Advanced 12 Midterm Exam

MIDTERM EXAM
Course: ADVANCED 12 (AV12)

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PART 1 (READING)
Read the text. Are these statements true (T) or false (F)? Correct the sentences that
are false.
Sugata Mitra was born in Kolkata, India, in 1952. After finishing his schooling in Delhi, he
completed a degree in physics at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He then studied at the Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi, first receiving an MSc in physics, in which he specialized in
quantum biology and acoustic holography, and then, in 1978, earning a PhD in the theoretical
physics of organic semiconductors. Over the next few years, Mitra held a number of academic
positions at IIT, including Research Associate, Senior Scientific Officer and Product Development
Manager.
On leaving IIT in 1983, Mitra became Head of Technology and then Director of Publishing
Systems at two of India's leading publishing companies. Following this, from 1990 to 2006, he was
Chief Scientist at NIIT Limited, a training and software services company, where he was
responsible for research and development in education, media and communications technology. In
2006, Mitra returned to academia and became Professor of Educational Technology at the School
of Education, Communication and
Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK.
Mitra has been credited with over 25 inventions and innovations in the area of cognitive science
and education technology, for which he has received a number of awards. He is perhaps most
widely known for his and NIIT's groundbreaking 1999 'Hole in the Wall' experiment, in which a
computer was placed in a kiosk in a wall in a slum area in Delhi for children to use freely and
which demonstrated that children can learn on their own very easily without any formal guidance
or training. Mitra subsequently termed this Minimally Invasive Education (MIE) and he has
become internationally recognized as a leading proponent of this. Research in MIE has led to The
School in the Cloud, an educational programme which Mitra started in 2013 and which he
describes as a 'global experiment in self-organized learning'. To help get The School in the Cloud
off the ground, Mitra was awarded the $1 million TED Prize in 2013.
1. Mitra's early academic background was in IT and education.
2. Mitra worked at the Indian Institute of Technology until 1983 and then again from 1990
to 2006.
3. The 'Hole in the Wall' experiment was designed to test MIE.
4. Mitra received the $1 million TED Prize to support The School in the Cloud.
Other TED speakers are interested in topics similar to Sugata Mitra's TED Talk. Read
the descriptions of four TED Talks. In your opinion, which is the best title for this
playlist, a, b or c?
a. Pupil power in learning

b. Beyond the classroom
c. Learning from children
Read the TED playlist again. Find a speaker who ...
1. realized the power of online learning.

2. wants us to change our adult perspective on the world.
3. isn't interested in exams.
4. encourages students to have more faith in their own abilities.
Find words or phrases in the TED playlist that mean the same as the words and phrases (a–d).
a. programme of learning
b. revolutionary
c. addresses
d. genius
PART 2 (GRAMMAR)
Match the quotation halves. Do the quotations express something real and/or
possible (R) or something unreal, hypothetical or imaginary (U)?
1. If I had my choice,
2. If you think education is expensive,
3. I love teaching. If I made a trillion dollars,
4. If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging,
5. I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd
been intent on really teaching you things,
6. Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, calibre, and future of an
individual.
If the people remember me as a good teacher,
a. try ignorance. (Derek Bok, lawyer and educator)

b. we’re going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields. (Michael
Bennet, businessman, lawyer and politician)
c. every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.
(Gregory Meeks, politician)
d. I would have been a little more attentive. (Diane Cilento, actress)
e. I would still teach. It’s different every day. You get to meet intelligent people all the time
– or at least most of the time. (Richard Bausch, author)
f. that will be the biggest honour for me. (A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India)
Complete the text with the correct form of the words in brackets.
It is well documented that you don't have to have a university education to be a success. And even
if you (1) (go) to university, you (2) (not / have to) see it
through to graduation to become successful. We all know that if the likes of Bill Gates, Paul Allen,
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (3) (finish) their studies instead of
dropping out to start Microsoft and Apple respectively, then the world (4) (may /
not / quite / be) the place it is today. But here are four people who have made their mark and who
have become successful, rich and famous without completing their university courses. Things (5)
(may / be) very different for Warren Buffett if he (6)
(not / drop) out of the University of Pennsylvania in 1949 to pursue a more
business-oriented course at the University of Nebraska. Buffett went on to become the world's
most successful investor and one of the greatest and most generous philanthropists of all time.
If it (7) (not / be) for his generosity, the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation (8) (not / benefit) from the $37billion donation he
made in 2006.
PART 3 (WRITING)
0-10 = 0 11-13 = 1 14 – 16 = 2 17-20 = 3

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3. The 'Hole in the Wall' experiment was designed to test MIE.

a. Pupil power in learning

Read the TED playlist again. Find a speaker who ...

1. realized the power of online learning.

a. try ignorance. (Derek Bok, lawyer and educator)

0-10 = 0 11-13 = 1 14 – 16 = 2 17-20 = 3

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