I agree if you have good english reading and writing/comprehension skills, the AM section is doable. It’s really a matter of time and how fast an ESL candidate can understand and comprehensively write a short answer. Unfortunately that comes with being how familiar you are with academic english.
^ not really. We are giving too much emphasis on english of candidates whose first language is not english. All you need is basic english which I believe most of the candidates in China or India know given they are graduated from college.
L3 is a beast and there are many factors contribute in finishing AM exam. Some of them are speed of writing to finish all questions, formulate your answers in the manner they are asked, whether you know the material etc etc.
If you can read the material you are likely competent enough to write 3 sentences in response to a question. If those 3 sentences suck ass and make no sense despite the poor grammar, then you fail.
Because it was mentioned in this thread by someone else, more info on the Angoff method, I did not know what it was before so I had to look it up.
https://www.questionmark.com/us/seminars/Documents/webinar_angoff_handout_may_2012.pdf