This is a 100 WPM mock examination entitled "A Business Threatened By The Winter Season."

If you wish to go straight to the audio only dictation, you can find that here on Soundcloud.

This passage has been written with a view to revising the practice of disjoining S when "s vowel s" comes into a word.  This is usually done at the end of a word.  The idea is that disjoining the s is quicker than joining two "ss" together with an indicator, which is slow to write.  

If you feel the need to revise this thoroughly, you will find additional guidance here in Beginners lesson 18 at 11:40.  There I talk about this disjoined s being written at the beginning of a word as well.

Note: I use the disjoined "S" as a special outline for "suspect" and derivatives of that word, because these words are often included in exam passages about crime.  

So suspect, suspected, and suspicious are words I write with a disjoined S at the beginning.

The following analysis identifies the words used in this mock examination and sorts them by frequency. Based on the research, the NGSL list shows that 2,801 words (out of more than the 600,000 words in the English language) typically cover more than 85% of the words you are likely to come across in books, newspaper articles, movies and/or television. It pays to know them well.

In this case, the Top 1,000 NGSL words make up almost 75% of this exam alone!

The New General Service List(NGSL), developed by Dr. Charles Browne, Dr. Brent Culligan and Joseph Phillips in 2013, is a list of 2,801 words which comprise the most important high-frequency words in English, giving the highest possible coverage with the fewest possible words. Although there are over 600,000 words in English, the 2,801 words of the NGSL give over 90% coverage. The NGSL was created using a 273 million word subsection of the two billion word Cambridge English Corpus, meaning its corpus was over 100 times as large as that used for the original General Service List (GSL).

The New Academic Word List (NAWL), developed by Dr. Charles Browne, Dr. Brent Culligan and Joseph Phillips in 2013, is a list of 963 words which frequently appear in academic texts, but which are not contained in the New General Service List (NGSL). The NAWL was developed based on a study of a 288 million word academic corpus, consisting of academic journals, non-fiction, student essays, academic discourse, and best-selling academic textbooks.

NGSL Top 1k words (1-1,000): a, activities, activity, again, air, all, also, always, and, are, around, arrived, as, attention, back, basis, because, begin, begins, benefit, big, brings, building, buses, business, businesses, but, can, care, challenges, children, close, cold, colour, comes, conditions, continue, daily, day, days, designs, despite, determined, done, down, draws, early, enjoys, everyone, fall, fight, filling, following, for, from, further, goes, great, grown, hand, hard, has, her, him, homes, houses, husband, I, in, is, it, keep, keeps, know, like, local, long, loses, love, make, manages, many, more, mornings, need, nights, not, note, of, off, often, on, once, one, our, out, outside, owns, paid, pass, pays, people, person, plants, playing, please, purchases, purchasing, put, real, related, rises, season, several, she, shop, simply, smile, sound, special, such, tends, thank, the, their, them, these, they, this, throughout, time, to, touch, town, turning, us, water, which, who, will, with, work, world, would, you

NGSL Top 2k words (1,001-2,000): accuses, arises, atmosphere, beauty, crisis, display, dry, eventually, exposes, extreme, flower, flowers, opposes, prevent, routes, snow, spring, threat, threatens, usual, warm, weather, winter

NGSL Top 3k words (2,001 +): craft, determination, eases, excitement, grasses, joy, laughter, poses, resist, stir, suspend

New Academic Word List (NAWL)words: complement, doses, historically, spraying

Off-list (not on the NGSL or the NAWL): allure, amuses, beloved, bloom, blooming, brighten, chatter, cosy, crocuses, dedication, devotion, floral, frosty, hoses, hunker, moses, mr., mrs, oakville, ornamental, outdoor, outfits, overspending, precious, primroses, purses, resume, roses, scarf, seller, shedding, snowmen, testament, thriving, townsfolk, twirl, unwavering, vases, warehouses, wonderland

The NGSL and NAWL in combination give 92% coverage of words from that corpus (86% for the NGSL and 6% for the NAWL).