[Book & Exam] TU-GET

Hey,





I am sorry for having been disappear for a while. I have been extremely busy. Anyway, I know that wasn't a good excuse.





Okay... I went to take the TU-GET exam on December 26th at Thammasat University's Rangsit campus and I just knew my score nights ago.



The thing is that I will have to submit the TU-GET score to the doctoral program in business at Thammasat Business Schoool because they require either 100 points for iBT-TOEFL/ 7 points for IELTS, or 600 point for TU-GET. I have my above 100 points for iBT-TOEFL but the score expired in the passed August. So, I have to find a way to meet the requirement of the school.

I was thinking for a while and coming up that I should take the TU-GET because it is much cheaper than TOEFL and IELTS. The test fee is 500 baht, while both TOEFL and IELTS cost around 5,000 baht. 10 times cheaper...

I registered for the December round of the test and I also found many interesting information at this site http://www.tu.ac.th/org/litu/Banner/06/thai/tuget1.html. After that, I went pay the test fee at a branch of Kasikorn bank nearby my house. Usually, it may take around 5 to 10 days that you will see on the website if TU-GET administration gets your money or not, and you will be able to see your test room, seat number, and your test ID.

To prepare for the test, I baught the book TU-GET updated edition which is written by TGRE Institute Publications from Thammasat University' bookstore. It costs me 330 baht. Unfortunately, I just found on its website days ago that they offer cheaper price if you buy from the TGRE itself. D-m- it!

Here comes the book review! The book has 3 parts: Explaining the TU-GET test; TU-GET review which consists of Structure review, Vocabulary review, and Reading comprehension review; and 8 sets of the TU-GET test with answers and brief explanation.

Personally, I life the first 2 parts of the book. It is because they provide me what the test is and what it is looking for. Therefore, I spent days studying the first 2 parts religiously before getting myself into the third part. However, I took a diacnostic test even before studying the first 2 parts so that I knew what my strenghts and weaknesses are.

After taking the diacnostic test, i realized that my grammar sucks and my reading comprehension is even worse. I got around 60 questions correct out of 100 with almost less than 15 questions correct from the reading comprehension part. That was a big "wake up call" to me.

Given that I have a full-time job and a couple of part-time job, I barely have time for preparing for the test and I finally get myself soild four days to study just right before the exam.

On these 4 days, I reviewed the first 2 chapter, especially the reading comprehension part and I worked on a couple of the mock tests on the very last day before the exam. Still, I didn't score as well as I wanted to.

On the test day, I got to the Thammasat's Rangsit campus an hour early to make sure that I have everything I need, but I forgot to bring my test room number and my seat number with me. No worries, I told myself and walking to the test administration room to get the numbers. It went very well. I got the number and going to take the test very very soon.

The time came and I took the test quietly for 3 hours with my lucky 2B pencils that I used almost 7 years ago in my undergraduate entrance exam when I was a desperate high school student trying to get myself into the best university in Thailand.

I found that the actual TU-GET test I took is waaaaaaay easier than the mock TU-GET and the review parts' questions of the test preparation book I baught. I really thought that I got almost every question right, but, yeah, there were some questions that were extremely freaking hard.

I finished it and walked away and almost completely forgot about it since I saw in the website that it would take about 10 days until the score will pop up on my computer screen and given that it was the New Year hollidays, I was expecting that I would know my score around the 10th of January.

On the 2nd of January's night, I was wokring on my desktop and getting a strange feeling about TU-GET so I checked on the website again, thinking that my score would not be available yet. I checked it and it was so fast that I didn't close my eyes in time.

I was super scared when I saw that "THE SCORE WAS THERE!!!"

But it was too late. I saw it.

After days of studying, I have no regret. I got 220 out of 250 in the Structure part; 210 out of 250 in the Vocabulary part; and 420 out of 500 in the Reading comprehension part. Hence I got 850 points in total, meaning I got 58 questions right out of 100 questions since the test has 100 questions and each of them worth 10 points.

It was a very darn good score for a preson who prepared for the test for just 4 days... hehehe

Okay, I suggest that, if you are taking the test, you read this book--borrow it or buy it (doens't matter). It is a good test prep material since it is freaking harder than the actual test. Plus, the review part is a knock-out! I do hope that this article is helpful for those thnking about taking TU-GET or CU-TEP tests.

This is it for now.

Love you all,
Surada