what are the most common essays that usually came out in MUET i want to memorize them

You don't memorize, you read.
Read more newspapers

writing essays is not about memorizing... just my opinion...

How BN has made Malaysia prosperous.
Sedition act, the greatness of national protection.
My country is not your country, outsider perspective.
Your company should be share with me.
Contract for our bother, you shall not find out.

if you can write this stuff in a positive light, sure PASS

1. There's no common essays. Most of the essays that came out completely left candidates thunderstruck, including the latest July paper.

2. Memorising is not going to be helpful.

So, what can we do to prepare ourselves for the upcoming MUET test?

Oh, and by the way, can you please recommend any MUET book that you used in the past specifically for reading and listening? It's because I've recently came to realize that for most of the reading and listening section in Oxford(Ace Ahead) and model test papers(ILMU BAKTI), the questions posed are fairly straightforward. Even certain questions in listening are of no-brainer.

And my MUET teacher reminds us countless times that the questions that are in most revision books published out there are extremely easy that those from the real MUET papers.

Your teacher is right. I bought a few books for practice but none of them is as tough as the actual MUET questions.

In my opinion, all you can do now is, when you sit for the exam, pay full attention, read the passages carefully and analyse the options extremely carefully.

The passages are taken from articles meant for first speakers (you could tell from the source it quotes), and the multiple choice options are very close to each other. So just analyse carefully.

The fact that all passages are factual and are boring are not helpful either.

As for writing, well, when I sat for the exam, I got this question:

"Women made better leader than men. Discuss" (MUET November 2012).

I was like....WTF?? There's no fact to this. This truly assesses you ability to argue.

I'm having trouble differentiating the choices of False and Not Stated in Reading Section so far, while the rest is quite alright. How would you explicitly recognize the difference in both of them? Oftentimes I got wrong for that type of question.

And again, same goes to the essay section. Most of the question that my teacher gave us for practicing are far more easier than the ones you had in real MUET exams. I'm having trouble elaborating and stuffing further facts in my essays, besides having the inclination to keep rehashing my previous points or statement in a single paragraph for most of the time. And occasionally, I can hardly finish my essay under the time limit.

If i'm not mistaken the topic that is given from july paper was about the social thingy right? when university etc

This post has been edited by degraw1993: Oct 21 2014, 08:37 PM

I'm not good at that too. Sometimes 'false' and 'not stated' both seem fit to me.

As for essays, all you need to write is 3 points, and you elaborate maturely. Childish elaboration like the ones you wrote for SPM is no longer encouraged.

Read how the columnist write in The Star, that's how you're expected to present your argument.

However, if you're unable to do so, at least minimise grammar errors.

Ya, the question is something like "unbalanced number of boys and girls pursuing tertiary education causes social problem".

No one would thought that coming. I don't even think there's any articles out there that argues about this lol.

Lol and i wouldn't even thought of getting band 2 Really sad liao.

Sitting for November session? Just keep your fingers crossed. Haha

Getting band 3 is easy. Getting band 4 is not very tough too. Getting Band 5 requires some luck, while Band 6 is virtually impossible.

Nope already took the july paper lo. One marks almost to band 3 lol.

Oh. Resit ya! Get at least band 3 is better haha!

Resit but need to pay for money again liao Idk but why i didn't get band 3. I got 139 sigh. Maybe that was last minute preparation lol.

That was the exact same essay practice that we did in the class. And heck, at the end of it, our teacher had to give out the points to us. It was supposed to be an exam-style practice by the way...

If I can hardly perform well during practicing my MUET essay, I wonder how will I fare in the real exam. And not to mention that the real MUET exam questions are a tougher nut to crack compared to the ones that we are revising in class hitherto...

For the MUET(July session), 60++ candidates from my school took the exam. And out of the total of roughly 63 candidates, only 24 students were able to achieve Band 4, 23 students were able to graze Band 3, and the rest of the 16 candidates were below Band 2.

A handful of my seniors in my school are considered good and proficient when it comes to conversing and writing in English. But, for the fact that they resit the exams for more than once and only able to gain a solid Band 4 in the end really proves that MUET is not a joke, albeit the fact that it's slightly easier than IELTS or TOEFL.

In my school's history, the number of candidates who obtained Band 5 and above are extremely scarce. The latest candidate who achieved Band 5 was in 2009,and that was like 5 years ago...

no use to memorize them.

1. do past year questions, to get use to the question's logic and direction.

2. read newspaper or magazine to study how others elaborate their points, and steal some words that you think might be useful in writing essay.

3. practise english conversations, or even have a small debate to discuss something among your other classmates, purpose is to point out grammatical mistake or pronunciation problem with each other and get use to talk in english.

I have done it around 14 years ago ... so I already not sure how's muet has evolved now ... hopefully still the same last time I got the result is band 4 or band 5 something (forgot liao), oral is the hardest to me ... cause you have to immediately say something without thinking much (cause I seldom chat with classmates in english )

Contradict to yours, Band 5 achievers in my school nare plenty. 10+ out of 60+ each year. I(band 5) even managed to score 15 more marks away from the band 6 border line. I have to say MUET is relatively easy compared to ELTS

This post has been edited by Jay Chua CC: Oct 21 2014, 10:55 PM

Would you mind telling me which school you're from?