여러분 안녕하세요. 애슐리 입니다.

If you have ever taken TOPIK (Test of proficiency in Korean: i.e. an official Korean language proficiency test) before, you may have come across the situation where you did not have enough time to finish listening test or you had problems to remember what the listening contents were about.

Actually, it is very common to have those problems in relation to the listening module since human’s brain has limited capacity to keep the contents what you listened to (especially when it is very new things) due to the limitation to the short term memory.

So what should you do? Here are some tips to overcome your listening issues when you deal with long listening passages. All tips were tested by me when I learned English and Japanese.

1. Do not waste the recording breaks

Did you know that you have at least 4-5 seconds between each group of questions? 4seconds seem very short but actually it is critical since you can prepare for your listening and pre-read the key words.

2. Write tiny memo on the test paper’s empty spaces

When you listen to the passages, you must write the key words, important information such as time and date that they say. It could be the simple solutions when you forgot the information

3. Oops, you missed it! Then just let it go.

It is very frustrated when you missed the contents. However, it happens to everyone. Just let it go and focus on the next passage because if you keep thinking about your mistakes that you have missed already and cannot focus on the following contents, you may lose the rest of the questions.

Good luck with your TOPIK!