IELTS Reading (Academic) MASTERCLASS: Get Band 7+

1. Welcome Aboard!: Hey, everyone, welcome to this course. I'm really excited to be launching this course here for you because I heard wonderful things from my students about our other courses on the aisles. Writing task one writing task to and the speaking course. So I'm very happy to be presenting this reading course to you now. So welcome aboard. There is our ship on. We're going to be taking this big journey, um, into learning how to master the aisles rating step by step. So here is the journey that we're going to be taking on. If you have taken any of her other courses so far, then you will be familiar with this. Here is our ship on. We're trying to get here to the other side, and in this course, this is the journey that we're going to be taking. We're going to start off by first talking about the fundamentals here. I'm going to give you some basic information that you need to know before you can really understand how to answer other questions here. I'm going to describe to you all the basic information and set up that ground work for you after we talk about this we're going to look at the different types of questions, and there are many types of questions that you will see on the reading test. So we're going to look at the different types of questions, and you're going to find out that some questions go in order. Other questions don't go in order. Some questions going order some off, the time, some off them going over most of the times. So we're going to look at the strategies for each one of thes, different question types. The first question type we're going to cover is the fill in the blank question type. I'm going to show you how to answer the fill in the blank questions. Next, I'm going to show you how to ask for the short answer questions. Then we will cover the yes no not given questions. Also known. Asked the true falls, not given questions. Next, we'll go over the multiple choice questions matching questions, sentence completion, questions, table questions, diagram, questions, flow chart questions. Then we're going to start talking about how to answer the more difficult questions. Questions like the summary questions, paragraph location, questions heading squash ins on the pick from left, questions on. By the way, we're going to have a lot of practice questions throughout this course. You're going to see me answer these questions for you in front of you, and then we'll also have some practice questions for you to try this at home. Once we have learned how to answer all of the's different questions, we're going to go over a full or reading test. So I'm going to show you how to answer an entire reading test from the beginning to the end on. There will also be some opportunities for you to put into practice what you have learned in this course, and then we're going to wrap up this course with some final tips. Now, let me tell you a little bit about myself before we get further into this course. So that's me right there on my name is Shay. In this course, I'm going to be your Isles instructor and also the captain of our ship. That's my hat right there. So far, I've had over eight years off aisles teaching experience. I'm also a certified Celta English instructor at my university. I did my degree in communication and language and so far off taught in 11 countries around the world. I've helped many students to score a band seven or above, and I hope to be able to do the same for you. If you'd like. You can read our testimonials at the given link. And if at any point you have any questions, feel free to contact me at aisles at Master Shape dot Co. So now let's talk about what is the Isles? Well, it's a test off your English proficiency, and what it stands for is international English language testing system. There are two main types of files. There's the academic Eilts. This type of files is mainly used by colleges and universities for students who want to study abroad in an English speaking country. General aisles, on the other hand, is mainly used by employers for people who want to work abroad. I suggest that you contact your university or your employer to make sure that you're taking the correct aisles. So who makes the aisles? Actually, it's jointly owned by three separate agencies that are listed here. As you can see, Cambridge English is one of the agencies that are actually creating the aisles exam and For this reason, I highly suggest that you get the Cambridge English books. This over here is an image of what the Cambridge English books look like. The exam papers in these books are very authentic and look just like the real exam. Also, since isles is a paper based test, I recommend that you practice doing the exam on paper. How can you take the isles? Well, first you have to register. You can do so by using the provided link. Next, you have to select which date you want to take the test in testing dates are available each month, so you shouldn't have a problem finding a date that works for you. Keep in mind, however, that in some testing centers you may need to register two weeks ahead of time. Next, select the date, the time and the location for your test. Fill out the application and pay the fee. At the moment, it costs about $200. Once you've done that, provide them with a copy of your passport on that should complete your Eilts application. Let us now go over the exam overview. Firstly, the aisles takes about two hours and 45 minutes to finish, and it has four parts reading, listening, writing. On speaking, Each part has equal scoring. The exam is divided into two major sections. The first section is the paper exam. This includes three sections, the listening, reading and writing, and all three of these sections must be finished in one single session. The other part is the speaking exam. The speaking test can be scheduled separately, so if you don't want to, you don't have to take it on the same day. You can schedule it on some other day. Lastly, keep in mind that this is an English test. Some of my students feel that they may not perform as well on the test because they don't have any prior knowledge about other subjects. But actually you don't need any specialized background knowledge on any other subject other than English. There are no breaks in between the test, so you won't have any bathroom breaks or lunch breaks. So it's important that you develop your stamina at home by taking full length practice tests again. It is a paper based exam, so your handwriting and spelling are very important. If your handwriting is unclear or illegible than you're going to lose points for that. On the other hand, if you spell words wrong, you're also going to lose points for that. Let us now break down the different sections on the timing off the Alice exam. The first part is listening, in which you have four sections on a total of 40 questions. He will have 30 minutes to finish the listening part. Next is the reading section, in which you will have three reading passages with 40 questions total, which you have to finish in 60 minutes. Then you're going to move to the writing section in which will have two tasks. The writing task one on the writing task to you will have a total off 60 minutes to finish both tasks. Lastly, you have to speaking part, which will last a total off about 11 to 14 minutes in length. This brings the total test time up to two hours and 44 minutes. Let us now talk about the answer sheet. You will have two different types of answer sheets on the left hand side. We have the answer sheet for the reading and listening. On the right hand side, we have the answer sheet for the writing part. So when you're writing your answers for task one and task to you're going to have a sheet like this on if you need extra paper than you can ask her examiner. So that concludes this video. And in the next video, we're going to look at the fundamentals off the Isles reading, so I'll see you there. 2. Fundamentals: Hey, guys, in this video, I want to talk to you about the fundamentals off academic reading. So in this video, we're going to be covering some basic information and some off the general information that you need to know before you go in to take this test. So let's get started. So first, let's talk about how your score is going to be calculated now. This course is on the academic Ayotte's reading and not the general reading. So I'm not going to be going into the scoring for the general reading. I'll just talk about the academic reading. So as you can see over here, the scoring is basically divided up by the number of questions that you answer correctly. For example, if you answer between 39 to 40 questions correctly, then you're going to get a band nine. On the other hand, if you get 37 to 38 questions correctly, then you're going to score bound 8.5, and on and on. It goes for all of these different classifications off the scoring. So typically, if you want to get a band seven or higher, you need to aim to get at least 30 questions correct. There is a total off 40 questions. So, out of those 40 questions, you have to get 30 off them answered correctly in order to get a band seven or higher. Now let's talk about some basic information. The first thing that you need to know is that in this reading test, you're going to have a total off three reading passages. In order to complete thes three passages, you will have a total of 60 minutes. That's one hour. So within that one hour, you have to answer all 40 questions in the three passages. You're going to have about 20 minutes per passage now in each reading passage. Remember, there are three off them and in each one off them, you're going to get about 13 to 14 questions on average. Now here's the cool thing about the reading test. You're going to see so many different types of questions. But actually, all those different types of questions are simply different variations off two basic types of questions. The two basic types of questions are the multiple choice question on the fill in the blank question. So in the next video, I'm going to be showing you all the different types of questions that you can expect to see on the reading test. But keep in mind that all these different questions are just variations off either off multiple choice question or ah, variation off a fill in the blank question. Next, you need to know that the level off English gets progressively more difficult as you progress through the three passages. So what that means is that reading passage number one is going to be easier than reading passage number two on reading passage Number two is going to be easier than the reading passage number three. So the level of English that you need in order to get ah, high score in order to answer correctly that gets progressively more difficult as you progress throughout the reading test next. Now, this one is an important point at this point is that examiners are going to create a question from only 1 to 2 sentences from a passage. So when you get the reading test, you're going to see ah passage on. In that passage. There are going to be several paragraphs and several sentences per paragraph, but actually for each question that you see on the test. The answer to each one of those questions can be found in just one or two sentences from the passage. So what that means is that you don't have to read multiple sentences in order to find the right answer. You don't have to read entire paragraphs in orderto answer the questions correctly. You only have to read 1 to 2 sentences. Now the trick is off course to know exactly which 1 to 2 sentences you need to be reading. So identifying the correct sentences is part of the strategy that you will need to get a high score on the reading test on. We're going to cover this in much more detail later down the road. Next, you will have about 1.5 minutes per question. So about a minute, 30 per question or 90 seconds. So remember there are a total of 40 questions in the reading test. So if you spend about 90 seconds per question, then you should be able to answer all 40 questions in the total time off 60 minutes that you have available now in regards to the points that each question is worth. Each one is worth exactly one point. So this is useful to know, because now you know that easy questions are worth one point, and difficult questions are also worth one point. So which question do you think you should answer first? The easy ones, of course, because you're going to be able to answer the easy questions in a shorter amount of time. So don't waste to a precious time by answering the difficult questions first, because the easy questions and the difficult ones are both worth one point. Next, keep in mind that you do not have any extra time for transferring answers. So, for example, when you're taking the listening test, there is extra time you have some extra time at the end off the test to transfer your answers to the answer sheet. But with reading, this is not the case. So within that one hour you have to not only answer the questions, you also have to transfer them onto your answer sheet. Next, make sure that you use correct spelling and grammar in the reading test. There are going to be certain questions, for example, the fill in the blank questions where you will have to write out either the word or perhaps certain phrases. So when you write out the words and the phrases, you have to make sure that your spelling is correct and your grammar also has to be correct . Because let's say if you answer the question correctly, but you spell it wrong, then what's going to happen is you will not get any points for that. So even though your answer is correct, but because your spelling is wrong, you're not going to get any points for that. So spelling and grammar are important when you are joining down your answers on the answer sheet. Next, this is an important point as well. The reading test is actually a test off. Whether you can understand synonyms. That's really the simplest way to put it. If you don't know what synonyms are, I will explain to you that right now center names are basically different words that have the same meaning. So, for example, if you want to use a different word for the word international, then instead of saying International, you can use sina names, which means different words that mean the same thing. So instead of saying International, you could say overseas. That means the same thing as international. You could also use the word abroad. Abroad also means international or overseas. So you see, synonyms are different words that mean the same thing or about the same thing. They don't have to mean exactly the same thing, but approximately the same thing. So if you can understand synonyms, then you are going to perform well. On the reading test, you can think of the aisles reading test as a test off only two things. The first thing that the Examiner wants to know is, Can you find the part of the text that has the answer? So this is about locating the correct sentence or the correct part where you're going to find the answer. The next thing that the examiners want to know is, Do you understand that part of the text? So understanding means understanding the meaning and understanding the synonyms that are being used to communicate that meaning. Now let's talk about some common mistakes that students often make, and these are things that you should avoid. So here are some of the most common mistakes. The 1st 1 is that students often end up reading, too much taxed, and this is just a waste of time. If you're reading too much taxed from the passage, you're wasting precious time on. The other problem that happens by reading too much text is that students start to apply extra information toe a question, and what this means is that you read extra information from the passage and you start to think off the different possible answers. And if you do this, you're going to get confused between the different multiple choices you're going to ask yourself is the correct answer Option A or is the correct answer Option B. You will not be sure because you have read too much taxed. And now you're applying MAWR information to the question than you need to. In other words, you are answering the question in a way that it should not be answered in. Okay, so don't apply extra information. Apply just the right amount of information on If you're going to apply the right amount of information than for that, you have to read just the right amount of text. Not too much text and not too little text, either. The next thing that you should avoid is spending too much time on one answer. This is obvious again. Ah, we don't have a lot of time on the reading test. There's only 60 minutes about a minute and 1/2 per question, So don't spend too much time on one answer so that you can save up that precious time on. Also, like I mentioned before, each question on the test is worth one point. So if a question is seeming difficult for you, then just skip over it and go on to do the easy questions first. And then if you have time left over at the end of the test, then you can just go back and answer those questions that you did not get a chance to answer before. Another thing you need to avoid is going over the word count. Now, in the questions such as in the fill in the blank questions, you're going to receive clear instructions that are going to tell you exactly how many words you need to write for your aunts or how many words you need in order to fill in the blank. So if the question says that you only need to use two words, then don't then don't use three words. If you end up using more than two words or less than two words than even though your answer may be correct, you're still going to not get any points for that. Okay, so that question is going to be marked wrong if you go over the word count, even if there is the right answer in there somewhere, if it's as two words you have to write towards, if it's has the word limit is three words, then you have to write three words now, usually as a general note, you're not going to have to write any more than three words. Most questions are going to require you to write anywhere between one word on three words for the different variations off the fill in the blank questions. Another mistake that students often make is that they end up changing the answer from how it appears in the reading passage. So you have to ride the answer exactly as it appears in the reading passage. So, for example, if the correct answer in the reading passage says Egyptian pyramids, then you should not right pyramids off Egypt or pyramids from Egypt. Okay, the correct answer is Egyptian pyramids. It's a two word answer, and you should not change the form off the answer by switching the words around or by changing up the grammar or the syntax. The structure of the answer. Keep it exactly the same as it appears in the reading passage. So here are some off the ways in which students may change their answer. They might change the plurality, for example, the correct answer. Maybe flower one flower. But if you write the answer as flowers, you add an S at the end and you make it plural. Then that's going to be marked wrong because you changed the form off the answer. It was supposed to be a singular answer, and you changed it into a plural answer or the other way around. Maybe the answer was supposed to be plural flowers, but instead you removed the ass and you turned it singular. And now it's wrong because you did not keep the answer exactly as it appears in the reading passage. The next way that students often change the answer from how it appears in the reading passage is by abbreviating the answer. You should avoid abbreviations as well. Sometimes it's OK, but generally speaking, you should try to avoid abbreviations. For example, if the correct answer is microphone, then you should not abbreviate it to Mike. Mike is an abbreviation for microphone is a shorter version, so you should not abbreviate words, so microphone should be left as microphones and should not be changed into Mike. Similarly, if the correct answer is computer, then you should leave the answer as computer, Do not abbreviate it to PC or do not change the form of the answer by using a center. Names such as Laptop Okay, don't use a synonym either, so I hope that is clear for you. The answer should not be changed. Everything from the plurality to the structure to the word count all off that should remain exactly the same as it appears in the reading passage. Otherwise, you're going to get a wrong a couple more notes. So another mistake that students will often make is reading the passage before the questions. Guys do not do this. I know so many students who screw up on their test because they end up reading the passage before the questions, because what happens when you read the passage before the questions is that you have no idea what you're looking for. What information are you really searching for? You don't know that unless you first read the questions. So always start with the questions first and then Once you know what you're going to be looking for, then go to the reading passage and look for the specific answers. Another mistake that students often make is that they do the difficult questions first, and then they do the easy ones. Some students think that if they get the difficult questions out of the way first than the second half of their tax or the remainder off their test is going to be much easier is going to be more relaxing because now that they've taken care of the difficult stuff, it should be no problem to take care of the easy stuff. So students often think that way, and I can understand that point of view. But honestly, this is not a great strategy. On the aisles exam on the reading part, you only have one hour, so you have to be very careful about how you spend that time. So do the easy ones forest. Because three easy questions are worth the same number of points as the difficult ones. They are both worth exactly one point. So do the Easy Ones forest and not the difficult ones first. The next mistake is that students do not write the answers on the answer sheet in a timely manner. So this is up to you how you want to do this. Ideally, I would suggest that once you have answered a particular set of questions, perhaps there are six questions in a fill in the blank question that appears on the test. So if you are answering a certain question set in which you see six questions, then go ahead and answer those six questions first and once you've answered them, then go to the answer sheet immediately after that and fill out the correct answers before progressing on to the next set of questions so you can do it this way. Or if you rather prefer answering the first reading passage and answering all the reading passage one questions first and then transferring them to the answer sheet. That's also fine. You can answer the reading passages first and then transfer the answers onto the answer sheet. So, for example, you may fill out the answers for reading passage number one and then transferred those answers to your answer sheet. Next, you can answer your reading passage number two questions and then transfer them onto the answer sheet and then finally do the same thing with your reading passage number three. So if that works for you, you can do that. Or if you want to transfer the answers after completing each set of questions, then you can do that as well. So just find out whatever works best for you. Another mistake that you should be avoiding is searching for exact keywords. Now. Oftentimes, students think that if a question is asking about a certain thing about a certain specific thing, then they can simply look for that specific keyword in the reading passage and then find the answer there. This is true, some off the times, but very rarely does this happen very rarely, and you should not really be searching for exact keywords. This is not really going to be the case in the reading passages. What you're going to find is that instead off finding the exact keywords you will have to find the synonyms instead. So let's say that if you are reading a passage about computers, then if a question asks you about computers, then you should not go into your reading passage and look for the word computer. You are probably not going to find it. Almost never Are you going to find it? So what you should be doing is instead of looking for the word computer, look for the center name off that word. What is another word that means the same thing as a computer? Well, it might be laptop. So instead off looking for the word computer, you should be also looking for other words related to computer. Other words. I mean the same thing. Like laptop PC. I can't really think of any other ones. So in the case of Computer, the center name that you should be looking for is laptop PC and other things that could possibly mean a computer, for example, some kind of Elektronik device that does programming and processing that can count as a computer. So all of that is synonym language, and you have to look for the language that means the same thing as the specific keyword that you're looking for. So don't search for the exact keywords. Rather search for the synonym language. You're going to see many different examples off this throughout this course when we answer the different question types, so you'll get more insight on that very soon. The next mistake is reading every single word. Guys who do not have to read every single word. All you have to do is simply scan, and I'm going to talk more about what scanning is very soon. But keep in mind, you don't have to read every single word carefully. You do not have the time for it. You only have 60 minutes and you have to answer 40 questions. So you have to be more strategic about how you go about answering these different questions . So we're going to talk more about how to scan rather than to read every single word. Finally not understanding the question. Do not proceed to answer the question. If you do not understand what the question is asking you. OK, so first you have to know what it is asking you, and then once you understand the question, only then does it make sense. to look for the answer. Now I want to talk about the four keys to success, the four things that you are going to need. If you want to get a band seven or higher on the reading test first, you need to have a Cavalleri. Guys, there is no way around this. If you don't have a solid base off vocabulary, then you're not going to perform well on the reading test. The reading test is mainly attached off vocabulary, a test off understanding, synonyms and so on. So vocabulary is absolutely critical to getting, Ah, high score on the reading portion. Next, you have to know how toe do the aisles scanning. So I call it scanning because you are not reading the question. You are simply scanning the question. So what you need to do is you have to be able to identify keywords in a question. So you're going to identify a keyword. So, for example, if the question is asking you about computer than computer is a key word, and then once you know the key word, then you're going to look for that keyword in the reading passage. Remember, you are not reading every single word. All you are doing is you are simply looking for the word computer or any other synonym. That also means the same thing. For example, a PC or a laptop. So you are looking for synonyms. You are looking for a synonym language. So you are doing that by scanning. You are not reading every single word. This is a very important skill to have, and you're going to see me use this throughout this course as I go about answering the different question types for you. Next time management. You already know this. You only have a minute and 1/2 per question, so be sure to manage your time properly because if you don't, then you will not have time left to answer all the questions. Finally, the questions strategy now each one off the different questions, uses a slightly different strategies. There are similar in a lot of ways, and there are also different in some ways, So you have to know how to answer the different types of questions in a different way in a specific way. I'll talk more about that in the next video when I talk about the different types of questions that you will see on the reading test. Now let's talk about scanning. I told you that scanning is a very important skill to have, so let's talk about how to do that. So in order to scan, what you have to do is you have to identify between 1 to 3 key words from the question or from the answer choices. Once you have identified these keywords, then you have to look for these keywords and also the synonyms off these keywords in the reading passage. So when you are looking for these keywords, you are not reading full sentences. Do not do that. Just look for the keywords and look for the sin names, words and phrases that mean the same thing. Now there are three main ways to scan. Just choose the one that works best for you. Personally, I prefer this first way, which is horizontally. I just read from left to right. If you like to read from right to left, that's also fine. You're not reading, so it doesn't matter. You're just looking for the key words in the centre names, so it doesn't matter how you scan. You can do it horizontally left to right or right to left. You can also do it vertically up and down or diagonally. You can scan across the page, and finally I only read the sentence, which has the keywords. So when you are scanning and after scanning, when you locate the keyword or you locate the center name than on Leigh, read that one sentence. Do not start reading the entire paragraph. Don't start reading multiple sentences. You should only read one sentence on if that sentence seems to be connected to the next sentence. Only then should you read the next sentence. On the other hand, if the sentence that contains the keyword or the synonym that you're looking for on if that sentence somehow connect back to the previous sentence, only then read the previous sentence. But otherwise you should only be reading that one sentence that has the key words. Unless the sentence indicates that you need to read the previous sentence or the one after it in orderto understand what the meaning is, so you'll see more examples off exactly how to do this very soon as well. This is just a basic overview for you. Next, I want to talk about the basic approach to reading questions. Now you are going to be using this basic approach throughout all the reading questions. So be sure to get a general understanding off this. So the first thing that you have to do is you have to identify the keywords in the question . So read the question. Find out which keywords are important and then underlying those keywords, or circle those keywords whatever were expressed for you. And usually these key words are going to be a noun or verbs in the question Next. Once you have identified the keywords, then you are simply going to scan the passage. Don't read full sentences. Simply scan the passage and look for those keywords that you have underlined or circled. And also look for the synonyms off those keywords. Then, once you have found those keywords or the center names off those keywords in the reading passage, then what you need to do is you will have to apply specific question strategy. Now this specific question strategy can be different, depending on which question you get on. We're going to talk a lot more about this very soon, but right now you just need to know that there are some questions that are going to be in order and other questions are going to be out of order. What that means is that for some questions, the answers to those questions are going to come in order. So what that means is that the answer to question number one is going to come before the answer to question number two. And the answer to question Number two is going to come before the answer to Question number three. This is because they are in order. On the other hand, there are some questions that are going to be out of order. So the answer to question number 10 might come before the answer to question number five, because they are not in order. Okay, so there are going to be certain differences between the different question types on because off that you will have to apply different strategies depending on the question that you get. So we're going to cover this in a lot more detail very soon. And once again, this is just a basic overview off how to go about answering the reading questions. Okay, now let's talk about the things that you should be doing on the reading test and things that you should not be doing. So let's begin. So what you should be doing is always start directly with the questions. So what that means is do not read the reading passage first, start with the questions and then go back to the reading passage. Never read the reading passage first. Next, do the in order questions forest. You should do these questions first because they are easier. And remember, we should do easy questions before the difficult ones, so never do out of order questions First because they are generally speaking more difficult . Not always, but generally they are more difficult. So do the easiest questions. Forest. Never waste your time on doing the difficult questions first. Next, when you are answering the question, focus on the matching sentence. So what that means is that when you find a key word in the reading passage, then simply focus on that one sentence where you have found the key word so don't read too much. Don't read multiple sentences. Don't read the entire paragraph. You don't have to do that. You only have to read the 1 to 2 sentences in which you have found your keyword or the synonym language for the key word. Because if you end up reading too much, then you're going to apply extra information. And by applying extra information to a question, you are probably going to answer it wrong. So don't do that. Read just the right amount. And finally write the answer exactly as it appears in the reading passage. Do not change the form off the answer. Do not change this plurality. Do not abbreviate it. Do not use synonyms. For the correct answer. You have to write the answer exactly as it appears in the reading passage. Don't change the structure off your answer in any way. Keep it exactly the same. Awesome. So I hope that all of that is clear for you. Now. In the next video, I'm going to be talking about the different types of questions that you're going to see on the aisles. Rating exam 3. Types of Questions: Now let's look at the different types of questions that you can expect to see on the academic Iles reading. So I've already mentioned before that all the different questions that you see on the reading test are going to be different variations off one off these two question types. So at their base, at the very root off it all questions are going to be either a variation off a fill in the blank question or a variation off the multiple choice question. Now there are going to be certain question types that are going toe appear in only specific reading passages, and the reason for this is that reading passages get progressively more difficult. So we've already talked about this as well that reading passage number one is easier than reading passage number two on reading passage Number two is easier than reading passage number three. So because off this structure you're going to see questions at different levels of difficulty as you progress through the test. So for this reason, there are going to be certain questions that only appear in reading passage number three, but not necessarily in reading passage Number one. So this doesn't always happen, but often times this is what happens. So you already know by now that the easy questions are typically in Passage one, and the harder questions are in passage number three. So this is another reason why I recommend that when you are taking the reading test, don't skip and don't jump from one passage to the next or jump around in some random order . I would suggest that you progress through the reading test, step by step passage by passage. So start with passage number one, then progress to number two. And when you're finished with that, then move on to number three. Now. The reason why examiners designed these different questions with varying levels off difficulty is so that they can classify the students by their level off English. So by understanding how many questions you are getting correct or how many questions you're getting wrong, it's very easy to classify your level of English. So for this reason, you're going to find questions with a mixed level off difficulty, some easy and some much harder now, one off The key things that I've mentioned before about the different types of questions in the reading section is that some questions are going to be in order. So do you remember what that means? So in order means that the answer to question number one is going to come before the answer to question number five in a reading passage. So that's what I mean by order. You're going to find the answers in the certain sequence in which the questions appear. So Number one, then two, then three, then four on You can expect to find the answers in the reading passage in exactly this order. But not all questions are like this. So first, let's take a look at what types of questions are in order, so these questions are always in order. These ones here fill in the blank multiple choice. Short answer. Yes, no and not given. Or you can also look at this as a true false question. So these questions are always going to be in order Now. There are other question types as well, and these ones, they tend to be in order most of the times, not always, but most of the times they are in order. And then finally, here are the questions that are not in order so these are the questions. Ah, for wage. The answer to number five might come before the answer to number one, so you're not going to find the answers in the sequence in this case. So questions that are like this that are not in order include questions like matching classification headings, a question in which will have to pick two or four items from a list on paragraph location questions. Now I know that you probably don't know what some of these question types are, and that's totally fine. We're going to be looking at each one of thes question types in much more detail very soon . But keep in mind that all of these different question types are as many as they appear to be are actually just different variations off either fulfilling the plan question or a multiple choice question. Now you may have noticed here one thing about the colors. You may be wondering why certain question types are colored green on others are yellow and red. Why is that? That is because the questions in the reading test are going to be at different levels off difficulty. Some are going to be easy, so you should do these ones first, Others are going to be medium and these ones you can do after the easy ones. And then finally, the ones in the red color. These are the hardest ones, so you should save them for last. Now I want to give you an easy way to remember in order questions. On this way, you're going to know which questions are going to be in order and which questions are not going to be in order so that you can plan a better strategy so that when you are in the test answering these questions, it'll be much more easier for you to get the easy ones done forest and then the difficult wants at the end. So I tried to come up with a sentence that I thought would work well, I'm not sure how well this will work for you. Some of my students find it's really helpful, but you'll just have to play around with it and see if this is something that works for you . So I created this sentence and you're supposed to memorize this statement and the sentences . Yes, I will fill multiple short charts and complete diagrams on the table in summer, so this sentence is a pneumonic. What that means is that this is a tool to help you memorize which questions are always in order, on which questions are mostly in order. So these questions here what what these words represent? The questions that these words represent here in the blue color are the questions that are always in order. Here in the purple color, we have questions that are mostly in order most of the times. And then, of course, any questions that are not included here are going to be the questions that are not in order. So the word yes, hair stands for yes, no, not given questions. Also known as true false, Not given questions. The word Phil stands for. Fill in the blank questions. Multiple stands for multiple choice. Short stands for short answers. The short answer Question type. Now this is where you need to Ah, memorize where we have a break in the sentence. So this is where we have a break in the sentence. This is where ah, we move from the always in order questions to the mostly in order questions. This is where the color changes from blue to purple. Now the charts that stands for the flow chart questions complete stands for sentence completion diagrams stars for just diagrams. Table stands for table questions. And finally, summer, as you can see over here in the image is very hot. Over here, the sun is shining. The summer stands for the summary question type, So where you will need to do is probably repeat this sentence multiple times until you have memorized it, because this will be a powerful tool. Um, is going to make your job a lot easier when you know which questions are always in order and which questions are mostly in order. And, of course, the questions that are not listed here. The questions that are not listed here are going to be the not in order questions. So memorize this sentence so that you can easily distinguish between the different types of questions on. Ah, perhaps you can have this image in your mind as well. It might help you to remember what the sentences, because here you can see that we have a boy who is sitting over here at a table on this boy has agreed to fill multiple short charts, so these are little short charts. Multiple short charts. Aunt, He is completing diagrams on the table sitting on the table, and it is summertime. So with this image on with this sentence, you should have an easy way to remember which questions are in order, which ones are mostly in order and which ones are not in order. So I hope that this pneumonic serves as a tool for you to help you memorize. If it doesn't, if this sentence doesn't work for you, then just find something else that does. Now what I want to do next is I want to take you through each off the different question types so that you know what each one of thes questions look like and how to identify them. So let's begin with our classic fill in the blank question type. Now we already know that this question type is always in order. You'll also notice that I have a little green dot over here. This is to indicate that this is an easy question type. The easy question types are indicated with this green color. The ones with medium difficulty are going to be yellow in color and the ones that are the hardest that difficult once they're going to be in the right color, so you're going to see them very soon as well. But here we have an example off a fill in the blank question type. The way that you identify this question type is by simply looking at the blanks. When you have blanks like this on, the question asks you to complete, the sentence is below. Well, this is going to be a fill in the blank question type. Now. The next question that is also in order is the multiple choice question. So in a multiple choice question, you have different options. Different answer choices A, B, C and D on all. You have to do it. Simply pick the correct answer. So the way you identify that is by simply looking at the what the question is asking you for, which is to choose the correct letter. Now. Another always in order question is the short answer on in this question. You're going to have different questions such as over here on. You have to write the answer. It's not a multiple choice where you simply pick a letter in this case you actually have to write the answer. In this case, you can see that the question is asking you to write no more than two words. So right two words or less, but not more than two on off course. This is the answer that you are going to be writing in your answer sheet. So that's how you identify the short answer question type. It's going to ask you to write the correct answer, which is going to be a short ass are only one or two or maybe three words. Now the next question type is the yes no, not given, Also known as the true false not given question type on here. You simply have to decide whether each one of these questions are true falls or not. Given if the statement agrees with the information, then the answer is going to be true. Or, yes, if thes statement contradicts, in other words, does not agree with the information. Then it's going to be false or no. And finally, if there is no information given about the about what the question is asking for, then that is simply going to be not given. Information is not given in this case, so you have to decide which one is the right choice out of these three options. So the way toe identify this question type is simply by looking at this portion over here, you're going to see this part in every question type that is a true false not given. Okay, so it's going to tell you right here that this is a true false, not given question. Next, we have the flow chart question. Now this one is mostly in order, mostly Anderson. Easy one, As you can see with a green indicator here in the flow chart. Question. What you have to do is simply answer the questions to describe a certain sequence or a certain process that happens. It seems that in this case, we are describing the sequence off Freer Stark's life. We're talking about how Freya Stark's life progressed. She was first born in Paris. Then she had a formal education than she did some work in Italy. So in a flow chart question, what you're going to see is you have to describe a certain sequence of events. It might be a chronology. It might be something related to history. it might be a mechanical process, or you might have to map out the major life events off some person. So this is a flow chart question Type on the way to identify this question type is simply by reading up here. It tells you that it's a flow chart, and you can see here by the Arrows that this is a sequence of events that are unfolding one after the other after the other. Next up, we have sentenced completion. This is also mostly in order. As you can see, this is offer medium difficulty. It's not too easy, but also not too hard. So in this question type, what you have to do is you have to complete each sentence with the correct ending. Basically, it's like a matching question where you just have to match the correct ending off the sentences. So here you have the first part of the sentence, and you simply have to complete the sentence by choosing the correct answer choice. The way to identify this question type is simply by reading up here. It tells you to complete each sentence. You can tell that this is sentence completion question because these sentences are incomplete, and you have to complete them by choosing the correct answers down here. Next up, we have the diagram question, mostly in order and off medium difficulty. Now this one is really easy to identify because it says, label the diagram below on. There is a huge diagram over here, so you can't miss that. So very easy to identify a diagram question on in the diagram question. What can happen is sometimes it might be a multiple choice question. Other times it might be a fill in the blank question. So in this case, it's so fill in the blank question where you have to write the correct answer. You have to write no more than towards in this case. But it could also be a multiple choice question. What could happen is that you might have a diagram on one side, and next to it could be a little box with multiple answer choices. So in that case, who would simply have to match the correct answer with the corresponding question? Next we have the table question. This one is also mostly in order at off medium difficulty again. This is also a rather simple Oneto identify, it says, Complete the table below on. You can see that there is a table down here. In this case, we have a fill in the blank question where you have to write out your answer. In this case, no more than two words. Our next question type is the summary question. It's easy to identify because it's as complete the summary below. Basically, this is going to be a summary off the entire reading passage. So it is a condensed version, a summary off everything that you've read on in this case, you have to fill in the blanks. But this question can also appear as a multiple choice question. So you simply have to complete the summary by choosing the correct answers. Now here we have a matching question, and this one is not in order. But it is still an easy one to answer. So in the matching question, all you have to do is match the correct answer choices to the corresponding questions. So in this case, you have five different answer choices from a through E. But you'll notice that there are only four questions, so that's gonna happen. Sometimes you might get a list off answer choices, that arm or than the number of questions. This simply means that one off them is not going to be used. On the other hand, you could also get answer choices such that they are less than the number of questions. So if there are four questions, there might just be three answer choices. And that simply means that one off the answer choices is going to be used twice. So that can happen. So just be aware of that now. It's easy to identify this question time because it tells you to match each statement, so you know that this is a matching question. Next up, we have classifications. This is sometimes in order on. It is also an easy question. So most of the times this is not going to be in order, and you should not count on it. But very rarely classifications questions can be in order, but usually they're not. So in this question, you know that you have to simply classify information. This is again just another variation off the multiple choice question type, so all you have to do is simply match the correct answer choices Letters A B or C with the corresponding questions. So, as you can see in this case, one or more of thes answer choices are going to be used more than once because we have six questions here on only three answer choices. Next, we have the headings question. This is a difficult question, and it is also not in order. So you should save this one for last. On this question is really easy to identify because you're going to get a list of headings over here in a box on the question is going to ask you to choose the correct heading. Now it's asking us to choose the correct heading for paragraphs B through E. So those are four questions. 14 15 16 on 17 On Here are the paragraphs that were going to be answering for B, C, D and E. So four paragraphs on four questions. So for each one of those four questions, you have to write one of these answer choices. Now. Some of them are not going to be used, since there are only four questions, so you have to find out which ones are the right ones and which ones are not going to be used. So out of these answer choices were going to be using four off them. One for each of the paragraphs. So one for B 14 C, one for D and one for E. And we're going to be writing down our answers in our boxes from 14 to 17 on our answer sheet. Okay, I hope that's clear. You're going to see more examples of this later down the road, so don't worry about it. If not all of this is clear for you just yet. This is just a quick overview off the different question types. Now the next question type is pick from the list on this one is also not in order on the difficult one on the way to identify this is by reading up here. It says, Choose to letters on here We have our to questions for which we have to choose to letters. So we only have one question over here. Which two are mentioned by the writer off the passage. But actually, these are two questions because we have to write two answers For this question. We have to answer question number 11 and question number 12. So, for this question, you're going to be choosing to answers from this list off multiple choices on our final question type. This is the paragraph location question another one that you should also say for last, because it's not in order and also difficult. The way to identify this question is to look out for this part. The question asks you which paragraph contains the following information, so you have to locate which paragraph you're going to find the answer in. Okay, paragraph location. You have to locate the correct paragraph. In this case, we are talking about seven paragraphs between a through G. So a paragraph, B paragraph, see paragraph, d, e f and tree. But even though we have seven paragraphs, we only have four questions. So this means that some off the paragraphs are not going to be used out off. Those seven paragraphs were only going to be using four of them. Only four off them are going to match up with these four questions here. So that asshole for the different types of questions, I hope that this gives you a good overview off what to expect from each question type in the future. We're going to be looking at exactly how to answer each one of these different question types. We're going to start by first looking at how to answer the fill in the blank question type . 4. How to Answer Fill-in-the-Blank Questions: Welcome back, folks. Now, in this video, I'm going to show you how to answer the fill in the blank question type. This is perhaps the most common question type, and you're definitely going to see it on your exam. So let's look at how to answer this question type. Now. You may remember that this is what off fill in the blank question looks like you basically have sentences or different ideas, and you have to fill in the correct answer. In this case, the question tells you how many words you need to write no more than two words. In this case, the fill in the blank questions are always in order, and they're rather easy to answer. You can identify these questions by simply reading up here. It asks you to complete the sentence is below and by looking at these blanks that you're supposed to fill in. So that's how you know this is a fill in the blank question. Now let me give you some explanation. Some more overview, some more information regarding this question type. So as you already know, it goes in order, and therefore it's easy to do so when you get these questions, you should aim to do them first because they are easy. So do these questions first. Now the answer to each question is going to be found in only 1 to 2 sentences from the reading passage. Every single question that you see on fill in the blanks. It's formed from only 1 to 2 sentences in the reading passage. So all the questions are formed from only 1 to 2 sentences, so you don't have to read multiple sentences, and you don't have to read entire paragraphs. You only have to locate the correct sentence, and you're going to find your answer in there somewhere within those 1 to 2 sentences. Now the right answer is going to be connected to the words that come right before the blank line on the words that come right after the blank line. So the surrounding words, the words that are surrounding the blank lines are going to give you the clue in regards to what is the correct answer and what answer fits in the given blank. Next, you have to be able to scan for keywords, and this is really a general thing that you need to be able to do across all the different question types. You have to know how to scan for keywords. And so answering the fill in the blank questions is no exception. You have to do the same here as well, so you have to scan for the keywords and not just the keywords, but also sending them language for those keywords. Because most of the times you will not find the exact keyword in the reading passage. Very rarely are you going to find this and even in the easy questions, this is rare. So don't expect to find the exact keywords in the reading passage. Rather, you should expect to find center names for the keywords in the rating passage. Now, in this question, type in the fill in the blank wash in there are going to be two main types of directions. So in the first question type, you might be asked to complete the sentences by using words from the box. So, in other words, you may get a box in which you will have an answer choices. This is like a multiple choice. In a way, you will have a BCD different options, and you simply have to match the correct answer choice for the given blank. So what you'll have to do is you have to pick an answer choice from this box, and you have to choose the correct answer choice for the given blank that you're trying to answer now. It might happen that sometimes there are more options than the questions themselves. Or sometimes there are less. Most of the times you will see that there is an extra choice or two that are not going to be used. These answer choices are just there. The extra answer choices are just there to confuse you. So keep in mind that not all the answer choices may be used that if you only have three questions, but there are four answer choices, then that means that one of the answer choices will not be used. The other type of direction that you might get is the type two, and in this type, you will be asked to complete. The sentence is below by writing your answer, so it will tell you that you have to write in this case, for example, no more than one word. So you have to write an answer here which is going to be a one word answer. So pay attention to this part right here, because it's going to tell you exactly how many words you can write. If you write more than one word in this case, you're going to get it wrong because you did not follow directions. So make sure that you pay attention to how many words your answer has to be. It might be a one word answer. Sometimes it can be a two word answer or even a three word answer. So it's going to be anywhere between 1 to 3 words, or sometimes a number is also acceptable. So if a number is acceptable than it's going to tell you that it's okay to write a number as an answer. So once you have the answer, all you have to do is simply write that word right that one word, or depending on how many words it is right that answer into this blank line and make sure that this answer fits with the surrounding words with the words that come before the answer on the words that come after the answer. Now I want to show you the basic strategy for answering this question type. So there are five main steps. Let's begin with step number one step number one is to underline or circle the key words that are in the question. So in all the questions, you're going to find keywords words that are going to help you to identify the correct sentence in the passage where you're going to find your answer. So you need to underline these keywords. Usually key words are words that contain names, names, off people, names, off places or places like locations, city, country and so on. It can even be numbers, or perhaps some other term that is not so common. So these are the key words, and I'm going to show you examples off how to identify keywords very soon as well. Now here the second step is to identify the easy questions. You have to find out which questions are easy and do them first. Always do the easy questions. First on, If it helps you, you can mark thes easy questions with a check mark. So, for example, may be number one is easy, so you put a check next to it. Number two is not so easy So you're gonna leave that on. Number three is also easy. So you might put another track there. So now you know that you have to answer number one and number three first. So once you solve those easy ones, then it'll be much easier for you to go back and locate that difficult ones. So always do the easy questions First. In any given question set next, Number three is to scan the passage to find the key words on also to find the synonyms. So remember, you underlined these keywords in step number one. Well, in step number three, you're going to be looking for those keywords. And remember, we're not just looking for all the keywords. First, we are looking for the key words to the easy questions. Okay, so first we're going to be scanning, are reading passage to find the keywords and the synonyms for the easy questions. And then once we have found those keywords in the reading positive, then we're going to underline those keywords or circle those keywords. Basically, you should mark those keywords in some way so that you know where you found that keyword in the reading passage. Next, you have to find the words that connect to the words before and after the blank line. So what I mean is that when you have a fill in the blank question, there's going to be a blank line where you have to fill in your answer. But you have to make sure that the answer that you are going to fill in fits it has to fit in the sentence. It has to fit with the words around it with the words that come before it and the words that come after it. So when you are making sure that the answer fits, then you will pay attention to things like grammar things like plurality. And you'll make sure that you are choosing the correct answer because the surrounding words are going to tell you if this answer is correct or not. If the answer fits, then it is likely to be a correct answer. And if it doesn't fit, then you know that you have to go back and look for a different answer. So that's why these surrounding words are very important on. You have to find the surrounding words in the reading passage after you have located the keywords. Finally, Step number five is that once you have located the answer to the certain questions that you are looking for, then you have to write the question number next to the matching sentence in the passage. So, for example, if you find that the answer to question Number one is in the second sentence, then next to that second sentence you simply have to write number one just right number one , so that you know that you found the answer to question number one next to that sentence. This is going to be useful in orderto identify where you can find the answers to the remaining questions. Because remember, the fill in the blank questions are in order. The answers are going to be found in order. So you're going to find the answer to question number one before the answer to number two, and you're going to find the answer to number two before you find the answer to number three. The answers up here in that same exact order in the reading passage. So that's why it's useful for us to know where we found the answer to question number one on where we found the answer to question number three. Because once we have located the answer to question number one and number three, well, then it becomes a lot more easier to find the answer to Number two. Because now we know that because the fill in the blank questions are always in order, we're going to find the answer to number two in between the answers to number one and number three. So that's why it's useful to put the question number next to the matching sentence in the passage so that you know exactly where you found the answer to each question. You're going to see me do real practice exam questions in the next video. So all of this is going to be, ah, lot more clear for you. But right now, I just wanted to give you an overview for this basic strategy. Now let me go ahead and show you some examples off how to go about doing this. So let's say that in the fill in the blank questions set, you get these three questions. Now here is how we're going to start off. The first thing that we're going to do is we're going to begin with the questions. Remember, you should never read the reading passage first. Always go straight to the questions, and then once you know what you're going to be looking for, then you can go back to the reading passage. But always start with the questions first. So here we're going to be starting with our questions. The first thing we're going to do is we're going to pay attention to how many words are answers can be. So now we know that in these fill in the blanks, we are looking for answers that are no more than three words. It's okay if it's less than three words, but it cannot be more than three words. The next thing we're going to do is we're going toe underline the keywords in each one of thes questions. So here I've used a highlighter. I've highlighted them just so that you can see them better. But on your exam you cannot use a highlighter, so you'll probably have to underline these keywords or circle them whatever works best for you. So here I have highlighted the keywords on These are the key words that were going to be looking for in the reading passage. Now What we have to do is we have to think about out of these three questions. Which ones do you think are going to be the easiest ones to answer? Take a moment. Take a guess. All right, So I'm going to tell you which ones I think are going to be the easiest ones. I think that number one is going to be rather easy because Greece is an easy keyword. And guess what? Greece is a word that has no synonym. You cannot really have synonyms. For countries. It's difficult to have a synonym, for that is very rare, that this happens so words like crease on Jamaica. These are names off places, and therefore they're going to be quite easy to locate. So for that reason, the words Greece and Jamaica are the easiest keywords. For this reason, question number 11 on question number 12 are going to be the easiest wants to solve. So we're going to answer these two questions first, and then we'll move on to question number 13 next. Now, I want you to pay attention to this word. Now you might think that tourism is also a key word how come we didn't underline or highlight tourism? Well, the reason that I haven't underlined tourism in this case is because I don't think it's a very useful keyword. It's not a very useful keyword because it's a repetitive keyword. See the word tourism appears throughout the reading passage. The whole reading passage is about tourism, so if the whole passages about tourism, then the word tourism is going to appear in multiple questions. For example, the word tourism appears here. It also appears down here, and it also appears here, so that doesn't really help us because the word tourism is appearing in each and every question. It's a repetitive keyword, It appears throughout the reading passage, so for that reason, it's not very useful. So I'm not going to be looking for that keyword. I want to look for keywords that are rare that are not very common, that are going to be easy to locate words like Greece, Jamaica, International tourism measurement problems. These are key words that are much easier to locate in comparison to a repetitive keyword like tourism. Now I want you to also pay attention to these words in the red color. Here words that are boxed in with a red color. These words are what we call the surrounding words the words that come before the black line, or sometimes even after the blank line. So these surrounding words are important because they tell us if our answer correctly fits in the sentence. See, these are connecting words. These are words to which your answer should connect. If your answer does not connect with these words, grammatically speaking, if they don't connect, then your answer is probably not the correct answer. Okay, if your answer does not fit with these connecting words, then your answer is not the correct answer. So if your answer does not fit with these words, then you know that you have to go back and look for a different answer. So that's why these connecting words are important, and that's why we pay attention to them. Now I want to show you the reading passage, and I want to show you how toe answer these questions. So remember, we're going to start off with question number 11. The reason is because this is one of the easiest questions in our question. Set the word Greece is going to be rather simple for us to locate. So here is our reading passage. Now, let's see if we can locate the word Greece. Okay, I'm scanning. Scanning, scanning. I am not reading our each and every word that is going to be a waste of my time. I'm only looking for the word Greece. Where is the word Greece? Okay, here the word Greece appears right here. So I have now located my keyword. The next thing that I have to do is I have to scan for the surrounding words, that connecting words. Let's see if we can find the connecting words. Something related to tourism being the most important. Being significant. Can we find something like that? Well, I'm not gonna look throughout the entire paragraph. I don't need to do that. I have located my keyword, so I'm only going to find the connecting words over here in the same sentence. The sentence begins right here, for example. So I'm only going to read that one sentence. I'm not going to be reading everything else. So it turns out that right here is the word major. Major Major is a synonym language for most important do you remember that I told you that you are not going to be finding exact keywords all the time. You have to be looking for synonyms, so words that are send names for important. What could that be? Words like significant, crucial Paramount major. So those are words that are synonyms for important. So I'm going to be looking for synonym language that means the same thing. Now I know that since I have located my synonym language and I have also located my keyword , I am pretty damn sure that I'm going to be finding my answer somewhere in this sentence. So let's read this sentence. For example. Tourism is the major source off income. All right, now that is the answer. The major source off. What the most important? What? The most important source off income. Remember, we could only write three words for answer and no more than three words. Source Off income is three words, so that is going to be our answer. So just to summarize what we have learned so far, you have to start with the easiest questions first and look for the key words. Once you have located the keywords, then look for the key words on the synonym language for the surrounding words. Once you have located the keywords and the surrounding words, then you have located what we call the matching sentence. This is the matching sentence. The matching sentence is where you're going to find your answer. It's the most important sentence because that is where your answer is hidden. So in this case, we have found our answer, which is the source off income. So now we're simply going to fill in our answer on the answer sheet. And once we have filled in our answer, the last thing that I want you to do is to number it, put a number next to it so that you remember where you found your answer to question number 11. This is going to make it easier for you to find the answers to the remaining questions, because remember these questions thes fill in the blank questions. They always go in order, and you're going to find the answers to these questions in order. So it's useful to know exactly where you found the answer to each question. Now let's go ahead and answer our second question. So the second question Waas. The travel and tourism industry in Jamaica is the major. What? And the war? Jamaica was our keyword in this case. So here is our paragraph. Now off course, in the test itself, you're going to be receiving long reading passages here just to show you examples of how to do this. I have chosen certain paragraphs in which we have our answers. Okay, so this is a very abbreviated version just to give you an example of how it's done. And then we're going to be answering the fill in the blank questions from the entire reading passages in the next few videos. So here I'm just showing you examples of how it's done. And in the next few videos I'm going to be giving you a full breakdown off how to do this when you have the entire reading passages. So let's take a look here. Ah, here is our paragraph. And we are looking for our keyword Jamaica. And again, I am going to be scanning. I am not reading each and every word. I'm only scanning for the word Jamaica and I have found it. The word Jamaica is right here. So now I have located my key word. And the next thing is to locate the connecting words, the surrounding words. Because this word is going to tell us what correct answer can fit in this case. So I'm going to be looking for center names for Major. What other words or phrases means major. So let's go ahead and look for our keyword here for our surrounding word here, a center named for the word major. All right, now here you'll notice that it says tourism industry is the number one ranked employer number one ranked employer. So the phrase number one ranked is synonym language for Major. So now that we have located our keyword and also are connecting word now we know our matching sentence. This is our matching sentence. Remember, the matching sentence is the sentence in which you're going to find your answer. So this part is our matching sentence, and we're going to find our answer somewhere in here. Well, turns out our answer is employer number one. What major, what the major employer, the number one ranked employer. So that's our answer. We're going to fill in our answer right there in our answer sheet and then we're going to put a number next to the place where we found our answer to question number 12. This way, we know exactly where we found our answer to question number 12. Let's go ahead and take a look at our final question. So we were going to do question number 13 at the end anyway, because question number 11 and 12 were the easiest ones. And 13 is it's not too difficult. Actually, The word international tourism is not very difficult to locate, but in comparison to number 11 and 12 it was a little bit trickier. So that's why we saved this one for last. So in this question, we have three keywords problems international tourism on measurement. So here is a paragraph from our rating passage, and now we're going to be looking for these keywords were not exactly looking for any one specific keyword. What I'm doing here is I'm keeping in my mind all three off these keywords. See, I don't care which when I find first, as long as I find any off them, that is going to be useful information for me. So I'm not just looking for one key word I'm looking for all three keywords. Whichever I find first, I'm going to go with that. So I'm going to start looking for our keywords. And right away I have found our first keyword, which is problems. Okay, I found our keyword problems. I'm going to read a little bit more, just to see if I can find these other keywords as well. So I'm gonna keep going on. And OK, there's another keyword measurement. Since I have found two key words in the same sentence, there is a very high probability that my answer is going to be somewhere around here. I'm going to keep going on a little bit more to see if I can find are other key word on da Yeah, there is actually right here. Worldwide tourism, that is a center name for international tourism worldwide is a center name for international. So awesome on. Now that we have located our keywords, the next thing to do would be to look for the surrounding words. In this case, the surrounding words are measurement off measurement off something. Okay, so I see that the word measure appears here, and the word measure appears here. I'm not really able to find the surrounding words exactly as they appear or synonyms of these. But what I have been able to find is a center name for the word problem. So difficulties is a sin, a name for the word problem. So I'm pretty sure that I'm going to be finding my answer somewhere around here on. It seems that this sentence is going to be my matching sentence. This is where I'm going to find my answer because it's saying that in many cases similar difficulties arise when attempts are made to measure what? Well, here is the answer to measure domestic tourism. So that's what this question was asking. So it can happen sometimes that the key words that you're looking for appear before the answer. They can appear in a sentence before the answer. So for that reason, if you don't find your answer in the sentence where the keywords are, then it's likely that you may have to read one more sentence than just go ahead and read that extra sentence. And, um, in this case, as you can see, it might be the matching sentence. So in this case, we found our answer not in the sentence where there were key words. But in the sentence after the sentence containing the key words. So now we can see that everything fits. Our answer is domestic tourism on the answer. Domestic tourism fits perfectly with the surrounding word measurement off. It fits perfectly, just like a jigsaw puzzle. The grammar, the syntax, the structure all if it fits together. So we know now that this is the correct answer. Once you have located the correct answer, just go ahead and put a number next to it so that you know where you found the answer to this question. Awesome. So that is all for this one. Now that you know how to go about answering the fill in the blank washings in the next few videos, I want to show you different practice questions in which I want to solve more fill in the blank questions for you. But this time, with the entire reading passage and in an actual exam scenario, I want to show you how these practice questions would appear for you in the exam. So I'm going to be doing them with the entire rating passages. So stay tuned for that, and I'll see you in the next video 5. Fill-in-the-Blank: Practice Set 1: Hey there. Welcome to this video on practice. Question number one for fill in the blanks. So in this video, I want to show you Ah, practice exam Question on. I want to do this in front of you in the same way that you would do this if you were to be sitting in the aisles exam. So this particular set of questions have been taken from the Cambridge aisles. Book number eight. Test number three on this is from reading passage number one. So because this is reading passage number one, you can expect the questions in this part to be easier. Usually the questions in passage number one are easier than questions and passage number two and three because, as you might remember, the level off English that you need to answer the questions correctly gets progressively more difficult. So what we're going to do is to start answering these questions. We're not going to be starting here with the reading passage itself. We're not going to do that. We're simply going to go straight to the questions. So we're gonna go down to this question set over here. So these are our fill in the blank questions on right here. We've got these three questions. So the first thing that we're going to do to answer these questions is we're going toe. Identify the key words. The key words that we think are going to be easy for us to find in the reading passage. So I'm going to be highlighting some key words now in the exam, you won't have a highlighter, so you will have to either underline the keywords or you'll have to circle them whatever works best for you. But in this case, I'm going to highlight the key words just so that you can see this better on E. P. R. I is our first keyword is going to be very easy to find this world. It seems to be an acronym for some larger word, So e p. R. I is going to be easy to find. This one is also going to be easy to find. Remember any words that have names, names of people, names, off places, names, off location or date, for example, 2000 and 12 2000 and 15. So names on places on dates, numbers they're usually pretty easy to find, so those are the questions that you should ideally start with. So these are our two key words so far. I'm also going to put financial support. That is also another key word. And advantage is another key word as well. And ah, perhaps technique, technique and kind of be a keyword. Um, it's not going to be easier to find in comparison to De l's Allah, since that's a name. So I'm going to be looking for that first and then for number six. Difficulty is a key word. Our answer is going to be related to some kind of a difficulty or some kind of a problem on a laser, not just laser, but also equipment. So laser on equipment, both of those are key words. Great. So now that we have our keywords for all three off these questions, we have to identify which questions are going to be the easiest to answer. So what I'm going to do is I'm simply going to put a check mark next to the easy questions , and I'm going to do those ones first. So, um, I'm going to put a check mark next to number four and next to number five, so that way. I know that number four and five are the easy ones. I'm going to do those first and then number six. I'm gonna leave that one for last. Putting these check marks is not always helpful. But let's say if you have a long set of questions where you have more than two or three questions if you have many questions, then using these check marks can be helpful because that way you can identify quickly, which are the easy questions and which one you should be answering first. So feel free to use the check mark if it helps you. If it doesn't, then that's fine. You don't have to use them. So now that we've identified the key words, as well as the questions that we're going to start with the easy ones number four and five , we can now go back to our passage and start searching for the key words for this question. First, this is one of the easiest ones. So I'm going to start here. I'm going to be looking for E P r. I. So let's see if we can find that here. Okay, now I'm simply scanning now. I'm not reading every single word. I don't have the time for that. That would be a waste of time, so I'm quickly scanning. I'm kind of just glancing over the whole page. I'm glancing over the paragraph on just trying to find that word. There are many ways to scan like I mentioned, you can scan from left to right or from right to left, um, horizontally. You can also scan vertically. You can scan up and down, up and down. That's also fine, or you can scan diagonally across the page or across the paragraph, so choose away off scanning that works best for you. Sometimes you might find that scanning horizontally is easier. Other times scanning diagonally maybe easier or perhaps vertically. So. Put in some practice with this, and you'll find out what method of scanning works best for you. So now you may have noticed that we've actually found our keyword E P R. I. We found a bunch of locations, bunch off places where this keyword appears, so I'm going to start off by reading this sentence first. Since this is where it appears. So let's begin. The technique survives to this day at a test site in Florida run by the University of Florida with support from the Electrical Power Research Institute based in California. Okay, so right now, I have not heard anything about financial support. That's the other key word that I need. I have to find something related to financial support in order to find the correct answer. So since I did not find it in this sentence, I'm going to keep reading because this keyword also appears in the next sentence. So I'm going to read on E p R I, which is funded by power companies. All right, so funded by or funded, that is a synonym language that is synonym for financial support. That's just another way off saying financial support. So now that we have found our keywords E p r I as well as funded, we know that this sentence right here is going to be our matching sentence. This is where we're going to find our answer. