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OFTPT Welcome Overseas Flight Training Preparation Test OFTPT Welcome Overseas Flight Training Preparation Test |
Practice listening tasks
To help you practise for the listening test, do the sample listening tasks on the next pages. The instructions below come from the actual test.
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Before the listening te
1. Make sure you are in a quiet room and have approximately 60 minutes to complete the listening and reading tests.
2. Use headphones.
3. It is better to complete the test on a desktop or laptop computer.
During the listening test
You will listen to recorded audio texts or videos. These are monologues and dialogues between air traffic controllers, pilots and flying instructors.
You should type or select your answers to a series of questions. These include questions that test your ability to understand main ideas and detailed factual information, and your ability to follow the development of ideas. A variety of voices and native-speaker accents are used.
You can listen to each recording only TWICE and check your answers immediately. You can also retry listening again for any incorrect answers you had. However, your overall score will be calculated after the first time you check your answers.
Each question is worth 1 mark. There are 40 marks in total
There is no time limit for this test. You will listen to the following texts:
Part 1 (2 monologues - 10 Marks)
A monologue of an Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) broadcast.
Part 2 (5 monologues - 10 marks)
A description of cockpit instruments and the external parts of an aircraft given by a flying instructor.
Part 3 (5 dialogues - 10 marks)
Task 1: Four short radiotelephony dialogues between an air traffic controller and a pilot in a routine flying situation.
Task 2: One longer radiotelephony dialogue between an air traffic controller communicating with four pilots flying in routine situations.
Part 4 (1 monologue - 10 marks)
A monologue pre-flight briefing given by a flying instructor.
After the listening test
The reading test follows this listening test.
After you complete both tests, you will receive your overall score and the score for each part of the listening test and reading test. You will also receive specific suggestions and learning activities for how you can develop your listening abilities based on how you answered the questions.
When you are ready to begin, navigate to the next page.
