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The test is made up of four sections At the end of the test, you will have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet.

Now turn to section one listening.

Section one you will hear a conversation between a man and a woman concerning the requirements of running for municipal office.

First you have some time to look at questions one 25.

You will see that there is an example this time only the conversation relating to this question will be played.

Good morning.

You've reached the information office for Municipal Affairs.

This is Florence speaking.

Good morning Florence.

My name is walter and I'd like some information on running for municipal office in the upcoming election.

You're in the right place.

The first piece of information I'll need from you is the specific office you'd like to run for town councilor.

I'd imagine the man says he would like to run for town councilor.

So this has been indicated for you.

Now we begin.

You should answer the questions as you listen because you will not hear the recording a second time.

Listen carefully And Answions Questions 1 - five.

Good morning.

You've reached the information office for municipal Affairs.

This is Florence speaking.

Good morning Florence.

My name is walter and I'd like some information on running for municipal office in the upcoming election.

You're in the right place.

The first piece of information I'll need from you is the specific office you'd like to run for?

Town councilor I'd imagine.

Great.

I need some information from you in order to get you on the ballot.

This september.

Are you ready to get started?

Yes, I'm ready.

This should only take a few minutes.

Okay then let's start with your surname.

Walter.

Colchester.

C O L C h E S T E R.

And walter is spelled in the regular fashion.

Yes.

W A L T E R.

Okay.

Next I need your date of birth.

I was born 11 December 1979.

11 December 1979.

Makes you 36 years old at the time of the September elections.

Is this correct?

Yes, that's correct.

Great.

I'll need your national insurance number.

My national Insurance number is WC 285 698 33 WC 28569833.

That's right.

Great.

And the last pieces of information I need from you are your current address and phone number.

I live at 23 Shaftesbury Lane Plymouth.

And you can reach me on 01752 667 835.

Wonderful.

Next I'll give you some information on running for municipal office.

You now have some time to look at questions 6-10.

Now listen to the rest of the interview And answer questions six 2 10 First of all you should know that you are one of 15 candidates so far that have registered for the four town councilor positions Since the deadline for registration is in a week.

I do not anticipate this number increasing by more than a candidate or two second.

Please know that there are three all candidate debates of which you must attend to in order to qualify for office.

I have to participate in debates.

Yes that's right.

They are on the 14th and 28 August and the final one is held on four September.

They will be held at the local community hall on Ashford Street.

Each one begins at 6:00 in the evening.

That sounds fine.

Is there anything else I need to know?

Yes there is.

Do you plan on spending money on your campaign?

This could be on adverts in newspapers, promotional signage or other advertising.

Well I was planning on taking an ad out in the local paper.

Yes not a problem.

But please keep in mind that there is a strict £2,000 limits on campaign spending for town councilors.

All expenses must be reported to this office, overspending will result in disqualification.

I don't think that should be a problem.

Oh and one more thing.

Mr Colchester.

There is a £50 registration fee for each candidate for town councilor you may pay this fee over the phone by credit card with a check in the post or in person with cash.

Credit or debit.

How would you like to pay?

I live right by the office so I'll drop by this afternoon to pay in person.

My assistant will take care of that for you.

I think that is all I need from my end.

Do you have any questions?

I don't think so.

Thanks for your help.

You're welcome and good luck.

That is the end of Section one.

Now turn to section two.

Take some time to look at questions 11 - 16.

You will hear a recording of three people discussing strategy for an upcoming meeting with investors First.

You have some time to look at questions 11-16.

Now listen carefully to the interview And Answions Questions 11 - 16.

Thank you both for coming in for this preparatory meeting.

As you know, we have an extremely important meeting with our investors next week.

While I am more than confident in the work we have done over the past year, we must be prepared to justify our progress to our investors.

After all, they are the ones who pay our salaries first.

I want to review the positive outcomes we've achieved over the past year.

This will make up the bulk of our presentation.