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to make some lines over here to represent our matching sentence. This is where we're going to find our answer somewhere around there. So let's go back to our question and read it one more time. E p r. I receives financial support from From what or from whom. So let's take a look funded by power companies, power companies. Those are the agencies that are funding E p r. I. So there we have it. That's our answer. So I'm simply going to highlight this now. Power companies, since that is our answer, and we'll just put it in green color so that you can see this Great. So Power companies is our answer. And once you have found the answer, then you can simply put it here. You can either put it straight into the test booklet, and then you can transfer your answers at the end, not at the end of the test. Don't do that. Don't do it at the end of the reading test because you're not going to get any extra time to transfer your answers. So it's best to transfer them as you answer these questions. So you have three different options. Either you can jot down the answer directly into your answer sheet. The other option is to put them here first, answer the entire question set, and then chance for those answers into your answer sheet on the last thing that you can do is you can finish your first reading passage. Remember, there are three reading passages in total, so you can first answer the first reading passage. Transferred those answers to your answer sheet at the end of reading passage Number one. Then you can do the questions for reading passing number two and then transfer the answers for reading passing number two and then repeat the same thing with reading Passage number three. So figure out whatever way works best for you. I would recommend that you first fill out all the answers in the question set. And then once you have answered that entire question set, for example, in this question said, there are only three questions. Then you can simply go to your answer sheet and shot down those answers. That's my preferred away. But if you prefer a different way, that's also fine. Great. So now that we have answered this question, there is one last thing that we need to do here. And that is to simply jot down the fact that we found our answer to question number four over here. So I like to number these. And I especially like to number these for the questions that are in order. Remember, these fill in the blank questions always go in order. So that means that the answer to number four will come before the answer to number five. And then the answer to number five is going to come before the answer to number six. So you're going to find the answers to these questions in order you're going to find them one after the other after the other. So if question number four was answered here, you're not going to find the answer to question number five up here. You're not going to find it up here because it always goes in order. Number five comes after number four. Therefore, we're going to find the answer to number five somewhere after number four. So let's go ahead and try to find the answer to number five. So here we have our keywords advantage technique and the els. So let's see if we can find any off that. Okay, once again, scanning. I'm not reading every single word on right here. I see the name the Els. So right here we have found the name off the parson. Our first keyword. Here, the name appears once again. Okay, Um, let's go ahead and read this sentence. Let's start over here. Since this is the sentence in which the word de l's appears. Here we go. What goes up must come down. Points out Jean Claude. Deal's off the university off New Mexico. So we have not found our answer in this sentence. So we're just going to keep rating since the keyword de l's also appears in the next sentence. So here we go. The Els is leading a project which is backed by E. P. R I to try to use lasers to discharge lightning safely. And safety is a basic requirement since no one wants to put themselves or their expensive equipment at risk. Okay, so we have to find something related to the advantage. So we have to specifically look for the advantage that this technique offers that this technique that is being developed by deals offers. So what advantage does it offer? It says that Dells is leading a project backed by E. P. R I to try to use lasers to discharge lightning safely. That seems to me to be an advantage, to use lasers to discharge lightning safely. And here we are talking about the use. So the correct answer would be is that it can be used to discharge lightning safely. However, take note that here it says that our answer cannot be any more than two words. So we have to find an answer that is no more than two words. So clearly we cannot say used to discharge lightning safely. That's just too many words. So actually, the correct word, the correct answer is simply going to be safely, safely, and that perfectly fits the advantage off. The technique being developed by deals is that it can be used safely. So that answer fits perfectly. And that's what's going to be our answer for number five safely on. We're gonna come up here on just circle that word. You can circle it, I'm going to highlight it. Ah, so we know that that is our answer. And one last thing is I'm just going to put number five over here so that I know where I found my answer to question number five. By the way, if it helps you, you can also underline you can, underlying the matching sentence. If it helps you to better identify the answer, you don't have to do that. But if it helps you, then go ahead and do that. So this is our matching sentence on the matching sentence is where we have our answer. So we are now done with number four and five on our question. Number six is the last one that is now remaining. So let's go ahead and answer days. So we're going to be looking for keywords related to difficulty, some type for problem or complication on something related to laser equipment, lazer and equipment. So let's see if we can find some sort of difficulty, some kind of a problem that is happening when laser equipment is being used. So let's come up here. So we are looking for a laser on difficulties. So since our answer to question number five is here, we are going to start looking for number six down here, not up here, because these questions are in order. So number four is here. Number five is here. That means that number six should be somewhere down here and here we go. Take a Look, the word lasers appears right here, and I see another keyword laser appearing over here. Anything else? Um, that's about it. So one more one more laser over here. So it seems that this paragraph is about lasers, so let's go ahead. And now look for something related to difficulty because that is what we're looking for. We have to look for something that is related to some sort of a problem or some sort of difficulty. So we are not just looking for any general information about lasers. We are looking for very specific information about lasers. We are looking for something related to difficulties and problems. So let's see if we can find that once again. I'm only scanning right now. I'm only scanning to see if I can find something related to difficulty or something related to problems regarding lasers. It seems that this part could be a problem. It seems that the electric field can become too strong and cause an uncontrollable Sarge. This seems to be talking about some sort of a problem associated with lasers. And here there is a solution to stop the laser itself being struck. It would not be pointed straight at the clouds. So guys noticed that only now I'm starting to read this sentence. The reason I'm starting to read the sentence now is because I have found something related to lasers. And I have also found something, um, related to difficulties. So that's why I'm going to now read this sentence. If a laser could generate a line off ionization in the air all the way up toe a storm cloud , this conducting path could be used to guide lightning to earth before the electric field becomes strong enough to break down the air in an uncontrollable search. Okay, the main difficulty associated with using laser equipment is related to its Okay. We're looking for a difficulty that is related to something that has to do with lasers. And I haven't found our answer here. So I'm going to read one more sentence to stop the laser itself being struck. It would not be pointed straight at the clouds. Okay, guys, I'm not finding my answer here in this paragraph. I thought that my answer was here because ah, the word laser appears here, and it seems to be talking about some kind of a difficulty over here, but it doesn't seem that my answer is here. I don't see it. So I'm gonna keep moving on, and I'm going to look for the key word laser, um, in the following paragraphs, in the following sentences. So let's see if we can find that. So I'm going back to my scanning now, and I'm scanning, and here we go. The word laser appears here, and it also appears here on and Okay, I'm gonna stop over here. I'm gonna pause over here and let's see if it and let's see if, um, I can find my answer here. So I'm gonna start reading this sentence. Since this is the sentence in which I found the key word. The laser is no nifty portable. It's a monster that takes up a whole room. Okay, I think that we are starting to talk about a difficulty related to lasers. The difficulty seems to be that it is not portable. You cannot easily move it around. Um, it's it's off a hoot size off a master off a size, and it takes up the whole room. And this seems to be a problem, some kind of a difficulty. So let's carry on. I'm going to read one more sentence. De l's is trying to cut down the size and says that a laser around the size of a small table is in the offing. Okay, so he's trying to cut down on the size because it's too large. So let's go back to our question now. The main difficulty associate ID with using the laser equipment is related to its What do you think related to what's what related to the size? Because it's too large. It takes of the whole room. So the main difficulty is to cut down the size. So that's going to be our answer for number six sighs. We're gonna put it in green. And the answer here is size Great. So we are now finished with this question set. We have answered all three questions at this point. Sorry about this. I just noticed on this table, so it should be safely safely. So at this point, once you have jotted down the answers in the blanks, it would be a good idea to now transfer your answers onto your answer sheet. So we're now finished and right here I'm not going to be putting number six. I could do that. Put number six over here. So I know where I found the answer to number six. But right now, it's not really necessary because I have already answered all the questions. So it doesn't help me to know, Um, the order? Because I've already solved all the questions I've already answered all off them. So now I don't have to know which order they come in. I'm done with it, so I don't need that anymore. So, um, if you've already answered all the questions, then you don't have to write these numbers next to the answers. And I know that not all students like to do this. Some students prefer doing this. I personally prefer doing this, but I know that there are other students who don't like to shot down these numbers. So I don't want you to do this. If it doesn't help, you only jot down these numbers. If it helps you. If it doesn't help you, then don't bother with it. Then just answer the questions in your own way. The most important thing here is for you to be able to identify the key words and then to locate those keywords in the reading passage itself. And then finally, to understand the synonym language, you have to be able to understand what the question is asking you for on. You also have to understand what is the correct answer that is going to fit into that blank . So those are the important things you don't really have to worry about numbering over here or putting a check mark next to the easy questions. You don't have to do that if it helps you do it. If not, it doesn't matter. Okay, so I hope that this practice set number one was helpful for you to see how fill in the blank questions are answered. I want to show you one more example. So in the next video, I'm going to be doing another practice set this time Practice set number two. So I'll see you there. 6. Fill-in-the-Blank: Practice Set 2: all right now, this time in this video, I'm going to be answering or fill in the blank question from reading Passage Number three. So this particular example comes from the Cambridge aisles book Book Number nine. Test number three, Reading Passage Number three. So, as you already know by now, the questions from reading Passage Number one and number two are much more easier in comparison to reading Passage number three. So this one is going to be a little bit trickier than the questions from reading Passage number one and number two. So let's take a look at how to answer this question set. So here is our reading passage number three. Like always, we're going to go straight to the questions on We're going too far. Start off by paying attention to how many words we can write for our answers. In this case, we cannot write any more than two words per answer. So now that we know that we are looking for two word answers, we can now go ahead and start to underline or circle the different keywords in each one of these questions. So I'm gonna go ahead and do that now, with my highlighter and I will start highlighting the different keywords. So you might notice that over here you can see that this article is about the Voyager one space probe. So for that reason, since the entire article is on this Voyager one space probe, these keywords are not going to be very helpful for me. So for that reason, I'm not going to underline the word probe because the whole article is about probes. So this is going to be a repetitive keyword. And this is a key word that's going to appear throughout the reading passage. So it's not really going to help me to identify where I can locate the answers for numbers 33 34. So for that reason, I'm not going to count this as my keyword. I'm simply going to move on to other keywords, for example, transmitted pictures. So that's the key word here for our first question. And then down here, we see something about freezing temperatures. Now we don't have to really mark the key words here, since we don't have a question here. But I'm still doing that because, remember, fill in the blank questions are always in order. So that means that if I see the keyword freezing temperatures somewhere or center name for freezing temperatures, then I know that the answer to number 35 is going to come after this keyword. So for that reason, I also have marked this keyword as well. Ah, something about negative effect. Gonna mark that as well. Something about scientists and specifically, scientists fearing their fearing something that's also a keyword and something has stopped working or was about to stop working. That's another key word. Distance is a key word. Communication is a key word. Difficult is a key word. Replace is also a key word to replace. It seems that the only hope was to tell the probe to replace them. It seems that something needs to be replaced. And then, for number 37 transmit the message at a very fast speed. The speed of light. Great. And then I don't really care about this so much. So now let's see which one of these questions are going to be the easiest ones for us to solve. So you might remember what I like to do personally is I like to put a check mark next to the easy ones so that I can tackle those first. And then I can return to the more difficult questions at the end, after I have solved all the easy ones from this question set. So transmitted pictures that should be easy enough to find. This should be easy to find as well. But I'm not going to market since this is not a question, and this is going to be easy to find speed off light that's gonna be easy to find. There's not really going to be very many synonyms for the speed off light. There's really only one way to communicate the fact that we are talking about the speed of light, so that's going to be easy to find. So let's go back to our reading passage now, and I'm going to start off by looking for this keyword transmitted pictures. But here's another thing that I'm doing. I have also glanced over each one of thes keywords so that if I see them in the reading passage, I'm gonna mark them. So it's not like I'm only looking for one key word at a time. I have glanced over these keywords and I kind of have the rest of these keywords in the back of my mind so that if I happen to see them in the reading passage, I can mark them. OK, so it's good to have the other key words in the back of your mind as well, while you are looking for the specific keyword to a specific question. So now let's go ahead and look for this keyword transmitted pictures. Okay, transmitted pictures. And take note that I'm not reading every single word. I'm only scanning. Here we go images, So images is a synonym for pictures. So you might remember that I've mentioned several times by now that you are not going to find the exact keywords. Most of the times, almost never. You are almost always going to find synonyms, so you have to be looking for synonyms. You have to be mindful off the fact that you will have to search for the synonyms off the keywords because you are not going to find the exact keywords so spectacular images. We have found it here, and it seems that our answer is very likely to be here. So what I'm going to do now is I'm gonna go back down and I'm going to look at the surrounding words. So I'm going to read this question again. The probe transmitted pictures off both. So that is our surrounding word. We know that we're looking for something related to to off them. There's going to be a pair, so we are looking for two things. Both dash on dash, then left the dash. Okay, so the surrounding words are both on the left. So those words are the connecting words, and those words are going to tell us what is the correct answer that is going to fit here both on left. So let's see if we can find that. So I'm gonna start reading the sentence. Now, since this is the sentence in which this keyword appears, the space probe Voyager one, launched in 1977 had sent back spectacular images off Jupiter and Saturn. All right, so here are the two things that we were looking for Jupiter and Saturn and then soared out of the solar system on a one way mission to the stars. So sword out is a synonym for something. Can you guess what it is? Take a look. Soared out is a center name for left to leave behind to go outside to soar out. Okay, so that is the synonym for left on. We have found our answer. The answer to the next part. A solar system. So here are the answers. The first answer is Jupiter on Saturn. We're gonna put that in green, and then our second answer is over here. Solar system, solar system. So those are the answers? Um, let's go ahead and fill them in both Jupiter on Saturn. By the way, it doesn't matter which one you put first. In this case, the correct answer is Jupiter and Saturn. So it doesn't matter if you put Saturn first and Jupiter next. That does not matter. Okay, so number 33 is Jupiter and Saturn, and number 34 is solar system. That is the correct answer for number 34. So now that I have answered this easy question first, now I'm going to go straight down to my next easy question, which is number 37 on. I'm going to be looking for these keywords. Transmitting the message on speed off light speed of flight should be especially easy to find So let's go ahead and look for that now. Actually, the phrase speed of flight appears right here, and I did not expect that. Isn't that crazy? So the word speed of flight, the phrase speed off light appears in the same paragraph. Guys, what does that tell us? So we have found our keyword here, Speed off light. And that means that we are going to find our answer to the last question, which is Question number 37. We're going to find the answer for question number 37 in the same paragraph. What this means is that since the answers to number 33 started over here and then number 37 ends over here, that means that all our answers are going to be within this part right here. Between is, all the answers are sandwiched sandwiched between, um these keywords. So all the answers we're going to find right here, So that's great. So you might remember that speed of flight waas one off our keywords. The other thing that we were looking for waas a way of communication. So message sent out. Message sent out is a center name for this part right here transmit the message. That's the other key word that we were looking for. Transmit the message so that we're going to find our answer in that sentence for shore. So let's take a look at this one more time. I want to read this to make sure that I know which answer is going to correctly fit into the sentence. So let's read it. One time a dash was used to transmit the message at the speed of light. Okay, so this tells us that something was used. Something was used. So our answer is going to be a noun. It's going to be a noun because it has to be something. Something was used to transmit the message at the speed of light. Now we just have to find out what that waas. So we are going to start reading this sentence from the beginning, since this is the sentence in which are key words appear. So we're going to start off right here by means off a radio dish belonging to NASA's Deep Space Network. The message was sent out into the depths off space. Okay, so by means off a radio dish, that seems to be our answer. I'm going to read the next sentence as well regarding the speed of light. So here we go. Even traveling at the speed of light, it took over 11 hours to reach its target far beyond the orbit off Pluta. Okay, so there's nothing here in this sentence about using something to transmit the message. So our answer is going to be right here in this sentence on we can see in this sentence what was used to transmit the message, it says by means off a radio dish. So that means that the radio dish was used to send out the message. And that's going to be our answer radio dish. So in this case, what I'm gonna do is next to it. I'm just going to put number 37. I found my answer to number 37 here. I'm gonna put number 33 also number 34. We found two or four answers right here in this line. So 33 is here. 34 is also here. 37 is down here. That means the 35 36 have got to be somewhere in between here. Since fill in the blank questions are always in order. So now let's go ahead and take a look at what our next question is. So we are done with this. We're done with this. I'm just gonna fill in The answer over here. Radio dish was our answer. And now let's move on to number 35. Let's see if we can find something related to scientists being afraid of something and something that has stopped working or is not going to work. So scientists feared and stop working. Those are our key words on. We are not just going to be looking for the key words, but also for the synonyms off the keywords. So let's see if we can do that. Okay, here's something about freezing temperatures. Do you remember that? Ah, freezing temperatures was mentioned in this sentence right here, So there's not a question. But what it tells us is that the answer to Number 35 is going to come after the mention off raising temperatures. So it's going to come after on the key word. Freezing temperatures on the other thing to take note off is that the answer to Number 35 is a two part answer. The connecting words are both. So we are looking for two things. So it seems that scientists are fearing to things. So here's that mention of freezing temperatures on and it says that the probe was beginning to show its age. That seems to be some sort of a problem that the probe is running into on the brink off failing. This looks like something to be worried about. This looks like something that scientists would be afraid off. Also, take note that here they have used the phrase NASA experts. What is that? A synonym for scientists? NASA experts is a center name for scientists. So you have to be mindful off synonym language like this because you're going to see a lot of this type of language throughout the reading test. So now we know that this is something that scientists are fearing. Something is on the brink off failing. So we can now go ahead and read this sentence. I want I want to read this now, since we have found two off our key words here. So let's read it. Sensors and circus were on the brink of failing on NASA experts realised that they had to do something or lose contact with their probe forever. So what was on the brink of failing? What? Two things? The answer is right here. Sensors on circuits. These are the two things that were on the brink of failing. So I'm gonna put 36 over here, since that is where we have found our answer. And let's go back down and fill it in. Number 35 this is number 35 sensors on circuits number 35. So I'm gonna correct that, because up here I put 36. The correct answer is 35. It is for number 35 down here somewhere there. Great. So now we know that our answer to number 36 is going to be in this sentence right here. So let's go back to number 36. Let's see what this question was asking us. The only hope wants to tell the probe to replace. The only hope was to tell the probe to replace them with Dash. So replace them with something with something. It seems that the answer here is going to be a noun. We are looking for something. Something ah, that the probe wants to be replaced with, but distance made communication with the probe difficult. Okay, so we are looking for our main key Word here is replaced. We're looking for what the probe was to be replaced with. Ah, and the scientists are trying to replace the probe with something but the distance made this difficult. So let's see what that Waas. So Number 36 is going to be somewhere in here between 35 37. So I'm just gonna scan again. So here we see something about the distance. 12 billion kilometers is synonym for distance, a huge distance. So that is one of our key words. It was not an easy task. Okay, Not an easy task. So that means that it was a difficult task. So we have found two off our keywords. Now we're looking for something that this could be replaced by something that the probe could be replaced by. Actually, here is a mention off the solution because they are trying to replace the probe with something in order to solve a problem. So maybe our answer is in here. So let's read this sentence. The solution was to get a message to Voyager one toe instructed to youth spares to change the failing parts. All right, I don't know if you see the center name here, but to change is our synonym for replace to change is the center name for replace. So we have found three off our key words here. So our answer is definitely in here somewhere. So the solution was to get a message to Voyager one toe instructed to use what to use. What? We are trying to replace the failing part. But by using what? By using spares. So Speirs is the correct answer. Spares. That is the correct answer. So now our answer makes perfect sense. The only hope was to tell the probe to replace them with spares. But distance made this whole thing more difficult. Great. So we have now answered all of our questions and we are now done with our practice. Set number two 7. How to Answer Short Answer Questions: Hey there in this video, I'm going to show you how to answer the short answer question type in your iles reading exam. So just to refresh your memory, this is what the short answer question looks like. You will be told over here how many words you can write on. Basically, you just have to write the answer to each question in your answer sheet. Another thing to remember about this question type is that it is always in order, So this is very useful to know, because it allows you to strategically search for the answer to each question. So it's always good to know which questions are in order all the time. Which questions are in order most of the times on which questions are not in order. So it's very good to know that so that you can be strategic about the way in which you find the answers to different types of questions. The other thing about the short answer question is that it is rather easy to solve, as you can see, indicated by this green dot up here, so the way to identify this question type is first to read up here. It tells you how many words you can write, and then you can simply see that over here you have not been given any fill in the blanks any blank lines. You have also not been given any multiple answer choices, so that means that this is going to be a short answer question type. Now let me give you a bit of explanation regarding this type of question. So you already know that it goes in order and that it is easy to do so naturally. If you see these questions, then you should do them first. For example, let's say that in a reading passage you have three different types of questions. So usually in each reading said, you're going to get two or three types off questions, two or three different types of questions. Usually it's going to be three types of questions, part rating passage. So let's say that if in a reading passage short answer appears as one off the three question types, well, then you should probably do this type of question. First, you should probably go straight to the short answer question and do this set of questions first, because they are very easy and also because they go in order. If you happen, toe also have another easy type of question. For example, fill in the blank. Then you can go ahead and do that first before doing the short answer. That's also fine. The idea behind this way of thinking is simply to do the easy questions first on to save the difficult ones for later. Now you already know that each question is formed from only 1 to 2 sentences in the reading passage. So I wanted to stress this one more time. It's very important because a lot of times students and operating way too much information , they start to read more information than they need to. And as a result of that, they start applying extra information to the question on. For that reason, they get it wrong because they applied too much information there, read too much. So don't do that. Keep in mind that your answers are going to come from only one or two sentences Now, the short answer question is similar to fill in the blank questions because they go in order, they're easy to do on. You simply have to find some specific information in this case, in the short answer question type. You don't see any black lines, but you're still solving these questions in pretty much the same way. Now, in the short answer questions, it's going to ask you for very specific information, and you will know exactly what specific information you are being asked for by reading the question. And I'll show you more examples off this very soon. The last thing to keep in mind is that you must be able to scan for keywords. This is a general skill that you need to have for all the different question types, so you'll see this suggestion being made again and again throughout the different question types, You have to be able to scan the keywords on also toe understand the synonym language. You have to know how the different keywords are being paraphrased or being rephrased into different words into synonym language. Now let's go over the basic strategy for this question type. The first thing is similar to fill in the blank questions. What you have to do is simply underlined or circled the keywords in each of the questions. Next, you have to identify which questions are easiest so that you can do them first. Personally, I like to do this by putting a little check mark next to the easy questions. This is again similar to fill in the blank questions. If it helps you, then go ahead and put a check mark next to it. If it doesn't help you, then don't do it. The next thing to do is to scan the passage. So now that you have identified the keywords on you have identified, which are the easy questions, now you have to go to the passage and you have to start looking for the keywords within the easy questions first. So we're gonna look for those keywords in the reading passage on. We're not going to read our sentences word by word. We're not going to be reading the passage sentence by sentence. Instead, we're simply going to be scanning the passage. And when we find the key words that we are looking for or the synonym language that we're looking for, then you can simply market. You can either underline it or circle it so that you can mark the spot where you found the answer to a particular question. Next you have to go back to the question. You have to make sure that the answer that you have found does in fact fit the question. So in order to do this, you can look at the connecting words. In this case, the connecting words are going to be the specific information that we are looking for. What words would connect to the specific information that we are looking for. The answer has to fit the question. It has to fit the specific information that we're looking for. For example, if the question is asking you to find the specific information which happens to be the name off person, then you know that you are looking for a proper noun. You are looking for the name off a person. So that is what we mean by specific information. Are you looking for a now? Are you looking for a verb? Are you looking for an adverb? What are you looking for? Is that the name of a place, the name of a person or the name off something? So that is what we mean by making sure that our answer fits. Our answer has to fit the specific information that we are searching for. And finally, once you have found the answer, then simply put a little number next to that line where you have found the answer. The reason for this is the same as the reason that we discussed for fill in the blank questions. The reason is that these questions go in order. So if I have identified my so if I have identified where I found the answer to question number three and I have also identified the spot where I found the answer to question Number five, then I know that I'm going to find the answer to question Number four, sandwiched in between the answers for number three and number five is going to be in there somewhere in between because they have to go in order. First number three, then number four and then number five. So that's why we like to put a little number next to the line where you have found your answer. So that is the basic strategy. Now let's take a look at some examples so that you can get a basic overview off how to answer this type of question later in the following videos, I'm going to be doing actual practice exam questions, and I'm going to be showing you how to do this in the exam scenario. So right here we're just giving you examples off the strategy. And then in the falling videos, I'm going to do practice questions, and I will be solving the different short answer questions for you so onto our examples. So let's say that if this is the question said that you got on your test, what would you do? The first thing that you have to do is pay attention to how many words your answer can be. In this case, I cannot write an answer that is more than one word. It can only be a one word Answer. If I make it a two word, answer that I'm going to get a wrong so make sure toe always follow simple directions. It's surprising to me how many students lose points just because they cannot follow simple directions. It's quite simple. It tells you right here, and this is part off knowing English because if you cannot follow basic instructions than that tells the Examiner that you do not understand English, because why else would you not follow basic guidelines, so always make sure to pay attention to how long your answer can be. The next thing that we're gonna do is we're going to underline or circle all the keywords in each one of thes questions. So here I've highlighted these keywords. But since you won't have a highlighter, you can either underline it or circle it with a pencil. Once we have identified the keywords, the next step is to identify which question would be the easiest one for us to solve. So the way that we identify this is by identifying the easiest keyword. Now, I'm gonna ask you out of these three questions. Which question do you think is going to be the easiest one to solve? Take a moment to guess which key word do you think is going to be the easiest one to find shade Serious climatic event, Southern Rogers Town, Frequent visitors or nowadays, which one? If you guessed Southern Roger Stone, then you are correct. This is a proper now. This is the name of a place in India, and the letter R is capitalized. So since this is the name of the location and the letter R is capitalized. Since this is a proper now, this is going to be very easy for us to find. So question Number seven is the easiest question, since it has the easiest keyword. So personally, I like to put a little check mark next to the easy questions so that I know that I have to do them first. If it helps you, you can do the same if it doesn't. If it doesn't help you, then don't worry about it. But personally, I like to do this, especially when there are many questions. Finally, the last thing that you have to do is you have to identify the specific information that each question is asking you for. What is the specific information that each question is asking you for? So in Number six, the question is asking you for a certain part, a certain part off some step wells. So the answer we can already guess it's going to be a noun because only a noun, um, can be the correct answer. Since we are looking for some sort of apart, some sort of a thing, it has to be a noun. Now, with number seven, we are looking for a type. The type of what? We're looking for the type off a serious climatic event. So that whole thing we're looking for that specific information, the type off, serious climatic event. So since we are looking for a type, um, which is a sort of classifications, we are looking for some sort of a category. So this answer must also be a noun. The answer to number seven will also be a noun. And then finally, number eight. We're looking for who? So we're looking for either a person or ah, group off people. So, um, this is also going to be a noun. We're looking for a group of people or perhaps one person. Um, actually, it has to be a group of people. Since these are plural, the visitors are plural. So it's going to be a group off people or maybe a group of animals. I don't know. We're gonna find out. So once you have identified the keywords and once you have identified the specific information that you need to look for in each one of these questions, then you can go ahead and start by answering the easy questions first. So in this case, we're going to start off by answering number seven. So here we go. So, question number seven is what type off serious climatic event, which took place in Southern Roger Stone, is mentioned in the article. So let's say that you go to your article at this point and you start to look for keywords on you come across this paragraph and you're going to find your keyword somewhere in this paragraph. So let's go ahead and scan this paragraph and let's see if we confined our keyword. Roger Stone. I'm not reading every single word. I am only looking for our keyword, which is Roger, Stan, or, more specifically, Southern. Roger. Stan. So I have found it right here. My keyword is right here. The next thing that we have to do is we have to look for the specific information. What specific information are we searching for? We want to know about the type off serious climatic event, A serious climatic event. Well, turns out that right here it says Rogers town suffered an eight year trout. Well, that is a serious climatic event. And actually, what we have here is a synonym language serious climatic event is the synonym language for an eight year trout. The next thing that we're going to do is we're going toe underline our matching sentence. This is our matching sentence. The matching sentence is the sentence in which we're going to find our answer. It is the sentence in which we have found our keywords and the synonym language. So this is where we're going to find our answer. So personally, I like to underline this matching sentence. You can do the same if it helps you, but you don't have to. It is optional. So now that we have identified are matching sentence. Let's go ahead and read this sentence. We're going to start off from right here. Their condition hasn't been helped by recent try spells. Southern Roger Stone suffered an eight year drought between 1996 on 2004. So what did they suffer? War was the serious climatic event. It was a trout. So drought is the correct answer. So now that we have answered our question, we have identified where we have found our answer. All we have to do it simply put a number next to it so that we know where we found the answer to question number seven so that when we are looking for other questions that are in order, I will know that the answer to question Number six will come before this line. And the answer to question number eight will come after this line. So let's move on to question number six. We're going to start answering this question now. Which part off some step wells provided shade for people. So here we actually have to keywords step whiles on shade. But guys, you know what? Actually, this entire passage is about step wells. Everything in this article is about step wells. So do you think that this is really going to be a helpful keyword? Do you think that Step Wells is a helpful keyword? It's not. It's not a helpful keyword because it's too repetitive, because the whole article is about Step. Wells were going to be seeing this keyword appear again and again in paragraph after paragraph after paragraph. So it doesn't really help us. Um, toe, identify this keyword since the whole article is about this keyword. So we're going to ignore this. Let's Castle that we're not going to be looking for stuff wells. Since that is a useless keyword, it's not. It's not of any use to us. Let's just look for shade, something that has to do with shade. Ah, shade for people. So here is our paragraph. Let's go ahead and scan this paragraph and let's see if we can find something about shade in here. So I'm scanning again. Andi, I am not reading word by word or sentence by sentence. I am simply scanning my eyes over this paragraph, looking for something that has to do with shade. And I think I found it right here. I see that it's size that the pavilions sheltered visitors. There are pavilions that sheltered visitors, sheltered from what? From the relentless heat. So heat of the sun. So, um, if you are out in the open and there's really hot sun out, So if you're out in the open and the sun is really hot, what are you going to do? You're gonna probably find someplace where you can shelter yourself from the heat. In other words, you're going to find shade, so it seems that that is our keyword. So right over here we have synonym language for shade shade for people on here. The synonym language says that the pavilions sheltered visitors from the relentless heat. Okay, Andi, take note that in this question, we're looking for a very specific thing. The very specific thing is the part. Which part of the step well, that is the specific information that we're searching for on that information is going to be found in our matching sentence. This is our matching sentence on our answer is in here Pavilions. What sheltered? Which part? It was the pavilions that shelter people from the relentless heat. So that's our answer. Pavilions. Finally, before we move on to our next question, we're gonna put number six next to the line where we found our answer. And then we can move on to our final question, which is number eight. The question says, who are frequent visitors to step wells nowadays. So in this question are two key words are frequent visitors on nowadays. Remember that we're not including Step Wells. Since this is a repetitive keyword, it is not ah useful to us. So here is our paragraph, and let's go ahead and scan this paragraph to find these keywords right away. I see that. Um, the word today is a center name for nowadays. So there is my first keyword that is synonym language for nowadays. I'm gonna keep reading on. All right, check this out. So it's as tourists flock to wells. It says tourists flock to wells in far flung corners off northwestern India. So this right here flocked to or tourists flock to is synonym language for frequent, so tourists often do this on visitors is also synonym language for tourists. So this is going to be our matching sentence, the sentence in which we're going to find our answer. So let's go ahead and read the sentence. Now tourists flock to wells in far flung corners off northwestern India to gaze in wonder at these architectural marvels from hundreds of years ago, which served as a reminder off both the ingenuity, blah, blah, blah. I'm not gonna finish reading this. I've already found my answer. So who are the frequent visitors? Um, well, it says right here that tourists are the frequent visitors. Tourists are the frequent visitors, so that's going to be our answer for this question. So tourists can be seen as a synonym for visitors. It can be a synonym. But in this case the question is asking us the type off visitors because there could be many types of visitors. You could be a local visitor. You could be someone from the neighborhood, but you could also be from someone abroad, such as a tourist. So that is the correct answer for the who. We are looking for a person or a group of people. So in this case, the group of people happens to be tourists. Great. So we have answered this question on at the end. You can put a number eight next to it. If there are more questions in the question set, or if this happens to be the last question in the question set, then you don't have to do this. So now that you know how to answer these questions and you have a general overview for answering these short answer questions in the next few videos, I want to take you through practice exam questions. And these are questions that are going to replicate a rial exam situation. These are genuine. I also exam questions, so you're gonna find more off that in the next few videos. I'll see you there 8. Short Answer: Practice Set 1: all right. So now that you know the basic strategy for answering the short answer question type now I won't assure you a genuine exam question. And I want to do this for you, as you would do this in the exam itself. So here is our reading passage on this reading passage comes from the Cambridge. I'll spoke book number nine, Test number two and this hair is reading passage number one. So these questions you can expect to be easy. So these short answer questions. You can expect them to be easy. Since they come from reading passage Number one in the next video, I'm going to be doing a practice question from reading Passage number three so that you'll get a sense off the different levels of difficulty that you may see with this question type . All right, so here we go. We're going to start off by going straight down to the questions. Some were scroll right down to the questions here. We have to answer questions from 7 to 10 on. The first thing you need to do is always make sure that you know how long your answer has to be. In this case, we can write no more than two words or a number on or a number. So it tells you right here that the number is also an acceptable answer, but not to numbers, only a number. Okay, so the first thing we're gonna do here after reading the directions is we're going to be highlighting, underlining, circling our keywords. So I'm going to do that with my highlighter here. Let's go ahead and take a look at water. The key words Now in general, it can be helpful to actually know what the general article is about. What is going to be talking about In this case, we don't have a title for this rating passage. Some reading passages are going to have a title. So that way you can know exactly what this reading passage is going to be about. For example, let's say that if the reading passage is going to be about spaceships, then you know that the whole article deals with spaceships. That means that spaceship, the word spaceship, is not a keyword. It's not a keyword because it does not really help us to locate the answers. It's a use less keyword. It's a repetitive keyword. Therefore, we would not use such a keyword since the entire article is on that subject. But in this case, we don't know exactly what this article is about without actually reading the content itself. We don't have a title here, so we don't know what it's about. So we're not going to bother with that. We're not going to bother with reading any of this. We're just gonna go straight down to the questions and then try to find the key words that we think are the keywords to the best of our ability. All right, so in this case, let's try to identify our key words. I'm going to be marking them with my highlighter. The first thing we are looking for is a period, a certain period of time, something to do with hearing loss, school Children. That's another he word. It's a noun. I studied something about studying. That's a verb. Well, take a look at that New Zealand. That's gonna be really easy to find. That's a proper noun we love proper now owns. They are very easy to find in the reading passage because the letters the first letter is capitalized and that really helps out Now for the next one. Machinery, noise, type of noise. So more more of noise. Something about upsetting Children, autism. Autism should be much more easy to find in comparison to the rest of thes keywords. But we'll see how that plays out. Okay, Now, here something about a term description, hearing problems, school Children and something about diagnosis. Not gonna underline that. I think that this is enough for us to find out on the answer. Number 10. What part of the New Zealand disability strategy? And again, another proper noun. It seems that this is the name, often organization. So that's all we're gonna need over here. Perhaps something about equal opportunity for Children. Weaken. Mark that as well. Great. So now that we have the key words, I quickly also want to underline certain parts of the question toe. Emphasize the fact to you that we are looking for very specific information when it comes to short answer questions. So what specific information are we looking for in number seven? Well, in number seven, we're looking for a period of time. It's a certain period of time that we're looking for a specific period of time. Here we are looking for a type of noise. That's the specific information that we are looking for in number eight, the type of noise that can upset Children. For number nine. We are looking for a term what term is used on. Finally, for number 10 we're looking for a certain part. So this is going to be a noun. Our answer is going to be a noun. Matter of fact, it seems that for number 89 and 10 are answer is going to be a noun. And then for number seven, this could be a noun. It could also be some sort of a number, since we're talking about a period of time so we'll find out what that is. Very soon. Great. So I hope that this makes sense to you. So far, we have highlighted are keywords and we have underlined, ah, certain parts of the question that are asking for the specific information. This way we know exactly what specific information we're going to be searching for in our rating passage. The last thing toe identify is which are going to be the easiest questions out of thes so which are going to be the easiest keywords on which questions do we want? Toe Answer first. So I like to do that by putting a check mark next to the easy ones. I already told you that number seven is going to be easy to find because New Zealand is a proper noun. Where else do we have a proper noun number 10 New Zealand disability strategy. So that's another proper noun. Also going to be very easy for us to find. Great. So I'm now going to leave number eight and nine. We're not gonna worry about that just yet. I'm gonna go straight to answering question number seven first and then I'm gonna answer number 10. So we're looking for New Zealand. Let's go ahead and look for New Zealand. And while we search for this keyword New Zealand, I'm also going to be keeping these other keywords in mind. I wanna have these other keywords in the back of my mind so that when I see them in the reading passage, I can mark them. OK, so it's not like I'm only looking for New Zealand. My mind is also open to these other keywords. I'm not trying to remember these other keywords. I'm just kind of reading them, glancing over them and just having that in the back of my mind. I'm not trying to remember it. I'm just trying to have it in the back of my mind as a casual memory. You can think of it as something casual. So let's go ahead and look for New Zealand on something to do with period of time. So we're going to start off right here and we are going to start scanning. Okay, Something about New Zealand, Ministry of Health. And look at that decades. So it seems to be talking about a period of time. So here we have our keyword New Zealand, and here we have it says, two decades that is talking about a period of time. So I want to read this sentence. It seems to be the sentence where our answer might be located. So I want to read this sentence. I have a feeling that my answer is going to be somewhere in this sentence. So let's read it. The New Zealand Ministry of Health has found from research carried out over two decades that 6 to 10% off Children in that country are affected by hearing loss are affected by hearing loss. Okay, I want to go back down to my question now and make sure that this is in fact the right spot . So let's read our question for what period of time has hearing loss in school. Children being studied. Check that out studied. That's the synonym for the word research. The word research appeared in the reading passage, and that is a synonym for studied on Studied where? In New Zealand. So that seems to be the correct answer we are looking for. Here is hearing loss, which is another one of our key words hearing loss. And you might remember I mentioned the fact that study is a synonym for research. Okay, so that is where we're going to find our answer. So what this is is what we call our matching sentence the matching sentences where we're going to find our answer. The sentence in which we're going to find our answer. So this is the matching sentence on the correct answer is two decades, because the question is asking us for a period of time on two decades is a period off time So I'm gonna mark that in green. That is the correct answer. Andi, let's just go down here on fill that out so you can either write it here and then transfer all the answers together into your answer sheet. Or you can put them directly into your answer sheet. Whatever works best for you. So two decades is our answer. Gonna make that perhaps 12. That's better. Okay. And one more thing that we like to do, you might remember is that after finding the answer, I like to put a little number here. Number seven. So now I know that my answers to number 89 and 10 are going to come after this line. Now that we have answered that, I'm now going to go straight down to number 10 and I'm gonna answer that one next. Since that is the second most easiest question out of all of the's questions. So here I'm looking for a certain part off the New Zealand disability strategy and something about equal opportunity. But mainly I'm looking for this keyword New Zealand disability strategy. Let's see if you can find that Hey, something about New Zealand, but nothing about disability. strategy here. There is a bunch of mentioned about noise here on day noise over here as well. So I know that some off the questions, actually, one of these questions down here, Number eight was asking us about noise, so we're probably going to find the answer to that one somewhere in there. But I'm not focusing on that just yet, So I'm going to keep moving on, and I want to first find our keyword, which is the Ah, New Zealand disability strategy. That's what I'm looking for, first and foremost. So just scanning here. We're not reading this. They're legal. Do you see how useless it is to actually read this passage? There's absolutely no need for you to read these sentences. The point is actually to locate the correct spot where you're going to find your answer. That's all we care about. So don't worry about reading any of this stuff. So New Zealand disability strategy we found our keyword on. You might remember that we were also looking for something related to equal opportunity on a certain part off this program or this agency. So something about apart let's see if we can find that something about parts, something about equal opportunity. So New Zealand disability strategy appears here as well. There we go. Equal opportunities. That is another one of our key words. Great. So I haven't found anything about part being mentioned just yet. I found New Zealand disability strategy and equal opportunities on you might remember that these are two of our key words New Zealand disability strategy and equal opportunity. So we found that. And I'm pretty sure that that is going to be our matching sentence. Now all we are looking for is what is the part off this agency or this program that aims to give schoolchildren equal opportunity? What is the part? What is it called? So let's see what that is. I'm going to start reading this part here. I want to read this sentence because in this sentence we have the keyword New Zealand disability strategy, and we also have our other keyword equal opportunities. So honestly, I think that this is going to be our matching sentence. I think that we're gonna find our answer somewhere around here. So I'm gonna underlying that part. And ah, let's go ahead and read this objective. Three off The New Zealand disability strategy is to provide the best education for disabled people by improving education so that all Children, youth learners on adult learners will have equal opportunities. All right, do you see the answer? I already see it. So we have to find the part that is helping young learners and Children and adult learners to have equal opportunities. What is that part cold? It's right here. Objective three. That is the name off the part. So our answer is objective three. And this was our answer to question number 10. So I'm gonna put number 10 right there. We're going to scroll down and we are going toe. Answer number 10 by saying objective three Objective three is the correct answer to number 10. So now that we're done with this, we know that the answers to number eight and number nine are going to be found somewhere in between the answers to number 10 and number seven. So number seven was up here. Number 10 is down here. That means the answers to number eight and nine have got to be somewhere in between these two answers. Okay? Somewhere in there. So let's go ahead and just do what we always do. We're gonna start off by looking for our keywords. So right now we're looking for keywords related to noise machinery, noise types, off noise. And also not just any noise noise that can upset Children. And again, not just any Children, but Children with autism. So those are our key words. Noise, Children, autism. Let's see if we can find that. So we're going to start scanning from here. We are looking for noise, Children and autism. Casey, something about Children here. Something about voice, but not noise. Noise is different. Something about noise here. Something about Children here. Gonna put these in yellow, By the way, since these are keywords and not the answers, I like to put the answers in green on, um, the keywords in yellow just so that you can identify them easily. Okay, So we are looking also for something related toe autism. I haven't found anything about autism just yet. More stuff about noise here. Effects of noise. Something about Children. Okay. Something about autism is down here. Mawr autism stuff here. Okay. Something about noise. More noise again. Something about autism. Something about a child or Children, and it seems to me that we're going to find our answer over here. The reason is that we found the all the keywords over here. We found the keywords. Autism are noise and child or Children. So we know that this is a paragraph related toe, autism and Children. So let's go back to our question and make sure that we are sure about what is the specific information that we are looking for. So let's read this question one more time. In addition to machinery noise, what other type of noise can upset Children with autism? OK, so the question is saying that we know that machinery noise upsets Children with autism. But what is another type of noise other than machinery noise that can also upset Children? So what we're going to do is I'm going to start reading by Ah, I wonder. I want to start by reading this sentence here because this is the sentence that contains two key words here. And then I might read the next sentence as well. But let's see. Ah, here we go. Those experiencing these disorders often find sounds such as crowd noise and the noise generated by machinery painful and distressing. There we go, guys. That is our matching sentence. And we have found our answer. Do you see the answer yet? Take a moment to guess So we know that machinery noise causes distress to Children. But what other noise? Right here. Crowd noise. Crowd noise is the correct answer. So now that we have the answer to number eight, we're gonna put number eight right here, and I'm going to scroll down to number eight and we are going to put the answer right here . So the correct answer is crowd. Um, you can either put crowd. You can also put noise. Both of them are going to be the correct answer. So you can either put crowd as the answer or you can put crowd noise as the answer. Both of them will be correct in this case. Great. Now we have to do our final question. Number nine. So, number nine. Let's read that question. What term is used to describe the hearing problems off schoolchildren which have not been diagnosed? Okay, so we're looking for some special terminology. It's going to be a noun for for sure, because it's the It's a certain terminology that we're looking for on this is a terminology that describes the hearing problems off school Children. So not just any school Children's school Children who have not been diagnosed. So let's go ahead and look for those keywords. Term hearing problems on school Children diagnosed might be another key word. We'll keep an eye open for that one as well. Let's let's see if we can find these. So we found the answer to number eight over here, so we know that the answer to number nine has to be somewhere in here between number eight and the answer to number 10. Since short answer questions always go in order. So let's start scanning from over here. So mainly, we are looking for a term that describes hearing problems. What term describes hearing problems? So I see something about difficulties, but nothing about hearing. I see something about hearing difficulties here. It says auditory function deficit on. It is also talking about Children, which is sending him for school Children. So that seems to be possibly the place where we might find our answer. But we have to keep going. I want to see if there is any other key word that we confined were specifically looking for a term. Remember? Again, there is a mention of auditory function deficit here. Oh, check that out. Many undiagnosed Children. Remember the question asked us about undiagnosed Children. So I'm pretty sure that we're going to find our answer in this paragraph. On more specifically, we're probably going to find our answer down here somewhere. So I want to start by reading this sentence first. Since this is where we have our keyword auditory function deficit, we could also start up here. But I don't think that we're going to find our answer up here because up here, we don't have this keyword undiagnosed Children. So that is a key word that indicates that the answer is going to be somewhere around here. So that's why I've chosen to start reading from down here in particular, the effects off noisy classrooms on activities on those experiencing disabilities in the form of auditory function deficit. Need thorough investigation. Okay, so we know that we're talking about Children who are in classrooms. So, in other words, we are talking about school Children on. We're talking about school Children who are having hearing problems. We know that because the passage says experiencing disabilities in the form of auditory function deficit, that's just a complicated way. Ah, fancy way off saying hearing problems. Children who are experiencing hearing problems, hearing disabilities. So I haven't found my answer. Here I am looking for a very specific term. Remember, we are looking for a term that is used to describe the hearing problems. What is the term that is used to describe the hearing problems? So let's go ahead and read the next sentence. It is probable that many undiagnosed Children exist in the education system with invisible disabilities. Actually, I think that that is our answer right there. Invisible disabilities see, what they are doing is that they're saying that it is highly likely that many Children who are not diagnosed they still exist in the education system with so called invisible disabilities, meaning that there are disabilities that we don't know very much about. Or perhaps they're invisible. We don't know about them for some reason, and this seems to be a terminology, so that is going to be our answer for this one. This one was a little bit harder toe spot a little bit harder toe identify. So this is something to be expected. So be extra careful about paying attention to synonym language like this, especially with reading passages number two and number three, because, ah, sometimes the synonym language can be hidden. It can be hidden right in front of you on it can be tricky toe. Identify it at some points. So make sure that you are careful about searching for this type of synonym language. So invisible disabilities is going to be our answer for this one. Gonna put that in green? Andi, you can put number nine here. It's really not necessary at this point because we've already solved all of the questions. So if there were more questions in here than it might help us, but right now we're already done. Number nine was our final question, so Ah, you don't have to number it if