This is a 100 WPM mock examination entitled "Secretary Welcomes Attendees At The Annual General Meeting Of Society."
If you prefer to go directly to the audio dictation, you can find that here on Soundcloud.
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 88% of this exam alone!
NGSL 1k words: a, able, activities, actually, advantage, after, agreement, an, and, are, as, ask, be, because, before, beyond, brings, but, by, call, can, centre, coming, complete, continue, control, date, deal, degree, director, done, due, during, election, elections, end, evening, event, events, fact, few, finally, first, followed, following, for, from, future, general, good, great, hand, hands, have, help, high, history, hold, hope, i, in, increase, information, introduce, is, it, item, keep, last, let, light, like, listening, make, managing, many, may, me, meeting, members, most, must, not, note, now, of, on, opportunity, organisation, organising, our, out, over, particularly, people, planned, please, programme, put, regarding, report, requires, responsibility, said, same, say, see, seems, shows, so, social, society, sought, start, subject, such, summer, take, taking, talk, thank, that, the, their, them, then, there, this, time, to, today, until, up, us, use, visits, vote, voting, walks, we, well, were, which, will, with, work, would, year, you, your
NGSL 2k words: annual, appointments, arranging, aware, brown, celebrate, chair, circumstances, committee, estate, remind, shoulders, slips, unable, update
NGSL 3k words: agenda, consuming, submit, wet
NAWL words: expertise, media, non
Supplemental words: eight, fiftieth, forty, four, ninth, twelve
Off-list: anniversary, chris, co, ken, lewis, oakwood, opted, penultimate, treasurer, unfair, windy
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.
The NGSL and NAWL in combination give 92% coverage of words from that corpus (86% for the NGSL and 6% for the NAWL).
