This mock examination at 80 WPM is entitled "Council's attempt to reduce anti-social behaviour."

If you prefer to listen to the audio-only dictation, you can find it here on Soundcloud.

Exactly 83% of the words in this mock examination can be found in the Top 1000 NGSL list. If you need a refresher on the NGSL, see our post entitled "Further Thoughts On The New General Service List."

NGSL 1k words: a, after, aged, aim, all, also, and, another, applying, are, area, at, attending, away, be, because, beds, been, behaviour, being, both, bought, boxing, broken, built, by, cannot, caused, centre, classes, come, community, damage, deal, decided, direction, do, drinking, energy, enough, especially, evening, evenings, example, families, few, fighting, for, from, funding, further, good, great, ground, group, has, have, health, help, here, hope, hour, how, idea, improve, in, increased, into, is, its, large, last, leads, led, life, listening, live, long, meeting, most, national, not, number, of, on, one, only, over, park, people, pieces, place, plan, planning, pulled, run, running, say, school, see, setting, social, some, sorts, take, thank, the, them, there, these, they, things, this, thrown, to, too, trouble, try, up, use, visit, wall, was, we, week, weekends, well, were, which, will, with, years, you, young

NGSL 2k words: aware, bored, channel, climbing, coping, council, crime, criminal, decrease, emphasised, equipment, expand, extent, flower, flowers, grant, importance, incident, mental, none, occasion, physical, removed, sessions, stones, surrounding, tonight, volunteers, youths

NGSL 3k words: criticised, newly, scared

NAWL words: anti

Supplemental words: eighteen, eleven, five, twenty

Off-list: boredom, fitness, gang, gym, lottery, steer, uncommon, underage, vulnerable, workouts, youngsters

As a reminder, a good exercise is to pick various words out of the word cloud above and mentally write out the Teeline.