Contoh Soal UTBK Bahasa Inggris: Cara Menjawab Tipe Parafrase Kalimat

Soal Bahasa Inggris UTBK kerap memuat tipe pertanyaan parafrase kalimat. Pada tipe ini, peserta diminta memilih kalimat yang mengungkapkan kembali pernyataan pada soal tanpa mengubah maknanya.

Kunci mengerjakan soal parafrase adalah memahami inti kalimat yang ditanyakan. Setelah itu, bandingkan setiap opsi jawaban dan pilih yang memiliki maksud paling serupa. Keunggulan tipe soal ini, peserta tidak perlu membaca seluruh teks secara mendetail, melainkan cukup berfokus pada kalimat yang diminta untuk diparafrasekan.

Teks dan Contoh Soal

(Bacalah teks di bawah ini.)

Over the last two decades, the use of ICT has been an important topic in education. On the one hand, studies have shown that ICT can enhance teaching and learning outcomes.

For example, in science and mathematics education, scholars have documented that the use of ICT can improve students’ conceptual understanding, problem solving, and team working skills. Consequently, most curriculum documents state the importance of ICT and encourage school teachers to use them.

However, teachers need to specifically trained in order to integrate ICT in their teaching.

Schools are known to be resistant to innovation and change, however, the spread of ICT is beginning to affect how teachers teach.

One of the current issues about the use of ICT is how it is integrated into the curriculum. The curriculum document provides arguments for introducing ICT in the school setting.

Therefore, schools expect that graduates from teacher education programs have a reasonable knowledge of how to use ICT. However, this may not be the case because most current teachers’ pre-service preparation, and subsequent in-service courses were designed by using traditional educational technology and settings.

Thus, the participants in these courses are not familiar with the processes, interaction patterns, features, and possibilities of teaching learning processes based on ICT.

Pertanyaan

1. Which of the following best restates the sentence “Over the last two decades, the use of ICT has been an important topic in education. On the one hand, studies have shown that ICT can enhance teaching and learning outcomes.” in paragraph 1?

• A. Over the preceding two decades, studies have exposed that ICT can increase teaching and learning outcomes
• B. ICT usage has been a vital topic in education and studies indicate that ICT can develop teaching and learning upshot.
• C. Over the last two decades, the use of ICT has been an important topic in educational method.
• D. Studies have shown that ICT can enrich teaching and learning end result
• E. The use of ICT has been an insignificant topic in education. Also, studies have shown that ICT can enhance teaching and learning outcomes.

Jawaban

B. ICT usage has been a vital topic in education and studies indicate that ICT can develop teaching and learning upshot.

Pembahasan

Inti kalimat yang ditanyakan adalah bahwa penggunaan ICT/TIK menjadi topik penting dalam pendidikan selama dua dekade terakhir, dan hasil studi menunjukkan ICT dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar dan mengajar.

Dari pilihan yang tersedia, opsi B memuat dua gagasan utama tersebut: (1) penggunaan ICT merupakan hal penting dalam pendidikan, dan (2) studi menunjukkan ICT dapat meningkatkan hasil pembelajaran dan pengajaran. Karena maknanya paling sesuai dengan pernyataan pada soal, jawaban yang tepat adalah B.