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Final exam: 60 minutes performance time (15 min reading/answering)
Break after 60 minutes
Three formats: report, email/document, written task
Formats vary each year; examples include:
- Formal email about digital detox in engineering company
- Blog comment on reducing work hours
- Analysis of services introduction at fitness center
Listening test: four sets with decreasing time per set (45 min total), final minute to copy answers
Nanotechnology example: silver particles used for absorbing smells, potentially dangerous due to germs
Germs synonym: bacteria
Cell water function unknown

Micelles keep liquids/fluids on while taking away bad stuff (germs, make-up dirt).
Micelle water keeps skin moisturized.
Water repellent tiles should resist liquid spills and heat exposure.
Speaking task always includes a situation/scenario.
Situation helps set context for formal English monologue.
Monologue preparation time: 30 minutes.
Pop science can include stunts/experiments; both pros and cons mentioned.
Pros: entertaining, checks facts, explains concepts.
Cons: may leave out details, oversimplified explanations.
Common knowledge needed to avoid long searches during dialogue.
Vision creation vital for persuasive projects.
Stakeholders involved in proposals/projects.

Vision: Show clear, concise vision; prepare financially before presenting.
Questions: Be prepared to answer questions about timelines, milestones.
Clarity: Deliver end result clearly within 5-10 minutes.
Timeline: Draw up achievable timeline with contingencies (unexpected circumstances).
Prioritization: Break down tasks into small jobs; prioritize effectively.
Estimation: Estimate task duration & value based on experience.
Dependencies: Identify tasks dependent on others' completion.
Milestones: Set checkpoints/milestones regularly.
Monitoring: Have supervisor monitor progress; provide regular updates.
Skills Audit: Not feasible due to size of project.

Budget: overall money spent; estimated intended expenditure
Margin: limit to the budget for unforeseen contingencies
Shortfall: missing resources or not enough of the resources
Timeline: plan with starting and finishing points
Stakeholder: person or organization presenting ideas on a project with an interest
Milestone: significant point in time within a timeline

Engagement rings shown on left hand before marriage, moved to right side upon wedding
Support: fact that some people seek help while others don't
Achievable: verb is achieve; last achievement was making fifth grade
Benefit: important positive word in job applications
Disadvantage opposite of benefit
Discussing benefits vs drawbacks always necessary
Students struggle more with talking about weaknesses than strengths
To persuade vs convince: slight difference, convincing involves facts/numbers
Convincing person known for providing facts/numbers
Convince noun is conviction
Prioritize adjective is prioritized, noun is priority
Mark emails as high priority using exclamation marks but avoid overuse

Cry wolf story: boy cried wolf while looking over sheep; village did not believe him after actual wolf attack
Dependency: depend (preposition: "on")
Top reasons for IT project failures:
- Lack of complete requirements
- Lack of user involvement
- Other (tricky, realistic)
Statistics critique:
- Decimals in chart (e.g., 13.1) seem strange and could be simplified
- Unclear origin/source of numbers
- High shelf of numbers due to small sample size (15 respondents)
Presentation categories:
- Lack of complete requirements
- Lack of user involvement
- Other
Working in an IT company means expecting detailed formal requirements from customers
Common issue: missing or incomplete requirements leading to failure

Unrealistic expectations from clients
Lack of executive support
Technology illiteracy (basic knowledge missing)
Clients expect detailed technical understanding without providing necessary background

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The volunteer in today, a very simple question for all of you who already know or on a written exam.
There was a second written exam on Friday. Why? Could be that they failed? Yes?
No, there was nothing faulty? No. What could happen in June? Does everybody just, as you sit here, hmm, expert, tell us, does everybody just get from the fifth grade to the final exam?
Then either you say, okay, you repeat the class, or if you get one or two, then you have to do repetition exams, and if you pass them, then you're allowed to take the test.
How does the written English exam start? Which skill is the first one?
What do you think you will find it out on the day of the final exam you will come along and eight
After the fourth there's just one minute left and then they say end of the test
The exam we always look it up. What is it? What is it?
then they say, okay, sorry, we're not going to fund a project,
You yourself know in two weeks' time there is an English test and there's a math test,
Would you focus on the English test?
No, but it would be the logical thing to do, to make short steps towards the English test.
Somebody and to test him and then tell him they don't have the skill set for the project
We are not getting into details with the African schools because I think you're not going to do it in Africa.
I think I would not add this one to an oral exam because I think he would criticize me.