Protocole de vitesse : survoler, cibler, vérifier
P46.b2-reading.23 · Audience: guest, language-pro, it-ml
Unité CE-19 · campagne 17 · lire moins pour répondre mieux.
Sixty minutes, two texts, a dozen questions: the CE paper is a time-boxed retrieval task, and reading every word twice is how candidates run out of clock. This unit installs a three-gesture protocol you will carry into the final run and into the exam room.
| Gesture | What you do | Budget |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Survoler | Title, chapeau, first sentence of each paragraph — build the map. | 30 s per text |
| 2. Cibler | Underline the question's mot-clé, jump to the paragraph the map suggests. | 15 s per question |
| 3. Vérifier | Re-read the whole sentence around the keyword before answering. | 20 s per answer |
The third gesture is the one that saves points. Keyword-matching alone walks straight into the literal traps of CE-18: the hurried reader who spots essentiel and pollinisation answers vrai to « les abeilles domestiques assurent l'essentiel de la pollinisation » — while the full sentence says les pollinisateurs sauvages… loin devant l'abeille domestique. Target fast, verify slow.
Run the arithmetic once and the protocol sells itself: for eight questions on a 600-word text, search time totals under six minutes. Everything else becomes lecture fine — slow, attentive reading — spent exclusively on the sentences that pay. Speed here is not reading faster; it is reading less, in the right places.
The items mix method checks with live application on a wild-pollinators text (bourdons, abeilles solitaires, syrphes — and five billion euros a year of unpaid work). Practise the gestures in order, even when the answer seems obvious from the survol: the habit is the deliverable.
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