ESL 195 - TEAS Prep Course for Medical Students

1. Employ strategies for taking standardized exams (i.e. setting up a study schedule, managing time, evaluating strengths/weaknesses).
2. Interpret common items found in reading passages such as shapes, scales, charts, graphs, maps, diagrams, and advertisements and recognize topics, themes, genres, main ideas, supporting details, purpose, logical predictions, inferences, conclusions, opinions, summaries, bias, guide words, and word groups in superior-level reading passages.
3. Identify and define words and homophones commonly misspelled by native English speakers and predict word meanings using prefixes, suffixes, and context clues.
4. Identify subject/verb agreement, pronouns, capitalization, punctuation, rephrasing, sentence types, parts of speech, clause markers, and person in superior-level texts.