you don't want to. So I'm gonna put my answer here. The answer is going to be invisible disabilities. That's our answer. And we are done. Congrats. We are finished with this short answer practice at number one on in the next video. I want to take you through another practice question. So in this video, we looked at how to answer short answer questions from reading passage Number one. This was a relatively easier question, said in the next video. I want to show you a question set from Passage number three, which is going to be a little bit more trickier. So stay tuned for that, and I'll see you in the next one. 9. Short Answer: Practice Set 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. So in the previous video, I showed you how to answer the short answer question. We answered an example from reading Passage number one. And that example came from Cambridge else. Book nine. This one also comes from that same book this time Test number one on reading passage number three. So in this video, you're going to see an example off how short answer questions can appear in a little bit more trick your way. Typically, for reading passage number three, you will need ah, higher level of English to answer these questions. So I want to show you an example off what a tricky set of questions looks like. So let's begin. We're going to start, like, always by going straight to the questions, but I want to do one more thing. I want to do one thing before we do that. I want to read the title, the history off the Tortoise. So this title tells me what this article is going to be about, so sometimes you will notice that the article does not have any title. But if it does have a title, then be sure to read that it will give you a general understanding off what this article is going to be about. So now when we go down to our questions, will know that if we see the word history or tortoise anywhere in these questions, we know that those are not going to be useful keywords for us. Because the whole article is about the history off the tortoise. It's not going to help us to search for keywords like tortoise or history. Those are going to be repetitive and therefore useless to us. So that's why it's useful to read the title so that you can know which keywords you should not researching for. Now that we've talked about that, we can now move on to our questions here. Be sure to read how many words you can write. In this case, Our answer cannot be any more than two words. So here we have to answer these questions. Number 27 to 30 on. We're going to begin by first highlighting the keywords. So let's begin over here. Something about transfer transfer from sea to land, something about animals on my great migration. Now moving on to our next question, we have to answer with two processes. So for number 28 we have to look for two things on both of those things have to be mentioned in order to get the one point for this question. So you have to answer the two things, the two processes. And when you answer both of them, only then will you get a point for this question. If you only answer one off them, then you will not get in point. You have to mention both of them. Okay, so another key word is animals changes. And we're talking specifically about big changes which happened when they moved onto land. So those are the key words for this one for number 29 physical feature Ancestors who whales . Okay. And then number 30 animals again. Guys. You know what? I'm seeing the word animals over and over again. I'm seeing that the word animal is over here, over here and then also here. So you know what? I think that this is not going to be a useful keyword. It seems to me that this keyword is repetitive because I'm seeing this keyword in every question in most of these questions. So here is my conclusion the word animals is not a useful keyword. It's useless because it's too repetitive. So I'm going to cancel that. I'm going to also cancel this on this as well, because this is not a real keyword, so we're gonna ignore that on. Look at that. That's a very unique word. Do you think that this is going to be easy to find in the reading passage? Yeah, it will be. And so this is going to be one of the easiest questions that we will choose to answer first . Resembled is another key word. Great. So now we gotta identify which questions we want to answer First, which ones are going to be the easiest ones to answer? So we already know that this one is easy, right? But what else do you think is going to be easy? Is that the only one or is there something else? Some other question that you think will also be easy to identify. I'm not sure. I think that number 29 is going to be another one that is going to be easy to find. The reason is that it seems that the word whales might not be too common I think that we should be easily able to find the word whales or a synonym for whales. So I'm gonna put a check mark next to that as well. So let's look for Number 29 number 31st. And then we can return back to these other questions. So we're going to start off with number 30 because that's the easiest one. Okay, that word is going to be very easy to find its your source. I think that's how it's pronounced. I'm not sure, though, So let's look for this word. So let's come up to the top and let's start scanning for this word. It is more likely that I'm not going to find this word anywhere in the beginning. By the way, I do see the word whales over here, so I'm gonna highlight that Keyword whales. Guys, remember that when you are searching for a specific keyword. For example, when I'm searching for this keyword, I'm not just looking for this keyword. What I have done is I have also kind of taking a second look at each one of thes keywords, and I've put them in the back of my mind. So that when I'm scanning my passage, if I happen to see any of thes keywords that I'm going to mark them. Okay, so do that as well. It's going to save you time. A lot of times you will find that when you are searching for one key word, you might or might not be able to find it. But other keywords from other questions might jump out at you. Okay, so if that happens, then that's great, because that makes it easier for us to answer those questions. So I'm going to keep searching for this word. I haven't found it yet. I did find another key word, though. Whales, But I am looking for Is Theo sores? Yeah, it's OK. There we go. I did not expect this keyword to be found so early. I thought that I would find it. Ah, towards the end of this reading passage since this, um, since this keyword appears in the last question, but turned out that that was not the case. Now we just have to find out if the place where we found this keyword is in fact, the sentence where we're going to find are correct. Answer. So in this question. We are looking for animals, specific animals and guys. You might remember that I mentioned that for short answer questions, we are looking for very specific information. So for number 30 we're looking for animals. Which animals? That is the specific information we are looking for. Number 29. We're looking for a specific physical feature for number 28. We are looking for two processes. These are the specific pieces of information that we are looking for that is going to be the correct answer. Finally, Number 27. What had to transfer what we are looking for. Something is going to be a noun. So those are the specific pieces of information now we need to look for. So we were at number 30. So let's continue from there. Which animals might is Theo Source have resembled, So we know that we are looking for an animal. The correct answer is going to be a noun. So let's start reading our sentence from over here from the spot where our keyword first appears. Excuse sores were reptilian contemporaries off the dinosaurs with friends and streamlined bodies. I don't think my answer is here. It says that extra source were contemporaries of the dinosaurs means that they lived in the same time period as the dinosaurs. But that doesn't mean that the X your source resembled dinosaurs. It doesn't say anything about that. So to resemble means to look like someone or to look like something. So this sentence is saying that extra source lived during the same time period as the dinosaurs. But it doesn't say that the external source looked like dinosaurs. Okay, so that's what we are looking for. Something or some creature that looked like it feel source. So that's a tricky one. A lot of students would get that one wrong, so we haven't found our answer. So what I want to do is we're gonna keep reading. I want to read one more sentence on Let's see if we get anywhere with it. So here we go. The fossils look like guys. Did you see that right away? We have the keyword look like What is that a synonym for to look like that is a synonym for resemble. So we are talking about the fossils off X zero source. So when they say the fossils looked like dolphins, what they're really saying is that extra source looked like dolphins because the fossils in this case is just a synonym language for extra sores. So here it doesn't say x your source. Or rather, it uses a center name fossils. The fossils are referring or referencing back to this species over here. So that's the correct answer. The fossils resemble dolphins, so we're gonna mark that in green, and that is our correct answer. So since that is our correct answer, we can now go ahead and put number 30 right next to it. Since that is where we found the answer to question number 30 let's scroll down. Unless put our answer next to this question, The correct answer is Dolphins. Excellent. So we are now done with number 30. Now let's move on to our next question. So the next question that we wanted to solve was number 29. Which physical feature possessed by their ancestors do whales lack? So do you remember we found the word whales on. We even highlighted this keyword, So let's look for that keyword for whales and then specifically, we are looking for a physical feature. It's going to be some sort of a noun, a type of physical feature. And we are looking for a physical feature possessed by on the ancestors off the animal that we're talking about. So let's take a look and ah, let's see if we can find that. So number 30 was here. So number 29. The answer to question number 29 has to come before this point before this line. So we're looking for whales. I'm going to start scanning backwards. I see the word whales here and the word whales here on here as well. Um, so I'm pretty sure we're gonna find our answer somewhere around there. So just to remind you, we are looking for a specific feature, a physical feature. So let's start reading this sentence. I want to start reading from over here, since this is where the word whales first appear. So I'm gonna start reading from here Whales, including the small whales we call dolphins on dual gongs with their close cousins. The manatees sees to be land creatures altogether and reverted to the full marine habits off their remote ancestors. So there's our other keyword, and ah, I'm pretty sure we're gonna find our answer right here. So let's go back to our question. Make sure that we know what exactly the question is asking us for which physical feature possessed by their ancestors do. Whales lack. So there is something that the whales are lacking. So I haven't found my answer just yet, so I'm going to keep reading. It says that they don't even come ashore to breed. So naturally, this paragraph is starting to talk about how the whales do not have a certain ability. They don't come ashore to breed. But I want to find out why that is. What is it that they are lacking? So I want to read. Um, I want to continue reading, see if I can find my answer here. It feels that I'm very close to my answer. They do, however, still breathe air, having never developed anything equivalent to the gills off their early Gilles off their earlier Marine incarnation. There we go earlier. Marine incarnation is just another synonym for ancestors. So the word ancestors could trick you if you were looking only for exact keywords. So just because you see the word ancestors here, it doesn't mean that you're going to find your answer. In this sentence, you have to also look for synonyms for these keywords. For example, earlier Marine incarnation is just a fancy way of saying ancestors. The generation that came before you, those our ancestors earlier Marine incarnation. So here we have our surname and actually right here, it tells us why the whales don't come ashore to breed anymore. Why? Because they never developed anything like the girls off their ancestors. So that's going to be around, sir. Right there. Gills. So we were looking for what physical feature are the whales lacking? And Gilles is that physical feature? So we found our answer right here. So I'm gonna put number 29 over here. That is the answer to question number 29 we're gonna go down here and also put that over here. Gills. Great. Now we only have to do 27 28 So let's run through those really quickly. Let's start off by first doing number 28 because over here it says something about changes happening when the ah when these animals had to move onto land and I just see something about Actually, these two questions are related moving from land and then transfer from sea to land. So these questions are related. We're probably going to find the answers to these two questions right next to each other. So let's look for these keywords. Transfer asi land migrate, and so one Let's see if we can find that. Okay, so number 29 was over here, so the answers to number 28 27 have to be before this line. So let's start scanning from over here. I'm gonna put ashore. Where? Highlight that, Actually, because ashore is a synonym for land. Here I see the word lined again, as in land creatures. So gonna highlight that. Let's see if we can find more keywords. More land here about water. So ah, water can be sitting in four C. So that's why I've marked that. And here we go, moving from water to land. It's talking about moving from water to land right here. So I know that we've hit jackpot because right here, it talks about transfer from sea to land so we can actually answer. Both of these questions were probably gonna find around the same spot. So let's start off with number 28. Let's to number 28 1st So we're looking for the two processes, right? So let's see if we can find these two processes that was necessary for these creatures to move from sea onto land. So let's start reading this sentence, since this is where it for starts to talk about this subject. So let's read that moving from water to land involved a major redesign of every aspect of life, including breathing on reproduction. OK, do you see our answer? We are looking for two processes that are crucial for migrating from water to land. What two things that were crucial had to be redesigned had to be changed. Breathing and reproduction. Those are the correct answers, breathing and reproduction. So that one was number 27. So let's go down and let's fill that one up. Actually, it was number 28 not 27. It was 28 the correct answer is breathing on reproduction. It doesn't matter in which order you put it. You can put breathing forest reproduction later or the other way around. It doesn't matter. In this case, both of these answers have to be present for you to get it correct on. When you put both these answers, then you're going to get one point for this question, so it doesn't matter. The order doesn't matter, but they both have to be there. So we're now done with number 28. So let's move up. And let's find the answer to number 27. What? Had to transfer something had to transfer before the animals could migrate something something had to transfer before the animals could migrate. So we found the answer to number 28 over here. So that means that the answer to number 27 has to be up here somewhere before number 28. So the key words that we are looking for our transfer migrate and sea to land something had to be present before the animals could migrate. So let's go ahead and read this. I'm gonna start up here So there is one key word moved out onto the land. Let's keep reading on. Let's see if we can find other keywords. Okay, I see something here about succeeding out of the water, moving successfully, perhaps moving successfully out of the water onto land. Something about that. And then over here. I see my keyword migrations. Migrations was one of our key words. So it seems to me that we are going to find our answer, perhaps over here. So something about succeeding out of water groups that have succeeded out of water. So I'm going to start reading from here. Since I found two key words below this point, I found keyword number one and keyword number two to off them below this line. So I'm gonna start reading from here. In addition to the reptiles, birds, mammals and insects which we see all around us, other groups that have succeeded out of water include blah, blah, blah. OK, so this is just talking about the different groups off species that have succeeded out off water, so we don't care about that. So I'm just gonna jump to the next sentence and see if we confined our answer here. It says we mustn't forget the plants without whose prior invasion that right there is just synonym languages says without ah prior invasion, prior invasion of the land, that is synonym language. In other words, it is saying that unless this thing had been established first, none off the other animals could migrate. And what are we talking about? We're talking about plants. Without the plans, none off the animals could migrate. None of them could survive. So the word plants is going to be the correct answer. In this case, that is the correct answer. So since this is the last question, I'm not going to number it. It doesn't matter, since we've already solved all the questions. So I'm just going to come down here and, ah, filling our answer. What had to transfer from sea to land before animals could migrate? The answer is plants perfect. So we are finished with this question set now. And I hope that you have a better understanding off how to go about answering these questions. In general, you may have noticed by now that there are striking similarities in the way in which we solve these different question types. So even though there are so many question types, we are pretty much doing the same thing again and again. We are looking for keywords, and then we are identifying the right location where we're going to find our answer in the reading passage. So that's the game. It's all about identifying the keywords and then being able to identify the synonym language that appears in the reading passage. So there you have it. That's the end of this video. In the next one, I'm going to be talking about how to answer the next question type. 10. How to Answer Yes/No/Not Given Questions: Hey there in this video, I'm going to show you how to answer that. Yes, No, not given question Type, also known as the True Falls not given question type. So let's take a look in this question. You're going to have three different options true or es falls or no or not given. So you already know how to identify this question type simply by looking at this part right here. This question always goes in order, so that's useful information for us to know. This way we can be more strategic about the way that we search for the keywords on. Finally, as you can see from the green dot here, this is an easy question. So if you get these questions, go ahead and do these ones first. Here's a brief explanation off this question type, so it always goes in order. They are pretty easy to do. Most of them are. But some questions can be tricky, and I'm going to show you some examples off that of how certain Yes, no, not given questions can be tricky. Do these questions before the difficult wants the difficult ones, meaning the out of order questions. Next, just Like all question types, this one is also composed from only 1 to 2 sentences in the reading passage. So you never really have to read more than 1 to 2 sentences. Very rarely you do. For example, if a sentence references information in the following sentence or if the sentence references certain information in the previous sentence, then you may have to read more than 1 to 2 sentences. But usually you do not need to do that. Next. Here's what's special about this question type. The way that you answer this question type is that you have to compare two sentences. So the first sentence is the sentence from the question. On the second sentence is the marching sentence from the passage. So basically, you're going to see what the question is saying on what the reading passages saying. And we are, of course, looking at only the 1 to 2 sentences from the reading passage in which we have located our keywords. So we're comparing this sentence from the reading passage to the sentence. From the question on we want to see by comparing if the information agrees with each other . If the information agrees, then our answer is going to be true. If the information does not agree, then the answer is going to be false. If the two sentences kind of agree, but you're not really sure that maybe they agree, then the answer is going to be not given any time that information is missing, or any time that you think that the answer is a maybe, then the answer is going to be not given. So that's how you know if the answer is true, falls or not. Given or yes, no or not given for this question type as well. You have to be able to scan for keywords on. You also have to be able to understand synonym language because that's the only way that you're going to use the keywords from the question to find your matching sentence in the reading passage. Finally, this is a very common question. Type on and makes up about 20% off the reading test questions. That's a pretty big chunk, so make sure that you know how to answer this question type. Now let's go over our basic strategy. So when you get this type of question on your exam, the first thing that you're going to do is you're going toe. Underline the keywords in your question. Key words are words that are proper announce names, places, numbers and so one. Next, you can put a check mark next to the easy questions if it helps you. The third thing that you're going to do is you're going to scan the passage to find the keywords and the synonyms. You may notice that up until this point, our strategy is pretty much the same as when we are looking for our answers to the short answer questions or to the fill in the blank questions. Our strategy has not changed so far, but this is where it changes at step number four. What we're going to do is, once we have used the keywords on, we have identified the matching sentence in the reading passage. At that point, we have our sentence, are matching sentence from the reading passage, and we also have our sentence from the question. So at this point, all you have to do is simply compare these two sentences the sentence from the question on the matching sentence, compare them and see if the information agrees with each other disagrees with each other or is it not given? Finally, once you have answered the question correctly, then simply put a number next to the matching sentence in the reading passage, put the question number so that you know exactly where you found the answer to. Each question. This is going to be useful for us when we are looking for are answers to other questions. Now I want to talk about how to compare sentences. This is a key component off being ableto answer these questions correctly. So let's take a look at how to compare the sentences. So the first thing that you need to know is in order to compare these two sentences, you have to do it by examining will recall parts of speech. And I'm not talking about all parts of speech, but I'm talking about the main parts of speech that we're going toe help us to compare the sentences. So in this case, what I mean are parts of speech like denounce verbs, adverbs on adjectives you need to compare denounce in the two sentences, the verbs in the two sentences, the adverbs and the adjectives, and make sure that every single information agrees at each point. If it doesn't agree, then you know that the answer is falls so we can only find out whether the information agrees with each other or not by comparing these parts of speech in the two sentences. Another important thing to pay attention to is the use off extreme words. By extreme words. I mean words like always, never, only all every these are extreme words. If I say I always eat a banana for breakfast, do you believe that? Of course not. I probably eat a banana very frequently, but not always. It's an extreme word to use if I told you that I've tried every type of food. Do you believe that it's not possible for me to try every type of food? I may have tried many different types of food, but not every That's an extreme word as well. So that's what we mean by extreme words. And you need to watch out for these extreme words because these extreme words might be hidden in the question. Andi, these extreme words will basically try to trick you to pick the wrong answer, so you have to be mindful off them. Don't fall for this trap, and I'm gonna show you examples off this very soon as well. So just to summarize if all the parts of the speech on the extreme words if they happen to be present, if all parts of the speech and extreme words are the same, that means that if the information agrees with each other in the two sentences in the question satin son in the matching sentence in the reading passage. If both e sentences agree with each other, then our answer is going to be yes or true. If, on the other hand, the parts of speech or the extreme words are different from one another, meaning that they do not agree with one another, the information is different, and it doesn't have to be all the pieces of information that are different. Even if one tiny little piece of information is different, then the answer is going to be no or false. Finally, if the parts of speech or the extreme words are missing, meaning were simply not sure the information is not given or if you think that the answer to a certain question is maybe well, then it's going to be not given any time you're not sure about the answer it's going to be are not given. Now, let me show you some examples of how to do these questions in these examples. I'm just showing you the strategy on how to do these questions. And then in the following videos, I'm going to actually have the reading passage in front of you. The entire rating passage taken from a genuine aisles exam, and I will be showing you how to do that very soon. So let's take a look at these examples forest for this example. We have chosen this question set. So in this question said, we are being asked about true false, not given. This could also be a yes, no, not given. But that is not the question that we have received. They're both similar. The strategy is exactly the same, But in this case, we have to answer with true falls or not given. So when we see a question set like this, the first thing we have to do is we have to mark all the keywords, so let's go ahead and do that really quickly. Boom, done. So we're going to be underlining keywords like metal process specific properties in Number 10 are keywords are Pilkington We love proper announced, so that one's going to be easy. I already know that invested is another key word on money for number 11. Pilkington is also another key word here. Full scale plant on instant commercial success. Those are going to be our keywords. For questions number 9 10 and 11 you may have noticed that there are certain words which I have left out words like Float on fraud plant. Why do you think that is? You see this entire reading passage happens to be about float plants. It's all about that. The whole article is about float plants. So do you think that this keyword is really going to be helpful to us? No, this is a repetitive keyword on. It's useless to us because this keyword is going to appear again and again throughout the entire article. So this is not really a useful key word. Of course, you would find that out if you had the reading passage in front of you. You would see that the title off the reading passage tells you that this reading passage is going to be about float plants so you don't have the title here. But I already took a look at the title off the reading passage, and that's how I know that the whole article is about float plants. So that's why that's a repetitive keyword on. The next thing that we're going to do is we're going to identify the easy keywords, so you already know by now that proper noun are some of the easiest keywords. So for that reason, Number 10 and Number 11 are going to be the easiest wants to solve, So we're going to answer those ones first. Personally, I like to mark the easy questions with the little check mark, so we're going to go ahead and do questions Number 10 on 11 1st So let's go ahead and get right into it. So here's our question. Number 10. The question says Pilkington invested some of his own money in his float plant. So here's our paragraph. I've taken this from the reading passage, so the first thing that we're going to do is when we're scanning this portion off the reading passage, we're going to be looking for keywords on right away. We see that Pilkington appears at the beginning off this paragraph. So there's our first keyword. Let's see if we can find anything else so you'll see that down here. It's as costing on. It also mentions money in terms of numbers, £100,000 per month. So that right there is also part of our keyword. Because we were looking for money. We haven't found the term money, but we have found synonym language. This is synonym language for money, £100,000 cost costing. Those are synonym words for money. So we know that we are likely to find Iran's or somewhere around here on this portion where we're going to find our answer. We're going toe. Underline it because this is going to be the matching sentence. So let's go ahead and read our matching sentence. Pilkington build a pilot plant in 1953 on by 1955 he had convinced his company to build a full scale plant. However, it took 14 months off nonstop production, costing the company ah, £100,000 per month. All right, so you have the matching sentence right here. You have the questions sentence right here. What are you supposed to do now? What should you do? You should now compare these two sentences with each other. You need to compare them in order to find out if the information agrees with each other or does it not? What do you think? I want you to take a moment and guess the answer. What do you think is the correct answer? Does the information match with each other? Doesn't not or is the information not given? I should warn you that this is a bit off, a tricky question. It's a little bit tricky. All right, so let's break it down. The question says that Pilkington invested his own money some of his own money. But what does the matching satin say? Well, the matching sentence says that Pilkington convinced his company to build a full scale plant. It costed the company ah, £100,000 per month. So what do you think the correct answer is going to be? Does the information agree with each other in these two sentences, or does it disagree? Or is it simply not given? The correct answer for this one is that the information is not given. See, this is why this is a tricky one in this case. In reality, the parts of speech or extreme words are missing. It's simply missing guys. We do not know if Pilkington invested some of his own money or not. We know for a fact that he convinced his company, and we know also for a fact that his company paid £100,000 per month. So we know that his company definitely invested money into the float plant. But it's also possible that Pilkington also invested some of his own money. See in the reading passage. It doesn't say that only the company invested its own money. It doesn't say that only the company invested the money. Maybe the company invested the money, but so did Pilkington. Perhaps Pilkington also invested some of his own money. So the rial answer to this question is maybe date Pilkington invest some of his own money in his float plant. Maybe we don't know that the information is not given. It is missing, But maybe he didn't invest some of his own money. We don't know, See, So for that reason, the answer is going to be not given, so you have to watch out For questions like this, it can be a little bit tricky. But if you are paying careful attention to questions like this, and if you're careful about how you are matching the information, how you're comparing the information in the two sentences, then you'll be able to pick up on things like this. They're trying to trick you to pick the wrong answer. So be careful that you are comparing the pieces of information in these two sentences correctly. Now let's move on and let's do the next question. Question number 11. Before we do that, we're just going to mark this question with little number number 10 over here. Since we found the answer to number 10 right here on this way, we'll know that the answer to number 11 is going to come after this line. So here is question number 11. Pilkington's Forest full scale plant was an instant commercial success. So here is our paragraph on This is the same paragraph that you saw for the previous question on. I've put the same paragraph here because you're going to find the answer in the same paragraph. So we're going to first look for our keywords. The word Pilkington appears here on the the keyword full scale plant appears here. So we found two off our keywords right here. Let's see if we can find anything else. We have found something about success, something about succeeding success. And that was one of our key words up here in the question. We wanted to know if Pilkington's first full scale plant was an instant success or not. So we're probably going to find information about that in this sentence right here. So I'm going to mark this part. I'm going toe underlying it because I think that I'm going to find my aunts or somewhere around here. So this is going to be our matching sentence. So let's start reading and I'm gonna read from here. However, it took 14 months off nonstop production, costing the company £100,000 a month. So we already know that it took the company 14 months off nonstop production to even have anything usable assessed before the plant produced and the usable glass. So it took a while for them to produce a product. Let's keep reading on. I'm not sure if I found my answer yet, so I'm gonna keep reading on for the more. Once they succeeded in making marketable flat glass, the machine was turned off for a service to prepare it for years off continuous production . So Harris eyes that after they succeeded in making a marketable flat glass, the machine was turned off. And, ah, we might choose to read the next sentence here as well, just to confirm our answer. Sometimes you may not be sure, and you may choose to read one extra sentence. That's fine if you have to read one extra sentence to confirm your answer. Ah, then nothing wrong with that. Go ahead and do that. So I'm going to read this extra sentence as well. Well, when it started up again, it took another four months to get the process right again. So I took another four months. It seems like this whole thing has dragged on for a long time. 1st 14 months for nonstop production. Then they had to turn the service off. Then, when they started it back up again, they had to take another break off four months. So I would say that the information does not agree. The information in the question says that it was an instant commercial success. But that's not what we found in the reading passage. So in this case, the parts of speech or extreme words are different. So we're comparing parts of speech here. Parts of speech like here. It's as instant success. Was it an instant success? No, it was not. It says 14 months off, nonstop production. It says it was turned off. And then when they started it back up again, it took another four months to get the process right again. So I know this information does not match. The parts of speech are different, so the answer is going to be no or false. In this case, we're going to put false, since this is a true false question. Finally, let's put a number next to it. Let's put Number 11 for question number 11. So we know at which line we found our answer. Finally, we're gonna come back to number nine, so we've done our easy questions first. So all we have to do is answer Question number nine. Now on, by this point you will know where in the reading passage you found the answers to quash in number 10 and number 11 because you put a little number next to it. So that way you know exactly where you found the answer to number 10 and 11. So you will have to look for somewhere before question number 10 somewhere before where you found the answer to Number 10 is where you're going to find the answer to question number nine. So let's read this question. The metal used in the float process had to have specific properties. So here's our paragraph On first, we're going to scan for keywords and sending them language. So here we go right away. I see the word process. So this paragraph is going to start talking about the float process. Let's keep moving on. And over here we see the word process again. Down here, we see the word metal. Metal is another word that we're searching for. And here it appears again, another medal, another metal. And then over here, What I notice is that over here it's starting to talk about properties, certain properties. It does not mention the word properties, but it is using synonym language because instead off using the word properties, it is giving me an example off property off several properties. In fact, properties like something that melts at a temperature less down 600 degrees Celsius. It also says that it cannot boil at a temperature below 1500 degrees Celsius. So these two here are examples off properties. The the melting point it's talking about the melting point on is also talking about the boiling point. So those are specific properties, so that is sending him language. So we're going to mark that part. You can underline it. This is going to be synonym language for specific properties off the metal. So now we have located our matching sentence. This is our matching sentence on. All we have to do now is compare the information in this sentence to the information in the question sentence. So let's go through it one more time. It says that the metal used in the float process hot to have specific properties it had to have. There was no other way it had to have specific properties, otherwise it would not work. So here in the reading passages has the metal hot to melt at a temperature less than the hardening point off glass, which is about 600 degrees Celsius but could not boil out of temperature below the temperature off the molten glass about 1500 degrees Celsius. Well, it seems to me that this is important. These Pacific properties are very important for the float process. The metal had to go through this process. It just had to. Otherwise it probably would not have worked. So I'm going to say that the information in these two sentences seem to match. The parts of speech are the same. So if the parts of speech are the same, then the answer is going to be true. So we have now answered all of our questions. You can put a number nine next to it if you want. Ah, you might choose to do this if there are more questions in the question set. If this happens to be the last question than you don't have to do this awesome. So we're now done with looking at how to answer the true false not given question type and in the following videos, I want to show you practice questions in more detail 11. Yes/No/Not Given Questions: Practice Set 1: in the previous video, I gave you an overview off. How to answer the Yes No, not given or the true false not given question type in this video. I'm going to be going over practice at number one, so I want to show you how to do this if you were actually in an exam. So for this example, I've chosen reading passage number two. So it's going to be a little bit more trickier than what you would expect in reading Passage Number one. So let's take a look at how to answer this question type. So, like always, we're gonna go straight down to our questions. Andi, we're going to start right away by underlining or circling our keywords in each one of thes questions. So let's go ahead and do that. So I'm going to Mark Halle, as our keyword observed, is another key word. Something that Halle observed Remember, guys key words are words that are now downs, verbs, adjectives, adverbs. All of these can be useful keywords for us. Something about transit on something about the planet Venus. Now, I got a question for you right here. Do you think that this keyword is going to be useful for us. The key word. Venus. Do you think that's going to be helpful for us? I'm guessing not. The reason is that this entire reading passage is about Venus in transit. So the whole article is about Venus. Therefore, the word Venus is going to be repetitive. Matter of fact, it seems that the word transit is also going to be repetitive. We're probably going to see this word a lot as well. So this keyword doesn't really help us much either. So actually, I'm going to cancel it. I'm going to remove it on. I'm only going to focus on Halle and observed for question number 22. Now I have to tell you about an exception that you have to make in regards stupor, repetitive keywords like transit and Venus. The exception is that if you end up finding these other keywords like Halle and observed, if you find these other keywords in the reading passage, then it makes sense to look for these keywords, only them, not otherwise. So find these keywords first, and then just to make sure that you have found the correct sentence, the correct matching sentence just to make sure off that look for these other keywords, like Transit and Venus, so you'll see an example off that very soon. For now, let's keep moving on. And let's mark the keyword for our next question. Question number 23 login till I think that's how it's pronounced. I'm not sure, but this is going to be a great keyword for us because it's a proper noun, It's is, is the name of a person. So that's going to be a great keyword. Let's see what else? Um, we confined here. Something about observing Second Venus Transit. So I'm not gonna mark that again for the same reason, since the whole article is about Venus and transit. So for the same reason that I did not mark the keywords up here, I'm not going to mark these keywords down here. Remember the exception, though. If you end up finding these other keywords first, then it makes sense to look for these other keywords around that same area in the reading passage just to make sure that you've found the right matching sentence. Next up for number 24 we have something about shape, shape of Venus, how it appears distorted. That's the key word distorted on starts to pass in front of the sun. Son should also be easy. In this case, the S is capitalized. Sometimes the letter s in. Sun may not be capitalized in this case it is. So I'm not sure, but I have a feeling that we might end up finding the word son with a capital s in this reading passage. Since they've capitalized it here in the question, I'm guessing that they're probably also going to capitalize it in the rating passage, but we'll find out. I'm not sure. Now. For number 25 astronomers is a key word early is also kind of a keyword, but I would rather look for astronomers first, something about suspected something about atmosphere and toxic toxic is the main thing that we're going to be looking for for number 25. And then finally, for number 26 parallax principle, that's going to be an easy keyword again. Astronomers far away distant star. So something about distance and something about our rather far distance a long distance and then stars as well. Stars is a key word and distance from where distance from earth. So earth is going to be another one of our key words. Awesome. So now we have all our keywords for questions 22 to 26. So what I want to do now is I want to identify the easy questions first, because I'm gonna go ahead and do those ones first. So I want you to take a guess here with me. If you were in the exam and you had these questions, which one of these questions would you answer first? Go ahead, take a guess. All right. So, personally, I would do number 22 1st Then I would do number 23 next. And then I'm not sure. I think I'll do number 26 after that because I think that keywords like Parallax principle on stars is going to be easy to identify. So let's go ahead and do those. I think I want to do 22 23 then 26 next, and then we'll do 24 25 at the end. So let's go ahead and look for these keywords. Guys, keep in mind that when you are looking for a keyword for, ah, one of thes questions for example for Number 22. In this case, I also want you to have these other keywords in the back off your mind, so that when you are reading the reading passage when you're scanning the rating passage, these keywords may jump out at you, you might notice them. And if you end up noticing these other keywords in the reading passage, then I want you to go ahead and mark them right away. Just mark them so that it will be more easier for you to answer the corresponding questions later on. So right now I'm going to scroll up and I'm looking for the word Halle On next, I'm gonna look for legend T. All right, so let's start scanning. I am looking for Holly. Nothing here. There we go, Hally. So the word Holly appears here, here, anywhere else. No, that's pretty much it. That's where we find the word Holly on DA. Let's scroll down and read our question. Let's make sure what the question sentences. So the question sentence says Holly observed one transit off the planet Venus. So now that we have found the keyword Halle at this point, it makes sense to look for these other keywords, like observed transit and Venus, but only at this point, because we want to make sure that we have found the correct matching sentence. So, Halle, here's our other keyword. Observed something about transit. Something about planet. I'm now scanning for the keyword Venus on the word Holly actually appears down here as well . Guys, take a look. We found another key word, son. Remember, that son was one of our key words for another question. So we might find her answer here or that other question. But I'm not gonna look for this one right now. Right now. I'm focusing on this one. Holly observed transit, and I want to make sure that it was the planet Venus, since that was our other key word. All right, so I haven't found the keyword Venus here. So what I want to do is actually I want to read this sentence on DA. I want to make sure that this isn't our matching sentence. It might be a matching sentence. It might not be. I'm not sure. So I want to read this certain. So let's go ahead. In November 16 77 Holly observed a transit off the innermost planet Mercury from the desolate island off ST Helena in the South Pacific. Okay, so it is talking about a planet. Aunt Holly did observe a transit off a planet. In this case, it was Mercury. It doesn't say anything about Venus. So down here the question satin says, Have you observed one transit of the planet Venus? I haven't found anything about Venus yet. I know that it says something about Mercury, but it doesn't say anything about Venus yet. So the answer to this question might be not given, but I'm not sure yet. And I'm not going to put that as my answer, because I also want to check other places where I found the key word. Holly. So I found Holly up here, but I also found it down here, and I want Oh, now move on to this paragraph and scan this paragraph to see if it says anything else about Holly observing a transit. Okay, so around Holly, I found the key word Venus here. So I'm going to market Onley in this case because I've found the word Venus in the vicinity off the other key word. Holly, I found it around the same region in the same sentence. So that's why the word Venus is important now. So let's mark this keyword here as well. Venus, Something about transits of Venus over here. So I think that we might find our answer somewhere around here, because here we have found a mention off Halle. I have also found a mention off the transit of Venus. So let's go ahead and read this on. If we still don't find our answer here, then I'm gonna move on to down here, where it also mentions Hallie again. But not just yet. I want to go ahead on DA read this part. So I'm going to start reading this sentence from over here. I think that this might be our matching sentence. The reason is that in this sentence starting from here, we have most of our key words. We have key words regarding Venus Halle Transit, so we might find our answer here. So let's begin. As Venus was closer to the Earth, it's parallax angle would be larger. And Holly worked out that by using Venus, it would be possible to measure the sun's distance to one part in 500. Okay, so this has nothing to do with our question sentence. So I'm gonna keep reading on. But there was a problem. Transits of Venus, Unlike those off mercury are rare, occurring in pairs roughly eight years apart every 100 or so years. Okay, I still haven't found anything matching my question sentence. So I'm going to read this sentence, the next sentence, and maybe we might find something there. The reason is that the next sentence is still referring to Holly because it says he on. We know that we're still talking about Venus and the transits of Venus so we might find around or here. So let's keep reading on. Nevertheless, he accurately predicted that Venus would cross the face off the sun in both 17. 61 on 17. 69 though he didn't survive to see either Guys, this is our matching sentence. I'm gonna underline that part. It says that he accurately predicted that Venus would cross the face of the sun, which is just synonym to cross is sending him for transit. So you have to be open to picking up on keywords like this to pick up on synonyms. Off key words do Cross is a center name for transit. So what is saying here is that Holly predicted that Venus would transit across the face of the sun in both these years. But he did not survive to see either. So did he? Observe. The question says, Have you observed one transit off the planet Venus? So did he observe the transit of the planet Venus? No. The answer to this is false. The answer is false because it says that he did not survive to see either. The answer is false. Take a look here. It says that he didn't survive to see either. So he was already dead. So he never had the chance to observe this transit. We know that he did observer transit for Mercury. It talks about that up here. He observed a transit for mercury, but we didn't find anything about Venus up here. So that's why we kept scanning form or keywords on. Lo and behold, we found our keyword Venus down here. So this is our matching sentence. And this is where we found our answer to question number 22. So what are we going to do? We're gonna put number 22 right next to this line over here so that I know where I found it . Because remember, these questions always go in order. Awesome. So now let's go back down to our questions and let's move on to number 23 next. Legent, Ill. That's our next keyword is the name of a person. So let's see if we can find this keyword and something about observing the second Venus Transit. So let's see if we can find this. So answer to number 23 has to be found after this point because the answer to number 22 was here. 23 has to come after it. So let's start scanning. And right there, There you go. Legent Ill. Is our keyword. We found it right here. Now, remember, we're also looking for legend deal observing a second transit of Venus. So let's see if we can find these other keywords around the same area. Let's see if we can find it. Okay, Something about observation. Here the name appears once again. Hear something about transit. Something about observations. Something about transit here is well, and it says next tries it. This this I have a feeling might be, ah, keyword. It might be a synonym for the keywords. Second, remember, we're looking specifically for the second transit off Venus. Down here in the question it says, Observe a second. Venus shrines it. So when it says next tries it, that is going to probably be a synonym, but we'll find out and then final keyword here, observed, once again appears here. So let's read this. I have a feeling that we might find our answer somewhere down here. Ah, lot off. Our key words are appearing down here, so let's see. Perhaps will start reading from over here. Let's start reading from over here. Since this is where the keyword legent, eel and transit appears, also observations. We got three off our key words here, so it makes good sense to start reading our sentence from here. Let's begin fleeing on a French warship crossing the Indian Ocean. Legend Teal saw a wonderful transit by the ship's pitching and rolling, ruled out any attempt at making accurate observations. Okay, so we know that he did observe some sort of a transit. A wonderful tries it, but we want to make sure that it was in fact, the second transit off Venus. That's what we are looking for. So let's keep reading on. Undaunted, he remained south of the equator, keeping himself busy by studying the islands off Mauritius on Madagascar before setting off to observe the next transit in the Philippines. So now it's talking about the next transit, or perhaps the second transit. So I have a feeling that we might find our aunts or somewhere around here, So I want to keep reading on. Ironically, after traveling nearly 50,000 kilometers, his view was clouded at the last moment of very dispiriting experience. So that is a tricky language right there. I don't know if you see it, but this is synonym language. It says His view was clouded at the last moment. What does that mean? That means that when he looked up into the sky, he could not really observe any tries it because at the last moment the sky was filled with clouds. His vision was clouded so he could not see it. That's a synonym language for saying that he could not observe the next transit on. In this case, it doesn't mention any other planet like mercury or something else. So this is referring to the planet Venus, Since that's what they've been talking about over here, they've been talking about Venus. Transits of Venus on this paragraph just builds upon that information. So we're still talking about the same planet planet Venus. So this is where we found our matching sentence. So let's underline this part right here. Specifically, it's this part right here, um stops right here that his view was clouded at the last moment view was clouded. So I want to put number 23 here, since that is where we found the matching sentence for question number 23 on. I want you to compare these two sentences now. So that's what you have to do every time in a yes no not given question. Find the matching sentence and then compare that certain with the question sentence. Find out if the information agrees with each other, or does it contradict each other? Is a different or is there simply no information given about this topic? So that's how you're going to be choosing the correct answer out of thes three options. So here it says, Le Gentil managed to observe a second Venus Transit well, did he? No. The next prize, it could not be observed because his vision was clouded. His view was clouded at the last moment. So the answer here is going to be false as well. This is false. Now let's move on to number 26. It'll be easy to find these keywords, parallax principle and stars. So let's see if we can find these ones on these keywords parallax principle on stars. So I'm gonna start from here because it goes in order. So 23 is here. So the answer to number 26 has to come after this point. Hey, we are looking for Parallax on stars Parallax principle on stars My off There we go Parallax appears right there, Parallax principle the exact phrase that we were looking for So we might find our answer here. Check that out. Something about stars. Something more about stars. Andi, Something about Earth. So we were looking for these keywords Are stars something about distance and then parallax principle. So let's read this question sentence Now it says the parallax principle allows astronomers toe work out how far away distant stars are from the earth. So it's basically saying that the Parallax principal helps astronomers to figure out the distance between stars on the planet Earth. Let's find out. So I want to start reading from over here Since this is where two off our keywords first appear parallax principle and stars they appear in this sentence so it makes good sense to start here. So let's read the sense the parallax principle can be extended to measure the distances to the stars. So we found another key word here. Distances. If we look at a star in January, when Earth is at one point in its orbit, it will seem to be in a different position from where it appears six months later. Okay, I have a feeling that I found my answer. But just to make sure I want to read one more sentence because I see that the word distance also appears here and then our other keyword astronomers. And then it mentions the word parallax one more time. So it makes good sense to read this sentence knowing the width off arse orbit the parallax shift less Astronomers calculate the distance. There we go. Our question has been answered. This is our matching sentence It tells us that using this parallax principle, we can measure the distances to the stars on. We've confirmed that here that this parallax principle does in fact allow astronomers to calculate the distance between Earth and the stars. So that's our matching sentence. Less put Number 26 next to it on guys, I want you to take a guess. What do you think the answer to this is going to be? Number 26? It says that astronomers are able to calculate the distance between the Earth and stars using the parallax principle. That's what this is saying down here. So let's read our question sentence. The Parallax principle allows astronomers to work out how far away distant stars are from the earth. What do you think the answer will be? The correct answer is true. All the information matches the information in the question sentence on the information in the mashing sentence. They both agree with each other. Therefore, the answer is true. Awesome. Now we only have two more questions to go Number 24 25. So let's knock these ones out. Let's begin with number 24. Let's look for something about shape distortion on, son. Let's read this question. In fact, the shape of Venus appears distorted when it starts to pass in front of the sun. That also seems important when it starts to pass and passed in front. So we're not just talking about any other type of passing we're looking for a very specific type of passing are passing in front off the sun. So let's see if we can find this shape distorted and something about passing in front of the sun. Okay, I'm gonna start over here, by the way, because we are looking for number 24. So the answer to number 24 has to be in between 23 26 because these questions are always in order, So I'm scanning now. Okay, So first of all, I see something about son being mentioned down here. So I see the keywords, son over here. Let's see if we can find something else. And right away I see something about the desk looking smear, not circular. Oh, look at that. Venus begins to cross. Remember, we were looking for a certain type of crossing a crossing in front of the sun and then over here is has smeared, not circular, here. What they're doing is they're using synonym language on their using synonym language to talk about shape smeared or to be circular or to not be circular. These are properties off shape. So I have a feeling that we're going to find our answers somewhere around here, since it's talking about crossing across the sun, crossing the sun, stays and properties of shape. And we've also found our other keyword Venus. Normally, we would not look for this keyword, since the whole article is about Venus. But right here, this keyword is important. It's important because we have found other keywords. So just to make sure that all the information is correct that all the information agrees with each other, we have to now pay attention to this keyword as well. Because in the question is, as the shape off Venus appears distorted, when does it appear distorted when it starts to pass in front, off the sun guys, what do you think the answer is? Is it going to be true, false or not, given the shape off arenas appears distorted when it starts to pass in front off the sun. I want to show you the matching Sutton's one more time on I'm Going toe. Underline it because I already see the answer here, and I want you to take a guess at the answer. Um, pretty much right there. That's where our magic sentences. So here, it says, When Venus begins to cross the sun's disk, it looks smeared, not circular. So our answer to number 24 is right over here on the correct answer. What do you think it is? The correct answer is true, guys. It's true because all the information matches up. It's saying that when Venus starts to pass in front of the sun, its shape becomes distorted. So this is sending him for distorted when we're talking about how, um, the shape gets smeared, not circular, by the way, if you don't know what smeared Mies smeared means to appear messy to be spread out. For example, if I take a drop off liquid ink on, I dropped this droplet off ink on a piece of paper, and then I run my finger across it. What's going to happen to the ink? The ink will get spread out. It's going to get smeared so That's the definition off smeared. Okay, so it doesn't appear. Circular, it appears smeared are spread out. That's what they're talking about. So in other words, what they're saying is that the shape becomes distorted. It becomes smeared, distorted. So that is the type of synonym language that they're going to be using in these tests. So be sure to get a lot of practice with all these different practice questions. So that's why the answer is true. All the information matches up great. Now we only have to answer our final question Number 25. So let's look for these keywords. Astronomers, atmosphere and toxic Toxic is the keyword that I'm especially going to be looking for because it's going to be quite easy. Toe identify. So we are looking for our answer to question number 25. So it has to come after 24 before 26. So our answer is somewhere in here. So we are looking for the keyword toxic says something about astronomers here. Astronomers was another key word, but I'm not going to market just yet because I want to find toxic first toxic or atmosphere atmosphere was was another key word guys, Have you been able to find the key word toxic? I don't see anything about the word toxic here. I don't even see any synonyms. For example, Center names like poisonous or hazardous. Those would be synonyms for the word toxic. But I don't see anything. Ah, suggesting the word toxic in here. Let's go ahead and look for these other keywords. Astronomers on atmosphere, Atmosphere of Venus. Um, let's try to find that instead. Okay, So there's something about Venus here. Something about astronomers here. Layer of gases. Okay, um, that that might be something. So talks about astronomers. It talks about Venus. It says that I want to read the sentence. It's that I want to read this. I have a feeling that our answer might be somewhere around here. While this showed astronomers, Venus was surrounded by a thick layer of gases refracting sunlight around it. Both effects made it impossible to obtain accurate timings. It says nothing about toxic here either. Ah, let's see here. Something about Venus. Not sure if that's gonna help us. All of the methods, guys, they're talking about accuracy. They're talking about Venus and transits. Um, I see nothing about the war Toxic. I see nothing about it being poisonous or hazardous or harmful. I don't see any synonyms and I don't see this keyword. So what do you think the answer is going to be for this washing for number 25 not given. The information is missing, right? So the answer is going to be not given congratulations. You have answered all of these questions for the Yes No, not given question type. So I know that some of these questions were a little bit tricky on DA. That is definitely something to be expected. When you are answering questions from reading passage number two in the next video, I want to show you another practice. At this time. I want to show you our practice at number two. On this time in the next video, we're going to be looking at a question set from reading passage Number three. I want to show you more trickier. Our question set looks like a question set from reading passage number three. So take a look at that in the next video and I'll see you there 12. Yes/No/Not Given Questions: Practice Set 2: Welcome back, folks. In this video, I want to show you a second practice set in which we're going to be answering the Yes No not given question type. So this example comes from Cambridge aisles. Book number nine, Test number two on reading Passage number three. So since this is reading passage Number three, I want you to expect this question set to be a little bit trickier, and we're going to be answering these questions and you'll see an example of what a tricky question set looks like and how to answer it. So let's scroll right down to our questions here on DA right away. We can see that this is not a true false, not given question type. Rather Ah, yes, no, not given question type. So the principles are still the same. We're going to be answering these questions in exactly the same way. So let's begin. We're going to start off by first. Marking are keywords, so let's go ahead and do that. So here we have exposure, different events, something about forcing the brain to think differently. So those are the key words for number 30 to 1 thing that I want to do is I do want to scroll up and make sure that I know the title so that I know which keywords are going to be useful for me and which ones are not going to be useful. So the title is a neuroscientist reveals how to think differently. All right, so this is going to be about brains and thinking and thinking differently. So we are probably not going to find these two key words very helpful because they're going to be appearing throughout the reading passage. So let's go ahead and remove these for now. And let's just keep these ones. But we will come back to these keywords when we find these other keywords in the reading passage. So I do want you to still have thes keywords in the back off your mind. We are going to be looking for these keywords when we have already found these other keywords. Let's move on. Number 33 iconoclasts. Unusually receptive new experiences, something here about most people. So take note of this word most. This is one of the extreme words that we were talking about. So pay attention to this ward most okay, so for this answer. To be true. We have to be talking about most people, not some people, not a few people but most people. Not all people, either. We are looking for a very specific amount of people. Most people, all right, moving on too shy, too shy for what? To try different things. Great. So those are our key words there. For number 34 Number 35 we have iconoclastic on overcoming fear, something about overcoming fear. For number 36. We have the keywords concern, concern about embarrassment for years on DA fears becoming irrelevant. Finally, fear of public speaking on psychological illness. All right, so we've got some good keywords here. The ones that I think are going to be especially easy to find our this one over here Number 33 because it has the word iconoclastic that's going to be easy to find. Other than this, they should also be easy to find public speaking. That should be an easy keyword to find. So let's start there and then we'll figure out our answers to these remaining questions. So right now we are looking for iconoclasts and, ah, these keywords related to ah iconoclasts unusually receptive to new experiences. Go ahead and read this. It says. Iconoclasts are unusually receptive to new experiences. They're very receptive to new experiences. So let's go ahead and look for iconoclasts. Let's start scanning. Okay, right right away. I see There there is the word iconoclastic here again over here, here as well. Just want to see if there's any other place that we confined. Iconoclastic. Another thing that we're looking for is unusually receptive. Okay, Unusually receptive. So, actually, I do see something over here about being receptive. It says that iconoclast is a person who does something that others say can't be done. So they do things that other people say cannot be done. I'm not sure if this is my answer just yet. I do want to keep reading. I might find my answer somewhere else. So I do want to keep reading or scanning. Right now, I'm scanning for unusually receptive or synonyms for this keyword. There's some more stuff here about iconic allies, them and iconoclasts more stuff here about iconoclasts and right now, pay attention to this part. It says that they're unusually receptive to new experiences, So we're looking for something that shows to us that iconoclast are into new stuff. Fresh novel. The thing about this up here is I don't think that our answer is over here. The reason is that it says that iconoclast is a person who does something that others say can't be done. So here we are, talking about a definition. It doesn't necessarily say that iconoclasts love doing new things. So we're looking for our new things, new experiences, new experiences over here. It says nothing about new experiences. It just says that they like to do things that other people say can't be done. But what about new experiences? I haven't found anything about that just yet that they are receptive to new experiences. So that's why I'm still continuing, looking for these keywords, iconoclasts, new experiences and so one. So we are still scanning. Okay, there's something about experience here, but they're talking about are being influenced by past experiences. Ah, we are looking for new experiences, not past experiences. Check that out Right here. We have a center name for new experiences, something that you have never encountered before. Something that you have never seen before. Never experienced before. That is a synonym language for new experiences. So guys always be on the lookout for these synonyms. Remember I told you that most of the times you are not going to find a non answer. Um, when you find an exact keyword, so the answer is not going to be around the exact keyword. So if you're looking for the keyword new experiences, if you're looking for that keyword, it's very, very likely that you are not going to find that keyword in the reading passage. And if you do, it might not be the right answer. A lot of times it will not be the right answer. So most of the times you will have to look for center names off those keywords. You are not going to find the exact keywords. That's a very important point. So here we found something about new experiences. Andi here is talking about iconoclasts, More stuff about iconoclasts, novelty. It says the embrace novelty. So that means that they are receptive to new experiences. Remember, this was another one of our key words. Iconoclasts are unusually receptive to new experiences, so just now we found a synonym for new experiences on. We have also found a synonym for unusually receptive. The synonym for unusually receptive is that they love to embrace novelty. They love to try out new things. They love to welcome new things, fresh things, things that they have never experienced before. So this is where we're going to find our answer. So let's go ahead and start reading this sentence right here. So let's go ahead and start reading this sentence right here. I have a feeling that we're going to find our answer over here, because this is where it starts to talk about iconoclasts and novelty and embracing novelty and new experiences. There's all kinds of key words here, so I'm pretty sure that we're going to find it somewhere around here. So let's go ahead and read it. Successful iconoclasts have an extraordinary willingness to be exposed to what is fresh and different. Check that out. They have an extraordinary willingness that is also sending him language for unusually receptive. They haven't extraordinary willingness, willingness to what willingness for what? To embrace novelty. So those are synonyms for being very receptive to new experiences. Let's keep reading so they have an extraordinary willingness to be exposed to what is fresh on different new okay, novelty things that they have not experienced before. Things that they have never encountered before. Fresh and different. Another Yusof synonym language. Let's keep reading on just to make sure that we haven't missed anything. Observation off iconoclasts shows that they embrace novelty while most people avoid things that are different. Okay, so what do you think the answer to this is going to be? What you have to do right now is you have to match the sentence in the question on the sentence that we just found the matching sentence. You have to mash thes two on, see if the information agrees with each other, disagrees with each other, or is it simply not given? So here it says, iconoclasts are unusually receptive to new experiences. What do you think is going to be the correct answer is true, or I should not say true, but rather yes, this is a yes no not given question. So the correct answer is yes. So let's crawl up and let's put a number next to where we found a certain number. 33. Great. So now that we've found the answer to number 33 Let's move on to our next easy question here. We're going to be looking for fear of public speaking and something about psychological limits. So it has to come after this point. So let's begin scanning from after this point. We are looking for fear of public speaking. I see something about fear here, but I'm not going to mark this keyword because I'm looking for a very specific type of fear . Okay, here it talks about fear of public ridicule, uncertainty. We don't care about that. There we go. Public speaking. That's what we care about. We are looking for fear off public speaking. Okay, there we go. It says mental disorder. What is that? A synonym for mental disorder that is a Senate name for psychological illness. Get it? So you have to be on the lookout for these types off synonym language. So let's go up here and let's first underlying this part because this is going to be our matching sentence. I'm pretty sure we're going to find our answer here, since it talks about to a far keywords up until here, Up until where it talks about mental disorder. Okay, here we go. But fear of public speaking, which everyone must do from time to time, afflicts 1/3 off the population. This makes it to common to be considered a mental illness to be considered a mental disorder. So what do you think, guys? Does the information in this matching sentence match the information in this question? The question set in says fear of public speaking is a psychological illness. It is saying that public speaking that fear of public speaking is a mental disorder. Is there a mental disorder? But does the reading passage say that it says that this makes it to common to be considered a mental disorder? So is it a mental disorder, or is it not? The correct answer is no. It is not a mental disorder. Why it says mental disorder here, then why is it not a mental disorder? Well, the reason is that it says here that this fear of public speaking is so common. So many people experience it 1/3 of the population, so so many people experience it that we cannot really call it a mental disorder. It's too common. It's too common to be called a mental disorder. If it was rare If only a very small population experienced this, then we might be able to call it a mental disorder. But right now we cannot, because there are too many people experiencing this. So it's too common for us to call it a mental disorder. Get it? So that's why the answer to this is no number 37. The question sentence does not match up with the matching sentence. So that is going to be a no. We're going to scroll up, and we're going to put number 37 next to where we have found our answer. 