Amy, would you like to give us a rundown on this front?

Sure.

We have achieved many positive outcomes over the past year and furthermore.

We've achieved more in the past four months than in the previous eight months.

So we're certainly showing significant progress First and most important sales of our app are up 50% from last year.

Totalling 586,000 units in the past 12 months.

Up from 390,000 units in the previous year.

This is great progress 2nd.

We are achieving a higher purchase rate While our sales are up 50%,, the number of total downloads has remained relatively constant.

This means our conversion rate has increased 50% as well.

This clearly demonstrates that our efforts in this area have been fruitful by targeting the conversion rate instead of the raw download rate.

We have raised our standing and search result priority within the application stores.

This will eventually lead to a higher download rate and even more sales.

The upward trajectory here is very clear.

We have also decreased the complaint rate from 2.5% to 1.5%.

While our goal is to get this rate as close to zero as possible.

This decrease represents a positive outcome and shows that our efforts to increase customer satisfaction have been successful.

Yes, but if I may interrupt, I actually have to disagree on one point, I don't believe it should be a goal to get the complaints rate down to zero.

While we certainly don't want a high complaint rate, the resources spent on getting the complaint rate down are better spent on increasing downloads and increasing the conversion rate.

I think this is an important point to be made to the investors.

While we certainly value the quality of our product, we are much more focused on maximizing the value of the investors investment.

I think such attack will go over well with the investors.

You now have some time to look at questions 17-20.

Now listen to the rest of the interview and answer questions 17 to 20.

That's a great point.

I really want to emphasize that we are doing everything we can to optimize and maximize the money when resources we've been supplied with.

Speaking of which We all agreed that we will be asking for 20% increase in operating budget.

Yes, yes.

Good.

And how are you going to justify such an increase?

Well, certainly by pointing to the statistical outcomes he previously referenced but also by our need to expand, we need to increase our catalog of apps and to do this, we will need to hire at least two additional developers.

In addition to this.

I think we are now at the point in our business, we're hiring a market analyst will be justified.

Such a person could be charged with finding niches to exploit within the market right now.

Our operations in this regard are rudimentary at best, an expert in the field could help increase ourselves volume significantly.

Such an expert salary might take up 5% of our operating budget but could lead to a 10% increase in sales or more.

The 5% difference would result in a net income increase of almost £100,000. I agree hiring a market analyst is long overdue.

One more justification for a budget increase is an across the board pay rise.

If only at the rate of inflation 2% say this would go a long way to increasing worker morale and output quality.

In addition to this, That is the end of Section two, you will now have half a minute to check your answers.

Let's take a look at the answer key and see how many you got correct.

Remember spelling matters and capitalization matters.

You can write in all uppercase letters if you wish and your answers with correct spelling will be scored as one point.

Once you have counted up your total correct answers, you can add these two parts three and four of the listening in the next video, then go to our website at a help dot com forward slash score calculator and you can convert your raw score into your band score.

Let's check out your correct answers.

Now, alright, now that you know how many correct answers you have here are some tips and strategies for your next listening to get even more correct answers and higher band scores, tip number one.

While you listen to the instruction audio at the very beginning of the listening section, this is about 90 seconds.

The narrator will tell you that you can only listen once and that you should answer the questions while you listen and so forth.

During this 90 seconds.

Both in the paper and computer based exam, you can look through the topics and questions of parts 23 and four and that's exactly what you need to do, identify the topic, what the speakers are discussing so that your brain can start thinking about this information and it will be more ready and more able once you actually get to that audio, this can really help you to pick up at least a half extra band score strategy number to visualize while you listen.

It's very important that you try to picture the information that you're hearing in the audio when you create images in your mind, you will make sense of the information much more and you will be able to answer the questions faster and more accurately even as you're preparing and reviewing the questions, start imagining the information that you are looking at this will greatly help you improve for more listening practice as well as an interactive course video lessons and practice exams visit and join our premium Eilts package at e help dot com.

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