I'm Waleed Elayyan. I've been teaching English as a Second and Foreign Language in universities,  in public and international schools for more than 20 years. I have a master's degree in Applied Linguistics, and I'm also a certified examiner of IGCSE English as a Second Language oral examinations.

After each listening lesson, I always hear my students argue which answer is correct. After each argument, some students feel frustrated while the others are uncertain. This dispute over each listening class in addition to the absence of any reference that could guide students through a principled map urged me to take the right step and explore the mysteries.

I've spent more than a year analyzing the speakers' talks in the IGCSE Listening Exams to satisfy my students' needs. The purpose was to find out what features examiners use to make the speech patterns that involve the correct responses, and what features they use to build their traps. I have analyzed the questions and the speakers' speech patterns that involve the correct answers as well as the speech patterns that involve the wrong responses in 18 listening past papers to hypothesize strategies, categories, features and rules governing these patterns.

I've discovered six strategies governing the speech patterns that involve the correct responses for the listening exam questions in addition to seven techniques governing the speech patterns that involve the pitfalls.