37. Isn't that great, guys, check that out. So now that we have answered question number 33 number 37 is going to be super duper easy for us to find the answers to all other questions. Why? Because these questions that go in order. So I know that for my questions, number 34 35 36 I'm gonna find all those answers right in here, so I don't even have to scan the whole reading passage anymore. I just have to scan this little portion right here. That's fantastic. So let's go ahead and ah, let's start with these ones, the ones that we're going to find the answers for in between number 33 37. Let's do these ones first, and then at the end we can come back to number 32. Okay, so here it says most people are too shy to try different things. So let's see if we can find that too shy to try different things. Actually, I did see something about that here. I remember reading something about that when I was asked from Number 33 here. It says it talks about most people it's talking about. Most people avoid things that are different. Most people avoid things that are different. Avoid. Okay, so let's read this part. Let's read this part here. It says Most people avoid things that are different and down here, it says most people are too shy to try different things. Now what do you think the answer for this question is going to be? Do you think that the information in this question sentence and here in the matching sentence do they match up? Do these matchup? It says Most people avoid things that are different here, it says most people are too shy to try different things. Now, guys, I must warn you, this really is a very tricky question and ah, it's Ah, it's a dirty trick that they're trying to play on you because the actual answer to this question is that it is not given. You might think that the answer is yes, you might think that it's saying pretty much the same thing. I mean, it's saying most people are too shy to try different things and over here is saying that most people avoid things that are different. That sounds to me like synonym language for saying exactly the same thing. But they're trying to trick you here because you have to pay attention to a keyword here. It says that most people avoid things that are different, so we know that most people avoid things right. They avoid them. But over here is giving us. The reason why they avoid them here is giving us the reason It's saying that most people are too shy to try different things. Guys, we simply don't know if most people are too shy to try different things. Maybe they don't want to try new things because they just don't like it. Maybe it has nothing to do with feeling shy. Maybe it has nothing to do with being nervous. Maybe they just don't like it right. So we don't know the reason why people don't like to try different things. We don't know that. So that's why the answer to this is not given. Very tricky. Question that one. So we've answered number 34. Now let's move on to number 35. Harris is. If you think in an iconoclastic way, you can easily overcome fear. All right, well, let's see if that's true. So just to remind you, we are looking for these keywords iconoclastic and overcome fear. So it's saying that by thinking in an iconoclastic way, you can overcome fear. So let's see if it says something about that. So Harris says, Okay, it's talking about fear. Fear is talking about Mawr. Fear is talking about iconoclast. So, guys, it makes sense to just start reading this part. So I'm just gonna go ahead and read, Ah, these two sentences right here. It seems like it seems like these two sentences are going to be where we might find. The answer is talking a lot about our keywords right here. So here we go. Let's start reading it. The problem with novelty, however, is that it tends to trigger the brain's fear system. Fear is a major impediment to thinking like an iconoclast, and it stops the average person and his tracks. Okay, so we know that iconoclast. Okay, so we know that if you have fear, if fear is stopping you, then you cannot really think like an iconoclast. So when you feel fear, you stop thinking like an iconoclast or is it becomes difficult to think like an iconoclast . That's what it's saying. So far, Let's read on. It says there are many types of fear, but the two that inhibit iconoclastic thinking on people generally find difficult to deal with our fear off uncertainty and fear of public ridicule. So I don't see this information here, so I think that the answer to this question might be not given, because I simply do not see anything here mentioning the fact that if you think an iconoclastic way, then you can easily overcome fear, so it might be not given. But actually another thing that they've done to make this really tricky. And, ah, this is something that almost never happens. It almost never happens. But over here I noticed that they talked about iconoclasts on here. They're talking about the reaction to fear and about inhibiting the reactions. So down here there they've been talking about how you can overcome fear. So it seems to be related to, um to talking about fear, inhibition of fear or, in other words, overcoming fear or working around it. In some way it seems to be related. So if we go ahead and read the sentence, let's go ahead and do that now it says it is simply a common variant. Now, keep in mind, we're talking about the fear of public speaking. So they're saying that iconoclast may feel fear, but they're still continue to do the things that they were going to do, anyways, that they do not let their fear inhibit them. So that's another thing to watch out for. I know that this one comes after number 37 that, in this case there mentioning the answer to number 35 after number 37. And this is something that almost never happens. But in this case, they have done it since. Ah, everything about iconoclasts and fears seems to be tied into this one paragraph. So here's an exception to the rule on. For that reason, this answer number 35 is going to be a no. All right, Now, let's go ahead and tackle our final question. Number 32. Right now, we're going to be looking for exposure to different events about how exposure to different events forces the brain to think differently. So perhaps to think in a new way, in a novel way. Let's see if we can find that. So we should be able to find this before number 33. So 33 is here. So perhaps somewhere around here, So let's gone. Okay, so here we see something about seeing things differently. Okay? Never encountered before. So new experiences. We talked about that. We even marked this keyword before. So stuff about novelty on, um, here, it makes sense to highlight this keyword brain. Normally, we would not highlight it, but right here, it makes sense to highlight this keyword because this keyword is now appearing, um, alongside these other keywords. So we're talking about thinking differently. So do you remember, we found a synonym for thinking differently. Here it size. See things differently. Okay, and we're talking about brain, so I think that we might find our aunts or somewhere around here. So what I'm going to do is I'll underline this part, and, ah, we're gonna go ahead and read it somewhere around there. Perhaps. Let's go ahead and read it. The best way to see things differently to other people is to bombard the brain with things that it has never encountered before. Okay, so down here is saying that exposure to different events forces a brain to think differently that if you expose the brain to new situations to new circumstances that the brain under these circumstances is going to start thinking differently, it's going to start seeing things in a different way, and that's exactly what it says over here. It says that the best way to see things differently or to think in a new way is to bombard the brain with new information is to expose it to new information. See to bombard the brain is center named for exposure. It's has exposed the brain to two new events, two different events so exposure here is Sina name for Bombard the brain. Bombard the brain with new information. All of that, things that it has never encountered before. Okay, so as expected, we found the answer to number 32 right here before number 33. I'm not going to market because we have reached the end of our questions, so there's no point to do that, but I'll go ahead and write my answer here. The answer to this is yes, it's yes, because the information agrees the question sentence and imagine sentence match with each other. The information agrees with each other. Oh, I just realised, folks that I forgot to go over number 36 so I thought that I already answered Number 36 but I had not. So let's go ahead and do that now. So, he says, when concern about embarrassment matters less, other fears become irrelevant. Okay, so it's saying that when you stop caring about being embarrassed, then you stop fearing other things as well that other fears are stopped to bother you. Let's see if we can find that here. So we are looking for number 36. So the answer to number 36 has to come after the answer to number 34 before 37. So you might remember that we found the answer to number 34 over here, where we talked about why most people avoid things that are new things that are different. So we should be able to find our answer around here. And here it is talking about fear and iconoclast, so it seems that our answer might be over here. So let's find out when we stop worrying about embarrassment than do other fears become irrelevant. Let's find out. So I want to start reading from over here from this sentence, since that is where I feel that most of our key words appear. So probably this sentence. And then the next sentence, these two sentences right here. Here we go. Fear is a major impediment to thinking like an iconoclast and stops the average person in his tracks. Okay, says nothing about embarrassment here there are many types of fear. Ah, I kind of want to run through this fear of uncertainty and fear of public ridicule. Okay, so fear of public ridicule that is synonym for embarrassment. When you feel embarrassed, you feel ridiculed. Those are synonyms. So here it's as that the two types of fears that inhibit iconoclastic thinking on people generally find difficult to deal with our fear off uncertainty and fear off public ridicule and then a size these maybe Triple Four beers. And then it goes into public speaking guys. Do you see any information here about other fears becoming irrelevant? I haven't found any keyword related to irrelevant. I have also not found and his synonyms for this keyword. So I'm going to conclude that the answer to this question is not given, not given for Number 36. It simply does not say anything about this statement here. Great. So we are now finished with this question said. I know that some of these questions were tricky and ah, guys, the only way that you're gonna get this down is by exposing yourself to a lot of different types off examples. So what I want you to do is when you are working on answering the yes no not given question type, then I want you to answer several question sets for this same question type. I want you to see how these questions can change in their level of difficulty, depending on which reading passage there peering. This was reading passage number three. So it was definitely some of the hardest questions that you can expect to see on the aisles rating exam. So that's all for this one. In the next video, we're going to be going over the next question type. I'll see you there. 13. How to Answer Multiple Choice Questions: Hey, guys, in this video, we're going to be looking at how to answer the multiple choice question type. So let's take a look. This is what our multiple choice question looks like Now when I say multiple choice, I'm talking about our standard multiple choice questions. Now you are going to see many different variations of multiple choice questions later in this course. But right now I'm just talking about the standard multiple choice question, which is probably the question type that your most used to. So in the standard multiple choice question, you have three or four options on for each one of these questions. You have to pick the correct answer. So with standard multiple choice question, there's only going to be one correct answer. There are other variations of multiple choice questions where you can have two or three correct answers, but that is going to be a different question. Type on. We're going to talk about those question types later in this course. So this is what our standard multiple choice question looks like on the way that you identify this question type is by reading up here, it tells you that you have to choose the correct letter, so there's only one correct letter. A, B, C or D. These questions always go in order, and as you can see from the green dot here, they are rather simple to do. Here's a bit of explanation about this question type. These questions always go in order. You already know that now, and that they are easy to do so naturally. If you see these questions, then you should do them first. Now, just like most of our question types, this question type is also formed from only 1 to 2 sentences in the reading passage. That means that the correct answer is going to be found in just one or maybe two sentences in the reading passage. So you don't have to read a bunch of stuff to find the correct answer. You only have to find the right who want to two sentences. Now this is the general scale that we're going to be needing across all the different question types on. You already know this by now, but you have to be able to scan for keywords, and you have to be able to understand the synonym language because when you are looking for keywords in the reading passage, You are not going to find exact keywords, not most of the times. So you have to look for synonyms off those keywords. Now let's go over the basic strategy. Our basic strategy is pretty much the same what you have seen for some of the other question types, So let's run through it really quickly. So the first thing you're going to do is you're going to mark the keywords. Keywords are names, places, numbers, etcetera. Next, you can put a check mark next to the easy questions so you know which wants to do first. After that, you have to look for these keywords. You have to look for the key words for the easy questions in the reading passage on. You have to scan the passage to find the key words or the synonyms for those keywords. Now here's the thing that I want to stress at this point. Once you have found the key words from the question in the reading passage, then you can go ahead and mark those keywords in the reading passage. But after you have done that, after you have located the keywords from the question. At this point, you need to move on to the next step. The next step is that you have to find the connecting words. What this means is that you have to find the key words from the answer choices. So in the multiple choice question, you might have four different answer choices on once you have located the key word for the question. Then you have to read around that area to see what other keywords from the answer choices, this time from the answer choices can you find Okay, so I'm going to show you more examples off that very soon. Finally, once you have located the keywords and you have located the correct matching Sutton's at that point, just answer your question and put the question number next to the place in the reading passage where you have found your answer again. You already know why we do this. We do this because the multiple choice question always goes in order. All right, now, here's some examples for you. So here is an example in which we have two questions. Number 19 on number 20. So we're going to be answering these two questions so the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to mark the keywords in the question, Okay, We're not marking the keywords in the answer choices just yet. You can kind of read through them. You can kind of have them in the back of your mind. That's all right. But right now, we're mainly focusing on marking the keywords in the question. OK, so in these questions, I see that our key words are theory Louis Dollar. So that's going to be really easy to find. That's a proper now Louis dollar on silent jeans. So those are our keywords. And the next thing that you have to do after marking the keywords is you have to identify which of these questions is going to be easy to solve. Now, in this case, out of these two questions, I would say that number 19 is probably easier to solve because it has a proper noun. But actually, both these questions are pretty easy. I mean, it's going to be quite easy for us to look for silent jeans. OK, so actually, both of these questions are pretty easy. Both of these contain these easy keywords. Okay, so I've just put a check mark next to both of them. Because if you have several questions because you're not going to have just two questions in a question set, usually you're going to have more than two, like three or six or something like that. So that's why I've went ahead and marked both of them. Now let's go ahead and start off by answering question number 19. So let's with this question. The question says when discussing the theory developed by Louis Dolo, the writer says that Okay, so we're trying to find out something that the writer says about the theory developed by Louis Dollar. So what we would do at this point is we would look for these keywords that we marked before . So we marked these keywords in the question. Now we're going to go to our reading passage on. We're going to start scanning the reading passage to look for this keyword, so that's quite easy to find. We've already found it right here. It appears at the start of this paragraph. So there's our keyword Lewis dollar. So now, now that I have found my keyword in the question at this point, it makes sense to start looking at these other keywords because now I'm going to go back to my answer choices, and I'm going to read some of these key words. So here I have something about dollars. Law, here I have something about evolution here. I have something about biology and 20th century on here. I have something about research. So at this point, I'm going to be scanning around this area to see what other keywords from the answer choices can I find. I've already found my key word from the question, But now that I have already found the key word from the question now I want to check for the keywords from the answer. Choice is to find out which one of these answer choices is going to be the correct answer. So let's go ahead and do that. All right, so I see something about evolution here on it talks about evolution here as well. Let's keep scanning, see if we can find something else. There we go early 20th century, so that one is over here. Option C, early 20th century. It also says biologists so see also mentions biologists. All right, Anything else? So those are all the key worst that I have found so far. I found evolution here. I also see evolution here. Andi, I see early 20th century and I see biologist, so I'm pretty sure my answer is going to be somewhere around here. Remember, we are only looking for 1 to 2 sentences. That's going to be our matching sentence. So let's start reading. I want to start reading from over here because this is where our keyword appears. So maybe we're going to find our answer in this one sentence. Or maybe we'll have to read an extra second sentence. Let's begin in 18 90. Lewis Dollar proposed that evolution was irreversible, that an organism is unable to return even partially to a previous stage already realized in the ranks office ancestors. So I already know right away that this is not going to be our answer, because when we look at this answer choice related toe evolution, what it is saying is that it's supported the possibility off evolutionary throwbacks that it is somehow possible to go back in evolution, somehow move backwards in evolution, See throwback. So that is not what this is saying over here at all. It's saying that Lewis Dollar proposed that evolution was irreversible, that an organism is unable to return, that you cannot go back. Evolution cannot run backwards, so that's not going to be our answer. So I'm going to keep reading. Let's continue. Early 20th century biologists came to a similar conclusion, though they qualified it in terms of probability, stating that there is no reason why evolution cannot run backwards. It's just very unlikely. Okay, so over here what it is saying is actually see is the correct answer choice. It says that it was modified by biologists in the early 20th century what was modified. We're talking about the theory, the theory that Lewis Dollar developed. That theory was modified by biologists in the early 20th century. So this right here, my friends, is our matching sentence, and that is where we have found our answer. So here we see a mention of early 20th century. We see a mention off biologists, so we know that the answer has to be see right, because it could only be either B or C. Since we only found keywords for B, which was evolution on keywords for C biologists and early 20th century, so it had to be either B or C, and we already eliminated. Be it cannot be be because that's not what it says over here. So that is going to be our matching sentence on one thing that I want to point out is this term right here. Check this out. It says that early 20th century biologists qualified it in terms of probability. Qualified it. Guys, this is synonym language for modified. So they're saying that the early 20th century biologists altered the theory or modified this theory in some way. Okay, so how did they modify it? They modified it in terms of probability. So by probability there saying that evolution might be able to run backwards there is no reason why it cannot run backwards. It's just very unlikely the probability is very, very low. Okay, so that is sending him language on. So we found our answer. The answer is C on. What are you going to do after you have answered the question? You are going to put a number next to the mashing sentence where you found your answer. So we know that we found our answer to number 19 right here. So the answer to number 20 is going to come after this paragraph. So let's take a look at our question number 20 now. So here is question number 20 and you'll remember that silent jeans waas The key word from the question that we marked. So when we go back to our reading passage, we are going to be searching for this keyword. We're going to be scanning for silent jeans. So let's go ahead and scan for this. Okay, So I see something about genes over here. I see something about genes being switched off, so this could be sending him language for silent jeans. And here we go, Silent jeans. We found the exact keyword in this case on. Actually, I expected to find the exact keyword for this particular keyword. The reason is that this keyword is placed in quotation marks. You see those quotation marks? It's placed in quotation marks. That means that it's a very specific terminology. So when you see very specific terminology than you can expect to find the exact keywords in the reading passage, awesome. So we found our key word over here. Silent jeans. So what? I'm going to do at this point is I'm going to start looking for key words from the answer choices. So I'm only looking for the key words from the answer choices after I have found my key word from the question. So the key words from the answer choices are numbers species arrive, actually be easy to find. There we go. Rough term reemergence characteristics, unlimited lifespan. So just have these keywords in the back of your mind. You can go ahead and underlined them or circle them if you'd like. If it helps you go ahead and do that on. We're now going to be looking for these keywords in this area. Let's see which one of these key words can we find? So we've already found Ralf here. Onda. Let's see what else I see. Something about long lost straight that can reappear long lost traits. This to me Is this right here? IHS synonym language For this reemergence off certain characteristics, reemergence means to reappear to come back. So when we say that long lost traits could reappear were saying that long lost traits could re emerge, re emerge. Okay. Ah, that a synonym language. So in this case, Our answer is going to be right here. So this is our matching sentence on this part right here. It's synonym language for reemergence off certain characteristics. I have not really found other keywords. I do see something about Ralf here. I can go ahead and read this. Why not? Rudolph Fraph and his colleagues reasoned that while evolutionary changes involved the loss of jeans and are therefore irreversible, others may be the result off jeans being switched off. It doesn't say anywhere. That raft disagreed with the use of the term. It doesn't. Right. Um, in fact, we actually did not even have to read this ends because after I found Araff, the next thing that I would do or that I should have done is simply scanned for disagree or disagreement. And I don't see anything about disagreement here, so I wouldn't even have to read this sentence. So our answer is right here. Our answer is C. So that's the only spot where we have found synonym language that matches up with the synonym language in the reading passage. So now that you've answered the question, just put a number next to it next to the matching sentence so that you can answer the rest of the questions. If there happen to be more questions in this question set and that's it, you are now done. I hope that this gave you a good overview off how to answer the multiple choice question type. Now, in the next two videos, I want to go over some practice questions with you, so I'll see you there. 14. Multiple Choice Questions: Practice Set 1: in this video, I'm going to be showing you how to answer a practice question for the multiple choice question type. This example comes from the Cambridge aisles book number eight, Test number four, and this is reading passage number two. So let's begin. We can start off by frustrating the title off our reading passage just to get a quick overview off what this article is going to be about. So it says biological control off pests. So we're going to be talking about how to control pasts, perhaps in relation to farming or something like that. So let's go down to our questions. So here are our questions. Numbers 14 through 17 on In this case, in this multiple choice question, this is a standard multiple choice question, so there's only going to be one correct answer. A, B, C or D. So let's begin by first. Marking are keywords Number 14 Yusof Pesticides. We want to know what it has contributed to. With number 15. We have food and agricultural organization. That's a great keyword 300. That's another great keyword. The number 300 that's going to be very easy to find 300 agricultural pests number 16. We have something about cotton farmers in Central America that's also going to be very easy . That's another proper noun on DA. I'm not going to mark using pesticides here are not right now because Thehyperfix kal is about controlling pasts, so we're probably going to see a lot of that. That keyword is probably going to repeat itself, so I'm not going to mark that just yet. I'm just going to look for Central America instead. When I get to this question on number 17 mid 19 sixties, that's going to be very easy to find and something more about Central America. Great. Now what I want to do at this point is identify the easy question types, guys. Which one do you think is going to be the easiest question to answer 14 15 16 or 17? In my view, Number 15 is going to be the easiest to answer because we have these great keywords. We have a proper noun and the number 300. Another one that's going to be really easy to find is number 17 because it says mid 19 sixties, that's going to be very easy to find. So let's do number 15 and number 17 1st And then we'll get around to these other questions . Okay, so right now I'm looking for food and agricultural organization on. I'm looking for the number 300. Let's see if we can find that. All right, here we go. On there. I see you right away. Food and agricultural organization. And I also see the number 300 right here. So I'm pretty sure that our answer is going to be in this sentence somewhere around there. Probably. So let's go ahead on read this sentence. So here it says. According to a recent study by the Food and Agricultural Organization, more than 300 species off agricultural pasts have developed resistance toe a wide range of porton chemicals. Okay, so here is that 300 species of agricultural pasts that is just synonym language for the same thing. Because down here you might remember that it says 300 agricultural pests. So that's the same thing. 300 species off agricultural pests. We're talking about the same thing. So these 300 species of agricultural pests have developed resistance. They have developed resistance to a wide range of porton chemicals. That means that when you try to kill them, then they simply don't die. They are very resistant. They have become, are too strong. See, they don't respond to the drugs to the chemicals anymore, so that's what that means. So and the question is, as the Food and Agriculture Organization has counted more than 300 agricultural pests, which what? I see it right here. The answer is a. They are no longer responding to most pesticides in use. Why are they no longer responding to most pesticides? Because they have become resistant? Harris says that they have developed resistance. That's why they are not responding anymore. So the answer is going to be a If you'd like, you can go ahead and read these other answer choices just to make sure that you have picked the correct answer choice. In this case, I am very certain that this is in fact, the correct answer choice, because if you look at the other answer, choices be says that these pests can be easily controlled through pesticides and that's not true, right? They cannot be controlled because they have become resistant Option C size that they're continuing to spread diseases well, it says nothing about that. De says that they may be used as part of bio controls. Replacement? What? I don't see anything about that. So the correct answer has to be a Now, let's move on to our next question. Question number 17. So let's look for this keyword made 19 sixties and then something about Central America. Okay, so here we go. We left off here, By the way. I do want to put the number next to the Imagine sentence. So I found the answer to question number 15 right there. So I do want to put number 15 just so that I know where I'm going to find my other answers . Okay? Now I'm looking for mid 19 sixties. Okay, I see. Early 19 forties here, 19 forties, 19 fifties. And here we go, 19 sixties. So let's go ahead and mark that mid 19 sixties, we were also looking for Central America Central America. I do see it up here. I don't see it around 19 sixties, but that's all right, because actually, this paragraph is talking about Central America, and then it's continuing that same discussion. So in this paragraph, it's still talking about Central America. So that's all right. Okay, So we're going to be finding our answer somewhere around here if you go down. And if you look at the answer choices here, you'll see that it says something about 50%. So we have to find out what about 50% is going to be the correct answer choice. So if we come up here, we can see right away that it says here something about 50%. So I'm sure that I'm going to be finding my answer in this sentence. This is going to be my matching sentence right there. Okay? And maybe maybe even, uh, up until this point. So let's read this. It says, By the 19 sixties, the situation took an alarming turn with the outbreak off. Four more new past. Okay, so there were four more new pasts necessitating pesticide spraying to such an extent that 50% off the financial outlay on cotton production was accounted for by pesticides. All right, so what this sentence is saying here is that by the 19 sixties, there was an outbreak off four more new pests that four more new pasts started toe appear. Or perhaps they were created, Or perhaps the old pasts mutated in some way. They evolved in some way, and basically there was an outbreak off four more new past four new species. So what they have to do is that they had to start using so much pesticide to stop these pasts that 50% off their costs went into pesticide. So, you know, like when you are growing cotton, there are production costs. There are costs related to labor. Costs related to resource is like land and water. Well, all of those are production costs. But what they're saying here is that there were so many new pasts that were coming out, that they had to use a lot off pesticide. They had to use so much pesticide that 50% off their production costs went into using pesticides in tow, buying and using pesticides. So let's come down to our question here Now, it says. By the mid 19 sixties, cotton farmers in Central America found that pesticides let's go through our answer choices , a says, who are wiping out 50% of the pests plaguing the crops. No, it doesn't say that we're talking about the financial outlay. Remember the financial spending. We're talking about the production costs, so it has nothing to do with option A Option. B says that the pesticides were destroying 50% of the crops that they were meant to protect . Nope. Says nothing about that. Si says that they were causing a 50% increase in the number off new pasts reported. No, he doesn't say that at all. It says that there were outbreaks of four new pass, but it doesn't say that there was a 50% increase in the number of new pests, so Option C is also wrong. Option D says that pesticides were costing 50% off the total amount they spent on their crops. That's the correct answer that they were costing 50% off the total production costs. They had to use so much pesticide that they had to spend up to 50% of the total production cost on just buying and using pesticides. So the correct answer choice is D Great. Now let's come up to our matching sentence here, and let's just put a number next to it. So we know where we found the answer to question number 17. It was right here So since we found the answer to number 17 over here, we're going to find the answer to number 16 in here, sandwiched in between 15 and 17. So let's take a look at number 16. It says cotton farmers in Central America began to use pesticides. Why? So why did the cotton farmers in Central America start using pesticides? Let's find that out. So right away, I see that we had mark this keyword Central America before. So our answer is going to be probably somewhere around here. So let's start reading from up here because the the keyword Central America doesn't appear anywhere else. I've already looked for that, so I know that I'm not going to find it anywhere else. So here we go. The havoc that the treadmill syndrome can bring about is well illustrated by what happened to cotton farmers in Central America. So nothing about our answer there. We are looking specifically for the reason why farmers in Central America started using pesticides, So let's keep reading on. Let's read the next sentence, it says. In the early 19 forties, basking in the glory of chemical based intensive agriculture, the farmers avidly took to pesticides. There we go, guys. That is our synonym language. It says that they took to pesticides right here. It says that they took to pesticides took to pesticides is synonym language for saying that they started using pesticides. Why did this start using pesticides? Okay, that is synonym language. So it says that the farmers avidly took to pesticides as a shore measure to boost crop yield. So there is our answer. Why did this start using pesticides to boost their crop yield? Which just means that they wanted to increase the amount of harvest that they got from this . Ah, farming. So Harris, as cotton farmers in Central America, began to use pesticides. Why a says, because off an intensive government advertising campaign, it says nothing about government, right? So that's wrong, Option B says in response to the appearance of new varieties off pest. I don't really see anything about that there, but it is obvious that if they are using pesticides than they were probably using pesticides because there were pests around, there were pasts in their farm, so they had to get rid of the past. So that's why they started using pesticides is possible Let's read Option C. It says, As a result, off changes in the seasons and the climate. I don't see anything about seasons or climate. So that's going to be wrong on D says to ensure more cotton was harvested from each crop. Guys, what do you think the answer is going to be? Is it be or is it d in response to the appearance of new varieties of past? Or did this start using pesticides to ensure more cotton was harvested from each crop? Read up here. It says that they started to use pestis eyes to boost crop yield to boost crop yield. So the answer is going to be D to ensure more cotton was harvested, that there was a higher yield off cotton part cramp. Get it? So the correct answer here is de awesome. Now we only have one final question left Number 14. So it says the use of pesticides has contributed to what? OK, what has the use of pesticides contributed to Let's take a look. So Number 15 was here, so number 14 has to come before here. We are looking for the use off past decides, so let's go ahead and mark those keywords. Something about pesticides here. Anything else? No, I don't see anything else. So let's go ahead and read this sentence. I specifically want to start reading from here, since this is where inventions pestis eyes, and I feel that this war will find our answer. So this is going to be our matching sentence right here, most likely. So let's read this sentence, it says. Apart from engendering widespread ecological disorders, pesticides have contributed to the emergence off a new breed off chemical resistant, highly lethal superbugs. Guys would, the sentence is saying, is that using pesticides has given rise to ecological disorders, widespread ecological disorders, and Jenna Ring means to give rise to something to cause something or to create something, so using pesticides has created ecological disorders. But it says that in addition to this, it has also created a new breed off highly resistant super bugs resistant means that basically you cannot kill them with chemicals. These are very strong pests, super books on. When you put chemicals on them like pesticides, they don't die. That is what it means to be resistant. So let's come down to our question over here. It says the use of pesticides has contributed to Let's see Ace as a change in the way Ecologies are classified by aggro. Ecologists says nothing about that, B says an imbalance in many ecologies around the world. Yes, it does mention something about that, that it has caused widespread ecological disorders. So there is something about that, so it might be be. But let's keep reading on. See, says the prevention of ecological disasters In some parts of the world, no pesticides have not contributed to the prevention off ecological disasters, On the other hand, is saying the contrary. It's saying that here in the reading, it's saying that pesticides have given rise to new ecological disorders. Okay, and here, Option D. It says that the use of pesticides has contributed to an increase in the range of ecologies , which can be usefully formed. Nope. Says nothing about that says nothing about that. So the correct answer, guys, what do you think is going to be? What do you think is the correct answer? The correct answer is B an imbalance in many ecologies around the world. Okay, so we have now answered all of our questions. So we're going to be ending this video here in the next one. I want to take you through practice at number two, in which I want to show you multiple choice questions from reading passage number three. 15. Multiple Choice Questions: Practice Set 2: Now let's answer our practice. That number two for the multiple choice question type This example comes from the Cambridge aisles book number eight. Test number two. On this time, we're going over reading passage number three. So this is our reading passage Number three. Let's read the title off this article just so we have a better understanding off what this reading passage is going to be about. So it's going to be about the meaning and power off smell. Great. Now let's go down to our questions. Here we have four questions. Number 33 to 36. We're going to start off by first. Marking are keywords. So here, in number 33 it says, according to the introduction, we become aware, aware of the importance off smell. So that's 33. Number 34 thus quite easy to find. It tells us exactly where we're going to find around, sir. It tells us that is going to be in paragraph B. So for this question, we just have to go straight to paragraph B and then look for the key word experiment. Number 35. All right here. We also have it laid out. It tells us. We have to look in paragraph c. The question asks, What is the writer doing in this paragraph? And then, finally, 36 again? It says paragraph. E tells us where to look for it. Study off smell atmosphere. Andi, that's about it. So those are going to be our keywords for these questions. The next thing that I would do at this point is I would put a check mark next to all the easy questions so that I can answer them first. But actually, in this case, we don't really have to do that because all of these questions are quite easy. They're easy because it tells us that 33 is going to be in the introduction. 34 is going to be in paragraph B and then 35 paragraph C and 36 paragraph e. So all these questions are pretty easy. So you know what I'm going to do for this? I'm just going to go in order, and I'm just going to answer all of these questions one after the other. Let's start off with number 33. We're gonna go to the introduction on look for this keyword aware, aware off the importance of smell. So let's look for that. We're going to come up here on this is the introduction. I believe this is the introduction that they're referring to. So let's start off here. Okay? Here it says something about the sense of smell. And here I see, aware off the importance, aware off their importance has right there. Okay, so we're going to be finding our answer to this question somewhere around here. So I'm gonna Mark, I'm gonna underline this part is going to be our imagine sentence right here. Let's read it. Let's start reading from over here. Since this is the sentence in which our keyword appears. For the most part, however, we breathe in the aromas which surround us without being consciously aware off their importance. To us, it is only when the faculty of smell is impaired. For some reason that we begin to realize the essential role the sense off smell plays in our sense of well being. Okay, Now, let's go down here to our question, and let's go through these answer choices. Let's see, wish one of these answer choices is the best fit. So option is as that we become aware of the importance off smell when we discover a new smell. No, it doesn't say anything about that. We experience a powerful smell. Doesn't say anything about that either. Si says our ability to smell is damaged. All right, I do see something about that. The ability to smell is damaged. Okay, the ability is damaged. So if you come up here, you might remember that here it says that that we become aware of the importance of smell on Lee when the faculty off smell is impaired, impaired, impaired means to not function anymore or to not function correctly anymore. So Harris says, the sense of smell is damaged, meaning that it doesn't work properly because it has been impaired. So let's mark, this answer is going to be C great. Now let's move on to our next question Number 34 by the way, for this question. In fact, for all of these questions, I'm not going to be numbering them. You may remember that typically what I do is I put the question number next to the matching sentence so that I know where to look for the other answers. Since these questions go in order. But I'm not going to do that here because it's not needed, because here it tells me exactly where I'm going to find my answer. It tells me that this is in the introduction than paragraph B than paragraph C and then paragraph e. So there's no point in putting a number next to the matching sentence for thes questions, let's move on to number 34. It says the experiment described in paragraph B. Okay, so there's an experiment that we're looking for in paragraph B. So this is paragraph B. Let's look for experiment, some sort of an experiment we are looking for. Okay, here I see the word experiment. So that is our keyword. I also see the word test, which is a synonym for experiment. So we're probably going to find our answer right here that's going to be probably are matching sentence. So let's start reading this. Ah, this sentence from the article, it says most of the subjects would probably never have given much thought to order as a cue for identifying family members before being involved in the test. But as the experiment revealed, even when not consciously considered smells register okay, So here it's talking about how smells are always registering in our brains in our in our noses. So let's see what our answer choices are. A says that the experiment shows how we make use off smell without realizing it. Yeah, that's what has been talking about has been talking about how smells register even when we're not aware of thes smells. That's what it has been saying. It says that most people never gave much thought to smell to order. But the experiment showed that even when people don't consciously notice smells, the smells still register in their brain and they still influence the way in which people think, or the way in which people behave. It registers that has some kind of in effect. So that's what we've been talking about here. So the answer is going to be a pretty sure off that, But let's just run through the other answer choices. Just to make sure be says that the experiment demonstrates that family members have a similar smell. No, it doesn't say that it mentions family, but in a different context. Option C says that the experiment proves that a sense of smell is learned No, it says nothing about learning. And then D says that the experiment compares the sense of smell in males and females. Nope, says nothing about males and females. So the correct answer is a Let's do number 35 35 says What is the writer doing in paragraph C? This one seems a little bit more vague, a little bit more ambiguous. I'm gonna come back to this one later on. Let's do number 36 for I feel that Number 36 will be easier. Because in addition to paragraph E, it also mentions other keywords that we confined and that will make our job easier. So let's go to paragraph E first. And let's look for these keywords. Study off. Smell on atmosphere. Here we are. Okay. We're looking for a study off smell, So research is a synonym for study. Research on smell. Okay. Here. It mentioned something about researchers, talks about smells, okay. And then more smell. What I would like to do right now is I just want to go through the keywords in the answer choices right now. That's what I want to do cause I've located the right spot. I'm just not sure where I'm going to find my matching sentence. I don't want to read the whole paragraph. So what I'll do is I'll just come to the answer choices, and I'm going to start marking some of the key words here because I'm going to look for these keywords in our paragraph. E is something about researchers. Something about smell. Most smells are inoffensive, and smell is yet to be defined. So these are the key words that I want to look for in Paragraph E. And I want to see which answer choice is going to be the best fit, accurate physical reaction measurement of smell researchers yet to be defined inoffensive. Let's see if we can find those. Harris says Something about unanswered questions, Harris says, yet to be answered. I remember that these were our key words, because here it's had yet to be defined yet to be defined, and that is just synonym language for yet to be answered yet to be explained, um, or yet to be understood. All of those are synonyms, so it says something about yet to be answered. Then here it says another. It uses another type of synonym language Harris says. Unanswered questions, unanswered questions and then here dimensions again, more stuff about questions. So let's go ahead and read this part. We're probably going to find our answer in this sentence, probably somewhere around there, maybe even this sentence where it mentions unanswered questions. So let's begin here. Significant advances have been made in the understanding off the biological and chemical nature off olfaction. All faction just means related to smell. Okay, in case you don't know what that word means, olfaction means something related to smell related to your nose. Something like that. But many fundamental questions have yet to be answered. Okay, so here is saying that we know a lot about olfaction, about smells and so on. But still, many fundamental questions have yet to be answered. So the correct answer to this to E is going to be D smell is yet to be defined. Let's go through the other answer choices just to make sure A says the measurement of smell is becoming more accurate. I see nothing about accuracy here, researchers believe, smells of purely physical reaction. It says nothing about physical reaction. Guys, Si says that most males are inoffensive, doesn't say anything about that either. So the correct answer is going to be D Smell is yet to be defined. Now let's do our final question. Question number 35 35 size. What is the writer doing in paragraph C? All right, so for this question, guys, what this question is asking you to do is it's basically asking us about the just off paragraph C. What is paragraph C really about? So one thing that you could do is you can mark these keywords and then look for those keywords in the reading passage. Let's go ahead and try that. So supporting research proposal, rejecting common belief and then limitations describing limitations. Let's see if we can find any of thes keywords. Limitations rejecting common belief Research proposal. Let's see. Let's see, we're gonna check paragraph C. So here we're going to start scanning. Okay, here I see synonym languages says sense of smell is feeble and undeveloped, undeveloped, feeble and undeveloped. That seems to me to be talking about limitations that is synonym language for limitations. Let's keep scanning Mawr just to make sure that we've that our answer is correct. Let's see. Okay, so I have a feeling that this is going to be my answer because I haven't seen anything about a B or C. I don't see any anything about, um, supporting other research. I don't see anything about a proposal or, um rejecting common belief. Although it could be this, it could be rejecting common belief. So just because I want to make sure if it's C or D, it's either going to be C or D because I know it mentions limitations. But let's come back here. I want to make sure, guys, you know, what I want to do right now is I want to get the gist off this paragraph. I want to get the just off what this paragraph is about. So you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to do something that I was going to teach you later down the road, but actually is going to be useful for us for this particular question. So what that little trick is is if you want to understand the just off any paragraph, all you have to do is just read the first sentence, read the first sentence in the paragraph and then read the last sentence If you do those two things, then you're going to get the gist off What the paragraph is about if you have time and if you are a fast reader than I recommend that you also read the second sentence, The second sentence is also an important one. So there are certain types of questions in which the question will ask you about what the paragraph was about is going to ask you for the gist off the paragraph. These are more harder questions and out of order questions. So I was saving them for later. So I will talk about that in much more detail when we get to those question types. But right now, all you have to know is that when you want to find out the chest off any paragraph than just read these sentences, read the first and the second sentence, or you can read the first and the last sentence. But if you are a fast reader and if you have time, I suggest that you read all three sentences. The first, the second on the last. That's going to give you the just of the paragraph. So, guys, that's what I'm going to be doing here because I'm not really sure about my answer. Choice is going to be C or D. I know it's going to be one of thes too, but I want to make sure. And this question is asking me about what the writer is doing in paragraph C. So really, I need to understand the chest off the paragraph. So I'm gonna go ahead and read the 1st 2 sentences and then the last sentence hair we go. In spite of his importance to our emotional and sensory lives, smell is probably the most undervalued sense in many cultures. Okay, so we know that smell is undervalued in many cultures. Then it says the reason often given for the low regard in which smell is held is that in comparison with his importance among the animals, the human sense of smell is feeble and undeveloped. Okay, so that's where it was talking about limitations, right? So it's been talking about limitations. So that's why I thought that maybe the answer is going to be de describing limitations, but I want to understand the whole gist of the paragraph. So I also want to read the last sentence the final sentence, says Our noses are able to recognize thousands of smells and to perceive orders, which are present only in extremely small quantities. All right, so in this sentence, what they're doing is they're telling us about the remarkable ability off our noses to smell thousands off smells to even smell orders that are present in very small quantities. So over here you see, it says that the nose is remarkably acute, remarkably acute. So actually, the correct answer is not the That's not the correct answer. The correct answer is C. The correct answer is C because it is rejecting a common belief. Guys, what is the common belief? The common belief is that the nose is limited. It is undeveloped. People in many cultures undervalue the sense of smell, so it is limited in humans people, while US humans are not really using our olfactory senses our sense of smell to the best of its ability, and for that reason it's just undeveloped. But then it goes on to say that actually, the nose is a very remarkably acute organ and that we can spell thousands off smells. So it's correcting. The limitation is correcting the belief it is giving us the correct information. It is rejecting the common belief that the nose is useless, or maybe that it is very limited is rejecting that common belief. It's saying no, the nose is not undeveloped. The nose is not a useless organ. It's very useful, and it's very acute. It can smell thousands off smells. So those are our answers for this question set. We are now done with practice that Number two. I hope that you now have a good understanding off how to answer this question. Type the multiple choice question type. In the next video, I'll be talking about the next type of question that you might see on your reading test. 16. How to Answer Sentence Completion Questions: Welcome back. You have made it here to this next question type, which is sentence completion. So you might remember that this is what the sentence completion question looks like. This question is mostly in order. I would say that probably between 80 to 90% of the times, this type of question is going to be in order. Okay, So whenever you're answering these questions, I want you to automatically assume that these questions are in order, So just go ahead and assume that even though they're not always in order, I want you to assume that the question said that you're answering does go in order because that's going to make her job much easier. But there are exceptions about 10 to 20% of the times. These questions do not go in order. These questions have a medium level of difficulty, as you can see here from this yellow dot So this is what the question looks like. Basically, what you have to do is you have to complete this sentence by matching it to the correct answer choice. This question is actually very much like a matching question. You're going to learn more about the matching question after the next couple videos, so we're going to get to that very soon. But this is kind of like a match in question where you are matching the question with the correct answer choice. If there are more answer choices than the question, then that means that some of thes answer choices are not going to be used. The way to identify this question is by looking up here, it tells you to complete each Sutton's on. You have to do so by matching it with the correct answer choice. Here's a bit of explanation about this question. So you already know that this question goes mostly in order 80 to 90% of the times this question will go in order. Therefore, you should assume that it goes in order. It's not a difficult question. Okay, Like I mentioned, this question has a medium level of difficulty, so it's not too difficult to solve. You shouldn't really have much problem with it. As long as you can scan for the keywords and understand synonym language, you should be all right. Next point here is that this question is formed from only 1 to 2 sentences in the reading passage. You already seen this by now, Almost all the questions that we're going to go over that we have gone over so far. These questions The answers to these questions, are coming from only one or two sentences in the reading passage. So you never have to read multiple sentences. You never have to read the entire paragraph. So what you have to do in this question, as you already know by now, is you have to match the first part of the sentence with the second part off the sentence. So you're already going to be given the first part in the question on you're going to be given the second part of the sentence in the Asir choices, and you have to match them correctly. Next, the keywords may be found in the questions or in the answer choices. Now, this is a question type in which you are going to get us her choices. So there may be times when you might find keywords in the answer choices as well. But I say that as a maybe. Okay, this is not always going to help you, but this is something to be mindful off something to have in the back of your mind that the key words from the answer choices could also help you. But I should point out to you at this point that you should first look for the key words from the questions. Because if you start looking for the key words from answer choices right away, you're gonna be searching all over the place. And, guys, this is gonna confuse you and is going to waste a lot of time. So don't look for the key words from the answer choices right away. Rather, what you should do is you should first look for the key words from the questions. Then, once you have located those keywords from the questions in the rating passage, only then you should look for the key words from the answer choices around that area around the area where you found the key words for the questions. Does that make sense? I'll show you more examples off this as we move along next, keep in mind that some answer choices may not be used at all, whereas other times they might throw in Asir choices in there. That has nothing to do with the reading passage that is not even mentioned in the article. That does not even exist. Okay, so they're going to try to trick you in different ways. They might use synonym language from the reading passage to try to trick you. Or they might throw in some answer choices that don't even exist. So you have to be careful about that. I'm going to show you more examples off this. We're gonna do practice questions, and all of this will become much clearer to you very soon. The last thing you need to know is just like with every question type. The ability to scan for keywords is paramount. If you cannot scan for keywords and if you cannot understand synonym language I'm sorry, folks. Ah, you're probably not going to do very well on the test. This skill is very important. It is crucial to getting a high score. Now, I didn't want to go over this strategy step by step with you because you've already seen this basic strategy. You've seen this many times by now, and you have already used this basic strategy to answer other types of questions like the multiple choice or fill in the blanks and so on. So you already understand the basic strategy. By now, the first thing you're gonna do is mark the keywords. Then you're going to identify the easy questions. Then you're going to scan the passage to find the keywords and the synonyms. Next, you're going to make sure that the answer that you think is the answer is in fact, the correct answer. You're going to check in with the connecting words From the question on, you're gonna make sure that you have picked the correct answer. And finally, since these questions mostly going order and we're going to assume that they go in order for that reason, we're going to put the question number next to the matching sentence where we have found our answer in the article. Now here are some examples for you. So let's answer these three questions for our example. So the question is, of course, to complete each sentence, we have to match the question with the correct answer choice. Over here we have four answer choices, so one of them is not going to be used. The first thing you're going to do when you see this question set when you see a question set like this is what you always do. You're gonna mark the keywords. You're gonna mark the keywords, Not in the answer choices in the question. So first, you're going to mark the keywords in the question. So here we have key words like Dingle migratory routes prepare Arctic turns on ability. So those are our main keywords For these questions, you may have noticed that I haven't marked keywords like migratory and migration on migrating. The reason is that the whole article is about migration. So I don't think that these keywords are really going to help us very much, so that's why I haven't marked them. Now you may be wondering which keywords are easiest to locate the key words in the questions or the ones in the answer choices. So we've already talked about this. You always want to look for the key words from the questions first, and once you have located these keywords in the reading passage, then you can start to look for these keywords from the answer choices around that area. Okay, so these keywords can be helpful, but you don't have to look for these keywords. This is optional Okay, In some cases, this can help you. This can help you. If you have already located the matching satins, then it can help you. So the important thing here is to first locate the keywords from the question. So once you have marked these key words, next you're going to look for the easiest keywords. Which keywords are the easiest? Well, here I have a proper noun, Dingell. And here I have Arctic turns. That's also ah, proper noun Arctic. So these two are going to be the easiest keywords. And therefore, these two are the questions that we're going to answer first. Remember, we have to answer the easy questions first, So I'm gonna put a check mark next to number 19 and 21 since those are the easy questions that I'm going to be answering first. Finally, I've already mentioned this. Keywords like migrating are repetitive, so they're not going to be very useful. These keywords, these repetitive keywords can be helpful if you have located the matching sentence. Once you have located the matching sentence using these keywords from the question, then these repetitive keywords can be helpful. Okay? And when when you have located the matching sentence than the keywords from the answer choices can also be helpful. So now let's go ahead and start answering these questions. I'm going to start off by answering number 19. So here is our question number 19 Number 19 says, According to Dingle, migratory routes are likely to likely to what? So at this point we would go to our reading passage on. We would start to scan for this keyword tangle. So right away, I see that here we have our keyword Dingle. I would scan a little bit more. Let's see if we can find anything else. No, I do not see any other mention off Dingle. I also don't see what I do see Something about migratory routes over here. It says prolonged movements that carry animals prolonged movements that carry animals well . Dad is synonym language for migratory routes, said a name. Language guys. Very subtle. It's easy to miss synonym language like this. So you have to be careful when you are looking. Ah, for Senate name language, and you have to especially become careful once you have located the key word. Because once you have located the key word, there is a high probability that you're going to find synonym language around that area. So we're going to start reading this sentence now. I'm pretty sure that we're going to find our answer somewhere around here. This is going to be our matching sentence. So it's as they are prolonged movements that carry animals outside familiar habitats. They tend to be linear, not zigzag. E is exactly means to go side to side, side to side, left to right. Okay, that zigzag e And then it says they involve special behaviors concerning preparation blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. OK, so here I see that it says that these migratory routes or these movements that carry animals they tend to be linear, not zigzag e. Well, this over here, my friends, is sending him language Linear, not zigzag e is synonym language for straight follow a straight line that is synonym language. So this right here is our matching sentence. This whole thing actually is our matching sentence. And specifically we have found our answer right here. So the correct answer is going to be be. The migratory routes are likely to follow a straight line. It says that right here, so Now that we have answered this question, we're just going to put a number next to it. So we know exactly where we found the answer to number 19. Now let's move on to our next question. I'm going to skip number 20 on. I'm going to move straight to number 21 because that is the other easy question because we have a proper noun hair arctic. So I'm going to be looking for these keywords in our reading passage. Arctic Turns on Ability Here is our reading passage on right away. I see that here we have the term Arctic tern, and here it says Arctic again. And let's see it mentions Arctic tern here again. So those are our key words Arctic tern and arctic tern. On here. You'll notice that in mentioned something about destruction. Over here, it mentions distraction. So once you have located this keyword arctic tern, at this point you would read this sentence because this is probably going to be your matching sentence. So let's read it. It says that the Arctic tern resists destruction because it is driven at that moment by an instinctive sense off, something we humans find admirable larger purpose. So what is it saying here, folks? It's saying that the Arctic tern resists distraction. It ignores distractions. So this over here is going to be our matching sentence. Where we have found our answer on this here is synonym language resists is synonym language for ignore. Okay, ignore distractions is synonym language for resists distractions. So the correct answer is D on. Once you have answered it, just put a number next to the spot where you found your answer. So now we know where we found our answer to question number 19 on question number 21. So the answer to question number 20 is going to be sandwiched in between the answers for number 19 on 21. So let's look for this keyword. Prepare specifically, prepare for migration. Let's look for this keyword in our reading passage. Okay, So when I'm scanning here, what I see is that it's mentioning something that birds do in advance. See that? Harris says in advance. So this phrase over here in advance off a long migration, all flight that is synonym language for prepare. So when you prepare for something, you are planning in advance so that right there is a synonym language. This right here, my friends, is going to be our matching sentence since we have found our synonym language here at this point. Since we have found our matching sentence, you can now go ahead on look for these other keywords, like migration difficulties. Straight line is already eliminated because we've already used that answer. And we have also used D. So the answer is going to be a or C, so let's see what is going to be. It says birds will fatten themselves with heavy feeding in advance off a long migration all flight. So it says, right here, eat more than they need for immediate purposes. That is synonym language for fatten themselves. Fatten themselves with heavy feeding is synonym language for eat more eat more than the need. So that is also sending them language right here on the correct answer is going to be C. So once you've answered this question, you can go ahead and put a number next to it. If there are more questions in the question set, If this happens to be the last question, then you don't have to number it. Okay, cool. So we're now done in the next couple videos. I want to take you through practice questions so that I can show you in more detail how to answer this question type. 17. Sentence Completion: Practice Set 1: All right, folks. Now, in this video, we're going to be going over practice at number one for the sentence. Completion Question type. This example comes from the Cambridge aisles. Book number eight, Test number four, reading passage number two. So this article is going to be about the biological control off pests. Let's go down to our questions here. So here is our sentence. Completion question. We have to answer questions 22 to 26 here we have our answer choices. Okay, So all you have to do is you've got to match the question with the correct answer choice. So we're going to start off here by marking are keywords that has been scaled insects and something about them feeding neo do. How do you say that? Neo do Meta sangha. Wani. Maybe so. These are also great keywords. Proper noun leaf mining, hiss pieds Argentinean weevil, Sal Vigna molester. Okay, so this article is about pasts, different types of pests. So we have a lot of proper announce here. This is great. This is going to be rather easy for us to solve. So if I was to do the easy questions first, I would do this one first and then this one on this one, and then I would leave the other two for later. I could also do number 22. I have a feeling that leaf mining his spite Well, this is not a proper noun. This might appear in the sentence without being capitalized, so it might be a little harder to find. And Number 22 seems like a proper noun. I'm not sure since it's referring to a scale, but it's referring to a certain type of scale. So I'm not sure, So let's see. So let's start looking for these up in this API in scale and ah, and then we'll look for these other keywords. But let's just have these other keywords in the back of our minds anyway, just in case we happen to see them in the article, then we can just mark them right away. So here we go. We are looking for this keyword first Diese pain. Okay, OK, I'm still scouting. I haven't seen it yet, Huh? Okay, right here. I see our other key word I see here it mentions Argentine Ian Weevil. This was one of our key words. So I remember that and check this out Down here it says di sippin scale or disappeared scale. I'm not sure how that's pronounced but disappears. Scale insects appears right here, mentions Argentinian. We will here as well, and ah, all right, so our answer should be probably somewhere around here. So let's read this. Let's read this sentence. It says. See, IBC is also perfecting the technique for breeding parasites that prey on D subpoenas scale insects. And then it's defining these insects notorious defoliants off fruit trees in the U. S. And India. So that means that these insects plague the fruit trees. Remember it says Disa. Pain scale insects feed on what? What do they feed on? They feed on fruit trees. So the correct answer here is going to be D. All right, correct Answer is D If you would like at this point what you can do is you can go ahead and ah, put put a line right through the after choices so that you know that you already used that answer choice so you can go ahead and do that. If it helps you, you don't have to do it. Ah, but it's just something if it helps you. So we found the answer to number 22 up over here. So we're gonna put number 22 right here. I'm just gonna put 22 there, since that's where I found my answer. Now, remember, these questions go in order most of the times 80 to 90% of the times. So I'm going to assume that it goes in order. But keep in mind that it doesn't have to always go in order. It only goes in order most of the times. Not always. So let's let's go ahead and answer our next question. The question in which we have the keyword Argentinian weevil. Let's answer this one, since we've already found the key word. So Harris says an Argentinian weevil may be successful in wiping out what? So what? Is it going to be successful in wiping out? Let's see, Let's start reading from here the sentence. Similarly, the Hyderabad based Regional Research laboratory R L, supported by Sea IBC, is now trying out an Argentine weevil for the eradication off water hyacinth water hyacinth . Another dangerous weed. Okay, so the Argentinian weevil helps to eradicate or eliminate or remove water hyacinth. So an Argentinian we will may be successful in removing what? In eradicating what water high. Since