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CELPIP Practice Listening: Problem Solving ID: #62080 Medium University Subjects and Student Interests
Instructions ›
  • You will hear a conversation in 3 sections. You will hear each section only once.
  • After each section, you will hear 2 or 3 questions. You will hear the questions only once.
  • Choose the best answer to each question.
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Correct Answer: To help her choose the major subject.

Why this is correct: She needs the advisor to help her choose her major subject.

Tips: Listen for the detail that answers this question: To help her choose the major subject.

Why the other options are wrong:

  • The number of subjects she should take.: She needs a major choice, not a count of subjects.
  • The number of sessions required for each subject.: She does not ask how many sessions each subject requires.
  • To choose the minor subjects for her course.: Declaring a major is different from choosing minor subjects.

Correct Answer: If she had made any choices for the major.

Why this is correct: The advisor asks whether she has possible majors in mind.

Tips: Listen for the detail that answers this question: If she had made any choices for the major.

Why the other options are wrong:

  • If she would continue with the minors.: He asks for possible majors rather than whether she will keep her minors.
  • If she was in the final year.: He does not ask whether she is in her final year.
  • If she had consulted his fellows.: He does not ask whether other advisors have been consulted.

Correct Answer: Maths, Science and Business.

Why this is correct: She rules out science, mathematics and business.

Tips: Listen for the detail that answers this question: Maths, Science and Business.

Why the other options are wrong:

  • Tourism, Science and Maths.: Tourism is not among the subjects she rules out; business is.
  • Business, Maths and Fashion Designing.: Fashion design is not rejected; science is.
  • The subjects she studies as minors.: She names particular subjects rather than rejecting all her minors.

Correct Answer: She likes many subjects.

Why this is correct: She is undecided because several subjects interest her.

Tips: Listen for the detail that answers this question: She likes many subjects.

Why the other options are wrong:

  • She does not like any subject.: She likes several subjects, so a lack of interest is not the problem.
  • She has no good options to choose from.: She has several appealing choices rather than no good choices.
  • Her teacher has already chosen major for her.: No teacher has already chosen her major.

Correct Answer: English.

Why this is correct: She identifies English as a favourite school subject.

Tips: Listen for the detail that answers this question: English.

Why the other options are wrong:

  • Philosophy.: Philosophy is discussed as a current interest, not her named high-school favourite.
  • Psychology.: Psychology is a current class she finds interesting.
  • Literature.: Literature is an interest, but she specifically names English when discussing high school.

Correct Answer: She has already attended a few classes.

Why this is correct: The advisor says classes she has already taken satisfy first-year journalism requirements. Those completed classes would therefore give her a head start.

Correct Answer: She may not like it after a few sessions.

Why this is correct: She worries that she may discover she does not enjoy journalism after trying it.

Tips: Listen for the detail that answers this question: She may not like it after a few sessions.

Why the other options are wrong:

  • She will surely like the subject.: She is uncertain whether she will enjoy journalism.
  • She will be able to pursue career in journalism.: She does not yet promise to pursue journalism as a career.
  • She will try journalism only to please the advisor.: Her concern is whether she will like the subject, not pleasing the advisor.

Correct Answer: It is open for 8 hours every weekday.

Why this is correct: Eight in the morning to four in the afternoon is eight hours each weekday.

Tips: Listen for the detail that answers this question: It is open for 8 hours every weekday.

Why the other options are wrong:

  • It is open 24X7 except Saturday.: The stated weekday hours are not a round-the-clock service.
  • It is open to students all days of the week.: Every weekday excludes a claim that the office opens every day of the week.
  • The advisor can be asked for on appointments.: The advisor gives opening hours rather than restricting access to appointments.

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