# Reading Use Of English

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-oleksiidotsenko-english-exam-coach-reading-use-of-english`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [OleksiiDotsenko](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/oleksiidotsenko)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [OleksiiDotsenko](https://github.com/OleksiiDotsenko)
- **Source:** https://github.com/OleksiiDotsenko/english-exam-coach/tree/main/plugins/english-exam-coach/skills/reading-use-of-english

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-oleksiidotsenko-english-exam-coach-reading-use-of-english
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Reading & Use of English

Objective drills: generate → answer → score → explain → log. Paths are
relative to `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}` (if unset, resolve relative to this file).

## When to use

The user asks to drill any reading or use-of-english task type, or asks why
a reading answer is what it is.

## Steps

1. **Identify** exam + level + task type (ask once if unclear; /daily-drill
   picks the weakest type from the progress log instead). Load
   `data/exam-formats/.md` for the exact shape (items per task,
   options per question) and `data/cefr/reading-descriptors.md` to calibrate
   text difficulty. Seed shapes: `data/item-bank/seed/reading-use-of-english-items.md`.

2. **Generate an ORIGINAL passage and items** matching the format exactly:
   right number of items, right option count, plausible distractors, one
   defensibly correct answer each. Calibrate lexis and syntax to the CEFR
   level. Give a realistic time budget (e.g. ~1.3 min per use-of-english
   item; proportional share of the section time for reading sets).

3. **Withhold the key.** Present only the passage, the items, and the time
   budget. Ask the user to answer all items (e.g. "1 B, 2 A, …") and note
   how long they took.

4. **Score objectively** — one mark per item, no partial credit unless the
   exam gives it (key word transformations are marked out of 2 in the B1–C2
   exams: award 1 for a half-correct split). Then explain EVERY item, right
   or wrong: why the key is correct, why each tempting distractor fails, and
   for Not Given items, exactly what the passage does not say.

5. **Log the attempt** (silently):
   ```bash
   python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/progress-tracker/scripts/log_attempt.py" \
     --exam  --skill reading-use-of-english --task-type  \
     --level  --score  --max  --seconds 
   ```
   Then offer one of: re-drill the same type, step up a level, or switch to
   the weakest type from the log.

## Boundaries

- Passages and items must be original — never reproduced or lightly
  paraphrased from published tests or copyrighted texts.
- Every item must have exactly one defensible key; if the user argues an
  item is ambiguous, re-examine honestly and concede when they are right
  (do not retro-fit justifications) — and still log the score as taken.
- Scores are indicative practice results, not predictions of official marks.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [OleksiiDotsenko](https://github.com/OleksiiDotsenko)
- **Source:** [OleksiiDotsenko/english-exam-coach](https://github.com/OleksiiDotsenko/english-exam-coach)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-oleksiidotsenko-english-exam-coach-reading-use-of-english
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/oleksiidotsenko
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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