the answer is going to be e, the answer is E and let's come up here and put number 25 next to the spot where we finally next to the spot where we found our answer. Right over here. I found the answer to question number 25. All right, now let's see what other key words we can look for. Let's do this one. Next, Neo Do Matea Sangha Wanni. And then we can do salvia. These are proper now's so let's start there. So since we're looking for the answer to question number 23 I would expect to find this keyword somewhere up here, perhaps somewhere around here. So I'm gonna start scanning from over here. Ah, since I'm assuming that this goes in order So neo Damita, something like that. Okay. I don't see that here and ah yeah, I don't see that here either. I already read this part, so I know it's not here and there we go. Here I see Neo do media Sango Wani So that there's our keyword Let's go ahead and read the sentence. It says A natural predator indigenous to India, neo Do Media Sanga Wani was found useful in controlling the roads. Grass scale insect that was devouring forest grass in many parts off the U. S. Okay, so what this is saying is that this species is a native predator off India and this species helps in controlling grass scale insects. Somehow it well, it seems that is a predator off these insects, that it eats these grass scale insects. So that is probably going to be a correct answer. Let's see, New do Mattia sang 28. What hair we go? Grass scale insects. The correct answer is H They ate grass scale insects. Great. Now let's look for Sal Vigna molester Sal Vigna molester here Sal Vinny a molester. Let's read the sentence. Um, let's start reading from here. This is where on the sentence starts. It says by using neo Catina Brucie, a beetle native to Brazil, scientists at Carola Agricultural University freed a 12 kilometer long canal from the clutches of the weed Sal Vigna molester. Okay, so salvia molester is the weed, So we already know that now, Harris says is popularly called African pile in Kerala and ah, let's keep reading on here. It says about 30,000 hectares off rice fields in Kerala are infested by this weed. So there's around for guys. So remember, you may have to read 1 to 2 sentences. Sometimes what the examiners will do is they will take two sentences and they will combine those two sentences into one single sentence and present that to you in the question. So you may have to read more than one sentence, especially if you don't find your answer. Okay, so here we have found our answer. It tells us what this we'd infests it infests rice fields. It's big trouble for rice fields. So it says salvia molest a plagues. What? So plagues is just send a name language for infests. Okay, synonym language for in fast. And the correct answer is right here. Be rice fields. All right, now let's do our final question. We are looking for leaf mining Hiss pieds number 24. So we found the answer to number 26 down here. Found 26 down here. I would expect number 24 to be around the same area. So, um, Leaf mining his spite. That's what we're looking for. Hair we go leaf mining hiss bites. Okay, so that one was not a proper noun. So always, always look for keywords that have proper announce first. Guys, that's going to make your job much easier. Let's read the sentence, it says. In the late 19 sixties, when Sri Lanka's flourishing coconut groves were played by leaf mining, his bites allowable parasite imported from Singapore brought the past under control. Okay, so what this sentence is saying is that these leaf mining hiss pieds war plaguing the coconut groves that they were feeding on coconut groves, that they were wiping out coconut groves or infesting them. Okay, all of those are synonyms that these leave mining. His spite were plaguing coconut groves on to solve this problem. To stop this problem, Laurel parasite from Singapore Waas imported. Okay, So let's go down to our question. Harris says leave mining his spite, delighted. Blighted means to infest is the same thing. It's just sending them language for plaguing or infesting. Um, okay, so those are synonym words plaguing infesting. So what were leaf mining hiss pieds blighting or plaguing? Well, it says that they were plaguing coconut groves, coconut groves. So grooves is just sending them for trees. So the correct answer is going to be C. Okay. They were plaguing coconut groves right here. It tells you coconut growths. Awesome. So we're now finished with this question said, I hope that you now have a better understanding of how to answer this question type. As you can see in this set of questions, we found all of our answers in these two paragraphs. We assumed that they will go in order on you may have noticed that sometimes they do go in order. Other times they don't. So just be mindful of that. They do go in order most of the times, but there will be exceptions. So that's it for this one. In the next video, we're going to be going over practice at number two, in which I want to show you questions from reading passage Number three. I'll see you there 18. Sentence Completion: Practice Set 2: Hey, folks, in this video, we're going to be going over our second practice set for the sentence completion. Caution type. Now, this example comes from the Cambridge. I'll spoke Number nine, Test number two. We're going to be going over reading passage number three. So let's read the title. A neuroscientist reveals how to think differently. Okay, so now we know what the article is going to be about. We have a general idea about this rating passage. Let's go right down to our question set down here on, we're going to start off by first. Marking are keywords. So number 38 thinking thinking like a successful iconoclast is demanding Number 39 the concept of the social brain. Something about this concept being useful to iconoclasts. Right here, guys. I see the ward iconoclasts up here again and again. I see iconoclasts here. I see iconoclast here and then it appears here again. So I'm not really sure how helpful this keyword is going to be right now. It seems to me that this is a repetitive keywords. So I don't think that is going to be very helpful to us unless we first find the matching sentence, then it can be helpful, but only after we have found the matching sentence. So I'm not going to be marking this keyword right now. But I will pay attention to this keyword once I have found the matching sentence. So we're going to skip over these keywords for now, words like iconoclast and iconoclasts and ah, let's just move on to other keywords. So here we have acid on way off thinking. Okay, so those are our key words for these questions. I'm trying to think now which one of these questions is going to be the easiest one to answer. Andi. All of them seem a little bit harder to find because I don't see any proper noun in here. I don't see any numbers, so it seems like they're going to be a little bit tricky to find. But still, I think that number 38 39 are going to be easier to find in comparison to number 40. So let's do that. First, let's do Number 38 on. Let's see if we can find the keywords thinking successful iconoclasts and demanding. Specifically, I'm looking for a type of iconoclast, a very specific type of iconoclast, a successful one. So I'm going to be looking for keywords and synonym language related to the word success or successful. Here we go. Let's start scanning. OK? Haven't seen anything about success yet. Okay, here we go. Successful iconoclasts. So mentioned successful iconoclasts here just got a little bit more to see if I can see anything else about that. Okay? No, I don't see any more mention of successful iconoclasts. Let's see if we can find these other keywords thinking and demanding. So the question says thinking like a successful iconoclast is demanding. Because why we want to find out the reason why being a successful iconoclast is demanding so here. I mean, it's it's not saying anything about demanding why being a successful like on a class is demanding. So I'm gonna keep looking for Lackey word something about demanding something about being successful here I see successful iconoclasts again. So maybe our answer is around here, but I also want to look for demanding. I want to find out the reason why being a successful iconoclast is demanding and I don't see it yet. Here I see again successful iconoclasts, okay, and that's the end of our reading passage. So I have a feeling we're going to find our answer around here, since successful iconoclasts appears twice here. So it's probably going to be somewhere around in this paragraph. So we want to find out the reason why being a successful iconoclast is demanding. So let's start reading from here. Let's read this sentence and let's see where that goes. Finally, to be successful iconoclasts individuals must sell their ideas to other people. Okay, so he tells us what we need to be a successful iconoclast. But it doesn't tell us why this is so demanding. Maybe it is demanding because these individuals must sell their ideas to other people. Maybe maybe it's not okay, but it doesn't say Hear anything about selling your ideas? I don't see anything about that in our answer. Choice is so our answer has to be something else. Let's read this sentence where this keyword appears down here, understanding how perception becomes intertwined with social decision making shows why successful iconoclasts are so rare. So it tells us right here why successful iconoclasts are so rare. So it seems to me what they're saying is that successful like on a class are rare because to be successful is quite demanding. And why is it demanding? It says that understanding how perception becomes intertwined with social decision making. See, it's talking about these two things because you need these two things in order to be successful. If you want to be a successful iconoclast, then you need to have these two things. You need to know how perception becomes intertwined with social decision making. Okay, perception on social decision making. So why is it demanding? The correct answer is A. It requires both perceptual on social intelligence skills. So that is our correct answer. It is a if you like. You can put a line through these answer choices so you can eliminate the ones that you have already used. This might help you to search through the answer choices faster. All right. Now let's go on to number 39 less. Answer this one. Number 39 size. The concept off the social brain is youthful toe iconoclasts, because why? Why is the concept of social brain useful toe iconoclasts? So I remember reading something about social intelligence here, and I also see the word social brain here, so I'm pretty sure my answer is going to be somewhere around here, especially around this area where it mentioned social brain. I'm seeing if it mentioned social brain at any other places on DA I don't think so. I think that this is the place where it appears social intelligence is it can be sent it in for social brain. Social intelligence is center name. So I'm gonna go ahead and mark thes keywords as well. Okay, Now, let's go ahead and read this sentence. Let's start reading from here, since this is the sentence in which we have social intelligence and then we might choose to read the next one, depending on whether or not we find our answer. So here we go. This is where social intelligence comes in. Social intelligence is the ability to understand and manage people in a business setting. Okay, so here is explaining to us what social intelligence is. So we still haven't found our answer because what we're looking for is why social intelligence is youthful toe iconoclasts. Why is it useful? So here is just the definition. So I want to find out why having the social brain or social intelligence is useful. So let's read the next sentence in which we have the keyword social brain. In the last decade, there has been an explosion off knowledge about the social brain and how the brain works when groups coordinate decision making. Okay, so right here is telling me or recent trend that has happened over the last decade. I'm still not sure if this is the reason it still hasn't mentioned why exactly. Social brain or social intelligence is useful to iconoclasts, so I want to read a little bit more because it mentions brain here. It mentions what the brain is responsible for. It looks like there might be our answer in the next sentence. Let's read on. Neuroscience has revealed which brain circuits are responsible for functions like understanding what other people think. Empathy, fairness and social identity. These brain regions play key roles in whether people convince others off their ideas. Okay, so here it's mentioning the importance of having a social brain. Why is it important? Well, it's important or useful to iconoclasts because these brain regions play key roles in whether people convince others off their ideas. Basically, social intelligence helps you to convince other people more effectively, and we read about that up here. Remember, it said that to be successful iconoclasts, individuals must be able to sell their ideas to other people. They must be able to convince other people. So that is going to be our answer. It mentions here when groups co ordinate decision making when groups coordinate decision making. And I remember seeing that here, in our answer choice focuses on how groups decide on an action that is sending them language for coordinating how groups coordinate with each other. So the correct answer for this is going to be be so there may be times when you may have to read, Ah, sentence or two sentences extra when you're not sure, because sometimes what the aisles examiners will do is they will mention the keyword in one off the sentences. But then the answer might be in the next sentence because they might refer back to the information in the previous sentence. They might refer back to that information and then have the answer in the following sentence. Okay, so that's always possible. But in the end, the correct answer is only going to come from one or two sentences, you may have to read a sentence or two extra in order to find that matching sentence that is also always possible. But in the end, the answer only comes from one or two sentences. So we have found our answer to number 39 right over here, right over here. We found the answer to number 39 on. We found the answer to number 38 down here, so I'm not sure where I'm going to find my answer to question number 40. That's our last question. But I'm going to assume that since this goes in order, I'm probably going to find it down here because number 40 comes after 39. So it has to be after 39 which is below this point or after 38 which is also below this point. So I'm probably going to find my answer to number 40 somewhere in this area. So question Number 40 says iconoclasts are generally an acid because their way of thinking all right, so we want to find out why are iconoclasts and acid if you don't know what an asset means? An asset is something or someone who is helpful who has a lot off value, who helps you to be better to have more value or anything that has value. For example, I could say that money is an asset, right? Money is an asset because it's something that is valuable. We can use it for things, for buying things. It is helpful. It is valuable. So that is an asset. Ah, house is also an asset because you can live in it also, because you can sell your house and you can get a lot of money from that. Your laptop may also be an asset. Your laptop is an asset because it helps you to do your work. You can watch these videos on your computer, for example, and you can pass your exam. You can pass a riles exam. So these are all examples off assets. So right now we want to find out why are iconoclasts and ass it? How do they help the community? Let's find out. So I'm going to be looking for keyword asset or synonyms for the word asset. You know, our center names like helpful, valuable things like this. All right, now here I see a synonym language It says that iconoclasts create new opportunities. Guys, does that sound like something that might be an asset, something that helps you to create new opportunities? This right here is a clear example off, creating more value off adding value. So it's telling us why iconoclasts are valuable. They are valuable because they create new opportunities, so that is sending them language for asset. So let's read the sentence. Let's see what it says. Iconoclasts create new opportunities in every area, from artistic expression to technology to business. They supply creativity and innovation not easily accomplished by committees. All right, so it's telling us how they create new opportunities on the question, says Iconoclasts are generally an acid because their way of thinking, let's see, what can it be? Here we go works in many fields, both artistic and scientific, artistic on scientific, that is synonym language for artistic expression, technology, business. See that that is synonym language, artistic and scientific. So the correct answer for this is going to be C. There we go. So we have all our answers. They line up like this a B and C. So we're now done with this question type. In the next video, I'm going to show you how to answer the matching questions 19. How to Answer Table Questions: Now let's go over the table Question type. Now this is what the question type looks like. This is pretty much like of fill in the blank question. The main differences that simply the fill in the blank questions have been rearranged. You can kind of think of it in this way. So basically in a table question, you're going to have two things that are going to be connected to each other in some way. For example, in this case, on the left hand side, we have the different tests. And then on the right hand side, we have the different findings associated with these tests. So the information in the two columns off the table are going to be related in some way. Now this question goes mostly in order on Remember that any time when you have a question that goes mostly in order, you have to assume that it goes in order. When you are looking for the answers to the questions in the reading passage. Always assume that these questions go in order. But keep in mind that there will be about 10 to 20% off the times when these questions don't go in order. The next thing to note is that this one has a yellow dot, which means that these questions have a medium level of difficulty. The way to identify this question is by simply looking at the table here or by seeing up here. It tells you to complete the table below. Here is a bit of extra information about this question type, so this question is mostly in order and therefore you should assume that it goes in order so it has a medium level of difficulty on. It's not too difficult you shouldn't have a problem with it. Ah, once you understand the basic strategy involved next has already mentioned. Typically, there are going to be two questions that you're going to find right next to each other. But keep in mind that oftentimes what ends up happening is that the order off these questions may be reversed. So, for example, if you are looking for the answers to question number two and question number three in the reading passage, it's very likely that these questions are going to go in order so you might find the answer to question number two first and then in the next line or in the next paragraph after number two, we're going to find the answer to question number three. But here's what can happen if you have two questions that are right next to each other. If you get two questions that are right next to each other, then their order may be reversed. That means that you might find the answer to question number three or right before you find the answer to question Number two. In fact, you might find the answers to the two questions in the same sentence, or you might find them in two sentences right beside each other. Next thing to note is that this question is very similar to fill in the blank questions. So like I said, it's not too difficult. Each question is only formed from 1 to 2 cents is in the reading passage. I know you've seen me repeat this over and over, but I really want to stress the point that throughout all the different question types, the answer to each question is going to be taken from only 1 to 2 sentences. So it's very important to be able to recognize the keywords, the synonym language and to be able to effectively locate that matching sentence. That important sense finally, again, another reputation you need to be able to scan for keywords on understand synonym language . Now, when it comes to this type of question, the table question, there are two main types off directions that come with this type of question. So I want to show you those two types of directions. Now the first type is type number one, in which the question is going to ask you to complete the table by using words from a box. So you're gonna have a box on in that box. You're going to have answer choices, ABC. Andy on You just have to choose the correct answer choice for each blank. Now, sometimes what might happen is you might get extra answer choices. For example, there might be only three questions but four answer choices. So if there is an extra answer choice, then one of the answer choices is not going to be used. On the other hand, if you get more questions than answer choices, then one of the answer choices is going to be used twice. Now here's the second type of direction you may be asked to complete the table by filling out the blank by writing out the answer. So in this case is going to tell you how many words you can write. In this case, you cannot write any more than one word. If you write more than one word is going to be marked wrong. So you just have to write the answer in this blank line. It might be a word, or it might be a number. The directions are going to tell you that. Now let's go over the basic strategy. You already seen this basic strategy, so I don't want to go into too much detail. But just to refresh your memory on to highlight the point that the mean strategy across all these different question types is very similar. So you may have noticed that you're pretty much doing the same thing. For all the different question types, there might be some things that you do a little bit different, but for the most part, the main strategy stays the same. The main strategy is, of course, to mark the keywords toe, identify the easy questions, scan the passage to find the key words on very important synonym language. Mark those keywords in the reading passage, and then you would look for the connecting words in this case when we're talking about the table question, which is very much like a fill in the blank question, the connecting words are words that go before the black line on words that come after the blank line. So these are what we call connecting words on. By paying attention to the connecting words, you can figure out whether the answer that you have chosen fits into the sentence it has to fit. It has to fit from a chromatic, a point of view, and the structure has to fit. So in that sense, this is kind of like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to make sure that the pieces fit together. So the connecting words will tell you whether the answer that you have chosen is the right answer or not. Finally, since these questions go mostly in order and we're assuming that these questions go in order, so we're going to put a question number next to the matching sentence so that we can figure out where to look for the answers for the remaining questions Now let me show you some examples off the table. Question in action. So let's take this question set for our example. So this has something to do with Geo engineering projects so well that could be useful because geo engineering projects might be a repetitive keyword, if it appears is a title. And if everything here is related to geo engineering projects, then these keywords may not be so useful for us all right. Now, when you have a question set, we're going to start off by first paying attention to how many words you can write. Figure out the directions. Is it Ah, question in which you have to pick the answer choices, or do you have to fill in the answer in the black lines? In this case, we have the black lines. So let's pay attention to how many words weaken right. In this case, only one. The next thing to do is to highlight the keywords in each one of these questions. So right here in the first question, these are the key words that will be useful for me to find the matching sentence in the reading passage. So it mentions a large number of tiny spacecraft. Something about orbit on above Earth. Hear it mentioned something about reducing the amount of light reaching Earth in the next two questions Number two and number three. These are the keywords place, see, and courage and to form on. Finally, we have aerosol sprays, stratosphere create, reduce light reaching earth. So now, after looking at all of the's keywords, I want to ask you a question. Which questions do you think are going to be the easiest for us to answer? Which ones? Number one, number two, Number three or number four? Where should we start? What are the easiest keywords? I think the easiest keywords. All right, here. Error, asshole Sprays on shrouded sphere. Those words are going to be very easy for us to locate. I also think that tiny spacecraft is going to be easy to find. That should be easy to find light reaching earth. I'm not sure about that. That appears twice, so that could be useful. But I would start off by answering question number four. So I will put a check mark next to that, and I would start off there. The other thing that I want you to be mindful off when you're answering these questions are what we call connecting words. So I've already talked about the importance of connecting words. Connecting words are words that appear before the blank line on after the blank line. These are the words that are going to tell you what is going to be the correct answer, because the correct answer is going to fit with these connecting words just like a jigsaw puzzle. They're going to fit together in terms of structure, in terms of grammar and so on. Okay, structurally is gonna make sense. And so these connecting words are very useful clues for identifying whether you have chosen the correct answer or not. So always pay attention to these connecting words because they're going to help you toe identify what information The question is asking you for on what is going to be the correct answer. Now the last thing that I want to point out is a point that I've mentioned before. I told you that these questions are going to go in order most of the times. So most of the times the answer to number two is going to come before the answer to question number three. However, if you see two questions right next to each other, like what we have over here, Number two is here and then right next to it, we have question number three. If this happens on this is quite common, it can very easily happen. And so keep in mind that when this happens, it is very possible on it often happens that the answers are reversed. That means that you might find the answer to question number three before you find the answer to question Number two. The order can be reversed when questions appear next to each other. Awesome. Now let's go ahead and start answering these questions. We're going to start off by answering question number four first. So here is question number four on DA. At this point, what we would do after marking are keywords is we would go to our reading passage. Here's our reading passage. I've taken a small portion from the article just to show you how this works on. Once you are looking at the reading passage, you would start to scan for these keywords, so let's start scanning. Let's look for aerosol sprays and stratosphere. Those are the easiest keywords. So here we go, and right away we have aerosol sprays right there. On next to it, we have shrouded sphere, aerosol sprays and stratosphere. You'll also notice that it mentions other keywords, like aerosols, which could be center name or shorter form for aerosol sprays. And then we have light, which is mentioned over here. So these are the main keywords that I was looking for. But there are also other keywords in here, so I'm pretty sure that I'm going to find my aunts or somewhere around here. So let's go ahead and read this sentence. It says the concept of releasing aerosol sprays into the stratosphere above the Arctic has been proposed by several scientists. Let's look at what the question is asking us. It says the procedure is to release aerosol sprays in the stratosphere. All right, so it mentioned something about that right here. And then the question says that we do this procedure in order to create dash that would reduce the amount off light reaching the earth. Okay, so we still don't know what this something is. Create what we are looking for. A noun. Our answer is going to be a noun, some sort of a thing. We want to find out. Create what? So let's keep reading on. I want to read the next sentence. This would involve using sulfur or hydrogen sulfide aerosols so that sulfur dioxide would form clouds which would in turn lead to a global dimming. All right, now I see some synonym language here, and I also see my answer. But let's go over this in the name language first, right here we have the word form. The word form is synonym language for create to form is the same thing as to create another synonym language. Here is global dimming global dimming is synonym language for a reduction in the amount off light reaching earth. So the light has tamed the amount of light reaching the earth has been reduced. So that is synonym language for global dimming. So right here we have our matching sentence. This where we have our answer. It says right here to create what do create clouds. So the correct answer is going to be clouds. Just put that in your answer sheet. And once we're done with answering this question, just put a number next to where you found the answer this way. Now we know that since we have the answer to question Number four in this line, the answers to their previous questions question number 12 and three are all going to come before this point. So let's move on to our other questions. Now let's move on to number one because I think that tiny spacecraft is another good keyword that we should be able to find relatively easily. So once you have the key words in the question in the sentence, then you would go back to the reading passage and you would start scanning for these keywords. So here we go. Let's gone for these keywords here. I see something about reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the planet. All right, that's that right there. Here we go. My nude spacecraft. Minute spacecraft, That is your synonym language for tiny spacecraft. All right. And then it says something about putting it above the earth above the earth. So we found a lot of different keywords. Relevant keywords. I'm, ah, very certain that we're going to find a rancher around here, So here we have our keywords. Spacecraft orbit light reaching the Earth also mentions amount of light reaching the planet over here as well. Here we have sending them language. It says employees up to 16 trillion employ up to 16 trillion. That's a huge number. 16 trillion. So to employ is synonym language for to put and large number is, well, 16 trillion. That's a whose number Here we have another use off synonym language. The word minute is synonym language for tiny, very small and finally to form a synonym language for to create. So here it tells us to form to create a dash. We're looking for something. It's going to be a noun to create something that would reduce the amount of light reaching the earth. So what could it be? Well, let's read this part right here because this is going to be our matching sentence. We're going to find our answer somewhere around here. So this sense reads, his scheme would employ up to 16 trillion minute spacecraft, each weighing about one ground to form a transparent some light refracting sun shade in an orbit 1.5 million kilometres above the earth. This good, argues Angel, reduced the amount of light reaching the earth by 2%. Okay, so we have found our answer. The answer is going to be sun shade to form what to form a transparent sunlight refracting sun shade. That is a noun something. Okay, so that's how the connecting words can help us. The connecting world is telling me that it's going to be something to create something. So the answer cannot be transparent, right? That's an objective. It can also not be sunlight refracting. That's also not a noun. It's an adjective. So the correct answer is sun shade. That is a noun so very useful to pay attention to these connecting keywords. So, um, in summary, what you got to do is locate the keywords in the reading passage, locate the synonym language, figure out what the matching sentences, and then just go back to your question and make sure that you know what the connecting words are asking you for. And then just find an answer that is going to fit into the black line like the perfect piece off jigsaw puzzle. Let's move on and filling our answer right here into the answer sheet. Sun shade. Keep in mind the answer has to be one word. The directions are very important. And finally, once you've answered the question, just put a number next to the line where you found the answer. All right, now here we have our last two questions. Question number two on number three. Now, this should not be very difficult for us to answer. I mean, we don't have great keywords here. We have placed play something in the sea. So we know that the actors going to be a noun, we have to. It has to be something in order to be placed into the sea. Ah, for number three, it's as to encourage dash to form, probably also going to be a noun to encourage something to form. So let's see what the answer to that is now. We don't have great keywords, but still is going to be relatively easy for us to answer these questions. Why? Because we already know where we found the acid to question number one on where we found the answer to question number four. So there's a very high probability that we're going to find the answers to Question number two and three in between our answers for number one and number four. So we're gonna go to our reading passage now on. Let's start scanning for these keywords. Place. See And courage, Aunt form. All right. Here I see the word Stimulate stimulate. Stimulate is synonym language for encourage and courage. Let's see what else. All right, so here I also see that inventions deposit deposit, So depositing is, ah synonym language for placing toe put or to place. So let's go ahead and start marking these in our reading passage. Depositing is going to be synonym language for place. Right here you'll see the word ocean, and that is synonym language for C. Now, technically speaking, ocean and sea are not the same thing, right? Oceans are much larger than sees, so they're not the same thing. But you have to keep in mind that when they use words like this, this is synonym language, so it can be a little bit flexible. The meaning doesn't have to be exactly the same. It just has to be very, very close to it. So be aware that they can use synonym language off this type. They can be a little bit more flexible with it. So here we have sent a name language again. And right here we have stimulate that synonym language for encourage on here. You'll see it mentions the word growth. To grow is synonym language for to form to form. So that is another Yusof synonym language there. So we found all of our key words here. We didn't actually find exact keywords for anything. Rather, we only found sending him language for each one off our keywords. So this is going to be our matching sentence right here. This is where we're going to find our answer. So let's go ahead and read this sentence now. The sentence says the majority off geo engineering projects so far carried out which include planting forests and deserts on depositing Iran in the ocean to stimulate the growth of algae, have focused on achieving a general cooling off the earth. All right, so place what into the sea deposit what? Into the ocean. Deposit iron into the ocean, deposit Iran in the sea. Okay. And then here we have stimulate the growth off what? Encourage what to form and courage. Algae to form. So the correct answers are ARN on RG. Put that into your answer sheet on Once you're done, you can put the question number next to the line where you found the answer. If there are more questions in the question set, if these happen to be the last questions in the question set that you're answering, then you don't have to do this. Awesome. So we are now done here on in the next two videos. I want to take you through practice questions for the table question type. I'll see you there. 20. Table: Practice Set 1: in this video, we're going to be going over practice at number one for the table question. So right here we have an example from the Cambridge Outs book Number eight on This is going to be reading passage number one. So let's start off by first reading that title sheet glass manufacturer The float process. All right, so now let's come down to our questions on. We can start off by first looking at the directions. In this case, we cannot write any more than two words. Onda Here we have to fill in our answer by writing it out. Now let's read the title here as well, just so we know what this question set is going to be about. Harris as early methods off producing flat glass. So we know it's going to be talking about methods, and here we can see as well in the titles up here. It says method advantages on disadvantages. So in this question set, we're going to be discussing two different methods on. We're going to be talking about the advantages on disadvantages for each one of thes methods, so we're going to start off by first. Marking are keywords, so here. We have something about class remaining. That's not a great keyword, but I'll go ahead and market anyway. Slow is a slightly better keyword down here. We have the word ribbon. So this way will be able to identify the method and then read around that area. So ribbon is a good keyword. Here we have something about producing glass sheets. I'm not sure how you sold this term is going to be glass sheets, because up here, we know that is talking about sheet glass. So the whole article is about that. So this may be a repetitive keyword, so I'm not gonna mark that. Rather, I'm going to look for something related to production. Something related to varying or different nonstop process. That's a good keyword. There we go. 20%. Now, that's a fantastic keyword. Anytime we have numbers proper announce. We love that. All right, now here we have something about the machines being expensive and ah, let's see. Do we have anything else? Glass rubbed away. 20% of the glass rubbed away. Okay, I think that that is a good start. You get started with looking for answers, so let's go ahead and look for these keywords. Keep in mind, we are looking for two specific methods. One of them has already mentioned ribbon. The other one we have to find out. And then we just have to look for a discussion regarding the advantages on disadvantages. Associate ID with these methods. So which one do you think is going to be the easiest keyword to find here? 20% right? That's the easiest one. So we can go ahead and put a check mark next to that if you like. You don't have to do that, but, ah, just to highlight the point that we like to do easy questions. First, I'm gonna put that there just to serve as a reminder for you. So let's look for this keyword 20% and let's see if we can also find these other keywords around that area. So here we go. We're gonna come up to the article and we're going to start scanning, so I'm looking for 20% looking for a number here. I see the word nonstop. I remember that there was something about nonstop in there, and I see 20% right here, 20% so I'm pretty sure We're going to find our answers somewhere around here. Let's be extra careful with scanning this area on looking for our keywords here, Here I see another key word ribbon ribbon process. In fact, because it talked about the method down here on DA right here is talking about the ribbon method. So I know that we're going to find our answers somewhere around there on DA over here, it mentions that the machines were very expensive. That is also one of our key words. Two of our key words machines and expensive. So we found that there as well. So we're going to find our answer around this area. So let's go ahead and read this sentence. We can start reading from up here. The first continuous ribbon process involved squeezing Morton glass through too hot rollers similar to an old mangle. This allowed glass off virtually any thickness to be made non stop, but the rollers would leave both sides of the glass marked on. These would then need to be ground and polished. This part of the process rubbed away around 20% of the glass and the machines were very expensive, rubbed away. I remember that that was another one of our key words rubbed away mentions that down here rubbed away. So now let's look at what the question is asking for. And let's see if we can answer these two questions here. So Number four says that the ribbon method could produce glass sheets off. Varying what varying What is going to be a noun on over here? It says this allowed class off virtually any thickness to be made nonstop. Okay, so any thickness, virtually any thickness. What is that? A Senate? Him for virtually any, virtually any is synonym language for varying that it could produce any type. Any variation. Okay, so could produce glass sheets off varying thickness thicknesses. The correct answer. So thickness is the answer for number four on. Once we have answered this question, what you can do is just put a number next to that spot. So this is where we found our answer thickness on. We can put number four next to this spot just so that we can locate the other questions more easily because these questions go in order. Most of the times, not all the time, but most of the times 80 to 90% of the times. Well, let's come down to number five. Number five says that the glass waas dash. So what was the glass we have to find out? And then down here says 20% of glass rubbed away. Machines were expensive. Now, right here we're talking about the disadvantages. Remember that? So we're talking about this advantages. So glass waas something bad, something negative. We have to find out what that disadvantage. Waas. So let's come back here to our discussion about the ribbon method. And let's find out what were the disadvantages. So right over here. It said that but the rollers would leave both sides of the glass marked, and these would then need to be crowned and polished. So that is a negative thing. That is a disadvantage. Because in the next sentence, it says that this part of the process it rubbed away 20% of the glass on it basically increased their costs because the machines were very expensive, so it increased their cost. So it already talks about that. Machines were expensive. All right, we got that taken care off. 20% of the glass rubbed away. Okay? It already mentions that as well. But what is not mentioned here? That's what we have to find out. What this advantage has not been mentioned over here. It says the rollers would leave both sides of the class marked. So here it talks about the advantage that this allowed class off or actually, any thickness to be made nonstop. That's great. That's an advantage. However, there is a downside. But the rollers would leave both sides of the glass marked. Okay, so that is going to be our other disadvantage, which the question has not mentioned down here. It does not mention the fact that the glass would become marked. So that is going to be our answer for number five, marked on While we are at it, we may as well also come over here and put a number next to the spot where we found the answer to number five. Great. So we have number four and number five over here. So the answers to numbers 123 have got to be up here, most likely, most likely. So we already talked about the ribbon method. Now let's find out what was the other method. And since we are looking for the other method method is also one of our key words. Okay, now we may not find the word method exactly. We may have to look for synonyms for the word method, but that is going to be one of our key words, because I already know that down here it talks about the ribbon method. So up here, I want to find out what method is a really talking about. So I'm going to start off there. I'm going to be looking for some sort of a method, a discussion on method. So let's just start here. All right now, over here, it mentions something about method. I'm not sure if that is going to be our keyword. Let's let's read it here for successful method for making clear, flat glass involved spinning. Okay, Imation's a little bit more about that method. Okay, so that is the only spot where it mentions Method. Harry talks about method, but it's not giving us the name off the method. So I believe the answer to question number question number one is going to be spinning because it's telling us here that the first successful method involved spinning so that is going to be our answer for question number one. So let's put Number one next to the spot where we found the answer. Let's come down here. Fill in the answer in your answer sheet, and then let's move on to number two and number three. So now our job has become a lot more easier because now that we have identified the method , we know the name off the method. We're talking about the spinning method. Now all we have to do is we have to find out what were the advantages associated with spinning on what were the disadvantages. So I should actually mark that here as well, because we may not find these keywords exactly as they appear over here. But we will still be able to find center names for these keywords. So that is probably something I should have marked at the beginning. But you get the idea. Mainly, you are looking for the key words by identifying what class they fall into. So we're looking at the columns and then we're holding in. We are tuning in to the keywords that are in the question themselves. So let's come back up to our reading passage and let's start looking for these pros and cons. All right, here we have the spinning method. Let's read this part. I'm pretty sure our answer is going to be around here so we can go ahead and read it. The first successful method for making clear, flat glass involved spinning this method was very effective. All right, now we have the word very effective. The phrase very effective on that is sending him language for an advantage. That is an advantage. So this method was very effective as the glass had not touched any surfaces between being soft on becoming hard, so it stayed perfectly unblemished with a fire finish. However, the process took a long time. Now we're talking about the disadvantage. However, there was some sort of a problem. The problem was that the process took a long time on was labour intensive. So right here we have the advantage. And down here we have the disadvantage. So let's come back down to our question and let's read it. Let's see what the question is asking us. The advantage waas that the glass remained dash. The disadvantage was that it was slow on what so We already know that it was slow because it used a synonym language here. It says that it took a long time. The process took a long time. That is, synonym language for being slow. The other disadvantage was that it was labour intensive, labor intensive. So that's going to be one of our answers. Because we are looking for two disadvantages. This one is the first disadvantage, and labor intensive is the second disadvantage. We are also looking for an advantage over here. It said that we have to look for an advantage. The advantage was that the glass remained what well, in missions that up here, it says the glass stayed. It stayed a certain way. The glass stayed perfectly unblemished, perfectly unblemished. So that's going to be our other answer. Okay, unblemished. You can also put perfectly unblemished. That is also fine. Both both those. Both of those options are fine, so let's just put our answers over here. Glass remained. You can put unblemished or perfectly unblemished because here you can write two words not more than two words. So it would be fine to also right perfectly here. That's completely up to you. The disadvantages for that. The process was slow on it. Waas Labor intensive. So there we go. We have now answered all of our questions for this set, and that brings us to the end off this video and the next one, I'll be taking you through a second practice set, so I'll see you there. 21. Table: Practice Set 2: here, There. In this video, we're going to be going over practice at number two. This example comes from the Cambridge aisles. Book number eight, Passage number three. So let's read the title here. Telepathy. Okay, so we know this article is going to be about telepathy, and this is not going to be a very useful key word for us because the whole article is going to be about telepathy. So we're going to keep saying that word over and over again. Now, over here we have a table question in which we're going to be answering questions related to telepathy experiments. So all of these are related to experiments. So experiments, maybe another key word that is going to be repetitive. All right, so a good way to go about answering this question set is by first paying attention to the heading the titles off each one of these questions. So here it says, name and date. So right here we have the names and the dates that are going to be related to our question . Those are going to be very good keywords for us to use names on dates. They're going to be very easy for us to find. Next. We have to give some sort of a description related to this name on date talk about the result and then the floor. The result in the floor. We're referring to experiments. The description of the experiment when it was conducted by whom it was conducted, what was the result off that experiment on what were the flaws? So let's start off by first. Marking are keywords. So right here we have Ganz failed on 1982 right here. We have auto guns felled on 1987. So why don't go back to my reading passage first? I'm going to look for these keywords and then around that area, I'm going to be looking for these other keywords, but I'm gonna try to find these ones first. So here we have something about a person acting in a certain way, picked out or picking out random selection, a random selection off four that's gonna be easy to find for that's another number, so that should be easy to find. And then something about identification here in the result we have the word hit raids that should also be easy for us to find and then random guessing in regard to flaws. We have two key word positive something that could be produced by certain factors. Down here, we have key tasks. Limit limits, something I'm not sure. Limit the amount off something that's probably going to be a noun in carrying out the tests . Okay. And then here we have results were then subjected to. Okay. The results were subjected to something, and then right here. What do we have? Different test results. Something about putting down to the fact that sample groups okay, sample groups can be a keyword or not. We're not something. So So let's go to our reading article now and let's look for these keywords. And then we can figure out, Ah, the answers to each one of these other questions. Guns failed. 1982 Auto guns Feld 1987. Here we go. I'm just scanning. Now, here I see the word guns Feld. I see the word guns fell, but I'm not going to market. Even though this is one of our key words. I'm not going to market because I'm looking for the word guns failed along with another key word, which is 1982. So my answer is going to be where I find both pieces of the information together. So I'm not just looking for cans felt. I'm looking for guns. Field studies carried out in 1982. So I want to see both of those keywords. So we're going to skip that. Guns felled. Let's see if we can find it in another place where we can also find the number. Here it appears again, guns felt. And here I have 1982. Okay, so this paragraph is going to be relevant to us on especially where it mentions guns failed around this area. So it mentions guns, felt studies here. It mentions hit rate. I remember that. That was one of our key words. What else? The word hit rates appears again over here and then something about putting down. Remember, we had something about that put down. Harris says that different test results was put down, so we did in market. But I remember that this was mentioned down here, so put down. All right, so we're going to be finding our answer somewhere around here. Check this out. It says four. Remember? That was another one of our key words for and I see the word hit right here. I also remember it mentioned something about identification. So this is a very relevant area. I think that we're going to be finding several off our answers around this area. So let's do this. Let's come down to our questions on Let's read our question. Let's read Number 31 let's read it all the way up until Number 33. So here is size. The description off this experiment involved a person acting as a dash who picked out one dash from a random selection of four so picked out one something that's going to be a noun from a random selection of four on a dash, who then tried to identify it. Let's see if we can find something related to this. Now here it's as over here I also see random selection. I'm gonna mark that because the keyword random selection did appear in one of our questions . Also, the word identification and then in nations guns felt here. It probably makes the most sense to start reading from over here because all of this area is going to be relevant. We're going to find several of her answers down here. That's what I think, based on all of the's keywords that we have found around this area. So let's start reading from here in early guns failed experiments. The telepathy test involved identification off a picture chosen from a random selection off . Four. There we go. The word four appears again. So we're going to find one of our answers over here on. I want to take you down to our question on Let's look at this question right here. Number 32. So someone picked out one dash from a random selection of four. Do you remember what the answer Waas picked out? What from a random selection of four. The correct answer is pictures. It says the test involved identification off a picture chosen from a random selection of four. So that's going to be one off one of our answers. The word picture. I believe that was the answer to question number 32. So I'm gonna write 32 right there and then let's read on here. It says the idea was that a person acting as a sender, So I remember this was another one of our key words. We had a question in which it talked about acting in a certain way, acting us so down here we have acting as you see that acting at right there, so we're probably going to find the answer to question number 31 in that line. So here it says, the idea was that a person acting as a sender would attempt to beam the image over to the receiver relaxing in the sealed room. Now, before I move on to answering this question, I want to point out one thing about question. Number 32. You'll notice that over here it talks about a picture identifying a picture out of a random selection of four. But in here it mentions the word image being the image over. And then it mentions image over here as well, but particularly over here, because here it talks about Image Bank. But right here it's using image as a synonym for the word picture, right? So when it comes to the answer to question Number 32 it's fine if you just put image or if you put a picture, both of them are going to be the correct answer now Let's continue reading this part over here because we found the answer to question number 31. It mentions that the idea was that a person acting as a center, so one person is going to be the sender. The other person who the sender resending to is the receiver who is receiving the image. So down here, question Number 31 says involved a person acting as someone who picked out one image right ? Picked out one image or one picture from a random selection of four from four pictures on someone Receiver who then tried to identify the receiver tried to receive the image and identify it. So let's start to put down our answers here. The correct answer is sender. Down here, the correct answer is you can put image or picture doesn't matter. And then over here, the correct answer is going to be a receiver. All right, so now I have already answered all of my questions related to the description. I don't care about the result because there are no questions there, but I do care about the flaw. I want to find out what was the flaw with this experiment. So let's read the question. It says positive results could be produced by factors such as dash or dash. So let's find out what the flaws were. So I'm gonna be looking for the word flaw or, ah, synonym language for the word floor. So I'm expecting to find the answer to question number 33 down here. Because remember, we found the answer to number 32 over here, and then the acid number 31 was actually over here. So probably going to be around this area because we are looking for questions 34 35. So we found 32 here. We found 31 also 33 in this line, and 34 is probably going to come after this point. I'm assuming that these questions are going in order. So I'm looking for the word floor or something related to flaw, some kind of a disadvantage. Here we go. Flaw. So there is our keyword. Yeah, I don't see anything else, so probably around there. That's probably around where we're going to find our answer. So let's read this area. In fact, let's do this. Let's not read it right now because we are specifically looking for these keywords. Once we have found a flaw. Now it makes sense to look for these other keywords, like positive results. Let's just look for the whole thing. Positive results and something about how they could be produced. So we're looking for positive results on something about produce. So let's just scan for positive. We have it right there. Positive results on something about produced. All right, So I don't see the US over here, Or maybe I've just missed it, but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna find my answers somewhere around here. So I'm going to start reading the sentence from over here. So here we go. Just because chance had been ruled out as an explanation did not prove telepathy must exist . There were many other ways of getting positive results. So remember guys were still talking about flaws. This is a further explanation of what? The flaw Waas. These ranged from sensory leakage, where clues about the pictures accidentally reached the receiver. So when something accidentally happens, that is a flawed or a mistake or some sort of a disadvantage. All right, so here we have the flaws which result from sensory leakage, because this could give us positive results in a wrong way, right? In a misleading way. It's giving us positive results when it shouldn't give those results. So it's saying that through sensory leak age, clues about the picture may be accidentally released, accidentally accessed by the receiver even when that is not intended. So that is the first flaw. I'm gonna put that in green because I see that as our answer. And then over here it says to outright fraud. So here is talking about the types of flaws the way in which the experiment was flawed. It says that positive results could be produced by factors such as. Such as what? What could create these positive results? While it tells us that right here, sensory leakage can create positive results on, so can outright fraud. So outright fraud is going to be our other answer. So those are going to be the answers for questions. 34 on 35. Let's come down here and let's just put that in here. So right here we have I'm gonna put it outside because the line is too small. So accessory leakage, and then the next 1 35 is outright fraud. You don't have to put the word out right if you don't want to. So I'm gonna put that in parenthesis because even if you don't include the word outright, your answer would still be correct. Here. It's fine if you give a one word answer or a two word answer because here you can write up to three words. So outright fraud or fraud, both of them are correct. Cool. So now let's move on down to our second study. It talks about auto guns. Feld 1987. Let's look for that first. And then once we have located this area, then we can look for these other keywords. I'm expecting to find that other keyword down here again. I'm assuming that these questions go in order. So I see the word auto guns felt here, and I also see 1987. So that is a key word. 1987 is our other key word again, off the guns felt here. Probably gonna find our answers in this paragraph. So now that I have located these main keywords and I've identified the paragraph now, it makes sense to go back down and start looking for these other keywords to really hone in to really tune in to that spot where we're going to find her answer to really own into our matching sentence. So now I'm going to be looking for keywords like key tasks limit different test results, put down sample groups, and, ah, let's see if we can find any of that. So here is our paragraph on here. It mentions something about key tasks. That was one of our key words. It talks about minimizing, and I remember that it talked about reducing in our washing over here. It talks about minimizing over here, and it also mentions minimize right here on this. This appears to me to be synonym language for limit, to minimize, something to restrict, something to limit something. Those are key words or sending them language for the keywords. All right, I'm not going to be looking anymore. I'm pretty sure our answer is going to be in this paragraph. What I'm gonna do is I'm just going to read this whole paragraph because I'm sure that we're going to find the answers to all of these questions in the same area. So let's read this question first it says Dash were used for key tasks to limit the amount of dash. So that's going to be something is going to be a noun amount of something in carrying out the test. So something was used to limit something. Okay, One thing was used to limit another thing. We just have to find out what that waas. So let's start reading from over here. After this, many researchers switch to auto guns. Felt tests an automated variant off the technique, which used computers to perform many off the key tasks, such as random selection of images by minimizing human involvement. The idea was to minimize the risk off flawed results. Do you see the answer? I already see it. So something was used to limit something else. What was used computers. Computers were used to limit what tells you right here to minimize human involvement to limit human involvement. So computers is one off our answers, and human involvement is the other. Something that was used to perform key tasks was used to limit something else. So right here, number 36 is computers on number 37 is human involvement. All right, now, all we have to do is number 38 39 40. Let's look at 38. It says. The results were then subjected to a dash, so the results were subjected to something. So this was a first step. And then when we got the results, we did something to the results. I want to find out. What do we do to the results? Once we already got the results. What do we do with them? So let's keep reading from over here. In 1987 results from hundreds of auto guns fell tests who are studied by Holberton in a meta analysis, a statistical technique for finding the overall results from a set off studies. So what the sentence is saying is that they took the results off. Hundreds of photographs felt test. They took hundreds off results and then they did something to the results. What did they do? Well, they put it through a meta analysis. They did a study in which they looked at all of the results and they tried to and they try to, and they tried to find the overall results from these sets off stuff. Overall results from this set of studies so once they got the results, what did they do? They did a matter analysis. The results were then subjected to a meta analysis. Now let's read Number 39. The dash between different test results was put down to the fact that sample groups were not dash, as with most guns fell studies. So over here we're talking about how there was a difference in the test results. Perhaps the test results did not match, but there was something that caused a difference in the test results. So I want to find that area. So first, let's go ahead and mark this as one of our answers matter, analysis on Let's keep reading on. Though less compelling than before, the outcome was still impressive. By the way, guys, I want to point something out. Remember that here again, we are looking for a flaw. So before I start looking for these keywords, what should I do? I should first look for the main keywords, the the overarching theme. What is a theme here? What is the classification while the classification is that this is a flaw. So I'm looking now for a flaw in the second experiment. So I'm looking for the word flaw, and I'm looking for other keywords related to flaw. So I want to find out what flaws or problems were. There were problems were there with this study. So I'm gonna be looking for that keyword. So I'm gonna start scanning now. Here it says, lack of consistency. Now lack of consistency can be a flaw, right? That's an example off a flaw. So let's see if we can find some more flaws, Harris says. Unlikely to be detected. That could be a flaw. Okay, so I have a feeling that is going to be around here. It talks about lack of consistency, and it's still talking about that second experiment. So that's probably going to be on the spot where where we find the different flaws. So now I'm going to be looking for those other keywords from the question keywords like guns felt, studies hit rates. Let's see. Okay, we don't have the word hit rates. That was before, so we don't care about that anymore. Different test results on sample groups, different test results, sample groups. Well, it talks about 40 people and it talks about a group, so I mean, that is talking about a sample group that is the group that did the study. Yeah, so we're probably going to find the answer somewhere around here. So let's start reading this. Let's start reading from over here. If, as current results suggest, telepathy produces hit rates, telepathy produces hit rates only marginally above the 25% expected by chance, it's unlikely to be detected by a typical guns felt study involving around 40 people. The group is just not big enough. Okay, so it's talking about the flaw with the study. It's saying that the group was simply not big enough. So the dash between different test results what was different between test results. First, let's look at that. What was different between the different test results? It mentions that right here some parapsychologist remain disturbed by the lack of consistency that is saying that there was too much difference in the test results. They weren't consistent. There was too much difference. So the correct answer for this one is lack of consistency. The lack of consistency between different test results was put down to the fact that sample groups were not what was wrong with the sample groups. What was wrong with it. It mentions that over here the group is just not big enough. They weren't big enough. So that's going to be our answer for that on this one is going to be one of our other answers. Okay, let's just put that in green on. There we go. So the correct answer here for Number 39 is lack of consistency, and then down here for number 40 the correct answer is we're not big enough. Great. So those are all of the answers? Andi, I hope that you now see how to answer the table question on what you have to do. They're pretty much like fill in the blank questions. A lot of the strategy is the same in that you have to identify the easy keywords, look for those keywords and then find Imagine sentence in the reading passage and answer your questions Very important. Always pay attention to the connecting words because the connecting words are going to tell you what the correct answer is on. What correct answer is going to be the right fit? Okay is it's like a jigsaw puzzle. Pieces have to fit together one off the most useful things to do with the table question is to start scouting for information based on the easy keywords first and then buy these titles up here because that's going to classify information for you. And so in sorting table questions, this information up here in the title can be really useful. So I hope that was helpful in the next video. We're going to be going over the next type of question. 