my friends.... Yes true the topic may not exactly be the topic of my choice but still... less than 2 minutes seemed odd for me.... oh well~

LAter in the group discussion we had to discuss and decide whom was MOST important in society. This was like an open discussion where anyone and everyone can voice out what they wanted to. My groupmates were really chatty so our discussion proved to be fun and quite fruitful in the end (^^) Yay~

Many people see speaking tests as hurdles in MUET exams as English may not be their mother tongues or first language. But trust me, there is really nothing to fear. If you are confident with your points, no matter how little English that you speak, all would turn out well in the end. So be confident and read up on some English materials before coming to an exam. A good English read would be the newspaper~ If you are feeling lazy to read then you can watch the news or even movies as it gives you a rough idea of how to pronounce certain words and it also helps to build up your vocab~ Do not and I mean DO NOT use the vulgar words in movies though! Even slanged words gain you no merit points in this exam~ So peeps taking your MUET anytime in the future, GOOD LUCK and BE confident! You can do it since I did it too~ :)