The Listening Comprehension section of Form 121 is often cited as the most grueling. The "top" difficulty rating usually goes to the dialogues involving inference.
| Subtype | Example | |---------|---------| | Sentence completion (vocab) | The opposite of “expensive” is ___ . → cheap | | Grammar (verb tenses, prepositions, modals) | If he ___ earlier, he wouldn’t have missed the bus. → had left | | Error recognition (underlined word/phrase) | She go to the store yesterday. → go → went | | Reading passage (1–2 short paragraphs) | Main idea, inference, detail questions | | Word order / scrambled sentences | to / wants / she / travel / abroad → She wants to travel abroad. | alcpt form 121 top
Vocabulary areas for Form 121:
Based on analyses of Forms 119–125, here are the top 20 critical words appearing repeatedly in Form 121: The Listening Comprehension section of Form 121 is
| Word | Meaning in Context | |------|--------------------| | Brief | Short or to instruct | | Delay | Postpone | | Permission | Authorization | | Avoid | Stay away from | | Require | Need | | Support | Help or sustain | | Manage | Succeed in doing | | Despite | Regardless of | | However | But / nevertheless | | Therefore | As a result | | Insist | Demand strongly | | Refuse | Say no | | Borrow | Take temporarily | | Lend | Give temporarily | | Occasionally | Sometimes | | Immediately | Right away | | Recently | Not long ago | | Perhaps | Maybe | | Common | Frequent or shared | | Entire | Whole | Based on analyses of Forms 119–125, here are