22. How to Answer Diagram Questions: in this video, we're going to be talking about the diagram question one of my favorite questions, because this question is quite easy. Toe Identify, as you can see it says appear, label the diagram below on this question, pretty much works like a fill in the blank question on It's not a very difficult question. As you can see, it's at a medium level off difficulty on these questions go mostly in order. So that means that 80 to 90% of the times these questions are going to be an order. Now, let me give you a bit of explanation about this question type. It's mostly in order, so you already know that now on. Since this question is mostly in order, we're going to assume that it goes in order as mentioned before. This is not a difficult question type, so feel free to do this at any point. I would probably start off with the easy questions forest, then move on to something like this. And then, finally, I would move on to the difficult questions at the end. Now, one thing to note about this question type is if you get a question set in which two questions appear right next to each other. Then there order may be reversed. So we saw the same thing happened with table questions. So I talked about how in a table question if there are two questions right next to each other than the order may be reversed. So the same thing is true for the diagram question as well, on just to clarify that point a little bit more. What I mean is that these questions are pretty much going to go in order almost all of the times you know most of the times, so you can expect to find the answer to question number three after the answer to Question number two, right, So the answer to question number one comes first. Then comes the answer to Number two on Finally, the answer to Number three. But what can happen is that if you get two questions that are right next to each other, then it's possible that the order is reversed. So, for example, the answer to number three might come right before the answer to number two. So that is what I mean. Next point to note is that generally speaking, diagram questions that appear in passage. One are very likely to go in order, very likely to go in order almost all the time. But when it comes to Passage three, you must know that the level of difficulty increases as you move from one passage to the next. So, naturally, Passage three is supposed to be much more difficult than passage number one. So if you find a diagram questioning Passage three and I should point out that not just a diagram question but when you see a question that is mostly in order, if you see a question like this than in Passage one, it's very likely to go in order almost all the time. But if the same question appears in Passage three, then you can expect that the question is probably not going to be in order. Not in all the questions, but in some questions. You can expect the order to be, Ah, swished up a little bit now with diagram questions. Often times we're going to receive a title. There's going to be a title right above the diagram. This doesn't always happen, but often times it happens. So if this happens, if you end up getting the title than this can be useful information for you to locate the matching paragraph and to locate the matching sentence as well. So we're going to see an example of that very soon, so I'll talk more about that in just a bait. Now these questions are similar to fill in the blank questions. You already know that. I mean, you have a diagram, but the structure of the question is still the same. You have the question, and there's a blank line that you have to figure out the answer for on. Like always. This question is also formed from only 1 to 2 sentences in the reading passage, and the last thing for you to know is that this is an English test, so you might get a diagram that describes a certain process. Or maybe it seems to be talking about some very technical stuff. But regardless of that, keep in mind that it doesn't matter what the diagram is about. You do not need to have any background knowledge on any subject other than English, so this is an English test on it Doesn't matter what the diagram is about, as long as you can understand the English language. As long as you can look for the keywords and the synonym language, it's going to be pretty easy for you to answer the questions because all the answers are going to be in English in the reading passage. Now let's go over the basic strategy. Now you've seen this basic strategy several times by now, so we don't have to go into a lot of detail. But I show you this here just to highlight the fact that for the diagram question, you're going to be using this same strategy that you've used before. For example, when you did the fill in the blank questions, So we're doing exactly the same thing. We are marking the key words here. Take note that you might find some useful keywords in the title off the question set. Next, you need to identify what are the easy questions? Put a check mark next to that Look for those keywords in the reading passage. Along with the synonyms, find the connecting words. It's important to pay attention to connecting words whenever you have questions like the fill in the blank because the words that are around the blank the words that come before the blank line and the words that come after the black line. Those words are going to tell you what is the correct answer that is going to fit into that blank line. Finally, once you've answered the question, just put a number next to the matching sentence. So you know where you found the answer to each question. Now, I'd like to show you some examples on for this example. I'd like to show you this question set. Now, here I've only selected three questions. There were more questions associated with the sky, Graham, But here just to show you how it works, I've chosen to talk about these three questions. So we're going to start off by first looking at the diagram and reading what the diagram is about. This title is helpful. So it says how a boat is lifted on the Falkirk wheel. All right, so that's some kind of a technical description. We don't need to know what that is. The article will tell us that the next thing to keep in mind is pay attention to this direction. Up here, it tells you that you can only choose one word. So that's very important. Because if you don't follow this simple direction, then it tells the Examiner that you don't understand English because it's asking you to put an answer. That is one word. And if you put an astronaut is two words, well, you're gonna get it marked wrong. So always pay attention to these directions. Next thing, let's go ahead and mark some keywords, some useful keywords from the title. So right here we have keywords lifted on Falkirk wheel. We could also mark boat, but actually, I know that this entire article is going to be talking about the Falkirk wheel and it's going to be talking about the boat, so I'm not sure how useful these keywords will be, but still, I've marked them anyway. It's just in case. The key words in the title may be useful. Not always. Okay, they can be just repetitive. Use less keywords. That's also possible. But sometimes they can be helpful to identify the paragraph because usually all of these questions are going to be taken from one or maybe two paragraphs most of the times because within that one or two paragraphs is going to describe how this machine functions or whatever other diagram they have is going to describe that to you within one or two paragraphs, so these keywords can be helpful. But be careful because you don't want to go around hunting for repetitive keywords. Now the next thing that we're going to do is we're going to start marking the keywords in each one of thes questions. So keep that in mind. Diagrams are useful because they can help you to identify the correct matching paragraph for two reasons. One, because they can have titles that can help you to locate that paragraph. Also, you might just look at the diagram and on. Oftentimes, the diagram itself can reveal enough information to tell you which paragraph is going to contain the answers for the diagram that you have. Now, let's move on. Let's start to mark some of our key words in the question. So we're going to start off with number 20 here. We have key words like taken out on real and also rotate. Now. Well, I've marked that here, but actually, I'm not sure how useful this keyword is going to be because this entire article happens to be about the Falkirk wheel. So I'm expecting to see that word repeat throughout the article. So I'm not sure how useful is going to be, but I've went ahead and marked it anyway. But you can also just leave it out now. Here we have much better keywords. Here we have the number 11 meters on here. We have a proper noun Union canal. I've also marked these other keywords like rays and level. Those can be helpful, but I'm not going to be looking for these ones as much as I'm going to be looking for these ones, the number on the proper noun. Finally, for question number 22 we have the keywords pair lifted. Shut out water on Canal Basin. So the best keywords just to refresh your memory are going to be numbers and proper now's. But keywords can also include other types of now owns. It can include words on adjectives as well, so it's still good to be on the lookout for the other keywords. But of course, we're going to start off by answering the easy questions first. Now which question do you think is going to be the easiest one for us to answer. Naturally, it's going to be number 21 because these hair are very easy keywords. So we're going to start off by first answering question Number 21. Let's put a check mark next to that. Now, the next thing that I want you to pay attention to are the connecting words. They're very important on the connecting words are right here. They're boxed in in the red color. Okay, those are all connecting words. Those are words that appear before and after the black line. They're going to tell us which piece of the puzzle is going to be the right fit for each one of thes questions. Now let's go ahead and start to answer this question set. I want to start off by answering number 21. So here we go. So once you have located the matching paragraph at this point, you would start to scan the reading passage for these keywords. Then, once you have located the matching paragraph for this diagram, then you can start to look for keywords for each one of thes questions. Once you have located the key word for a certain question at that point, what you need to do is you need to check in, read the question and make sure that the answer that you have chosen for this blank line fits perfectly like a jigsaw puzzle into this sentence. So keep that in mind. Connecting words are just as important as keywords. Now let's go ahead and start to answer these questions. We're going to start off by answering number 21 1st and then we'll come back to these other questions. Here we go. Here is question number 21 dash raised boat, 11 meters to level off Union Canal. Well, it tells us that something is going to raise the boat, that something has to be a noun. So we would come to our reading passage at this point on once we have located. Hopefully we have located the matching paragraph. By this point now, sometimes you may not have been able to successfully locate the matching paragraph. If that's the case, that's fine. Just try to look for the best keywords from your question. In that case, so right here I'm scanning my reading passage and I see the word 11 meters. So there is one of our key words on reading on I see it Mentions left left is a synonym for race. Right here It says Union Canal. So I found my proper down there. So I'm pretty sure I'm going to find my answer somewhere around here. So here are my main keywords right here. I'm pretty sure is where I'm going to have my matching sentence. This where I'm going to find the answer right here. As mentioned before lift Needed is synonym language for raise the boat synonym language. Over here we have another use off sending language. It says to reach that is synonym language for level two level is synonym language for to reach. So let's go ahead and read this sentence from our passage. It says the remaining 11 meters off left needed to reach the Union Canal is achieved by means off a pair off locks. So what raises the boat? 11 meters. What? What does that while it tells you right here, it's achieved by means. Suffer pair off locks. A pair off locks do that. So the correct answer here is pair off locks, pair of flocks. But be very careful because in the directions, it says that we can only choose an answer that has one word. So the answer can only have one word. So I'm not going to put pair off locks. Rather, I'm just going to put locks. So that's going to be our answer. I'm gonna fill it into my answer sheet. And once I'm done answering the question, I'm gonna put the question number next to that MACHIN sentence. So I found the answer to number 21 right here. So now I know that the answer to question number 20 My next question is going to come before that line where I found the answer to number 21 is going to come before that. So this question says a pair off dash are lifted in order to shut out water from Canal Basin. A pair of again, we have something some sort of a noun. A pair of something are lifted in order to shut out water. So let's find out what that something is. We're gonna come to our reading passage on at this point, I would locate, actually where I found the answer to question number 21. And then I would start looking for the answer to number 20 right before that that's what I would do. So right here, we're going to start scanning for these keywords. Let's see if we can find something right here, as he lifted mentioned. Start over here. So there's one of our key words here. I have Canal Basin right there. It mentions. Let's see what else? While it mentions 22 off something to hydraulic steel gates that is sending him language for pare Pare, that is synonym language, too. Right here, it says, raised that is also sending them language for lifted, so mentions lifted here. It also mentions it here, and then it says so as to seal the gondola off. So to seal off is the same thing as to say, to shut out. That is synonym language as well. Here it mentions water. We call water right here, and then it mentions canal basing here once again. So those are our key words. I feel that our answer is definitely going to be somewhere around here. Let's go ahead and mark thes key works. So water and canal basing Those are the two main keywords that I'm looking for. Also, I want to mark this word here because this is sending them language for pair that is sending him language. I also want to mark other words that are sitting them Language, for example. Raised is synonym language for lifted on to seal or to seal off is synonym language for to shut out. So this right here is going to be our matching sentence. This is where we're going to find our answer, most likely. So let's go ahead and read this sentence. Now it says to hydraulic steel gates are raised so as to seal the gondola off from the water in the canal basin. So a pair off what are lifted, what are lifted? It's gotta be a noun. Well, the answer is a pair off hydraulic steel gate, hydraulic steel gates. That's the answer. But then again, we can only write one word for our answer. So if we can only choose one word, the answer is going to be Gate Gates is the answer. We're gonna fill that into our answer sheet, and then we're gonna put the number off the question next to the matching sentence. Great. So we're now done with this one as well. Let's knock out our final question number 22. The question says a dash is taken out, enabling wheel to rotate. So again, this is going to be a noun because or something something is taken out. So it has to be a thing. It has to be a noun. So let's come to our reading passage on organise start to scan for these keywords. Here we go. All right, I see that it mentions pumped out that is, synonym language for taken out to take out to pump out to remove. Those are synonym words. Let's see what else. All right here it says to turn that a synonym language for rotate to turn. Here it mentions rotate again Here it mentions it again. Rotate twice on da Yeah, I think that that said, I also see wheel. The word wheel appears a couple times, so that's that right there. So let's go ahead and mark these keywords now. Well pumped out. Moving Ah, could be related to rotating that could be sitting in language. You're here. It mentions, rotate. Here we have the synonym language to turn here we have removed. Removed is also synonym language for taken out so pumped out removed, taken out Oh, they're talking about the same thing on the next synonym Ward Here is allowing allowing a synonym language for enabling to enable is to allow. And finally, we have the word to turn that is synonym language for rotate. So I'm pretty sure I'm going to find my answer somewhere around here that is going to be my matching sentence. So let's go ahead and read the sense. Now it says, Ah, hydraulic clamp which prevents the arms off the wheel moving while the gondola is docked, is removed, allowing the wheel to turn. So something is taken out, which allows the wheel to turn to rotate What is taken out? What is taken out? Mentions out right here. Ah, hydraulic clamp. That is what is taken out. So the correct answer is going to be clamped. This is a one word answer. So not hydraulic clamp, but rather clamp only clamp. So we're gonna fill that into our answer sheet, Gonna put the number next to the matching sentence on we are all done. I hope that you can now see how to answer this type of question. I hope that you also see that there is a lot of stuff that is similar. The strategy is very similar to other variations off the fill in the blank questions. So in the next two videos, I want to take you through some practice questions, and I want to show you how to do the diagram questions in a little bit more detail. 23. Diagram: Practice Set 1: here we are at practice at number one for the diagram question. This time we're going to be taking an example from the Cambridge aisles book Number eight Test number one. This is reading passage number one. So the question set is going to be a little bit easier on Remember that when we have mostly in order questions. For example, the diagram question is an example off, mostly in order. Question. So when we have questions that are mostly in order, if these questions appear in reading passage number one, then they're more likely to go in order as opposed to. If they appear in reading passage Number three, then they are more likely to be a little bit disordered. All right, so let's start answering this question set. We're going to start over here at the top with the title, a chronicle off timekeeping. So it seems that is going to be talking about the history of time, things related to how we keep time. It's probably gonna talk about clockwork and so on. So now that we have a general idea off what this article is going to be about, let's move on down to our question set on. Let's start off by reading the directions. It says. Choose no more than two words. So each one of our answers can only be two words or less, but not more. Let us also read this title. The titles off the diagram can be very helpful in helping us to identify the matching paragraph. So the title says how the 16 70 lever based device worked so right away in the title, I see that we have an excellent keyword. We have a number here 16 70 that is going to be very easy for us to find. I also see Lever based that one I'm not so sure about. But 16 70 is definitely a good keyword. So we're going to use these keywords to identify the paragraph that is going to contain our answers. The paragraph that talks about how this device worked because most of the times in the diagram questions the question set is going to come from only one paragraph and maybe two paragraphs, but most of the times is going to come from one main paragraph. So what we're going to do is we're going to be scanning are reading passage for these keywords in order to locate our matching paragraph. Then once we have found the right paragraph that talks about this diagram, then in that paragraph, I'm going to start scanning for keywords from the question. For example, Here I have the word escape mint down here. I have beat on here. I have arc. So those are some decent keywords. We don't really have any keywords for number 10 and number 11. So those ones will have to, um, look for the answers for by trying to look for send names for what this diagram represents . For example, right here I see some sort of a sharp gear that is turning that seems to be turning. So we're gonna have to search the paragraph to look for language that describes thes features off the diagram. So we'll get to that soon. Right now, I want to first find my matching paragraph by using these keywords. So let's start to look for 16 70 then, um will also look for Lever based around that area once I have already found 16 70. So here we go. Let's start from the very top. So I am scanning for 16 70 see a bunch of numbers there, but nothing about 16. 70. Still scouting. Here we go. 16. 70. Great. So now that we have located this keyword, I also want to look for our other keyword liver based. So I'm only looking for this other keyword after locating my main keyword or my easy keyword. So here I see liver based I remember that I mentioned escape mint in one off the questions . Let's see what else Over here, it mentions tooth tooth. And I know that tooth is ah referring to this to the sharp shape over here to the sharp shape on the wheel. It's probably referring to that, Um, because that is a description off what this diagram is showing us. I also want to look for this other keyword beats and then for this keyword arc. So let's also look for those in our paragraph. This has made our job so much simpler now because now that we have located the key word from the title, we have basically located the entire paragraph in which we're going to find all of your answers. So that's why it can be very helpful to look for the matching paragraph first by paying attention to the keywords from the title. And once you have located that matching paragraph, then you could come into that paragraph and you can start to look for keywords from the questions themselves. Over here, it mentioned something about the wheel, which I know could be a description for what we saw in the diagram. Let's see it mentions Escape Meant Here again. It mentions that small arc. I remember that that was another one of our key words, and here it mentions, Beat beat. So since we have so many answers in this paragraph, obviously it makes sense to read this entire paragraph. So feel free to do that. You can just go ahead and read this entire paragraph. What I would suggest, though, is probably by going through this paragraph question by question, rather than reading the whole thing at once. You can do that if it works for you, but I think that it would be better to come down to the question itself. So what I mean is answer each question one after the other. So, for example, what I would do in this case is I would start off by first answering question number nine because I already see the word escape mint. So that's going to be easy to find. The answer for number 10 and 11 are going to be a little bit trickier. I mean, it's gonna be still simple. It's all in the same paragraph. But number nine is going to be more easier because it already has. The key word that we're looking for on the same thing is true for number 12. Okay, so I'm gonna answer number nine. Then I'm going to answer number 12 and then also number 13 as well. Number 12 and 13. They go together. So number 9 10 number 12 then number 13 on. Finally, I'm going to answer number 10 and 11. So that's how I'm going to go about this. So let's start off with escape mint. So I'm gonna first read this sentence. I'm gonna start up here because it also mentions escape mint right here. So let's start reading from here to address this of variation on the original escape mint was invented in 16. 70 in England. It was called the Ankara Escape Mint, which was a liver based device shaped like a ships anchor. All right now, let's come down to our question here it says. Escape mint resembling, resembling that is one of our connecting words. Resembling is synonym language for shaped like to be shaped, like or to look like is synonym language for to resemble. So the liver based device resembled what what was a shaped like? Well, it says here it was shipped like a ships anchor ship's anchor. So that is going to be our correct answer for Number nine ship's anchor on. Since I have found my answer to number nine here, I'm gonna put Number nine right there. So the escape meant resembled what it resembled. Ship's anchor. You can put ship's anchor, or you can also just put anchor. That would also be the correct answer. Here you can have a one word answer or a two word answer. So anchor or ship's anchor, both of those are correct answers. Now let's move on down to number 12 where it mentions Beat on the question, says a dash. There's going to be something. A noun, a dash, which beats each each What? Let's find out. We have the word beat down here, so let's read this sentence, it says. Moreover, this invention allowed the use off a long pendulum, which could beat once a second. There we go, the long pendulum that could beat once a second. And then it mentioned some other stuff and thus led to the development of a new floor standing case design, which became known as the Grandfather Clock. All right, we don't care about that. We've already found our answer over here. That is our matching sentence for question number 12. So let me take you down to the question one more time. A dash, which beats each second, right? What beats each second are long. Pendulum beats each second, and that's what it's showing you over here. See, this is a diagram off a pendulum. This is a pendulum on it is swinging from left to right from one side to the other side. Or it is moving in a rhythm, a rhythm that has a beat per second. It moves wants per second. So over here, the correct answer is going to be pendulum on once a second. Now, just to let you know, over here it says a long, pendulum long pendulum. So if you want to include the word long. That is also fine. You can have a two word answer. So it doesn't matter if you write long pendulum or trust pendulum. Both of those are going to be the correct answer. Now, I'm gonna put number 12 next to this line, since that is where I found the answer to question number 12. Andi, I'm going to come down here and I'm gonna fill that in here. A long pendulum or just pendulum. They're both correct along pendulum, which beats each second. So number 12 on number 13 also gonna put that in there. Great. So we have found the answer to number nine over here and the answers to 12 and 13 over here . So the most likely scenario right now is that we're going to find our answers for question number 10 on 11 in between these lines right here somewhere. So let's read this number tens as that. This is the what It's going to be a noun, and this is also going to be a noun. It's asking us what are these things called? They want you to take a look at the picture. They want you to look at the diagram and then select the correct language to describe these features to describe this equipment. So right here, this big part? Well, it looks like some sort of a wheel, something that rotates something round. So I'm going to be looking for synonyms for something round, something like a wheel or a gear. I'm gonna be looking for words like that. And then over here, number 11 this looks like something sharp. Ah, something triangular, perhaps. And, Ah, something like a teeth. It looks like a sharp teeth on an object. So I actually already see some language about that in here. I see that it mentions tooth, which is something sharp. And here it mentions wheel. So I have a feeling I'm gonna find my answer somewhere around there is probably going to be my matching sentence. So I'm going to start reading this sentence over here. The motion of the pendulum rocks this device so that it catches and then releases each tooth off the escape wheel, in turn allowing it to turn a precise amount. All right, so it's mentioning the sharp object, which is the tooth on the round object, which is the escape wheel. Well, that means that this is going to be our answer. Tooth is going to be one off our answers. I'm gonna put that in green on wheel is going to be another answer. So right here for the other answer, you can put wheel, or you could just put escape wheel. Both of those are going to be correct. So let's come down to our question. This part is the wheel you can put wheel or you can put escape wheel. Both of those are going to be correct. And then this part over here is called the tooth. All right, it's called the tooth Guys, I want to point out to you one thing. It's a mistake that sometimes students make, which is that instead of writing the word tooth as the answer, they might put the tooth see, if you do this, then your answer is going to be marked wrong. The reason is that the word the already appears over here so you don't have to rewrite it. Don't write it again. The same thing is true for Number 10. If there is a certain word that already appears before the blank lines such as the or UH, then don't write that in the answer choice that's going to make your aunts or wrong. So only put the relevant answer. The correct answer on Don't put extra words that don't belong great. So we are now down with this question set. We have answered all of these questions, and I hope that you have a better understanding of how to go about answering the diagram question just to summarize everything for you. What you have to do is you have to locate the matching paragraph by either looking at the diagram. You can guess the description off the diagram if there is no title. But if you do have a title than that's fantastic, because oftentimes you can use the keywords from the title to locate your imagine paragraph . Once you locate the matching paragraph, then you have to locate the key words from each one of these questions and then just start to answer these questions by starting off with the easy ones first. So that's a for this one. In the next video, I'm going to be taking you through practice. Set number two. I'll see you there 24. Diagram: Practice Set 2: all right. Now, in this video, we're going to be looking at practice That number two for the diagram questions. This example comes from the Cambridge. I'll spoke number eight, Test number four. Here we have reading passage. Number three on our article is going to be about collecting on specimens. So now that we have read the title off our reading passage, let us come down to our question set on. Let's look at our diagram. What is it about? So right over here we see the title for the diagram. It talks about the one method of collecting ants. So this is going to be a certain method here that is being described a method for collecting ants. So what we have to do is, first of all, we have to locate our matching paragraph in the entire reading passage. We have to locate that one paragraph in which we're going to find the answers to all of the's questions. So in order to locate our matching paragraph, we can start off by first marking our key words in the title. So let's go ahead and mark these keywords method on collecting ants. So we're looking specifically for a method for collecting ants on. Once we have located this matching paragraph, then we can start to scan for the other keywords that appear here, in the question or in the diagram here in the question. We don't have any keywords. We only have the word funnel, which appears once over here, and that is not a question, but still, this keyword is going to help us toe identify the matching paragraph. Now, In this case, this keyword funnel is especially important because you'll notice that here in the title are keywords are method and collecting ants on. To be honest, I don't really think that these key words are going to help us very much because you might remember from the title of this article that the whole article is about collecting. Add specimens collecting on specimens, so collecting ants is going to be a repetitive keyword on the word method I'm not sure about. But this could also be a repetitive keyword because since the whole article is talking about collecting ounce, it might be talking about many different types of methods. So you have to be mindful that these keywords may or may not help you to locate the matching paragraph, but that is the first step. You have to be able to locate the matching paragraph. It's very important in order to answer the rest of these questions in time. So what I'm going to do is first, I'm going to be looking for these keywords from the title method on collecting ants on DA. Let's see how that works out for us. If I'm not able to find these words or if or if these words appear too many times, then I'm going to start looking for this keyword funnel. Okay, so method collecting ants on funnel. So here we go. I'm gonna start scanning now. Okay, I see something. While collecting aunt here, it mentions an exhaustive survey that is a synonym language for method that is one example off a method exhaustive survey that could be a method here. It mentions method again. Let's see where else hear it mentioned something about collecting specimens here it talks again about collecting her mentioned method. So what it looks like to me so far is that the keywords method on collecting, collecting aunt, those are not very useful keywords. They seem to be repetitive I found that here in the first paragraph here again in the second paragraph on. To be honest, I wouldn't really be surprised if the's keywords appear again and again throughout the rest of these paragraphs. So what I'm going to do is, instead of looking for these repetitive keywords, I'm going to look for the key word funnel. The key word funnel appears here in the question. It appears here as a label describing a certain step or a certain requirement for this method. So let's look for this keyword. I think that this is going to be much easier to find in comparison to our repetitive keywords. So let's scan for funnels. I don't see it there. I don't see it here, either. Nothing there. Here we go, funnel. So the word funnel appears over here. And then once you have located this keyword from the question, then you can double check this paragraph for these keywords from the title to make sure that you have the correct matching paragraph. Now that I have located this keyword, I'm going to confirm by checking the keywords from the title. And generally speaking, I also want to look for the description off the diagram. Does it seem that this paragraph is describing the diagram? So here I do feel that it is describing the diagram because right here, I see we have a keyword leaf litter and I see some debris here, debris or leaves. So it seems to be talking about that paragraph here. It mentions leaf litter and here is talking about method. So it does seem to be the correct paragraph here. It mentions Funnel again collecting over here and here is talking about ants. So I'm pretty sure that we're going to find our answers in this paragraph. So the question now is, Where do we start? Where do we start? Do we just read the whole paragraph, or do we go through these questions one by one? Well, in this case, you could just read the whole paragraph because we don't really have many keywords in the questions, right? There are no keywords in the questions, and ah, we have located the correct imagine paragraph. So it makes sense to just read the whole paragraph. So let's go ahead and do that. Many ants are small and forage primarily in the layer of leaves and other debris on the ground. Collecting these species by hand can be difficult. One of the most successful ways to collect them is to gather the leaf litter in which they are foraging on extract the ants from it. This is most commonly done by placing leave later on a screen over a large funnel, often under some heat. Okay, now here is talking about one off our, um, one of the descriptions for the diagram. So I'm pretty sure that this is where we're going to find one off our answers or maybe even more. But see, you could have just started immediately from this sentence as well. So right here we noticed that we found the keyword funnel. So if you wanted, you could have just started reading From this point onwards, what we chose to do instead is we just started reading the whole paragraph. That is also fine. But if you wanted, you could also start with the key ward and then work your way from there. Both methods are fine for this example. So here it says that this is most commonly done by placing leaf later on a screen over a large funnel. So here we have a funnel and over a large funnel. What we have is leaf litter on a screen. So 39 is the screen. 39 is the screen, and on top of the screen, it says we have the leaf litter. So the answer to 38 is leaf litter. 39 screen tells you that write here that we have to place the leaf litter on the screen on the screen is on the large funnel. So let's go ahead and highlight these answers. Leaf litter and the other answer is screen. So let's mark those two on DA. Let's continue reading on it says as the leaf litter tries from above. Aunts on other animals move downward and eventually fall out the bottom and are collected in alcohol placed below the funnel. So what is placed below the funnel? Here is the funnel. What is below the funnel? Number 40. The answer is going to be alcohol. It tells you that right here they fall out the bottom and are collected in alcohol and the alcohol is placed below the funnel. Great. So now that we have answered these questions, we only have number 37 remaining on. We basically have to figure out what goes above the funnel above everything, because there's something that is above everything below this thing. We have the leaf litter, the screen, the funnel and the alcohol. But what is at the very top? Let's look for the answer to that. So here it talks about what is placed below. Now I want to find out what is placed above what is placed about what I'm looking for. Keywords related toe above. Placed above. Here, it's as placing it above. So here it mentions a method of improving the catch when using a funnel is to sift the leaf litter through a course screen before placing it above the funnel. So here is not talking about completely above the funnel. It's not talking about all the way above. Rather is just talking about on this portion above the funnel, as in what is sitting on top of it on. We already know what sitting on top of it is a screen and on top off the screen. We have the leaf litter, but what is above that? So this portion right here does not answer that question, so I don't see that here. Rather, what I see is over here in this line. It mentions that the leaf litter has to dry. It's as above right here. So what is telling us is that the leaf litter has to dry from above. It has to drive from above. So how is it going to dry? Well, it mentions that in the previous sentence, it mentions that the leaf litter, which is on the screen over a large funnel, is under some heat, some heat. That is how the leaf litter dries from above. It dries under some heat, so that is going to be the correct answer for Number 37. Some heat. That is how the leaf litter tries. Great. So those are all of our answers for this question set in the next video, let us look at the next type of question. 25. How to Answer Flowchart Questions: look at that. You made it so far. You're now about to learn how to answer the flow charts. Question type. So in the flow chart question type. What you have is one question or statement followed by the next, which is then followed by the next and the next and so on. And basically what you have to do is you have to complete this sequence off information. For example, right here we seem to have a question that is describing the life off Freya Stark. It tells us when she was born than what happened in her life next and then what happened after that and so on. So here we basically have a sequence off information, and in this case we have a chronology. It's telling us what happened in someone's life event after event, but this could also be a process. This flow chart could be describing a process of some sort that is also possible, so the way to identify these questions is very simple. The first thing you will notice is that here it's as complete a flow chart below, and then over here, you can see that you basically have a sequence off things happening one after the other. Now this question is pretty simple. It's easy to answer, as you can see here by the green dot on this question, it goes mostly in order. So now let me give you for the explanation about this question type. So just to reiterate my previous point, these questions go mostly in order on whenever you have a question that goes mostly in order, you have to assume that it goes always in order. Okay, just assume that because 80 to 90% of the times it will go in order and as mentioned before , these questions are pretty easy to do. As with the rest of the questions that you have seen so far, this question is also formed from only 1 to 2 sentences in the reading passage. Now the correct answer, just like in the fill in the blank questions, the correct answer is going to connect to the words that come before the black line on or after the blank line. So always pay attention to these connecting words because they are going to tell you whether the answer that you have picked actually fits in the sentence or not. So in that sense, these questions are similar to fill in the blank questions. There are also similar toe diagram questions because in diagram questions, you pretty much have the same thing. You're gonna have blank lines, and you have to fill them out by looking at the keywords and by looking at the connecting words as mentioned before the flow chart question can describe process or a sequence of events. Finally, you have to be able to scan the passage on understand synonym language. This is, after all, an English test. So the ability to scan the passage and locate the keywords and also the synonym words for those keywords is a very important skill to have. Now, let me talk about the two different types of directions that you might see when it comes to this question type. So here is type number one in type one. You may be asked to complete the flow chart using words from the box. So right here you have the box on in the box. You have a bunch of answer choices. Now what you have to do is simply pick the answer choice on match it to the correct question Sometimes it might happen that you have more as her choices than the questions, in which case one of the answer choices will not be used. If, on the other hand, you have less answer choices on Mawr questions than that means that one or two of these answer choices are going to be used twice. Now here is type number two. In type number two. You have to write out your answer in the text format. It tells you right here how many words you can write. In this case, you cannot write any more than one ward no more than one word. And over here in the black line, you have to write that answer. So that answer goes into the black line, which we're going to fill in into your answer sheet so very similar to fill in the blank questions as you've seen before. Now here is the basic strategy. I'm not going to go over this basic strategy step by step, because you already know this by now. The first thing you have to do is mark the keywords than identify the easy questions. Then look for the key words for the easy questions in the reading passage. You have to scan for these keywords and also scan for synonym language. Once you have located the matching sentence and once you think that you have found your answer, then you have to double check with a question on Make sure that your answer connects to the connecting words. The answer has to fit into the black line. Finally, once you have answered the question, then just put the number off the question next to the area where you found the answer in the reading passage. This way, it will be easier for you to locate the rest of the answers. Now, let me show you some examples off how to answer this type of question. So for this example, we're going to be looking at this question right here. So here we only have two questions Number one and number two on here. We have a sentence which is related to our question said. But it is not a question in and off itself, but it has useful keywords which can help us to identify the matching paragraph. So the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to read the directions up here. It's very important to know how many words your answer needs to be so right here. It tells us that our answer needs to be no more than three words. The next thing that we're going to do is we're going to start marking are keywords now. It's very useful to mark the key words in the title. Because the title can tell you where the mashing paragraph is in the reading passage, for example, we know that this entire question set is going to be talking about the production process. So once I find this keyword in my reading passage, there is a good chance that I'm going to find the answers for my questions within that same paragraph. But you do have to be careful, though, because sometimes what can happen is that the key words that you find might be a repetitive keywords or a use less keyword. Because remember, anytime you have a key word that appears again and again throughout the reading, passage is going to be repetitive and therefore useless. So you have to make sure that the keyword in the title is not a repetitive keyword. Only then can it be really helpful. Now, once you have marked the key words in the title, you can then move on to marking the keywords in the rest of these sentences. So let's go ahead and do that Now, here in this sentence, I have two keywords editorial headquarters on journalists. Now you will notice that right here we have a keyboard newspaper. The reason why I have not marked this keyword is because this is a repetitive keyword. The whole article is going to be about newspaper. So this keyword is going to appear again and again throughout the reading article, and it's not really going to help me very much to locate this matching sentence. So I haven't marked this, and I'm going to skip over this keyword. Let's move on to question number one on less marks and key words here here I have final version on printing center and then for number two. I have pages on something about pages being converted into something else. So these are my keywords in this question said on What I have to do after marking these keywords in the questions is I have to figure out which keywords are going to be the easiest for me to locate and then start with that. So in this case, I think that question number one is going to be the easiest one out of these two. I think that question number one has better keywords than number two. So I'm going to start off with that. I'm gonna start off with number one, and so I'm gonna put a check mark next to it. Finally, I also want to pay careful attention to these connecting words. These words that are boxed in in the red color. These are words that go right before and right after the black line. These words are going to tell you whether the answer that you have chosen for the blank line actually fits in the sentence or not. So use these connecting words to figure out whether you have chosen the correct answer or not. Great. So that's all for our description over here. Now, let us go ahead and start to answer these questions, So I'm going to start off by answering question number one first. Now, before I can do this before I go about looking for these keywords in question number one what I would be doing is first. I would actually try to locate these keywords from the title so that I can locate the matching paragraph. If these keywords are repetitive than I would just skip over this, then I would just not look for these keywords at all. And I would just move on to finding the next best set of keywords. So in this case, I would probably be looking for editorial headquarters. That is going to be pretty simple to find as well. I mean, we don't have a question here, but this keyword can still help us to identify the matching paragraph. It can help us to refined down our area where we're going to find our answer. So these can also be useful keywords so you could search for them in the reading passage as well to identify your matching paragraph. So once I have done that, once I have located my matching paragraph At that point, I can start to use these keywords from the question to find out the exact answer to this question. So let's take a look at our question Number one. It says the final version off the text is dash to the printing center is what to the printing center. It seems to me that this is going to be some sort of a verb. An action may be The final version of the text is shipped to the printing center. Maybe it is sent or mailed to the printing center. Maybe it is returned, or maybe it is sent back. So it seems to me that this is going to be some sort off a verb. So now let's check our matching paragraph. We're going to now start scanning for these keywords. So here we go. Well, right away. I see it says Finished newspaper. So finished newspaper raise synonym language for final version. Let's see what else I'm also looking for Printing center here. I see printing center here. I see printing center again Here. We mentioned something about versions, but I don't care about any version. I care about the final version, but I don't care about just any version. I care about the final version, all right. And then it tells us what happens to the pages over here. So here's how we're going to do this. After locating the matching paragraph, you're going to mark the keywords from the question, Then go ahead and also mark any synonym language that you see, for example, Finnish newspaper, a synonym language for final version. The word pages can be sending him language for text. Okay, so I'm pretty sure that since I have found my keywords around here and also my synonym language around here, there is a very, very high probability that I'm going to find my answer somewhere around here. So this is very likely going to be our matching sentence. So now what I have to do is I have to read this matching sentence. So here we go. Once the Finnish newspaper has been created for the next morning's edition, all the pages are transmitted electronically from the pre press center to the printing center. All right, remember, guys, we're looking for some sort of a verb. Something happens to the final version off the text. What happens? Well, it tells us that right here the pages are transmitted electronically transmitted electronically. That is what happens to the final version of the text. They are transmitted electronically to the printing center. So that is going to be our answer. We're gonna fill that into our answer. sheet on. Once you have filled out that answer, just put the question number next to the matching sentence where you found your answer. So now that I know, I found my answer to question number one over here. There is a very high probability that I'm going to find the answer to question number two after this line. Why? Because these questions, they mostly go in order. So let us now move on to question number two. This question size the pages are converted into into what is going to be a noun. They're converted into something. But I don't know what that something is. So it's going to be a noun, and I have to figure out what it is converted into. So here is our matching paragraph. Again, this is the same paragraph. We found the answer to question number one over here, and we put number one next to it in the previous slide. So now I'm going to be looking for the answer to number two after this area. After this line where we found the answer to question number one. So let us scanned for these keywords. Pages are converted into something here. I see something about pages again. Page over here. More pages I'm also looking for converted into pages are processed into Look at that processed into well that is sending them language for converted into. So here I have my key word pages, pages also appears down here again. And over here, processed into is synonym language for converted into. So this is going to be my matching sentence. Let us read the sentence. It says the pages are then processed into photographic negatives on the film is used to produce aluminum printing plates ready for the press is. So what are the pages converted into? Well, they are processed into photographic negatives, So that is going to be our answer. We're gonna fill that in right here on. After filling that in, just put the question number next to it so that you can locate the rest of the answers in the question set. So we're now done with this one. I hope you have a good overview of how to go about answering this question. You may have noticed that these questions are very similar, similar to fill in the blank questions, diagram, questions and so on. So you pretty much have to be doing the same thing again and again, just different variations off it. In the next two videos. I want to take you through to practice questions, to show you how to do these questions in much more detail, so stay tuned for that. 26. Flowchart: Practice Set 1: Now that you know how to answer the flow chart questions, let us take a look out Practice. Set number one This example comes from the Cambridge aisles. Book number one. Test number three on Right here We have reading passage number one. So let's start off here by first reading the title. The title is spoken. Corpus comes to life. Let us now come down to our questions. So here is our question set. This is a flow chart question. As you can see, all the information is related to each other. It doesn't quite appear in a sequence. There is some sort of a sequence, for example, here you can see that these two steps lead to this step, which then leads to this step. And the language activator is related to these three steps, so keep in mind, it can be structured in this way as well. It doesn't have to be one after the other after the other. It can be one after the other, and then you might have three things at once. That's also possible. Now I want to first read thes directions over here, so let's go ahead and read this. It says the diagram below illustrates the information provided in paragraphs B through F. So this is really useful information because now we know that all of our answers are going to be found in these paragraphs. B two F. The next thing that it tells us is that we cannot use any more than three words for each answer. Okay, no more than three words. So those are our directions pretty straightforward. And, ah, the next thing that we're going to do is we're going to start marking the keywords. So this part over here seems to be the main thing. The main thing that everything is related to it appears in the center. So that is going to be one of my main keywords language activator. This is also a key word spoken corpus. Now I want to point out that actually, our entire article is going to be about spoken corpus. It's very possible, and very likely that this key word spoken corpus is going to appear again and again throughout the reading passage. So it might be a useless keyword. It might be repetitive, but I don't think so, because now we already know that we have to look for this keyword in these paragraphs, so we don't have to look for this keyword in every single paragraph. We only have to look for it in this defined area. So since we already know the area in which we're going to find this keyword, that makes it simpler, that makes our job easier. So I think that this keyword is still going to be useful for us. Since we already know that we are looking for this keyword in this area, Let's see what other keywords we have. I don't really care much about keywords from the example. Rather, I'm going to go down to the question. So the questions go like this. 789 10 on 11. These questions go mostly in order. So I'm going to assume that these questions go in order that the answer to number eight is going to come after the answer to number seven on So on. So right here we have the keywords data on written corpus here. I have keywords here. I have frequently used differences her written and then up here in question number 11. We have portrayal on feelings. Great. So those are all of our key words. What I like to do and what I've mentioned to you before as well, is when you are looking for any off these keywords, it's good to have the rest of these keywords in the back of your mind so that when you are scanning the article, if any of these other keywords jump out at you, then you can just mark them right away. So we're gonna have thes keywords in the back of our minds while we go about looking for our specific keywords. So I want to start off by first looking for this keyword. I believe that this is one of our main keywords because it appears in the center on all the information is related to this. So I'm going to be looking for this keyword first. The other reason is also that this is an easy keyword to locate. Spoken corpus will also be easy for us to locate. So those are the key words that I'm going to start off with language activator, unspoken corpus. Those are the easiest keywords out off all of these to locate. So let's go ahead and look for these two key words spoken corpus on language activator. Now, in this case, remember, I'm not going to be starting from the top because it says that we only have to look for the information between paragraphs B through F. So I'm going to start off over here. So here we go. I am now scanning for language activator on spoken corpus. Here. I see something well written Corpus. I remember that. That was one of our key words written corpus. Here is our other keyword language activator. One of our main keywords here. I see the word keywords. I remember that this was another one off our keywords. You might remember that from down here. Question number eight keywords. So that's why it's a good idea to have the rest of these keywords from the rest of these questions in the back of your mind. While you are looking for your specific keyword. Because these other keywords they might jump out at you on it can just make your job simpler if you just mark them as they appear. All right, so I found language activator. I do want to scan a little bit more. I want to make sure that this keyword doesn't appear again because maybe it repeats on DA. It's possible that our answer might lie in some other place. So I'm still scanning here. I'm looking for language activator. It might appear again, and I'm also looking for a spoken corpus here. I see spoken corpus. So paragraph F we're gonna stop there. All the information is between paragraphs B through F. So great, we have located our main keywords to off our main keywords on a couple other keywords as well from these questions. So I'm going to start off with question number seven. I already located written corpus as well on this is a good place to start. So the question says data from Dash written corpus. So I want to specify here that in these questions, it seems like we don't have a lot of context. It seems like we don't have complete sentences for all of them. For example, number seven, number eight, it looks like these aren't complete sentences, so we don't have a lot of context to work with. But that's all right. We can still answer these questions on If you're not sure about the type of answer that they are looking for, it's always good to read the example when it is provided to you. So the example says current real life data collected during during what? During research. So that's the answer in this case. So we have to look for similar answers. It's okay if they're not complete sentences, we just have to find something that fits. So data from Dash written corpus data From what Written corpus? Let's see here I have the word written corpus, So I'm gonna start reading the sentence from over here. This has been the basis along within existing Britain corpus for the Language activator Dictionary described by lexicographer Professor Randall Cork as the book the world has been waiting for. All right, So what type of written corpus? What written Corpus says that right here, Existing written corpus, existing written corpus. So that's going to be the answer for that on DA. This was the answer to question number seven. So let's just put the question number next to it, because we are assuming that these questions go in order. So gonna put number seven next to that on. We're gonna fill in our answer for question number seven as existing data from what written corpus data from existing written corpus. Now let's move on to question number eight. Number eight says keywords on dash language activator is somehow related to keywords on something else. What is that, Something else? Let's find out right here. We have the word keywords, so I'll just start reading from here. In the dictionary, keywords such as eat are followed by related phrases such as wolf down or be a picky eater , allowing the student to choose the appropriate phrase. Okay, so the answer has to do with phrases. It mentions that right here keywords are followed by related phrases related phrases. So keywords on what keywords and what key words aren't related phrases right here. The answer is going to be key words. Sound related phrases you don't have to put related on that is optional. You could also just put phrases that would also be the correct answer. Let's move on to question number nine. Question Number nine says. Most frequently used dash off words most frequently used what most frequently used dash off words. Let's see. Let's see if we can look at the keyword frequently, frequently is going to be our keyword for question number nine. So I'm gonna be looking for this keyword after this line because I'm assuming that these questions go in order. So I'm assuming that the keyword, frequent or frequently or something related to that it could be a synonym language. So anything related to frequent or frequently is likely to appear after this line after the answer to number eight. So here we go. I'm looking for the keyword frequently. Here I see the word frequent on. I want to scan a little bit more because it's possible that the keyword appears twice. Here we go see frequently, so it is good to double check and make sure that your keyword doesn't repeat, because if it repeats, then it's possible that you're not going to find the answer in the first spot where it appears it might appear. Ah, the answer might appear in the next spot where the keyword appears. So it just something to be mindful off, All right, so I'm pretty sure the answer is going to be either here or over here. So let's just start reading. Actually, let's come down to the question really quickly. Most frequently used dash off words, so it has to be related to words has to be related to words on here. It mentions words, so it's possible that we might find our answer over here. So let's start reading the sentence. It says If you look at the word like, you may intuitively think that the first and most frequent meaning is the verb. As in, I like swimming. It is not. It is the proposition. As in, she walked like a duck. Okay, so it's talking something about the language, something about grammar and so on. So the answer over here is related to frequent on words. The question says most frequently used what off words most frequently used. What? Actually, it's talking about meaning here, See most frequent meaning. This whole sentence and this whole discussion actually in this area is about meaning. How the meaning can change, depending on how we interpret the word like, because it's saying that could be a verb. All people might interpret it as a verb, but it can also be a proposition. So it's focusing on meaning. So that is going to be our correct answer for question Number nine, meaning, Let's put the question number next to it. on. We're gonna come down here on filling our answer. Meaning? There we go. Let us now move on to question number 10 for number 10. I'm looking for the keywords differences between written on something, use differences between written and what written and what First, I want to locate the keywords differences on written. So these keywords for question number 10 I'm going to be scouting for these keywords after this line where I found the answer to question number nine. Okay, we're assuming that these go in order, So let's start to scan for differences on written nothing there. Heresy written, mentions something about written English over here and here. It mentions different. Let's see if there's anything else about that. Okay, I have a feeling we're going to find our answer here because we have two of our key words right here, and it appears in what should be the correct order. Right? Number nine is over here, so number 10 should, in all likelihood, follow after that line. So I'm pretty sure our answer is going to be right here, So let's read it. Researchers have found that written English works in a very different way to spoken English . All right, So what it's saying is that researchers have found differences between written English on spoken English. Let's come down to our question. The question says differences between written and what use what type of use. Well spoken, use spoken Yusof English. So that's going to be the correct answer for that spoken. Let's come up here. I'm gonna mark this for you just so that it's easier for you to see where we found the answer on. I also want to put the number next to it, because this is where we found the answer to number 10. So the answer to Number 11 should appear after this line. In all likelihood, the question says the portrayal off feelings through through what through what? So portrayal to portray means to show to demonstrate. OK, that's what it means to show on feelings is our other keywords. So let's look for these keywords portrayal on feelings. So I'm gonna be looking for this after this line somewhere down here. Okay, so I see immediately mentioned something about feeling over here. Mentions feel as in a verb, but we could have synonym language on our hands right here So feeling. Let's see what else? I also want to look for our other key word, um, which is portrayal showing something Something related to that. All right here, mentions, shows something related to portrayal or showing. Let's see what else Harris has the emotion, emotion. What is that? Sending him language for emotion is synonym language for feeling feeling. So since I found two off, my key words here shows an emotion. I have a feeling that I'm more likely to find my answer down here. So let's start to read this area before I read it. I want to double check with my question the portrayal of feelings through something through something. Okay, so what is that? Something? So let's read over here. Starting over here, the spoken corpus computer shows how inventive and humorous people are when they are using language by twisting familiar phrases for effect. Okay, I haven't found my answer there, so I'll keep reading. It also reveals the power off the pauses and noises we use to play for time. Convey emotion, doubt and irony. All right, I see the answer. Do you? How do we portray feelings? How are we portraying emotions. How do we show emotions or how do we convey emotions? Convey is another use of synonym language to convey is synonym language for to show, to demonstrate, to portray. So the answer is right here in this line. How do we portray feelings through what it says that right here It also reveals the power off the pauses on noises to convey emotions, see or using pauses and noises to convey emotion. Toe portray feelings. So the correct answer here is going to be. How did you say, I think it's a noises and pauses. Noises on pauses. Yeah, that is what it's that pauses and noises. I think it doesn't matter. You can put pauses and noises or the other way around Personally. I like to leave the answer exactly as it appears in the reading passage, just so that there is no confusion. I don't like to take chances. Ah, but it would be okay if you were to reverse the order. So those are all of our answers. We are now finished with this question set, and I hope that you now see how to answer these questions. The strategies are very similar to the rest of the questions like fill in the blanks sentence completion diagram questions. So you're pretty much doing the same thing over and over again. So I want to show you another example off how this questions that may appear on the exam in the next video. So stay tuned for that. Check it out in the next video, where we'll go over how to answer practice. Set number two. 27. Flowchart: Practice Set 2: Welcome back, folks. In this video, I'm going to show you how toe answer another practice set for the same flow chart Question type. This example comes from the Cambridge Eilts Book number nine, Test number one. And here we have rating passage number three. Now, you've seen this article before when we were answering one of our other question types. So this time we're going to be as from the flow chart questions. Let's read the title, The history off the tortoise. So we know that these questions are going to be about the tortoises. We're gonna come straight down to our questions here. Let's begin with the directions. No more than two words and or a number that means that you can have only two words or a number. You can also have two words plus a number. Okay, here we have the title of the question said method of determining where the ancestors off turtles and tortoises come from. And then here we have our sequence off questions. So the way I'm going to start off here is I'm going to first mark the keywords in this title over here because if I can locate these keywords from the title. Then I'll be able to locate the matching paragraph, and then my job is going to become much more easier. So the first thing you'll notice is that we are looking for a certain method. This seems to be describing some sort of a method, ah, method for determining where the ancestors off turtles and tortoises come from. Okay, so it's a method for determining that can be a key word. Ah, not quite sure if we'll find that ancestors is a good keyword turtles and tortoises now that is probably going to be repetitive. Those are going to be useless, repetitive keywords because the whole article is about tortoises, so that word is going to keep appearing again and again. So that's not really going to help us turtles. Maybe that doesn't appear in the title of the article, so maybe turtles might help us. Okay, now, here we have different steps, and once you have located the matching paragraph at that point, what you want to do is you have to start looking for these other keywords from the question in that paragraph. So let's go ahead and mark some keywords from the questions as Well, now, over here, we have a very good keyword. 71 species. So that's a number that's going to be very easy for us to find something about living turtles and tortoises. Those maybe repetitive keywords. Okay, Something here about examination. A total off. What? Taken from the bones off, therefore limbs. Okay. Bones and four limbs. So those are the key words for question number 34 here for number 35 we have something about data being recorded recorded on what recorded on what, So that seems to be the specific information that they are looking for. So this is our connecting keyword. It is also the specific information that we're looking for. So what I want to do just to add some extra emphasis, I want to highlight this red because I want you to pay special attention to this part because this is the information that we're looking for. Data was recorded on what? On what? So probably going to be some sort of a noun. Here. We have a total off. What? So it's probably going to be some sort of a number. Maybe since we're talking about 71 species and a total off what were taken. A total of something, perhaps a number in association with something else. So that is the specific information that we're looking for here. Okay, over here we have our other keywords for comparing information, comparing information and ah, that is our other key word. Now here for number 36 we have something about line tortoises being represented by a dense what? A dense what? A dense something off points towards the top towards the top. So those are the key words there. Sea turtles were grouped together in bottom part. Okay, not gonna be a marking keywords from there. That's not part of our questions. And also, we don't have great keywords here. Maybe bottom that that might help us. Okay, here. Here we are, at step number three. This talks about the same data. So we have to be sure that when we are looking for our answer, the answer correlates back to the same data that was collected from data collected from some living. What species? That's going to be a noun. Okay, maybe the name of species, some living type of species, added to the other results. Here we have the outcome points. Species turned out to be positioned. Triangle triangle can be a good keyword. That may be easy for us to find position about dash up the triangle triangle can be a good keyword That may be easy for us to find between the land and the sea turtles. Okay, so the line tortoises on sea turtles that might help us as well. Finally, we have step number four Something about bones. And look at that. We have excellent keywords right here. Not that is going to be very easy to find. They are italicized and they are also proper now owns now something about these species being examined in a certain way. And something about results on outcome. Down here, here, here We have position. Position off the points position indicated something. They indicated something both ancient creatures were What? Okay, so those are all of our key words And ah, when you find these keywords again, I've marked this part red. To highlight the fact that you may need to pay special attention, you should be paying special attention to connecting words and words and phrases that are asking you for specific information. So here it is, asking us for a total off. Something recorded on some sort of a noun is going to be the answer. Here. Line tortoises were represented by a dense what a dense something. Something off points. Okay. And then down here, it's saying the position of points indicated something. What did they indicate? That is going to be the specific information that we're looking for? That is important. Points indicated what? That is the main thing that we are looking for. Okay, so now the next step is to identify which of thes questions are going to be the easiest for us to answer on. What do you think, guys? Which one is going to be the easiest to answer? Well, if you've been following along, you will know that the easiest question to answer is going to be number 39. Because here we have proper noun on the next easiest thing. The next easiest question is going to be number 34 because this number 71 species is also going to be quite easy to find. So I'm assuming that these questions go in order. So I'm going to look for the answer to this first, and then I'm going to look for the answer to question number 34. And then, if everything is in fact going in order, then we should be able to find the rest of our answers sandwiched in between number 34 number 39. So let's see how that goes. Let's see if we can find the answers in order. So I'm going to start off by first trying to locate while the easiest keywords are these. So I'm going to be locating the matching paragraph by identifying these keywords. Most of the times. Guys, I want to point out I've mentioned this before, but when you have diagram questions, table question and flow chart questions most of the times all of these questions are going to come from just one paragraph. Sometimes they may be more they maybe two paragraphs, but most of the times it'll be only coming from one paragraph. And if it happens to come from more than one paragraph, most of the times they're going to tell you that. Hey, the answer comes from paragraphs B through F or something like that. They're going to gave you the number off the paragraphs, so I'm expecting to find all of my answers in one paragraph, maybe two paragraphs at most. So once I locate these keywords, I should be able to also locate my matching paragraph. So let's look for these keywords Peak, Winstead Peak when Steady. I think that's how it said. I'm not sure. And then p. Tellem Pence's. Okay. Weird words. So look at that. I see them right away over here appear to be here at the bottom of the article. So it appears here and then appears again over here. Let's see if it appears anywhere else. Yeah, I really love these keywords because they're italicized so really easy to scan. Okay, that's about it. So I see that these keywords are appearing at three different locations. One two on three. So what I want to do, I'm not sure where I'm going to find my answer. I'm not gonna be reading all three areas. That would be a waste of my time. What I'm going to do is I'm going to be looking now for this keyword 71 species. Because if I can find that, then I know I found my matching paragraph. So let's scan for the number 71. We're looking for 71 species. It makes sense to just look for that number around this area in that same paragraph or around that paragraph were most likely to find it there. Okay, I don't see it. Here. There. I see 71 species. I'm gonna scott a little bit more. Just make sure that it doesn't appear again very quickly. Yeah, it doesn't appear again. So this right here is going to be on matching paragraph. All of this part right here, starting from over here. Most likely we're going to find all of her answers in there. Um, and I already see some of our key words. I see key words like triangle points. I remember it mentioned something about upper because I remember that there was the word top in one of our questions. So it's really important as well, guys, to have the rest of the keywords in the back of your mind. You don't have to remember them. Don't try to memorize them. Just have them in the back of your mind. Kind of, you know, so that when they jump out in the article, then you know about the answer May be somewhere around here. So here I see Triangular. I also see the word graph C about something about water and land. I remember that there was something about land and sea tortoises. Let's see what else you mentioned. Something about Land here again? Here again about water. Okay, lets see something here again about triangle. So you can see that we have a lot off. He works here, Bones. I remember that Bones was another one of our key words. Let's come down to our questions. So you'll see here. We have located a lot off our keywords. Bones top. We found a synonym for top upper points. Something about data data might be ah, sending him for information here. We also have the word data over here again. The word data reappears. Triangle land. See? Okay, we've located a lot of thes keywords, so I'm pretty sure that is going to be our matching paragraph. Now, let us start to answer these questions, and I want to start off by answering this question. So the questions has the position off. The points indicated that both these ancient creatures were What What did the position off the points indicate? What did the position off. The points indicate about the ancient creatures. Let us come up here on day. Here we have those keywords. So let's read this part. The bones off piquant, steady, and P. Tellem, PNC's leave us in. No doubt their points on the graph are right in the thick off the dry cluster. Both these fossils were dry land tortoises. Okay, so here's has both these fossils work. Drilon tortoises. So here is saying the position indicated that both creatures were What? What is the position? Indicate that both creatures were what Harris says that both these fossils fossils off creatures. They're talking about these creatures. They're talking about these two species. The bones are the fossils. So both these creatures were what work? Dry land tortoises. There we go. That is our answer. That was a little bit tricky. It used synonym language. So always be on the lookout for such synonym language. Most of the times their answers are going to be disguised. They're going to be hidden right in front of you, but disguised in synonym language. So here I found the answer to question number 39. I'm gonna put that question number next to it and let us come down on. Put that into our answer sheet. So the answer here is dry land tortoise. I think it was tortoises. I think it was plural. Always be sure to leave your answer to write your answer in exactly the same form as it appears over here. Okay. Don't Don't take any chances with that. Great. So that is our answer for that. The next question on one to answer is this one having to do with 71 species. We already located this sentence. This area, it's up over here. So let's read the sentence. We're going to find our answer somewhere in there. So starting from over here, Walter Joyce on Jack Gauthier Air at Yale University obtained three measurements in these particular bones off 71 species off living turtles on tortoises. So it's saying that out off these 71 species off living turtles and tortoises, these folks over here from Yale University obtained three measurements. Okay, what did they obtain? Three measurements. Look at the question down here. 71 species off living turtles and tortoises were examined. Okay, We know that they studied 71 species at a total of what was taken from the bones. What was taken from the bones? Total of what says that right here. Three measurements were taken from the bones. Okay, three measurements were obtained. It says obtained. That is synonym language for taken. OK to take is to obtain. That is synonym language. So a total off three measurements who are taking were obtained. So that is our answer there. We're going to come up over here and put the question number next to this up here, actually. So what was that number 34? Great. I'm also going to highlight this in the green color just so that you can see where I found the answer. Let us now move on to answering the rest of the questions. So here you can see that we have located the answer to question number 34 number 39 all in the same paragraph. So this is in fact, are matching paragraph. And my best guess is that most of the answers the remaining answers are going to be found in between these two answers. So everything is going to be in there. So let us move through this step by step. Let's start off with number 37. Well, here we have the question that data was recorded on a what? Some sort of pronoun is going to be the answer. And this now is necessary for comparing information. So data was recorded on something on this. Something is important for comparing information. So I found the answer to question number 34 here. So the answer to number 35 should be after this line. So here we go. I'm going to be looking for data and ah, something to record on. Okay. Those are the key words that I'm looking for. And here I do see measurements. Now, measurements is not exactly data, right. But it is synonym language for data. That is synonym language. It can be here. We have the word plot. Plot is synonym language. For what? Can you guess? Record plot is synonym language for record. Okay, so here, um it seems that we may find our answer around here. