Finding Success in Chinese Comprehension Open Ended Questions

Jun Kai joined us at the start of 2022. He had a sound foun­da­tion in Chi­nese, but strug­gled to score sim­i­lar­ly to his peers with a sim­i­lar lan­guage abil­i­ty, leav­ing him frus­trat­ed.

As dread­ed by many stu­dents, one such com­po­nent he did not score well in was the Com­pre­hen­sion Open End­ed com­po­nent. While under­stand­ing Com­pre­hen­sion pas­sages was­n’t much of a trou­ble for Jun Kai, he found him­self strug­gling to secure high marks for the Com­pre­hen­sion Open-End­ed Ques­tions. He had been los­ing marks even though he knew the answers, because he strug­gled to craft his answers in a man­ner that could secure marks in the exam­i­na­tions, which often proved cost­ly.

At Think Teach Acad­e­my, we break down the Com­pre­hen­sion Open End­ed com­po­nent into bite-sized parts, guid­ing stu­dents through our step-by-step approach in read­ing and answer­ing ques­tions.

For Com­pre­hen­sion Open-End­ed, we taught Jun Kai how to first cat­e­gorise each ques­tion into one of the 11 Com­pre­hen­sion Open End­ed ques­tion types and then to apply answer­ing tech­niques tai­lored to each ques­tion type to secure max­i­mum marks. This struc­tured approach and the respec­tive tech­niques helped Jun Kai to for­mu­late his answers well with greater pre­ci­sion and accu­ra­cy.

We are hap­py that Jun Kai man­aged to build up his con­fi­dence in tack­ling the Com­pre­hen­sion Open-End­ed Ques­tions, always striv­ing to achieve full marks for every ques­tion. His hard work paid off, and he showed impres­sive improve­ment, attain­ing a 78.5/90 marks from his pre­vi­ous 50.5/90 for his Paper 2. This got him a 2 AL jump from AL 6 to AL 4!