Aptis reading Test: General Tips and Strategies

Write an email to your friend (about 50 words). Write about your feelings and what the club 
should do about the situation. You have 10 minutes.
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Write an email to the president of the club (about 120-150 words). Write about your feelings 
and what the club should do about the situation.
You have 20 minutes.
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How To Answer The Question? 
You can achieve a score of C1 or above in this section. The examiner assesses you on the following 
criteria: task fulfillment and register, grammatical range and accuracy, vocabulary range and 
accuracy, and cohesion. 
Task Fulfilment
This not only means answering the question fully but also answering in a way that you will achieve 
the result you want. In both the questions, you must write about your feelings and what you think the 
club should do 
Register
'Register' is the way we change our language in different situations, depending on the relationships 
between the speaker and listener, or the author and the intended reader. This is an important part of 

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language use. For example, your language choices will be different when you’re writing to a new 
business partner and when you’re writing to a friend. To be successful in part 4, you need to show 
that you can write in both casual and formal registers. 
The first question of part 4 asks you to write in an intimate or casual register (one used among 
family members and close friends). The second question asks you to write in a formal register (one 
used between strangers or in a business setting). Fortunately, there are standard expressions that we 
use in letter writing (see APYIS General Tips and Strategies) and you can use them for your 
response 
Punctuation
Using capitals correctly. Good use of commas. Full-stops at the end of sentences, correct use of 
question marks.