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to read this line. So it says they used a kind of triangular graph paper to plot the three measurements against one another. Look, at that. It says against one another against one another. What does that mean? Well, that is synonym language for comparing information, because when you compare information, you compare one piece of information against another piece of information. OK, so that is also another use of senate and language. And you can see guys, this congee get quite tricky. This can get quite tricky. So yeah, you have to have the vocabulary to understand synonym languages. An English exam. They're testing your comprehension. Are you able to understand synonym language that is key in the IAS reading portion. So let's come down to our question again. The question says the data was recorded on what? This something is necessary for comparing information while it tells me that right here they used a kind of triangular graph paper, triangular graph paper. That is the answer, because this is the something that they used to record the data. How which is also used for comparing information against one another. So I'm just going to make that green over here for the question number next to it. This is the answer to number 35. Let us come down and put that into our answer sheet. So the answer here is triangular graph paper. Oh, but remember, guys, I just remembered that here It says that I cannot write any more than two words. Okay, If I wrote Triangle a graph paper, my answer would be marked wrong, because the answer can not be more than two words. So the answer is going to be just graph paper graph paper. OK, that is the answer for 35. Great on. And let me also correct that over here because the correct answer is not triangle graph paper, but just graph paper only two words. Great. Now let us move on to number 36. So here we go. Land tortoises were represented by a dense what? Off points towards the top. Okay, so it dance something off points towards the top, a dense something off points towards the top. And here I have toe keyword points here I have upper, which is sending them language for top. So I think that this may be our matching sentence. Let's go ahead and read it all the land tortoise species formed a tight cluster of points in the upper part of the triangle. Okay, so What off points? It said it formed. What off point tells you right here. A tight cluster of points. Look at the question. A dense, what off point? Here. Dance is synonym language for tight. Okay, packed together. Really concentrated. Those are all Senate inwards for dense. So a dense what of points? A dense cluster of points clustering et correct answer. So here is the answer. A tight or a dense cluster of points on. That is where we found the answer number 36. Okay, two more left. 37 30 It Let's knock these out. The same data was collected from some living dash species. Okay, A certain type of species and added to the other results. Okay, Now, here added also seems to be an important key word for me. So I'm going to mark that keyword as well. Might be useful. So now I'm looking for keywords related to data. And not just any data, a very specific type of data. This is the same data collected from some living species and added to other results. Let's see if we can find something related to that. Probably after this point, I'm going to start over here. So looking for data. Andi, over here, I see that we have the word added. I remember that. I just marked, added as one of our key words. The question talked about how we added extra information to the data to that same data. So that seems to be related on This is the data that we're talking about. By the way, it's talking about the data that we plotted on this triangular graph paper. And then over here it mentions that same triangle a graph paper again. And it's also talking about the same cluster. Remember we talked about cluster up here. It's talking about the same cluster, and it's talking about turtles and tortoises, so it does not say here anywhere about it being the same data, but that is implied that is implied in the meaning. This is synonym language again and is very subtle, very hidden. And they don't tell you that they're talking about the same data. But if you look at the rest off the context, if you look at what this sentence is really about, you start to see the same things appear again and again. For example, they're talking about the triangle A graph there talking about the cluster. They're talking about adding to that same data. So then you can glean from that that they are talking about the same data. So this is where you're going to find your answer. So let's go ahead on and read this sentence. I'm going to start reading from over here, since this is where our keyword added appears. Here we go. There was no overlap except when they added some species that spend time both in water and on land. Sure enough, these amphibious species show up on the triangle. A graph approximately half way between the wet cluster off sea turtles on the dry cluster off land tortoises. Okay, so we have a data set, the same data. And this data is plotted on the trying ro graph and this new species that we added. And it's talking about this species, the amphibious species, the species that can live in both water and on land. This species appears in this data set approximately half way between wet cluster off sea turtles on dry cluster off land tortoises. So you have sea turtles on the one hand and land tortoises on the other hand and right in between, you have thes amphibious species. So looking at our question again, the question said some living dash species, a certain type of species. Okay, that's what we're talking about. The same data was collected from what type of species. While it tells us that the same data was collected from amphibious species, amphibious is the answer for Number 37. Now we only have the last one left. Number 38. The question says the points for these species turned out to be positioned about dash up the triangle between the line tortoises on the sea turtles. Well, I remember just reading about that. We just read about that. Where is the position? I just told you its position halfway between the sea turtles, which appear on one side on the land. Tortoises which appear on the other side. Right. Where does it appear? Where is it Positioned tells you that right here these amphibious species show up or appear , sending them language on the triangle. A graph approximately half way between the wet plaster off sea turtles and line tortoises. Okay, So where is it positioned? It's telling you the exact position halfway between approximately half way between the wet cluster and the between the sea turtles and the land tortoises. So position about halfway up the triangle halfway, that is the answer. Awesome. So we are now finished with all of our answers. I know that this was a little bit trickier. This set number two, because this comes from reading passage Number three. So expect to find more complex level synonym language when you are answering questions from reading passage number three. OK, just something to keep in mind on. I look forward to seeing you in the next video in which we're going to be talking about the next type of question. 28. How to Answer Summary Questions: in this video, we're going to be looking at the summary question and this type of question. You'll have a question set in which the answers to the questions may come from one paragraph, two paragraphs or multiple paragraphs. So this is what this question looks like. You're going to be asked to complete the summary below, so you're going to have a summary on. You basically have to write the answers in the given blanks. This is very similar to fill in the blank questions, and you have to approach these questions in exactly the same way. Now these questions go mostly in order. However, these questions are tricky. They are quite difficult because the answers can come from multiple different paragraphs. So this is a type of question that you want to save for the end. So here's a bit more explanation, So the questions go mostly in order. And whenever you have a question that goes mostly in order, you should assume that it goes in order. In this particular case, the summary question is a challenging one, so it's best to save it for later on. Now, take note that if the summary question happens to appear in Passage one, then it is more likely to go in order. However, if it appears in Passage three, then it's more likely that it may not go in order because Passage three tends to be more difficult than Passage one. So what you want to do is when you see this question, don't answer it right away. Rather, where you should do is you should simply mark the keywords in the summary questions and then just leave it. Mark the keywords, have those keywords in the back of your mind and then come back to these questions at the end. Because when you return to these questions after you have answered the easy questions, then you will already have a better understanding off what the passages about you will become more familiar with the paragraphs in the article. So it's going to be more easier for you to answer these questions, otherwise it can really take up all of your time. It can eat up all of your time as you go about looking for answers through different paragraphs. You don't want to do that. Save these questions for the end. Next, the questions in the question set for the summary questions can come from just one paragraph or from multiple paragraphs, so it can be a combination of 2 to 4 different paragraphs. And sometimes it can get really tricky because you might see that there is only one long sentence in the question. On In that one sentence, you might have to answer three different questions. There might be three different blanks in just one sentence on sometimes. It can be really tricky to the point where the answers in that same sense from the question can come from different paragraphs. So it can be quite tricky sometimes. And that's especially true if you see these questions in passage Number three. So something to keep in mind. I'll show you more examples of this to make you more familiar with what to expect on these types of questions and how to answer them Next up, as I already mentioned, you have to answer these questions exactly like fill in the blank questions, so scanned the keywords, buying synonym language and then look for the answer that connects to the connecting words . Finally, as you already know in this case as well, every question is going to be formed from only 1 to 2 sentences in the reading passage. So if you look at the entire question set, the different questions can come from different paragraphs That is possible. However, the answer to each one of these questions is only going to come from 1 to 2 stances on oftentimes. What they will do is they're going to take two sentences, and they're going to put it together as one single sentence. They're going to combine two different sentences into one sentence, and that is something to be expected because these air summary questions. In fact, that is the very definition off summary. So you take two questions and you summarize it into one sentence. So now let me show you what types of directions you can expect to see. There are two types. This is type number one. In type one. You might have answer choices in a box. Now, here's what you need to note if you get answer choices. If you get answer choices than still what you should do, its you should forced mark the keywords from the questions. Most of the times you are going to be using keywords from the questions to find the matching sentences in the reading passage. So don't mark keywords from the answer choices unless and there's a very important point unless you find pro pronouns, dates or numbers in the answer choices. Basically, what that means is you should only look for the key words from the answer choices. If those keywords are easy, if they contain proper noun numbers, things that are easy to locate in the reading passage only then you should look for keywords from the answer choice and not otherwise. Okay, don't do it. Otherwise, otherwise is going to waste your time. Now here's the next type of question. This break basically like your fill in the blank question. You just have a blank. Be sure to read the directions is going to tell you how many words you can, right? So in this case, you can only write one word no more than one word on. Typically, this can go up to three words on Dora number. You're not going to have directions in which it asks you to answer with an answer that is any more than three words on or a number, so that is basically the limit. So just write your answer in here. Once you find it on DA, be sure that the answer fits Double check with the connecting words that come before the black line and after the black line to make sure that your answer does, in fact, fit. Now here is the basic strategy with which you have to approach this question type. The first thing you're going to do is you're going to mark the keywords underlying them or circle them. Doesn't matter whatever works best for you, and then you're going to leave them. Okay, don't do anything with them. When you see the summary questions on your test, mark the keywords, half the keywords in the back of your mind and then leave them. Don't do anything with them. Then move on to other question types. Go on and do the easy questions that are in order. Do those ones first questions like fill in the blank multiple choice. Yes, no, etcetera. Do the easy questions first. Then, when you're answering these easy questions and you're scanning for the keywords from these easy questions, you need to keep an eye out for keywords from the summary questions. Okay, so what that means is, you should have these keywords in the back of your mind. And when you are scanning for the keywords to these easy questions, you should keep an eye out for the keywords from the summary questions so that when they jump out at you, if you notice them, you can mark them right away so that you can know where to look for when you do start to answer these summary questions at the end. So once you have finished answering the easy questions that are in order first, once you are done with that, then on only then should you return to the summary questions. Okay, because these air harder questions and you will know is that this is something that you have to do for all the questions that are hard and when I say hard questions, I mean four types of questions. The summary questions, the paragraph, location questions, the pick from a list, questions on headings, questions. Those four types of questions are difficult, so you have to do the same thing for difficult questions, marked the keywords in these difficult questions and then do the easy ones first. And when you are done with the easy ones, then you should return back to these hard questions. Finally, you need to start by answering the questions for which you have already found the key words . So when you are scanning the keywords for the easy questions, you are going to come across some keywords from the summary questions. So the key words that you find for the summary questions those are the ones that you need to start with. Start with those questions for which you have already found the key words while you were scanning for the answers to other easier questions. Okay, I hope that makes sense. You're going to see examples off this very soon. So let me now show you some examples off this type of question. Right now, I'm just going to be giving you a basic overview off how toe Answer this question type. And then in the following videos, I'm going to be showing you more detailed examples. So for this example, we're looking at this question on in this summary question. We have three questions 12 and three. So we're going to be answering these three questions for this example on, as you can see down here here in the box, we have answer choices. So we just have to put the correct answer choice in our answer sheet for each one of these questions. So we're going to start off by first marking the key words in the title. This can be very useful to locate the paragraph, because sometimes all the questions are going to come from just one paragraph. Other times, not other times, it can be multiple paragraphs, but nonetheless, it can be quite useful to mark these key words in the title. So title may have useful keywords, but not always. Sometimes the title can have repetitive keywords or use less keywords. It really depends. You have to look at the question that and then you have to decide if these keywords are, in fact, useful or not. Now, once you have marked the key words in the title, we're going to move on to marking the keywords in our questions. So let us go ahead and now mark the keywords in our question Number one. So in the first sentence right here. So these are the key words for this first sentence. 3000 year old burial ground seafaring people La pita abandoned on Pacific island of Fatah. So we've got some good keywords right here. We've got ah, 3000 year old. That's a great keyword. Pacific Island off data that is a proper now. And so also another great keyword. Let's move on to our second sentence. Let's move on to this question Number two and let's see what keywords we confined here. So these are the keywords Lupita explored, colonized and so on. And then here for question number three in these two sentences, these are the key words all of these right here and out of these, the most useful ones are Matthew Spriggs on Australian National University. Those are proper announce. So these are the easiest keywords here. 3000 year old Pacific Island of Data Matthew Spriggs on Australian National University. So it makes sense then to start off by answering question number one first and then by answering question number three. And then we can return to question number two at the end. Take note, though, that sometimes when you are scanning for keywords from the easy questions, you might come across some of these key words. So if you have already located some of thes keywords while scanning for the answers to the easy questions. Then go ahead and start with those questions first because you've already located the keywords. So it makes sense to just start by answering those questions first. Also, pay special attention to these words the connecting words, the words that come right before and right after the black line because they're going to tell you if the ass or fits in the context in the structure off the sentence on If you have chosen the correct answer, so pay attention to that as well. Let us now go ahead and start to answer these questions. I'm going to start off by first answering question number one, because we're going to assume and let me put out a hypothetical imaginary scenario. Imagine that I marked these keywords in the summary questions, and then I went and I did my easy questions. First, the questions that go in order. I did those easy questions. First on while I was scanning for the keywords to those easy questions, I came across the keyword 3000 year old and I marked it. I marked it in my article and since I marked it. And since I already found this keyword, I'm going to start off by first answering question number one because I already found this keyword while I was scanning for other keywords from the easy questions. So that's why now that I have answered my easy questions, I am now returning to my difficult question set to this summary question, and I'm going to start off by first answering question number one because I've already located this keyword before. So here we go. Here is question number one. These are the answer choices. The question size. A 3000 year old burial ground off a seafaring people called the Lupita has been found on an abandoned dash on the Pacific island off a Fatah. Okay, now abandoned What it has to be a noun has to be a noun. So what is going to be the correct answer? I'm not sure, but I actually located this keyword before, So that's why I'm starting here. And I already see this keyword. I also see that around this area. When I start to search this area, I see that I also see my other key words here, for example, Pacific Islands. La Pita is a word that appears. So here I have my key words, multiple of them. When you start to scan this paragraph, you're going to come across these key words that have been used in the question Island off a Fattah Pacific. See, foreign people, Pacific Islands Lupita Bureau Ground mentions that here on a 3000 year old. So now I know that I'm going to definitely find my answer in this paragraph somewhere around here. But specifically, I'm going to start reading this portion down here because it is only down here that the keyword, the main keyword, 3000 years old appears. So this is going to be my matching sentence. This portion right here on I'm going to read the sentence. Let's read it. An agricultural worker digging in the grounds off a derelict plantation scraped open and grave the first dozens in a bureau ground some 3000 years old. All right, now I see some synonym language here. I don't know if you do, Do you see it? So over here it says derelict. Now that is a bit of a complicated word, but that is just synonym language for abandoned, abandoned means that it has been left behind. No one goes there anymore. No one cares for it is just like a last place. Like nobody cares about it. You know, like those houses that are broken in the city. And ah is just sitting. There may be some homeless people live there because those buildings have been abandoned. Nobody cares for them. Nobody goes there. So that is what it means to be abandoned to be derelict, So abandoned. What on the Pacific island abandoned what abandoned plantation? That is the correct answer. So what do you think is the correct answer? Abandoned what? Abandoned what abandoned plantation. So plantation is the correct answer. So we're going to now mark that answer. The correct answer is B on. Once you have answered the question, just put the question number next to it so that you know where you found the answer. Because these questions that go mostly in order, especially when these questions appear in reading passage number one. Now let's move on to our next question. We're now going to be answering question number three because that is the next easiest question because of these proper now owns Matthew Spriggs and Australian National University. So we're going to come down to our reading passage on. We're going to start scanning for these keywords and they're quite easy. Matthew Spriggs, Australian National University. They appear right there on the key word over here, Lupita. Now, you might think that Lupita is one of our key words on this keyword Onley becomes useful after we have located our main keywords. Matthew Spriggs and Australian National University. La Pita is only valuable in this area over here, but not right here. Not really. Because over here we're not sure if we're going to find around, sir, because this is a repetitive keywords, so it's not very useful. The whole article is about Lupita people. So this keyword is something that appears again and again and again. So we're not really looking for this keyword. It doesn't help us, But it does help us if we find this keyword around the area off our main keywords. Okay, then it becomes important. All right, Now, here are the other keywords from the question. So we have researchers over here. Burial urn right here. Important discovery mentions that over here, and ah, we already have our proper announce. Great. So those are the key words. We know we have located the right paragraph, but I'm especially going to be paying attention to this portion down here because that is where our main keywords appear down here. When I scan around this area, I also see that there's a term over here digging up digging up, and I immediately recognize that that term is synonym language. Can you guess? For what? What is it? Synonym language for? Take a guess. Digging up the site that is synonym language for excavation off the site. To excavate means to dig in order to discover something like this. What? Archaeologists to they dig up old sites in order to discover hidden bones and fossils and different types of artifacts. Okay, so that is what it means to excavate, to dig up in order to search for something usually for something related to history, something related to culture, Something important over here. I have another term conclusively identified. Well, that is synonym language for confirms, because when you confirm something, you conclusively identify it. You know, for a fact that it is what you think it is. It has been confirmed through evidence through science. Through research, it has been conclusively identified. So this is our matching sentence right here. This is where we're going to find our answer. Since the keywords appear here as well as a synonym language. Let's read it. It's an important discovery. Says Matthew Spriggs, professor of archaeology at the Australian National University on head of the international team. Digging up the site for it conclusively identified the remains as Lupita. Okay, confirms that the dash found inside Arla Pita. So something that was found. Arla Pita. What was found? What was found? The remains were found. You see, when they dug up the side when they excavated the site, they found something and what they found were the remains off the LA Peter people. Okay, so that is what they're saying over here that the remains that they found inside were from Laffita people. So the correct answer is going to be remains. That is synonym language for bones. Okay, Bones, fossils, something like that. Those air synonym words for each other. So we're gonna mark that. Put D as our answer. Choice for question number three on once we're done answering it. Just put the question number next to the matching sentence. Great. Now let's move on to our final question. We're now going to come back to our question number two. We left this for last because we didn't find any easy keywords in here. So now we're going to come back to our paragraph on. We're going to now start scanning for these keywords here, So let's see here. I see explorers something about exploration here. All right, What else? To build new lives. While that is synonym language for colonized to colonize means to set up an establishment or set up a civilization or to settle down to start a new life somewhere. Okay. To colonize, to build new lives here. A mentions, tools. Let's see what else? Okay, I see several keywords over here. I'm pretty sure we're going to find our answer in this paragraph. Here are some of the key words explorers, tools and several centuries. So we see that here tools explorers on several centuries. I also see the synonym words carried with them everything. They carried everything. While that is synonym language, for they took many things with them. They carried many things with them. That is synonym language. There's also another synonym language over here to build new lives. I mentioned that before that means to colonize, to colonize, to settle down, to build new lives. Toe colonize means to settle down. So this is going to be our matching settings where we're going to find our answer. So let's go ahead and read it now. It says. There were also pioneers who carried with them everything they would need to build new lives, their livestock taro ceilings on stone tools. All right, well, the question says they took many things with them on their voyages, including dash on tools. Okay, so we know that they took seedlings, stone tools. And what else? What else did they take? Well, says they're right here. Life stock. They took livestock, but it doesn't say life stock anywhere over here. What about Tara Seedlings? Nope. Doesn't say that. Doesn't say that either. I don't see taro seedlings anywhere. What I do see is this word animals. Well, that is synonym language for life stock. So the correct answer is going to be livestock. So you're going to put I in your answer sheet on once you're done answering it, you can put the question number next to this. Imagine sentence if there are more questions in the question set. If it's the last question, then you don't need to do this. So that's it for this video. I hope that you now have a good understanding of how to answer the summary questions in the next two videos. I'm going to be taking you much deeper into our practice questions to show you how to do these in much more detail. So stay tuned for that. I'll see you in the next one. 29. Summary: Practice Set 1: in the previous video you saw me explained how to answer the summary question in this video , we're going to be looking at how to answer this question in much more detail. Right here. I have an example from the Cambridge Iose book number eight, test number three. And this here is reading passage number one. We're going to begin by first reading the title off the article so that we have a general understanding off what this article is going to be about. So the article is about shrinking back at lightning with lasers. Now, let's come down to our questions. Andi, let me summarize what you would do at this point. So imagine you are sitting in your test on. You have a bunch of different question types for this article. You might have a fill in the blank question. Ah, yes, no question. On perhaps a summary question, let's say that you get those three types of questions. What you would do in such a scenario is you would first come here to the summary question, and you're going to mark the keywords for the summary question. Then, once you have marked the keywords, you're going to leave it alone. Don't do anything with it on. Move on to doing the easy questions. First, do the fill in the blank multiple choice that, yes, no questions. Do those ones first, so that while you answer those easy questions, you can give yourself the time and a chance to become familiar with the paragraphs in this article. And that's going to make your job much more easier. Because once you are finished with those easy questions, then you can return back to these summary questions, and you can start off by answering the questions for which you have already located the keywords. While you were answering the easy questions first, this is a more time efficient way to do it, and time is everything when it comes to the Isles exam, because you have to answer the questions in a timely manner. So let's go ahead and start to mark the keywords for these questions. So here we have method laser line off ionization, removing electrons from something that's probably going to be a noun from something. Then we have the word laser again. Actually, this whole article is about lasers, right? So lasers is going to be a repetitive key work, so I'm going to remove it from here as well. And I'm not going to mark this directed control electrical charges method now Method appears here as well. On it seems that this is also another repetitive keyword. It seems that the article is going to be talking about the different types of methods in relation to the lasers. Less dangerous, less dangerous than using, then using what that's going to be another noun as a protection for the lasers. The beams are aimed first. Okay, beams. That's a good keyword aimed, firstly at something again, going to be a noun right there. So the reason that I've started by marking the keywords in the question and not by marking the keywords in the answer choices is because we don't have any proper noun or numbers down here. So, typically, if you have a lot of answer choices, for example, here I only have four questions. But I have nine different answer choices, so it doesn't really make sense to go into my reading article and start to look for all nine of thes answer choices. That's going to be a waste of my time. Is much better in this case to simply look for the key words from the questions. Also, it's not like I have great keywords here. I mean, some of them look good, but I don't have proper announce and numbers, things that I would be able to easily and quickly identify. Now, what you would do after marking these keywords is you're gonna leave them alone. You would go into the easy questions first, and then you're going to come back to the summary questions at the end. Okay, not at the end of the entire reading portion. That would be too late. Rather, you want to come back to these questions at the end of the reading passage once you have answered all the different types of questions from the reading passage number one. Then at the end of answering all the easy questions, you would come back to this summary questions. And then once you're done with that, at that point you would move on to the next reading passage. Here we have reading passage number one. So you would do the easy questions for reading passage number one first and then you would do the difficult questions like the summary question. And then, once you have done the easy questions on the difficult questions for this reading passage, you would then move on to answering the questions for the next reading passage for reading Passage Number two. And you're going to be doing exactly the same thing. Easy first hard ones. Safe them for the end. And then you would move on to reading Passage Number three and then repeat the same thing. So at this point, what I would personally do is I would start off by first answering the questions to which I have already located the keywords while I was answering my easy questions. So in this case, let's assume that I already located the word ionization because that's an easy one. And let's say that while I was answering my easy questions, I came across the word ionization. So that's why I'm going to start off by answering question Number seven first. Now let's go ahead and start to look for this keyword ionization. That's a pretty good keyword on electrons is also a good keywords, So I'm going to be looking for ionization on electrons. Here we go. Let's start to scan ionization on electrons. Okay, I don't see anything yet. I see electrons over here. That might be where we find our answer electrons. And actually, I also see the word extract. It says extract electrons, Guys, What is extract ascending in four. What do you think the word extract means to pull out to remove. So down here it talks about removing electrons, so that is synonym language for extracting electrons. So that whole thing is important. Actually, I can just go ahead and mark that entire thing extract electrons, and here it mentions ions. Here it mentions line of ionization. So some keywords like ionization, for example, there are going to be certain keywords like organization and electrons that are not going to have synonym words for them because that's the only way that you're going to talk about this idea because some words are not going to have a synonym language. There aren't any good synonyms for certain words like ionization and electrons. So in that case it can be really helpful to ah, look for these keywords, and that's why we prefer looking for proper noun and dates and numbers, because there are no synonym words for those keywords. The same thing is true for keywords like ionization on electrons, electrical charges as well. That's probably going to be another term. That is not going to have synonym language. It can, but the chances are very low. You see what I mean? So here I found line of ionization extract electron. So I'm pretty sure I'm going to find my answer somewhere over here. So that is probably going to be my matching sentence. Probably gonna find my answer somewhere around there. So let's go ahead on read this sentence. I'm gonna start up here since that's where it talks about extracting electrons. The idea began some 20 years ago when high powered lasers were revealing the ability to extract electrons out of atoms and create ions. Okay, so the question asks us in this method later in this method, a laser is used to create a line of ionization by removing electrons From what? Removing electrons from what says right there. Remove electrons from out off a synonym language from atoms. So the correct answer is going to be atoms. I'm gonna put my question number next to it. Number seven. Since that is where I found my answer on, and I'm assuming that these questions will go in order, especially since these questions appear in reading passage Number one. These questions are more likely to go in order, so the answer to that is atoms. The correct answer is going to be the letter B. So put that into your answer sheet on. Let us move on to the next question here. It says This laser is then directed at what directed at what? That's what we have to find out directed at something. So let's look for that in order to control electrical charges. So let's look for that directed on electrical charges. I'm going to be looking for my answer to number eight after this line, since I'm assuming these questions will go in order, they may not, since they're going order most of the times, but not always. So I'm looking for directed at on electrical charges. Here we go. Okay. Harris has pointed pointed is synonym language for directed and down here. I also see directed, directed at what directed at a mirror. But I also have to look for the other key word. Remember, I'm looking for, um, electrical charges because the laser is directed at something in order to control electrical charges. Okay, that is important. It is in order to control electrical charges. So I'm going to be looking for electrical charges around this area where I found the words directed and pointed so point it is over here. I'm looking for electrical charges. Something related to that on. I don't really see it here. I see it over here. Electric field, that is synonym language for electrical charges. So it has to be related to this, whatever the lasers are pointing towards. So let's let's read this part over here. Let's read this sentence starting from over here. If a laser could generate a line of ionization, by the way, the world line can be sending him language for to point out or to direct that Okay, a line in the air all the way up to a storm cloud. This conducting path could be used to guide lightning to earth before the electric field becomes strong enough to break down the air in an uncontrollable surge. Okay, that has come down to our question here. So the laser is directed at what? In order to control electrical charges. Well, it talked about that. Up here is talking about how we have to control electrical charges so that they don't become strong enough to break down the air. See, So we have to do that in order to avoid this negative thing from happening. So what do you think the correct answer is going to be? Do you see it? The correct answer is going to be storm cloud over here Storm cloud because it tells you if a laser could generate a line off ionization on by line, they mean a direction, a certain direction in which the ionization is generated. Then that laser would generate a line of ionization in the air all the way up to a storm cloud, meaning it would be pointed all the way up to a storm cloud or directed at a storm cloud. So that one is really tricky on DA. It's very easy to get this one wrong, because you might think that it mentions the word directed over here and mentions pointed over here. Pointed is a much closer center name, then line. I mean, that is very difficult to pin down toe, identify and you might see directed over here, directed at what you might think that the answer is mirror. But that would be the wrong answer. So you have to look at not just one piece of information. You have to look at what this entire context is asking you for. Laser is directed at something, but to a certain end, don't miss out on everything else that follows. That's why I talk about the importance off paying attention to the connecting words, the connecting words, the words that come before and after the blank line are going to tell you if the answer that you have chosen is in fact the right answer. The answer has to fit like a piece off jigsaw puzzle. So always check in with the connecting words and make sure that you are not ignoring certain information. If I had ignored this part right here about electrical charges, then my answer would have been wrong. I would have put mirror, and that would have been the wrong answer. So be very careful about that and also pay special attention to synonym language. Sometimes it can be very tricky and it can be hidden very well, so you have to really be able to identify it. So the correct answer here for eight is going to be see Storm clouds. Let's come up here on. Let's put the question number next to where we found the answer. So number eight, we found it down here. Okay, 789 is probably going to come after this, but we'll find out. I'm not sure. Okay. Here we have a continuation off the same sentence. A method which is less dangerous than using what? So it's saying that this method off directing the laser at storm clouds in order to control electrical charges is less dangerous than another method. What is this other method? So we want to find out what is more dangerous than storm clouds than pointing the lasers at storm clouds. What's more dangerous? So I'm going to be looking for this keyword less dangerous. That's my main keyword for this part over here. So let's start to scan over here. Probably. I'm gonna find the answer around here less dangerous, down, less dangerous. Hey, talks about being cheap portable doesn't mention that here. Okay, here it seems to be talking about size, monster size. I'm also looking for Senate inwards because when it says less dangerous, I'm going to be looking for key words like less safe, more harmful, something to do with negative things, something that is negative, harmful, damaging, something like that. So I'm also open to the synonym language as well on, and I do not see it here. Guys, I have not come across anything having to do with being less dangerous is talking about something entirely different down here. So in this case, it seems like our answers are going to be out of order now. Usually, I would not expect this, especially since we're dealing with reading passage number one, usually with reading passage number one. The answers will be pretty much in order, But right here it seems that we have a question said in which the questions are not in order. So this part seems to be in order. The answer to number nine is probably going to come before this, so let's look for something having to do with less dangerous. Okay, here I see risk. Now that is something related to being dangerous, because if something is risky than that means that it is dangerous. Let's see if I can find anything else related to that talks about safely or safety that could be sending him language that could be useful for us. Let's see if we've see anything else related to dangerous talks about protection. I mean, think about what would you really need protection from From something that is dangerous, right? So that could be, um, where we find our answer. It's possible. And then, it says, is not perfectly well behaved, not well behaved, meaning it is unpredictable. Something that is unpredictable can be dangerous. So it seems that we're going to find her answer around here. And if you look at the title of these paragraphs down here, it's as bad behavior. So that tells me immediately that this is going to be talking about something negative, something risky, dangerous. So I'm going to start reading up here. Let's start to read this part over here where it talks about protection, and then maybe we'll read a little bit down here. Let's see if we confined our answer around here, it says. But while rockets are fine for research, they cannot provide the protection from lightning strikes that everyone is looking for. Okay, so they do not protect you from lightning strikes, so that means that they are less safe down here. It says lightning is not perfectly well behaved. Okay, so it can be risky. So it seems that they're talking about Rockets rockets. So they're saying rockets are fine for research, but they are less safe. Or, in other words, they are more dangerous. That is synonym language. So the answer here, too. Question Number nine is going to be G rockets. So question number nine We found the answer to that right over here. All mark that for us. Well mentions that here that it's less safe. Great. Now let's knock out our final one. Question number 10 it says as a protection for the lasers. Okay, talks about protection there again, we just found that keyword as a protection for the lasers. The beams are aimed firstly, at what? Okay, So in order to protect the lasers, the beams have to be aimed at something first. What are the beams first aimed at? What are the beams first aimed at? Let's look for that. I'm looking for beans on aimed. So I found the answer to question number nine over here. So I'm expecting to find the answer to number 10 after number nine. Somewhere down here, perhaps. Let's see. So it mentioned. Ah, protection up here, but I don't see anything about We are looking for What? What is the laser? First we're looking for What are the beams first aimed at? And I don't see anything about the beams being aimed at something over here. I don't see that. What are the beams aimed at? Well, over here, it talks about being pointed at being directed at Those are synonym words. Those are sending in words for being aimed at that is synonym language directed at. So perhaps we'll find our answer down here. Let's go ahead and read this. Probably the matching sentence is going to be somewhere around here around those two lines , probably. So here we go. The sentence says to stop the laser itself being struck. It would not be pointed straight at the clouds. Okay, so it would not be aimed directly at the clouds. Instead, it would be directed at a mirror and from there into the sky. Okay, So where would it first be aimed at or directed at? Where would it first be beamed at or aimed. At first it would be aimed at a mirror. And then from there it would be aimed into the sky. So the correct answer is going to be mirror. The answer to question number 10 is going to be de mirrors. Great. So we're now done with this question said, um, hope that gives you a better idea of how to go about answering these questions. This was very, very tricky. Very, very tricky, especially over here. What? The data is something really tricky. This is something that doesn't typically happen. And what they did over here is ah ah, very dirty trick to try to trick you because we found the answer to question number eight. Look at that question. Number eight and question number nine are all in one sentence. All of that is put together into one sentence. So you might think that since question number eight and question number nine appear as one single sentence, that you're going to find the answers for question number eight and question number nine next to each other or around each other. But that is not the case. They pulled a trick over here to try to trick you. And what they did is you find the answer to question number eight down here. But then the answer to question number nine is not only after the question number eight not only that, but rather the answer to question number nine appears in an entirely different location before the answer to number eight in a different paragraph altogether. How tricky is that? So sometimes they will try to throw a curveball at you and throw. Ah, question that is really tricky like this on. You have to be aware that they can do this on. You have to be able to understand synonym language and scan effectively. So this is something that is very rare. It doesn't usually happen, but it can happen on dumb. I'm especially surprised because this is a very tricky question. And it appears in reading passage number one, usually reading passage Number one is rather simple in comparison to the rest of the reading passages. So I'm very surprised that it did this, but, um, yeah, just goes to show that these questions can be unpredictable sometimes. So I hope you found this video helpful in the next video. We're going to be looking at another example. Practice that number to this time. I want to show you an example from reading passage number three, so I'll see you there. 30. Summary: Practice Set 2: in this video, we'll go over practice at number two for the summary questions. This time I have an example from the Cambridge aisles book Number 10 Test number two and this is reading passage number three. Let's start off by reading the title. So this article is going to be about museums off fine art on their public. So let's come down to our questions now. Here we have our questions. Number 27 to 31 on here. We have all of our answer choices. Now, guys, I have a question for you. Which keywords do you think are going to be easier for us to find? Which keywords are better, the ones from the questions or the ones from the answer choices? What do you think? It makes no sense to look for these keywords from the answer choices. The reason is that there are so many off them. There are 48 12 answer choices that only five questions. So if you start to look for the key words from the answer choices in the reading passage, you're going to waste a lot of time. So in this case, we're going to be looking for the key words from the questions. So let's go ahead and do that. I'm going to start off by marking the key words here in the title. The title can help us to narrow down our paragraphs and ah, specific information that we are looking for. So here we have something about value being attached. Two original works of art. So we're talking about the value that is attached to the original works off art. Now let's look at the keywords in the questions. Here we have people goto art museums. I'm not going to be marking that. The whole article is going to be about Art Museum. So that is going to be repetitive. Let's see what we have here except the value off seeing an original work of art. Okay, now original work of art. That is something unique because the article is talking about museums of fine art and their public. So it's possible that they're going to be talking about different forms off heart. They might compare original art to some other type of art, so that can be useful. Down here we have key words like Read to read, original manuscript, off novels, availability off novels again. We have the word novels on something being the most important thing down here. We have historical times, artists, Leonardo. Now, that's a great keyword. That is a proper noun to instruct. Produce copies, new methods these days that is talking about current times, reproduction replication, surface relief features on color. And then here we have regrettable promote superiority, original works of art on something about it not being in the best interest. Okay, I think those are good keywords. What we have so far. Let's see. Just want to make sure I haven't missed anything that can help us. Depended on that. That can be helpful. And so long. Something that happened for a long time. Okay, I think we're good. I think that we have a good amount of keywords. Now, we can actually move on to our reading and actually start to scan for these. So the first key word that I want to scan for is this word over here, Leonardo. So that is a proper noun. So of course I'm going to start with this one question Number 29. So let's go ahead on. Look for Leonardo and I also want to have the rest of these keywords in the back of my mind while I hunt for this keyword. So he words like especially down here is talking about, um is talking about producing copies, reproduction, replication. Those are all synonyms. So it's talking about creating some former for reproduction in relation to Leonardo or some of his work. So let's go ahead and look for this keyword. I'm going to start up here. So right there, I see the word, Leonardo. I'm gonna scan a little bit more just to see if it reappears again. It doesn't seem to reappear. So now, around this area, I also want to look for my other keywords. Remember, we had other keywords, like reproduction replication on creating copies. So we're looking for something like that around this area. So let's see if we can find that. But keep in mind that these keywords keywords like producing copies reproduction, they appear in the same sentence as Leonardo. It doesn't mean that we're going to find it in the same area, because this is a summary question there taking questions from different sentences or sometimes even different paragraphs, and they're going to combine it into one single sentence that can happen. So just be aware off that. So I'm looking for something related to reproduction, and I see that over here. Scan a little bit more, see if there's anything else. So you re production here again. Okay, I also see reproduction up here, but I don't care about that because I care about reproduction around Leonardo around Leonardo around this area. So it's possible that we may find our answer around here, so let's take a closer look at our question. The question says, however, In historical times, artists such as Leonardo were happy to instruct Dash to produce copies off their work. So happy to instruct who someone we have to find out who that is. So they were happy to instruct someone to produce copies off their work, so produce copies replication, reproduction, those roll Senate inwards. So let's see if our answer fits. We're looking for someone, Okay, someone So here, it says. One of the most famous works off art in the world is Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Nearly everyone who goes to see the original will already be familiar with it from reproductions, but they accept that fine art is more rewarding. Reviewed in its original form. I also remember that we had a bunch off keywords related to Original. So gonna mark that as well. Andi, I haven't found my answer here because I'm specifically looking for someone. So I'm gonna move on. Maybe down here, I can find it. However, if Mona Lisa was a famous novel, Okay, here I have the key word novel, and I remember that novel Waas One of our key words that appeared a few times in the questions. So, however, if Mona Lisa was a famous novel, few people would bother to go to a museum to read the writers actual manuscript rather than a printed reproduction. I also remember that to read was one of our key words. You might remember that down here it talked about novels, novels, again, novels Over here and here we have the word to read. So it seems that my answer to this question question number 29 is not going to be up here. I don't think my answer is up there. Rather, I think that my answer to question number 27 which talks about novels and original work and to read I think that I'm going to find my answer to question number 27 up there. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to skip this for now, and I'm going to read this sentence over here. I want to read what question Number 27 is about so that I can look for the answer to number 27 in that area. So here we go. People go to art museums because they accept the value off seeing an original work of heart . But they do not go to museums to read original manuscripts off novels, perhaps because the availability of novels has depended on something is dependent on something for so long. So let's just look at that first part. I'm not going to be paying attention to the part that comes after the comma because it's possible that this can come from a different sentence, and very rarely it can also come from a different paragraph. So I'm going to focus on this part for now. I want to find out what did the availability off novels depend on? What did it depend on? So let's come back up here on let's read this part where it mentions novel and to read. So if Mona Lisa was a famous novel, few people would bother to go to a museum to read the writers actual manuscript rather than a printed reproduction. This might be explained by the fact that the novel again we have our keyword here has evolved precisely because off, because of what? What did it depend on? What did it depend on? It depended on technological developments. So that's going to be the answer. Technological developments because of technological developments that made it possible to print out huge numbers of texts, whereas oil paintings have always been produced as unique objects. So what it's saying is that the availability of novels depended on technological developments because technology allowed us to print out the taxed in large numbers. So the answer to 27 is technological developments. Let's come down to our answer choices on DA. Let's try to find that I see basic technology, basic technology, but you know what else I see? I also see Option B mass production now Think about it, guys. Which one do you think is the correct answer? Math, production or basic technology? It's one of those two. Now you might think that the answer is technological developments. So since we have the word technology in there, that the correct answer is going to be I basic technology. But that is the wrong answer choice. The correct answer choices be mass production. The reason is that it's talking about how technology allowed us to mass produce the novels to print out the tax in large numbers. So, really, what we're talking about is technology being used for mass production. So the availability off novels depended on mass production, which was made possible by technology. So the correct answer here is going to be be so you have to be careful. Don't just pick announcer choice just because it has the same word in it. The this test is really about your comprehension. They want to see the examiners want to see if you understand English, so you have to pay attention to synonym language. Be very careful in how you interpret the information. You have to comprehend it. Don't just pick announcer choice because you see the same word. Make sure that the answer makes sense. Now let's move on to question number 28. It says and also because with novels, the dash are the most important thing. So now I want to find out what is the most important thing with novels. What is the most important thing? Let's see. Let's scan for keywords related to being most important. Okay, what I see over here is this This keyword it says, attends mainly to to attend to something means to pay special attention to something and think about Why would you pay special attention to something? Well, you would only pay special attention to something if it's important. That is a tricky synonym language right there. So that is sending him language for something being important because on Lee, things that are important deserve special attention. So let's read this part. Let's read the sentence and see if we find around. Sir Over here with novels, the reader attends mainly to the meaning off the words rather than the way they are printed on the page. Whereas the reader off a painting must attend just as closely to the material form, off marks and shapes in the picture. Okay, so down here it's talking about the picture or painting on up here is talking about novels . So the question asks us about novels. It's asking us what is the most important thing with novels. Well, the answer is, Over here it tells us that the most important thing with novels is the meaning the reader has to attend toe, meaning they have to pay special attention to meaning because it's important. So that is going to be the correct answer for question Number 28. Let's put the number over here on. Let's see which answer choice we have to pick. The correct answer is meaning. Here. I see underlying ideas that is synonym language for meaning on Yeah, nothing else. So that's the only answer that fits. So the correct answer has to be a church underlying ideas that is synonym language for meaning. Let us move down here now. I'm looking for these keywords. I didn't find the keyword Leonardo, so I'm still looking for the keyword Leonardo and also for other keywords related toe copies. Reproduction replication. There's probably going to be a place, an area where these words are going to appear in a higher concentration because it mentions that three times over here. So I'm expecting these keywords to appear in a higher concentration. So let's see if I can find these keywords. So I'm looking for the answer to question number 29. So, naturally, I'm going to be looking after this line. I'm assuming that these questions will go in order. They may not, but in this case, I'm sure that the answer to 29 will come after 28. Because I already scanned up here. And I know that my answer is not appear. So it has to come after this line. So here we go. I'm looking forwards related to reproduction. So here I have the word facsimile. Facsimile is synonym language for a copy. Something that is a reproduction. Someone Mark that. Let's see if we see anything else. Here. Here we have reproduction again. The word reproducing rep a graphic techniques. I don't know what that means. Production duplication. Duplication is synonym for reproduction. Again, we have the word reproduction down here. Okay? I wanna check around this area around this area. We have what I would call ah, high concentration off words related to reproduction. Here it talks about reproduction, reproduction, duplication, reproduction and then facsimile. All of those are talking about exactly the same thing. So now what I want to do is since I have located these keywords related to producing copies replication, duplication, reproduction. Since I found that area, I now want to look for these other key words. I want to search for these other keywords in the same area. Keywords like surface relief features, color instruct, historical times, artists. I want to look for those keywords around that area. Okay, lets see if we can find any of these. So starting from this area over here. Okay, Here it talks about 16th century. Now, 16th century is talking about a historical period, right? So that is actually sending them language. For historical times, it can be Andi. Here we have the word artists. It also mentions artists in the question Let's see what else we had the word color and also surface relief. So I'm pretty sure we're going to find the answers to questions 29 30 in this area. So now what I want to do is I want to read this question. So it says. However, in historical times, artists such as Leonardo were happy to instruct Dodge someone we have to find out who that someone is to instruct someone to produce copies off their work. Okay, so who did artists instruct to produce copies? Who did they instruct? It's as artists seemed perfectly, perfectly content perfectly. Content is synonym language for happy that is synonym language for happy. It said artists were happy to instruct who they were happy to instruct or assigned the reproductions off their creations to their workshop. Apprentices, apprentices, Apprentice means someone who helps you out, someone who helps you out like a student or, um, an assistant. So let's see if we can find this word. Apprentices in the answer choice. Okay, here I see the word assistance. So that is synonym language for apprentices. So the correct answer is going to be No. Let's move on to the next part. And these days, new methods of reproduction allow excellent replication off surface really features as well as color. And what? So it's saying that nowadays, with the new methods, we can copy exactly the surface really features as well as color and something else. Three things surface really features color and what so let's look around here. It talks about color and surface relief so Let's read this sentence. It starts from over here on today. The task of reproducing pictures is incomparably more simple on Reliable with rep a graphic techniques that allow the production of high quality prints made exactly to the original scale with faithful color values and even with duplication off the surface relief off the painting. Okay, so we can copy three things in exactly the same manner. So two of those things are color and surface relief. What is the third thing? The third thing is scale. High quality prints can be made exactly to the original scale, so scale is going to be the correct answer for question number 30. So I found the answer to Number 29 here, and the answer to number 30 is over here. Scale. Let's try to find that sighs. It says size. So that is synonym language for scale. Yeah, there's no other answer choice that can fit. So the correct answer is going to be G great. Now let's do our final question. Number 31. It says it is regrettable that museums still promote the superiority off original works off heart, since this may not be in the interests off the off who? It may not be in the interest off who? That's what we have to find out. So I'm looking for keywords related to regrettable. Promote superiority. Let's see if we can find that I'm gonna be looking after this line down here. Okay, over here, it says, placed severe limitations place severe limitations on over here. It talks about promotion to promote. So I remember that this was one of our key words from the question on we're looking for. Specifically, we're looking for a type of people or a group of people for whom this promotion may not be in the best interest. So promotion of the original works of art. So let's read this part. Here we are, it says. But despite an implicit recognition that the spread off good reproductions can be culturally valuable, museums continue to promote the special status off their original work. Unfortunately, this seems to play severe limitations on the kind of experience offered to visitors offered to whom to visitors. So that is going to be the correct answer for question Number 31 visitors. So it says it may not be in the best interest, so we're talking about something that is not ideal, something that is not optimal. So that's why I thought that I might find my answer over here because it mentions how this something, whatever this is, is going to play severe limitations on the experience. So it seems that if something is going to place severe limitations on your experience than that may not be the ideal thing, the optimal thing to do. So that's what they're talking about, that it may not be in the best interest off visitors. Okay, so that's going to be the answer to number 31 visitors. Yeah, I don't see that here. Okay, Public. So the correct answer will be deep public. That is synonym language for visitors. So those are all of the answers and Ah, hold this clears things up for you. I hope you have now a better understanding of how to answer the summary question. Then you feel more confident answering them in the next video. We'll go over the next type of question. 31. How to Answer Matching Questions: here, there. In this video, we're going to be going over the matching question type. So this is what the matching question looks like. You have a bunch of questions, and you have to match these questions with the correct answer choice. You know that this is Imagine question when the question asks you to match each statement with the correct answer choice. Now, this question does not go in order. However, it is still a very simple question to do so. You should not have any trouble with it. Most of the times there's going to be plenty off proper now's like over here, so these questions are going to be very easy to answer. So let me now give you a bit off explanation about this question type. As you already know, it is not in order, but still very easy to do. The next thing you need to know is that for this question type, you can underline the keywords in the questions, but you can also underline the keywords in the answer choices. That means that you have to basically look at the keywords in the questions and the answer choices, and you have to decide which keywords are better if the keywords in the question are better than you should look for those keywords in the reading passage. However, if the keywords from the answer choices are better than go ahead and use those keywords to find the matching satin Cindy reading passage next, Just like always, this question is going to be formed from only 1 to 2 sentences in the reading passage. Now, typically, answer choices can only be used once, so most of the times when you get answer choices, those answer choices can only be used. Once, However, there can be times when there are more questions than the answer choices. For example, there might be five questions, but only four answer choices. But if this is the case, the directions will tell you it's going to tell you in the directions. That announcer choice may be used more than once. Finally, you have to be able to scan for keywords, and you have to understand synonym language. Remember, guys, this is an English test, so they want to find out your ability to understand English. So the way that they're going to test your understanding off English is by testing you on synonym language. Great. Now let's go over the basic strategy. So there are four main steps to this basic strategy. You've already seen this basic strategy before, but let's run through it one more time. So the first step you're going to do is marked the keywords. This time, the keywords can be in the questions, but also in the answer choices. You just have to find out which keywords are the easiest. Next, you can put a check mark next to the easy questions you have to identify. Wish of these questions is the easiest one on do the easy ones first. Next, you have to scan the passage and find your keywords or the synonyms for those keywords. And again, when we say keywords, we are talking about keywords from the question or from the answer choices. Finally, you have to make sure that you have found the correct answer. So the only way that you can do that is by double checking and confirming that your aunt's or fits with the words that connect to the information that is being asked. So your answer has to connect to the connecting words it should connect to the information that the question is asking you for. So those are the four steps that you have to do. This question does not go in order, so you don't have to put the question number next to the matching sentence in the reading passage. Now, let me show you some examples off this question type. So right here we have a question set on what you have to do here is mashed these questions with these answer choices. Now, over here we have only three questions, but we have five answer choices. So what this means is that two of these answer choices are not going to be used, so we're only going to use three answer choices now. The first thing that we're going to do with these questions is, first, we're going to mark the keywords. Let's go ahead and mark the keywords in the questions. So here we have key words like exercises, gifted pupils, accurate work goals, valuable tool, self reliance, gifted Children channel their feelings, assist their learning. Now, these air decent keywords. I wouldn't say that they are the best keywords. I don't think that they're going to be very easy to find if we start to look for these keywords. So what other keywords do we have for this question set was down here. We've got some excellent keywords down here. All of these are proper noun these proper. Now they're going to be so much more easier to look for than these keywords. So the question is, wish keywords are the easiest to locate the ones in the questions or the ones in the outer choices. So you have to know guys, which keywords are the easiest? Because sometimes the keywords in the answer choices may be easier. Other times, keywords from the questions can be easier. In this case, the key words from the answer choices are much easier. So we're going to be locating these keywords. We're not going to be looking for these keywords. We're going to first look for these keywords on after we have found these keywords. Then we are going to scan the surrounding area to look for these other keywords to find out which question matches up with each answer choice. So we're gonna work backwards in a way. So typically, you have seen me locate the keywords from the questions, and then we scan the keywords from the answer choices to make sure that we have chosen the correct answer right now for this question type, we're going to be doing the opposite. We're going to be working backwards. So we're going to look for the key words from the answer choices. And when we have located these keywords in the reading passage or when we have found our imagine Sutton's, then we're going to start looking for these keywords from the questions to find out which question is going to be the correct pick for the corresponding answer choice. Now, let's go ahead and answer these questions. I can't really say which one of these questions is going to be the easiest to look for, because right now I'm not really looking for the key words from the questions, so I cannot say which one of these is going to be the easiest. Rather, what I'm doing here is I'm working backwards. I'm looking for the key words from the answer choices, and then we'll see which question matches up. So in this case, we're not going to be choosing the easy question first because we don't know which one we're going to be answering first, since we are looking for key words from the answer choices and not from the questions. So let me show you an example in which the correct answer is going to be for number 18. So here is our question. Here is our little box. The list of people on what you would do at this point is, once you have come to the question set and once you have marked these keywords, then you're going to come to your reading passage on You're going to start looking for all of these key words. You have to know all of these words kind of half them in the back of your mind. Freeman Shore and Kanevsky else. How'd Symington boy carts? Okay, so have all of those names in the back of your mind so that when you are scanning through this reading passage, you're going to answer the question for whichever keyword appears first. So right now I'm scanning and I see here it says Sure and Kanevsky sure and Kanevsky, so soon as I see that keyword. Sure And Kanevsky, I already know that this keyword is going to be talking about this option number be so that's what we are going to be answering first. So now we just have to find out. B is the correct answer. Choice for which question? So we have three questions. 18 19 on 20. Sure, and Kanevsky is the correct answer. Choice for which question? Well, we don't know yet. So let's read the sentence, it says over viewing research on the thinking process off highly able Children on in parentheses. It mentions the research study carried out by Shore and Kanevsky. So highly able Children put the instructors problem succinctly. If they the gifted merely think more quickly than we need. Onley teach more quickly. Okay, so let's carry on. It says here, if they merely make fewer errors than we can shorten the practice. So here it's further explaining what was in the previous sentence. So in summary, it's basically saying this if they merely make fewer errors, that is, if the gifted Children or the gifted pupils, if they make fewer errors, then we can shorten their practice time. So here what we see is the matching sentence. We're going to find out which question this answer choice matches up with by reading around this area. So right here we have synonym language. It says fewer errors, fewer errors is sending him language for accurate work on we have another synonym language here, it says. Shortened. The practice on that is synonym language for less time can be spent on exercises so shortened the practice. You can spend less time on exercises. So those are the examples off synonym language used in this reading passage in this managing Sutton's. So since we have located the synonym language in the reading passage on, we have matched it with the language in question number 18. Now we know that the option option B is the correct answer. Choice for Question number 18. Do you see that? Do you see how we're working backwards? So once we have located the keyword shore and Kanevsky, then we start to read around that area and we see which question is this sentence matching up with? Where do we find the synonym language? In this case, we find the synonym language in question number 18. So that's how we know that the answer to question number 18 is going to be be Let me now show you the next question. The next question is number 19. So we're not really looking at the question right now, so I'm not going to read it because we don't care about the question right now. We're not looking for the key words from the question, and I'm not really trying to understand the question right now. Right now, I'm only focused on finding these keywords in the reading passage. So I'm going to go to my reading passage and I'm going to see which one of thes keywords am I able to locate? So let's can. Alright, right here I see as out. And here I see Ciment in or Simon Tin. I'm not sure how that's pronounced. So here are the two key words from the answer choices else held on Symington, O K. C and D. Now what we have to do is first, let's go ahead and mark these keywords else held on Symington next. What we have to do is we have to read around this area to find out which question is this language corresponding with. So let's start reading from up here because this sentence talks about else out, and then the next sentence talks about Symington. So let's start up here. But scientific progress is not all. Theoretical knowledge is also vital to outstanding performance. Individuals who knew a great deal about a specific domain will achieve at a higher level than those who do not. Okay, so that's what else how it was talking about at this point. What we would do is we would look for the key words in this sentence, and we would try to see if anything in this sentence matches or resembles anything from our questions. From question number 19 on 20 we already answered question number 18. So right now we would see if this language matches up with the language in question number 19 or 20. So, depending on which question it matches up with the answer else, how'd option C is going to be the correct answer? Choice for that question. So what we would do at this point is we would scan this sentence to look for the key words from the questions. For example, with this question Number 19 we would look for keywords like self reliance, valuable two goals. So let's go ahead and scan this sentence for these keywords on. I do not see anything about self reliance here, so there's nothing about self reliance. I also don't see anything about self reliance being a valuable tool. So I don't think that my answer is going to be right here. So let's read the next sentence about Symington. Let's see which question this answer choice is going to be the correct answer for here we go. Research with creative scientists by Symington brought him to the conclusion that above a certain high level characteristics such as independence all right, there we go. Independence is synonym for self reliance that is synonym language. So Independence seemed to con tribute mawr to the reaching off the highest levels off expertise than intellectual skills due to the great demand off effort and time needed for learning and practice. Okay, so it seems that the answer choice de Ciman Tin is going to match up with Question number 19. Over here, you'll notice also that it says contribute, so contribute is synonym language for helps on reaching the highest levels. Off expertise is synonym language for reach their goals. So this over here is our matching sentence. We have found a lot of keywords and sending them language right here, which showed to us that the answer choice D. Symington is going to notch up with question number 19. So the correct answer for Number 19 is De Symington. Awesome. Now let's knock out our final question. Question number 20 again. I don't care about the question right now. First, I care about finding these keywords in the reading passage. Here is our reading passage. Let's go ahead and scan for these keywords. All right, here we go. It mentions broke hearts right here. I think that's how it's pronounced bull carts. So we're looking at answer choice E. On. I don't really know if this answer choice is going to be used, because remember, there are two answer choices which are not going to be used, so I don't know if E is one off them. I also don't know which question. This answer choice is going to be the correct answer for if it is in fact, used. So what we would do is first, let's mark this keyword broke hearts on. Let's read that sentence. Let's see what the sentence is really talking about, it says in Book Hearts 1991. Review off emotion in the learning off very high i Q. On highly achieving Children, she found emotional forces in harness. So here, where it says emotional forces in harness that is synonym language for channel their feelings channel their feelings. That is synonym language to harness means to bring out or to channel, to make something accessible to get access to it. That is what it means to harness something. So that is synonym language for channel their feelings or access their feelings. Okay, and then let's read the next sentence. The next sentence says they were not only curious, but often had a strong desire to control their environment, improved their learning efficiency and increase their learning resource is so here, it says, improved their learning efficiency, and that is synonym language for assist their learning. So how do we assist their learning? Well, we assist their learning. We help them in their learning by improving their learning efficiency. That's how we can help them or assist them. So that is also sending him language. So this part right here, underlined in the green color, is going to be our matching sentence. When we read that sentence that matching sentence. We're going to find out exactly which question this answer choice e book hearts matches up with because right now we don't know which question is going to match up with. But after reading the matching sentence and after locating the keyword and the synonym language, now we know that this mashing sentence is matching up with question number 20. So then it makes sense that the correct answer to number 20 is e book hearts. So that's how you have to answer these questions. You have to look at wish keywords are the easiest. If the keywords and the questions are easy, then go ahead and locate those keywords in the reading passage. But if the keywords in the answer choices are easier than you have to work your way backwards, you have to locate the keywords from the answer choices in the reading passage and then find the matching sentence read around that area and find out which question is the correct match for any given as her choice. So I hope that makes sense. In the next two videos, we're going to be going over more practice questions, and I'm going to show you how to answer these questions in more detail. 32. Matching: Practice Set 1: Hey, folks, in this video, I'm going to be going over practice at number one for the matching question. This time we have an example from Cambridge. I'll spoke Number nine. Test number two on this is reading passage number two. So this article is going to be about Venus in transit. So always good to read that title to get a quick overview off what the article is going to be about. Now let's go down to our questions here on the first thing that we do when we start answering the questions is we have to first mark the keywords. So right here, which keywords? Do you think I should mark the key words in the question or the keywords in the answer choices? Which keywords do you think are going to be easier to locate? If you guessed the keywords from the answer choices, then you are correct. The reason is that these key words are proper now, so it's going to be very easy to find them. So we're going to be looking for all of the's names. Edmond Halley, Johannes Kepler, Guayama legend still think that's how it's pronounced, and then I think it's Johann Franz Anka. I'm not sure, but those are the names that we are going to be looking for in the reading passage. So have these names in the back of your mind. And once you know what you're going to be looking for, then let's come back up toe are reading passage and let's start scanning for these names. So here we go. Okay. I see a name here, Professor Simon, New Comb. But we did not have this name in the answer choice. So that is not going to be the correct answer for anything here. I see Edmond Halley. Okay, so there's something about Halle right there. I'm gonna scan to see if this name appears again. I do see it appearing here and then a little bit here. Here. Okay, so he talks about Holly in a bunch of different places. So the word Halle seems to be quite common. I'm seeing this name again and again. So what I'm going to do, guys, is I'm not going to start off with Edmond Halley because it seems to me that this is going to be a little bit harder to find. Since the name appears several times So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to move on to the other names. So I'm going to start looking for the other names on. I'm going to start off by looking for more information on the keywords that only appear once or maybe twice. Not too many times. Not like the word Holly. So we're still scanning. And here I see the other name, Guayama. Large until and then here it appears again. Let's see what else? There's nothing. Here. Here. I see the other name Johann Franz Enka on There was one more name I was looking for. Have I found all of them? Your Hans France and girlish until Ali on there was one more Johannes Kepler, Right. We are also still looking for Johannes Kepler. I haven't found that yet. I must have missed it. Okay, here we go. Johannes Kepler. So that's the other name. So what I notice here about these answer choices is that the name Holly appears a few times in the reading passage. The name Johannes Kepler appears only once legend Teal appears pretty much only once. I think that is divided up into two separate sentences here legend deal. And then here again in the next sentence. And then finally, Johann Franz Anka only appears. Who wants down here? So is going to be much easier for me to start with any off these names rather than to start with Edmond Halley. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to answer B, C and D first, and then I'm gonna come back to Edmund Halley. So here we go. Let's start off with Johannes Kepler. Let's see what it says. So it says, Johannes Kepler in the early 17th century had shown that the distances off the planets from the sun governed their orbital speeds, which were easily measurable. So let's come down here and let's see which question matches up with this answer choice. Which question matches with the language that we find in this sentence about Johannes Kepler? So a good way to do this would be to simply mark the keywords in the questions. Let's go ahead and do that. So Number 18 talks about calculating the distance off the sun from the Earth are based on observations off Venus Andi. It's quite accurate, with a fair degree off accuracy number 19 says something about understanding the distance off the sun from the earth could be worked out. Center name four could be measured or could be calculated. Could be worked out by comparing observations off off the transit. And then here, Number 20 says something about realizing the time taken, the time taken by a planet to go around the sun. And what does that depend on on something to do with the distance from the sun? And then finally, 21 talks about witnessing a Venus transit but unable to make any calculations. So these are the key words that were going to be looking for. I see that a lot off. This has to do with calculating the distance off the sun from the Earth. It mentions that here and then here and here again. So when we are looking at the area around these keywords in the reading passage, then we have to look for these keywords as well and find out wish, question. Do the keywords and the connecting words match up with. So let's come back up here where it talks about Johannes Kepler so hair it's talking about the distance off the planet from the sun, so we know that we're probably going to find our answer around here. So this right here is going to be our matching sentence. In fact, that's where we're going to find our answer on. Harris says Johannes Kepler in the early 17th century had shown that the distances off the planets from the sun governed their orbital speeds, which were easily measurable. So what do you think is going to be the correct answer, guys? It's talking about how the orbital speeds could be calculated. So here it says that he actually calculated the distance. It doesn't say in the reading passage that he actually calculated the distance. It doesn't say that Harris says, that he understood that the distance of the sun could be worked out by comparing observations off a transit. It doesn't mention anything about comparing observations off a transit, so that's not the right answer, either. Number 20 it says he realized. But the time taken by a planet to go around the sun depends on its distance from the sun. So this is going to be the correct answer because it's talking about how we can calculate the orbital speed by finding out the distance from the sun. So this is synonym language. It talks about how we can calculate the time taken that can be seen a synonym language for orbital speed because the speed can tell you how long something is going to take. How much time is it going to take? So that is the correct answer for Number 20 B is the right answer here. Now let's move on to our next question. Well, we don't know which question we're going to answer next, right? So let's just move on to our next key work. So we already used be. You can put a line across it if it helps you just to, ah, element it. The answer choices. It can be easier for you to look at these answer choices if you're also eliminating them at the same time as you answered them. So if it helps you go ahead and do that, so let's move on to our next answer. Choice. Option C. Guayama less gentle. So here we go. So here is our key word. So let's start reading this sentence from over here. The person who deserves most sympathy is the French astronomer Guayama Legion till he was Thor did by the fact that the British were besieging his observation site at Puncture in India. Okay, I'm looking specifically for something to do with distance. Or remember, guys, I'm looking for these keywords. I'm looking for distance from the sun, Distance from the sun. Something about a transit, perhaps something about Venus calculations. These are the key words that I am interested in. So I'm not saying anything about that here. I do see transit right here. So perhaps we're going to find our answer there. Okay. And then it talks about making accurate observations. So I have a good feeling that we're going to find our answer somewhere around there around this area. So Harris says that fleeing on a French warship crossing the Indian Ocean legend teal saw a wonderful transit. But the ship's pitching a rolling ruled out any attempt at making accurate observations. Okay, so we know that legend deal saw a wonderful transit, but his observations were not accurate because his ship kept rolling around and turning, probably because of the ocean waves. So for that reason, he wasn't able to make accurate observations. So let's see. We already answered number 20. So here it says, he witnessed the Venus transit but was unable to make any calculations. So that is synonym language, unable to make any calculations that is, synonym language for unable to make accurate observations. So the correct question that matches up with answer choice C is going to be number 21. Number 21 is C, no less knockout. Johann Franz Anchor Option D Leslie Wish. One that matches up with that appears right here. It says Johann Franz, anchor director of the Berlin Observatory, finally determined a value for the AU. Based on all these parallax measurements, blah, blah, blah. I am looking for keywords related to accuracy, measurements, something to do with, perhaps distance. Okay, there's transits that's also related accuracy. All right, More stuff about measuring Parallax Principal measured the distance to the stars that that's quite relevant. It's talking about distance to the stars and let's see what else. Okay, and here it says how parallax shift less. Astronomers calculate the distance how parallax shift lets astronomers calculate the distance. So I remember that here it mentions calculating the distance off the sun from the earth. So let's go ahead on read the sentence, it says, knowing the with off earth orbit, the parallax shifts. Knowing the with off arts orbit, the parallax shift less. Astronomers calculate the distance, so the parallax shift lets astronomers calculate the distance. So here, it says, calculate the distance of the sun from the Earth based on observations off Venus with a fair degree of accuracy. Want to make sure that the word Venus appears here? All right, so it doesn't mention the word Venus here, but it's talking about transits, and I know that when they say transit, they're talking about Venus transits. So the word Venus appears in the previous paragraph on they're still continuing that discussion about Venus and the transits of Venus. So I know that this is talking about the same thing. So the correct answer for 18 is going to be De Johann Franz Enka. He was the one who calculated the distance off the sun from the Earth. Great. Now let's knock out our final question. Number 19 on The answer is probably going to be a Edmond Halley. But let's go ahead and make sure. Anyways, um, let's make sure that that is in fact, the correct answer. So Harris says. Edmond Halley, this where it first appears in the reading passage. So let's read this sentence and you can put it all down to the extraordinary polymath Edmond Halley. In November 16 77 Holly observed a transit off the innermost Planet Mercury from the desolate island of ST Helena. He realized that from different latitudes, the passage of the planet across the sun's disk would appear to differ. Okay, and check this out. Down here is talking about how we can calculate the parallax angle on its talking about talking more about calculation and calculating the distance of the Earth from the stars. So our answer is probably going to be around here where it mentions the distance off the earth from the sun. So Harris says, Let's read this sentence. It says calculating this angle would allow astronomers to measure what was then the ultimate goal. It would allow astronomers to measure the distance off the earth from the sun. So here, Number 19 says he understood that the distance off the sun from the earth could be worked out or calculated. That is synonym language could be calculated by comparing observations off a transit. OK, comparing observations off a transit. So here we are talking about calculating, calculating the parallax angle on when it says parallax angle. We are talking about the parallax angle off the transit. Okay, It mentions that over here it's talking about measuring the transit. So by timing the transit from different angles, we could calculate the parallax angle. And this could help us to determine the distance off the earth from the sun. So that is, in fact, the correct answer. The answer to number 19 is a Edmond Halley. Awesome. So we're now done with this question set in the next video. I'm going to be taking you through practice. Set number two. 33. Matching: Practice Set 2: in this video, we're going to be going over practice. Set number two for the Imagine questions. So this time we have reading passage. Number three on this example comes from the Cambridge. I'll spoke Number seven. So let's read our title. It says that this reading passage is going to be about the effects off noise. Let's come down to our questions. So here we have our imagine questions that says Match H sentence with the correct answer choice. So here we have 123456 different questions. And here we have five answer choices. So what that means is that one of thes answer choices is going to be used twice now, guys, what do you think are going to be the easiest keywords for this question set? Which keywords would you look for in the reading passage? The key words from the questions or the keywords from the answer choices. Which ones are easier? If you guessed, answer choices, then you are correct. Basically, we're going to be looking for all of the's keywords. All of these are proper. Now's These are names off people, so we're going to be looking for these keywords in the reading passage on. Once we locate these keywords, then we're going to look around that area to look for these keywords from the question in order to find out which question is the correct match for each one of thes answer choices. So let's take a look. Here we have glass on singer Broadbent, Finkelman on Glass on Go in at Al If you don't know what at all means, that just means on others, Okay and others, that's just a shorter version off saying on other people were involved. Typically, we used this when we are talking about a research study, so usually there's a group of people who are involved in a research. So in such a case we might mention the name off the main researcher. And then we may say, at AL, which means on others, just to indicate that there were more people involved. So let's look for these keywords now in the reading passage. We're going to start scanning from up here, so right here I see glass on Singer. Let's keep scanning because I want to make sure that this keyword doesn't appear again. It's possible that this keyword may appear again, in which case I will have to search for the answers in those other locations as well where this keyword reappears. So let's just go through this whole reading passage and let's just Mark are keywords first . I think that will be the easiest way to go about this. Okay, here I see the other key word. Broadbent, Finkelman and Glass mentions here again, glass and singer. But I see what else Over here again, I see glass on singer here. I see. Go ahead at all again. Go in a tell and that's it. Great. So those are the keywords. So the matching sentence is going to be around this area around the area where we have found thes answer choices. So right now I'm going to start off with I'm going to start off with Broadbent and then Finkelman and God, I want to do these two first because this keyboard only appears once on this keyword also only appears one time these other keywords, for example, glass and singer. It appears several times and then go Hannah, tell that one appears twice. So I'm going to be doing these ones first. Since they only appear once So we're going to be able to find the correct matching question for these keywords much faster. All right, so we're looking at option number. Be Broadbent. Now we have to find out which question is answered. Choice be going to be the correct answer for So right now, it makes sense to mark the keywords from the questions. So let's begin. Number 35 says something about subjects exposed to know is how they find it difficult at first to concentrate on problem solving tasks. Okay, so difficult to concentrate and difficult not just at any point, but in the beginning. Number 36 talks about long term exposure to noise. I'm not going to be marking noise too much because the whole article is about noise. So this keyword is going to keep appearing everywhere. For example, here you can see noise, noise, noise, noise, more noise on more noise. Okay, so the word noise is not really going to help us much, so I'm more focused on other keywords. So long term exposure to noise can produce changes in behavior which can still be observed a year later. Okay, can be observed a year later that whole thing, in fact, is useful. Okay, Number 37. Talks about problems associated with exposure to noise do not arise if the subject knows that they can make it stop. Okay, So if the subject knows they can make it stop on. We're talking about how something does not arise. The problems do not arise. Number 38 talks about exposure to high pitch noise, which results in more errors in comparison to low pitched noise so high pitched and low pitched. Number 39 talks about how subjects find it difficult to perform three tasks at the same time when exposed to noise. So three tasks at the same time, Number 40 talks about how noise affects the subjects capacity to repeat numbers, to repeat numbers while carrying out another task. All right, so those are the key words from the question. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to be looking for these keywords from the questions around the area where I have found the key words from the answer choices. So, first, we're going to be answering the question for Broadbent. Option B answer Choice Be so let's read the sentence. This sentence starts over here, it says. For example, high noise levels interfered with the performance off subjects who were required to monitor three dials at a time. Alright says three dials at a time, $3 at a time is Sina name or seems to me to be sent a name for three tasks at the same time . Let's keep reading on a task not unlike that of an airplane pilot or an air traffic controller. All right, so the answer to this question is taken just from this one sentence. So the correct question that matches up with us a choice B is going to be number 39. Number 39 says subjects find it difficult to perform three tasks at the same time when exposed to noise. Okay, so when subjects are exposed to noise, they find it difficult to perform three tasks at the same time. And that's what it's saying up here. This is our matching sentence right here on. That's what is talking about. It's talking about how the high noise levels interfered, interfered, see, interfered is synonym language for difficult or something that causes a problem. See, this is problematic. This is difficult to do it is difficult when noise interferes with the performance when subjects have to do three tasks at the same time. So that's what it's saying up there. So the correct answer to question number 39 is be all right. Now let's move on to our next answer choice. The next one that we want to answer is Finkelman on class. Why? Because this keyword Finkelman and Glass also only appears one time in the reading passage , so we want to do the easy ones first. All right, here we have Finkelman and glass, so let's read this sentence, it says. Similarly, noise did not affect the subjects ability to track a moving line with a steering wheel, but it did interfere with his subjects ability to repeat numbers. All right, so here it talks about how noise interferes with the subjects, ability to repeat numbers to repeat numbers. Noise interferes. Okay, so that right there is our matching sentence for one of the other questions. So let's come down here. You might remember that it talks about repeating numbers in number 40. It's as noise effects of subjects capacity to repeat numbers while carrying out another task. So when we introduce the subject of noise on. We ask them to repeat numbers. It becomes difficult if they are also doing another task at the same time. So that's what it says up here. It says that noise interferes with subjects ability to repeat numbers while tracking. So while tracking is just synonym language for while doing another task, So tracking is an example off doing another task. So that is synonym language. So the correct answer to Number 40 is going to be option C. Finkelman on glass. All right, so we've got these two knocked out. Let's do de let's do that one next. Because Cohen at all that one only appears twice, which is still less than glass. And singer Glass and singer appears a few times. So let's do go in at our next. So this keyword appears down here, it appears twice. So where should we start reading? I'm not sure. Perhaps we should start reading appear. Or perhaps we should start reading down here. How would we know? Well, it's quite easy. What we're gonna do is we're going to be looking for these keywords from the questions we're gonna scan for these keywords in the questions on. We're going to see if we can find these question keywords in the reading passage by scanning. So I'm not going to start reading this sentence and I'm not going to start reading this sentence either. Or rather, I'm going to be scanning around this area to find out where I can find the keywords from the questions. So here we go. We are now scanning for keywords from the questions. Okay? It's talking about how noise can cause destruction. Hair it talks about long lasting, long lasting, could be sending him for long term exposure, long term exposure That could be synonym language. Let's keep scanning mawr. All right, here it says something about one year later, and over here it also talks about a year later. A year later, that is again, Another key word. So So what do you think, guys? Where should we read? Should we read up here? Is that where we're going to find our matching satins, or are we going to find our matching sentence down here? Well, of course we're gonna find it down here because this is where we have located. Our key words are keywords from the answer choices and also the keywords from the question . So let's read this part. It says the effects also seem to be long lasting. Ah, follow up study showed that Children who were moved to less noisy classrooms still showed greater distractibility one year later than students who had always been in the quiet schools. All right, so here is talking about how there is long term exposure, which can produce changes in behavior changes that can be observed a year later. Okay, so the correct answer. Choice for Option D Go ahead and tell the correct matching question for this answer. Choice is going to be 36 all right. When we get to Glass and Singer, let's see if we can find any of thes keywords from the question language. Specifically, I'm looking for keywords from Question number 35 37 on 38. So let's begin our scanning Harris class and singer. Okay, so let's scan for our keywords from the question. All right, so here it talks about how it says noise was quite disruptive at first. That's what it says. Noise was quite disruptive at first. On this right here is synonym language. I remember reading about that here in the question. It says subjects exposed to noise find it difficult at first to cause and trade. They find it difficult at first to concentrate, so that is synonym language for noise was quite disruptive at first. Okay, it was difficult to concentrate at first because the noise was quite disruptive at first in the beginning. So I have a feeling that we might find our answer here. This might just be one off our matching sentences. So let's read this part on DA. Let's see if we find our answer here. It says the noise was quite disruptive at first, but after about four minutes, the subjects were doing just as well on their tasks as control subjects who were not exposed to noise. All right, so here is saying that the noise was disruptive, I first, but after about five minutes, they were performing just fine. So Number 35 says that subjects exposed to noise find it difficult at first to concentrate on problem solving tasks, but only in the beginning see not during the whole time, only at first. So the correct answer for 35 is going to be a glass and singer, So let's put a next to 35. That is our answer on a Let's move on to number 37 38. Let's look for these keywords around our keywords. I know that I'm probably not going to find these keywords from the question next to Broadbent on Finger Leman, because options BNC only appear one time in the reading passage. But go ahead at all. That one appears twice on glass, and Singer appears a few times, so it's very likely that the answer to these two questions are going to be either a glass and singer or perhaps go ahead at all. It could also be none of the above. It could also be E, but ah, if it is going to be one of these names than it has to be glass and Singer or going it out . So let's start scanning. So we located glass and singer up here, and we found one off our answers over here. Now let's see if we can find our answer next to this area where glass and Singer appears again. So here we go. Let's start scanning for the keywords from the questions So here it talks about some study in which subjects were exposed to bursts off noise case, talking about different types of noise, unpredictable noise. Okay, Don't see much about that. Because we are looking mainly for these keywords. I'm looking for problems with exposure and how these problems do not arise. That's the main thing. I want to focus on how problems do not arise. And when do they not arise? They do not arise when the subject knows that they could make it stop. So that's what I'm looking for with number 37. And then I'm also looking for keywords. High pitched on low pitched, so I don't see that yet. Around here. I don't see that. So I'm just gonna keep scanning here. All right. Here. It mentions something about turning the noise off. It says option to turn the noise off. All right, so I know that this is synonym language for this part. Make it stop. Make it stop. That is synonym language for turn the noise off. Right to make it stop. So it's possible that we're going to find our matching sentence right here in this area right here. So let's go ahead and read this part. Let's read the sentence starting from here. This is true. Even if the individual never actually exercises his or her option to turn the noise off. Let's keep reading on. Just the knowledge that one has control is sufficient. All right. These two sentences are referring to some information in the previous sentence. I just want to read the previous sentence to make sure that I am correctly understanding these two sentences. Because sometimes the sentence might refer back to previous information. It might refer to information being mentioned in the previous sentence. So when this happens, then you may have to read the previous sentence in which there are no keywords, even if there are no keywords. If the sentence is referring back to a previous sentence, for example, by using the word this, then you may have to read the previous sentence to make sure that you are properly understanding the meaning. So let's go ahead and read this previous sentence, it says if the individual knows that he or she can control the noise, this seems to eliminate both its negative effects. All right, so negative effects is synonym language for problems remember we had the key word problems over here problems, and then it says, Do not arise. So here it says, eliminate. Now we can eliminate the problems. So that's the same thing as saying that the problems do not arise, so I'm pretty sure what my answer is going to be. So the answer choice a glass and singer is also the correct answer. Choice for number 37 Number 37 is also a and finally we have question number 38. It talks about the keywords, high pitch noise and low pitched noise. So let's can for these keywords. Where did I leave off a left off over here? No, down here, I left off. So let's just scan starting from here. High pitched and low pitched. Ah, sound. Those are key words. So I don't see this. I don't see these key words here, and ah, let's come. Let's start here at the beginning. I just want to make sure that I haven't missed it, so we talks about high noise levels, but that's not the same thing as high pitched. Those are not the same keywords here. It talks about loud bursts, predictable noise, unpredictable noise. Soft noise, but I don't see anything about high pitched noise and low pitched noise. I see loud noise, soft noise, predictable noise, unpredictable noise. But I don't see anything about high paged or low pitched. Those keywords don't even appear in our reading passage. So I'm going to conclude that the answer to number 38 is e none of the above because that information is simply not available in our reading passage. So there we go. Those are all of our answer choices. I hope that you now have a better understanding of how toe answer this question type. In the next video, we're going to be going over the next type of question. 34. How to Answer Paragraph Location Questions: All right, so now we're going to be delving into the paragraph. Location. Question. This is a tricky question. Ah, lot of students have a tough time with it, But in this video, I'm going to show you how to do this question effectively on how to increase your chances off answering these questions correctly. So here we go. This is what the paragraph location questions look like. You will know that this is a paragraph location question because right over here is going to ask you about which paragraph contains the falling information. So that tells you that you have to be looking for a certain paragraph. Sometimes it might also say which section contains the falling information that is also possible. Doesn't usually happen. Usually they say paragraph, But you could also see the word section substituted for paragraph over here. So these questions are not in order on, as indicated by the red dot Over here, this is a harder question. So, ideally, you should leave this question for the end. And when I say leave it for the end, I don't mean leave it for the end of the test. Okay? Don't do that. I mean, leave it for the end off that reading passage. So, for example, if you have three different types of questions for reading Passage Number one, then you should do the easy questions Forest for that reading Passage number one. And then once you have answered all questions from the first reading passage, you can then move on to Al answering, reading Passage number two again. You have to do the same thing on. After that, you can move on to reading Passage number three. So let me give you a bit of explanation, a little bit more information. So as you already know, these questions are not in order, so they are challenging. So save them for last, because when you save these questions for the end, you will give yourself more time to understand what the passages about. So when you go and do the easy questions forest, you're going to build a better understanding about that reading passage. You'll get a chance to familiarize yourself more with the information in the passage, so this way it will be much faster for you to locate the information. The questions from the paragraph location questions are going to be made up with information from different paragraphs on. Here's the thing about this question in the paragraph location question. You have to look for very specific information in the question is going to ask you for a very specific information and you have to look for that specific information. This question is different from the headings questions. We're going to cover the headings question in a later video, but right now you just need to understand that the paragraph location question is different from the headings questions in that the paragraph location question asks for very specific information, whereas the headings question asks you for the main idea off a certain paragraph. So in the headings question, you have to look for the dressed off the meaning off that paragraph. Okay, we're looking for the main idea off that paragraph, but not so in paragraph. Location questions for paragraph location questions. It's very specific information that is probably going to be mentioned in one or two sentences. Take note that this is a tough question, so you should expect to see a lot off synonym language. And when the question is asking you for specific information, that specific information is going to be disguised. It's going to be hidden in some sort off synonym language. Finally, as you've seen with other question types, the information that this question is going to ask you for is going to come from only one or two sentences in the reading passage. Now let's go over the basic strategy. So first you're going to be marking the keywords in the paragraph location questions, and then you're just going to leave those questions for the end. So after you have marked the keywords in those questions, don't do anything with them. Just leave them be and move on to doing the easy questions. Forest. Do the other questions that are easier that are in order? Do those ones first, such as fill in the blank Multiple choice? Yes, no questions do these ones first, because when you do these easy questions first, you'll become more familiar with the paragraphs with a reading passage, and then you can come back to the paragraph location questions, and it will be much easier for you to answer them. So when you are looking for the key words to these easy questions in the reading passage, you have to keep an eye out for the keywords from the paragraph. Location questions. So remember how we marked the keywords in step number one in the paragraph. Location questions. Well, you have to have those keywords in the back of your mind so that when you are scanning for the keywords to these easy questions, you'll have the opportunity to also take note off the keywords from the paragraph location questions. And if those keywords jump out at you while you are searching for the key words to these easy questions, then go ahead and mark them. Then once you have finished answering the easy questions first after that, you can return to the paragraph location questions or to other difficult questions like pick from list or summary questions. Okay, so do the easy ones first, then come back to the harder questions and do those at the end. And when you do come back to these hard questions at the end, you might be wondering, where should I start? Which questions should I answer first? Well, that's quite easy. Hopefully, by this point you will already have noticed some keywords from the paragraph location questions. So while you were scanning for the keywords to the easy questions. You will already have noticed some keywords from the paragraph location questions. So since you've already found some keywords from those paragraph location questions, it's best to start their start with those questions first, because those are questions for which you already have the information. So start there. Now let me take you through some examples. Let me show you this basic strategy that we've just learned in action. Let's apply that to these questions and see how to answer these questions. So here it asks us which paragraph contains the following information? The answer choices are from a through H, so we have to find out which of these paragraphs is going to be the correct answer choice for each one of thes questions. So first we're going to start off by marking are keywords. So remember. So right now we're looking at or reading passage on Let's say that we have three different types of questions in our reading passage on this is one of the question types. What we would do is before we answer any questions before we answer the easy questions or the difficult questions were first going to come to these questions on, we're going to mark the keywords in these questions. So let's go ahead and mark the keywords for question number one here. I'm only going to mark project on natural phenomenon. In such a case, I'm trying to keep my keywords toe a minimum. I don't want toe Mark too many keywords, because otherwise I can't hold them in the back of my mind. So it's best to stick with the best keywords. The easiest keywords in this case project a national phenomenon are pretty good keywords. When I say keywords, I'm mainly referring to subject object on verbs. Those are the best keywords. If you have proper announce and numbers, those are off course, fantastic as well. You're probably not going to see proper announce and numbers, though, with the paragraph location questions. It's rather rare, so stick with subject object on Forbes. Let's move on to question number two. So here I'm only going to mark successful. And then for question number three, I'm just going to mark definition right here. We have the word geo engineering, and this word reappears here as well as down here. So this is a repetitive keywords it seems that the whole article is going to be about geo engineering, so there's not a very useful keyword for us, so it doesn't make sense to mark this now. Once you have marked the keywords by underlining or circling them, just leave them alone. Don't do anything with them. Do not answer them. You have to save these questions for the end At this point, where you would do is simply leave these questions and you would go on to answering the other questions first, other questions that are easy that are in order, do those questions forest and then come back to these questions at the end. This will give you a chance to become familiar with the concepts and the ideas off the reading passage. Now, at this point, when you do come back to these questions after answering the easy questions, the question is, where should you start? Which one of these questions should you answer first? Well, you have to start by answering the questions for which you have already located the keywords. Okay, if you already located the keywords for any of these questions while you were searching for the answers to the easy questions. Start with those questions, Okay, because these air questions for which you already have the information you've already located the keywords. So start there because these are going to be the easiest questions for you to answer. So let's say that in this example over here, Question Number three is the question to which we located our keyword while we were looking for the answers to the easy questions. First, let's say that while I was searching for the answers to the easy questions, I came across the keyword definition or ah, sending them language for definition. And let's say that I already located this information. Well, in such a scenario, it makes sense to start by answering question number three first because I've already found the information for this question. So I'm going to start off by answering question number three in this case. Ah, final thing to keep in mind before we go on to answering these questions is pay attention to these words in the red color. I have highlighted them for you to show you that these questions are asking you for very specific information. Okay, again, these questions are not like the headings questions in the headings question. They want you to identify the main idea off the entire paragraph. That's not what these questions are about. These questions are looking for very specific information. For example, Question Number one is looking for a mention off this geo engineering project. Okay, a mention off this geo engineering project Number two is looking for a very specific example, and number three is looking for a definition, so those are very specific pieces of information that you have to look for. Now, let's go ahead and start off by answering these questions on. I'm going to start off by answering question number three. So question three is, Ah, common definition off Geo engineering. So let's look at our paragraphs. Now let's say that we are comparing these two paragraphs. Of course, when you are actually sitting in your test, you are going to have the entire reading passage and you're going to have multiple paragraphs through which you will have to search the information. In this case, our answer choices are between paragraphs a through H. So let's say for the sake of this example, just to show you how it works, we're going to be comparing these two paragraphs. So at this point, assuming that I've already located this information while I was looking for the answer to the easy questions first. So while I was scanning these paragraphs, I came across the synonym language for definition. And that is this part right here, a term which generally refers to to something so anything that is a term that refers to something is synonym language for definition, so that is sending them language. So I'm pretty sure that I'm going to find my answer over here. At this point, I would underline the matching Statens, and I would read this matching sentence to make sure that that is, in fact, the correct answer. So here he says something about Geo engineering. A term with generally refers to the intentional large scale manipulation off the environment. So it's defining geo engineering. What is the common definition of geo engineering while it tells you that right here? So the correct answer is going to be a Let's move on to question number one. Now we are going to be comparing these two paragraphs C and D on. I'm going to be scanning for these keywords and especially sending them language. I'm expecting to find a lot of synonym language since this is a difficult question. So here we go. I'm looking for Project on earlier natural phenomenon A Here I see projects. So maybe our information is in this paragraph. I also want to look for earlier natural phenomenon. Remember, we are looking for very specific information. I don't see anything here about earlier natural phenomenon. So let's move on to paragraph D. Okay, look at that. It says, modelled on historic volcanic explosions, something that is historic is sending them language for something that happened earlier. Something that happened in the past on volcanic explosions are an example off. A national phenomenon that is synonym language, so modeled on historic volcanic explosions, is synonym language for based on earlier natural phenomenon. OK, to be modeled is synonym language for to be based on. So this is where we're going to have our matching sentence. This is the part where we're going to find our answer. The sentence says The idea is modeled on historic volcanic explosions such as Dad off Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. So the correct answer choice is going to be D because in paragraph D, we have a mention off a geo engineering project that is based on an earlier natural phenomenon. Okay, be very attentive to the synonym language that is being used. It is going to be very relevant, and this is where is either going to make or break your score. You have to be able to recognize this synonym language and also comprehend the synonym language. Let's go ahead and answer our final question. Question number two is an example off a successful use off geo engineering. Okay, so we're looking for an example that is successful a successful example. So here we have thes two paragraphs were going to be comparing paragraph B and D. So let's look for sending him words and substitutes for the word successful. We're specifically looking for an example that is the specific information that we are searching for. So here we go right here, right away. I see this phrase shown to work something that is shown toe work is sending him language for something that is successful. It successfully works, so that is synonym language. So it's likely that I'm going to find my answer over here, so I'm going to underline this. This may be our matching sentence. Now, let's go ahead and read this matching sentence on Let's see if this is, in fact, the correct answer. It says Geo engineering has been shown to work, at least on a small, localized scale. All right, so right there. We have an example a successful example off the use of geo engineering. So the correct answer is going to be be and that is it. We are now finished with this question set in the next video. I'm going to be taking you through more practice questions, so I'll see you there. 35. Paragraph Location: Practice Set 1: Now that you know how to answer the paragraph location Question, let us take a look at our practice. That number one this example comes from the Cambridge pile's book number nine, Test number two. And here we have reading passage number one. So what I'm going to do here is let us come down to our questions. So here we have our questions that in this set we have six questions on we have a total of nine sections or nine paragraphs. So we have nine different answer choices. So remember the way toe identify the paragraph location. Question is, is going toe ask you right here. Which section contains the falling information or instead of section? It can also say the word paragraph. Which paragraph contains the following information. So whenever you have to find the correct paragraph and match that to the question, that is a paragraph location question. So when you get your reading passage, for example, here I'm looking at reading passage number one. What I would do is I would first come down to the questions, and then I would look at all the different question types in this reading passage. So some off them. Maybe more tricky wants, for example, the paragraph location question here. Other questions may be easier questions like fill in the blank or multiple choice. So the first thing that I would do is I would come over here and I would start to mark these keywords from the paragraph location question. So I'm going to be marking only the most important keywords subject, object and Forbes. I don't want to mark too many keywords, because if I do that, then it can get a little bit overwhelming. And it can be harder to have thes keywords in the back of my mind while I go about looking for the answers to the easy questions first. So that's why I want to keep my keywords toe a minimum, and I want toe only mark the keywords that are going to be the most helpful. So for question number one, I'm marking National Policy Initiative here. I'm going to mark global team effort. Number three. We're looking for a hypothesis as to one reason behind the growth in classroom noise. Number four. We're looking for a demand for suitable worldwide regulations. Number five is a list off medical conditions that can put your in at more risk on number six. We are looking for the estimated proportion off Children in New Zealand with auditory problems. And here we can extend out, we can say at risk from noise. We are looking for a very specific type of risk. So those are the key words that I'm going to be marking for this question set on. Once I have marked these key words, I'm going to leave these questions alone. At this point, I would move on to answering the easy questions first, and I would mark the keywords for those easy questions. And then, while I'm scanning for the keywords to those easy questions during that time, I'm also going to be keeping an eye out for these keywords from the difficult question. So while you are looking for the key words to the easy questions, you have to be on the lookout for these keywords as well. Hold these keywords in the back of your mind so that you can pay attention to them and you can mark them when they present themselves to you. Okay, so for this question set, I'm going to be assuming that by now. I have already went ahead and answered my easy questions on Now that I have answered my easy questions for reading passage number one. Now I'm returning back to my difficult questions at the end. So now it is time for me to answer these questions, and the next question is, where should I start? Wish question. Should I answer first? Well, like always, we have to start with the question that is going to be the easiest for us to answer on. Which question do you think is going to be the easiest for us to answer? Whenever you have difficult questions like the paragraph location questions, you have to start off by answering the questions for which you have already located the keywords while you were searching for the answers to the easy questions. So for these questions, I'm going to be assuming that I have already found the keyword for this question. Over here, I'm assuming that I've already found keywords and sending them language related to proportion of Children in New Zealand who have auditory problems. I'm assuming that while I was looking for my answers to the easy questions, I came across synonym language for this question. So that's where I'm going to start off now. Most of the times when you answer in this way, when you answer the easy questions first and then come back to the difficult questions, it's going to become so much easier for you to answer these questions because you will have given yourself the chance to become familiar with the paragraphs. So typically speaking, you should be able to answer most of these questions right away. Okay, so in a typical situation, you will have found most of these keywords already. By the time you start to answer these questions, and you will only have to look for the answers to a couple of them that you have yet to find the key words for, so you should be able to answer most of these questions right away. So for these questions, I'm assuming that I've already found the key word to question number six up here in Paragraph A. Here it mentions the proportion of Children who have hearing loss or auditory problems, and then around here it also talks about New Zealand. So I know that I've found my answer somewhere around here that is going to be the matching sentence on Let's read the sentence. It says the New Zealand Ministry of Health has found from research carried out over two decades that 6 to 10% off Children in that country are affected by hearing loss. So that is the proportion of Children who are affected by hearing loss in New Zealand. On question, Number six is asking us the estimated proportion off Children in New Zealand with auditory problems. So which paragraph do we see that specific information in? Remember, we're always looking for very specific information in the paragraph. Location questions. So here that specific information that proportion of Children in New Zealand with auditory problems or hearing loss that is synonym language. We have found this information in paragraph A. So the correct answer to question Number six is a Now let us move on to our remaining questions on. Right now I'm going to be looking for a liftoff medical conditions. I think that that is going to be rather easy to find a list off medical conditions. So I'm going to be looking specifically for this keyword and also this keyword at risk from noise. I'm specifically looking for the answer to question number five. But while I'm looking for this keyword, I'm not just focused on this keyword alone. I'm also paying attention to all of these other keywords that appear in the rest of these questions. I'm trying to have thes keywords in the back of my mind so that while I'm scanning for this keyword, if any of these other keywords come to me, if they jump out at me, then I'm going to be marking those keywords and then answering those questions right away. Or maybe right after I find the answer to this question. So here we go. I'm looking for a list off medical conditions. And by the way, since I've already found the answer to question number six, which is paragraph A, I can just put this cross across it so that I know that I've already found the answer to Paragraph A. So then I can eliminate it and not pay any attention to that. I can just focus on the arrest of the paragraphs then, so that will save me some time. Okay? I'm looking for a list of medical conditions now. I don't see anything about that there. Nothing in paragraph C either. Okay, right here. I see a bunch of different medical conditions listed out. It's talking about hearing impairment. Autistic spectrum disorders s d a d d a d h d. So this is a list off medical conditions now. It doesn't tell us that these are medical conditions, but that is just synonym language. So you have to be able to identify when it's talking about the different types, off deficits or different types of disorders. Those are types of medical conditions that is synonym language. So the answer to question number, let's see which question was that? Question number five is D. So now that we have used up that answer choice paragraph D, you can just put a cross next to it so that you don't have to pay attention to this paragraph anymore. Great. Now let us move on to the next question. Perhaps will look for worldwide regulations, something having to do with worldwide regulations. Let's look for that. Keep in mind, I'm also on the lookout for other keywords from other questions. While I'm looking for worldwide regulations. Ain't nothing there. I'm still scanning. Okay, so over here, I see the word international that can be relevant. I also want to look for the word regulations. Standards can be synonym language for regulations, so we might find our answer. Here, Let me check a demand for suitable worldwide regulations. Now I want to also pay attention to the specific information we're looking specifically for . A demand, A demand. So it's talking about how countries are already in the process of formulating their own standards. Guys, I want to point out to your one thing that can be very helpful when you are trying to find out what the paragraph is about. What you can do is you can read what is called the topic sentence. So the topic sentence is the first sentence up here, and our first sentence in the paragraph is going to give you a general overview about what that paragraph is going to talk about. So over here, it says, a number of countries are already in the process of formulating their own standards for the control on reduction, off classroom noise, so that tells us what the paragraph is going to be about. If you have the time. Another thing that you can do is you can also read the second sentence in the paragraph as well as the last sentence in the paragraph. If you read those three sentences is going to give you a very good idea about what that paragraph is going to be about. So this could be very helpful for certain questions. When you want to find out what the paragraph is going to talk about. This way, you can narrow down on the Asir choices through which you are looking for that specific information. So we're going to talk more about this when we talk about how to answer the headings question. That is when the strategy is going to become particularly useful. So I'll talk more about that when we get to that before now. Just keep in mind that if you want to get a sense off what the paragraph is going to talk about, you can read the first sentence on if you have time. And if you're also a fast reader, then you can also read the second sentence as well as the last sentence. So let me go ahead and also read the last sentence here. It says it is imperative that the needs of these Children are taken into account in the setting off appropriate international standards to be promulgated in future. By the way, if you don't know what promulgated means, it just means to promote something or to make something widely known okay, to promote something. So this sentence is talking about how it is important for us to take into consideration the needs of these Children who have auditory problems. So it seems that this is the paragraph that we've been looking for because here in the question is asking us for the paragraph which talks about a demand for suitable worldwide regulations. On here we've seen countries. It says a number of countries. You can look at that a synonym language for worldwide. And it's talking about how we need standards and regulations to control and reduce classroom noise. So you get the idea. So the answer to question number four is going to be I. So I am going to put this cross across it next to it because I'm sure that this is the answer. If I wasn't so certain than I may not do that, then I may have left it blank and perhaps returned back to that at the end or something like that. But I'm pretty sure that I have found my answers. So I'm going to put a cross next to paragraph I Okay, so that is the answer for question number four. Let us now move on to the next question. Perhaps will go with this one. Question Number one National policy initiative. That seems like a good keyword. Should be easy enough to find Global team effort is also quite easy. So I'm gonna start off here. Let's look for number one first. So I am scanning from paragraph starting here. I'm looking for National Policy Initiative. So here we go. Guys, look at this here. It's talking about how noise and classrooms can exacerbate difficulty exacerbate means to increase or to worsen, to make something worse, to aggravate something, or to amplify or increase something. Okay, that is what that word means. And here is talking about how the noise can increase the difficulty in comprehending whatever the teacher is teaching. So here we haven't found the key word that we were looking for, which was National Policy Initiative. We were looking for that keyword, but here while I was looking for that keyword. I came across different keywords exacerbate their difficulty. And I remember that these keywords actually, our key words for this question. Over here. Question number three. Because question number three is asking us about the reason behind the growth in classroom noise. What is the hypothesis? What do we think is the reason behind these increase in classroom noise? So paragraph B seems to be talking about this very thing. So this is why it's important to have thes other keywords in the back of your mind while you are looking for your, um for whatever keyword you're looking for, just be sure to have the other keywords in the back of your mind as well while you are looking for your specific keyword. So I'm pretty sure that the answer to question number three is probably going to be be I'm not fully certain, but I think that we're going to find the answer for that over here. So anyway, I'm going to skip over that for now, and I plan to come back to it after I have answered this question. Question number one. So let us keep moving on. We are now at paragraph C. I am looking for National Policy Initiative or something related to that. Look at that. Now, here again, I found another key word. I found international working party here. It says international again. Harris says World Health Organization, all of those are relevant keywords. Not for the key word that we are looking for right now, but these are relevant keywords for other questions. Because I remember that over here it talked about global team effort. Well, this over here in paragraph C very much Sounds like global team effort. World Health Organization is involved. We're talking about international institute and so on. I feel that paragraph c might be the answer to question number two. Okay, I'm gonna come back to that, and I'm going to confirm that now, I am still looking for my first keyword, which is National Policy initiative Guys. What you can do is if it helps you. If you think that this is the answer to While I think that this is the answer to question number two so I can just put number two next to it. Um, I'm not quite sure, so I'll just put a question mark here for B I think that is the answer to question number. Or was it question number three? I think that B is the answer to question number three. So I'm gonna put question number three with a question mark next to it. I'm going to come back to these, Okay? I'm going to come back to these. Ah, so let me first look for this keyword national policy initiative. Okay? I'm gonna skip over that since we already used it. So we're gonna jump straight to paragraph E. Okay? Nothing there. National Policy initiative. Any Nothing there either. Okay. Here it seems to be talking about national policy initiative. The reason is that here is talking about developing strategies. It seems that this is an organisation. New Zealand disability strategy is an organization or perhaps a program. It says the New Zealand government developed this. So maybe it's a program, and this seems to be some sort off an initiative, some sort of an institutional regulation on the definition off national means something related to a country or a nation. Well, New Zealand is a nation, right? So, of course we're talking about national policy, something related toe national development. That is what the New Zealand government is trying to do. It is trying to enforce some sort of a regulation, some sort of a program that can help these Children. Let's go ahead and read this for a sentence. The New Zealand government has developed a New Zealand disability strategy and has embarked on a wide ranging consultation process. The strategy recognizes that people experiencing disability face significant barriers in achieving awful quality off life in areas such as attitude, education, employment and access to services. Okay, so it's talking about how people who face this disability can have a wide range of thes problems. They can face difficulty with education, employment and so on. So the New Zealand government wants to do something about it. They want to take some sort of a national initiative. So the answer to question number one, an account off national policy initiative that is going to be a church paragraph h great. So now we only have two more questions left Number two and number three on. We already kind of found the paragraph. We think we found the paragraphs for these two questions, so let's go ahead and double check to make sure that we have, in fact found our answer. So here we're looking for a description off global team effort. Okay, a description and example off a global team effort where a bunch of countries come together and they do something towards this cause. So I think that the answer to question number two is over here since it talked about International Institutes, Working Parties, World Health Organization. So I'm going to go ahead on read this sentence down here. I think that that is very relevant. So let's go ahead and read it. The International Institute Off Noise Control Engineering On the advice off, the World Health Organization has established an international working party which includes New Zealand to evaluate noise and reverberation control for school rooms. Okay, so it's talking about how World Health Organization, which is of course, composed of many different countries, all those countries are together taking an initiative. In other words, what we have here is a global team effort. So the answer to question number two is going to be see and here we have number three. That is our final question. It says Ah hypothesis as to one reason behind the growth in classroom noise. So what could be the possible reason behind this growth in classroom noise? We were looking for a hypothesis. We're not completely sure, but we want to take a good guess at it. Okay, that's what a hypothesis is. It's a very good guess, an educated guess based on the best off your reasoning. So let's go ahead and look for this reason. I think that the answer to question number three waas over here I'm gonna go ahead and remove that since we've already found the answer or that question. So let's see if this is, in fact, the answer to question number three. The reason for classroom noise. What is the reason? See over here is talking about how all of these different variables create noise in the classroom. Check this out. Read the sentence. Harris says modern teaching practices the organization off desks in the classroom. Poor classroom acoustics and mechanical means off ventilation, such as air conditioning units, all contribute to the number of Children unable to comprehend the teacher's voice. Okay, so all of those reasons together create this noise that hinders the learning process that gets in the way off the learning process now Here. Are we sure that these are the reasons? Or is this just a guess? Is it Ah, hypothesis? Well, this is a hypothesis, because here it says a preliminary study, the definition of preliminary means, something that is not yet confirmed. It is not conclusive. Okay, so the results suggest something, and we think that the results means something. But we're not 100% sure if weaken trust those results if we can rely on those results. So anything that comes out of a preliminary study, any results that come out of a preliminary study are not conclusive. So in other words, they are, ah, hypothesis because we don't yet know for sure because this is an initial study or perhaps, ah, first study. OK, not a conclusive study. We have to do many studies in order to say something conclusively. So that is a hypothesis. That is synonym language for hypothesis. A preliminary study, we're not sure. So these researchers, these researchers over here Nelson and solely have suggested that these are the things that are causing noise in the classroom. And then they further go on to say that this all amounts to heightened activity and noise levels, which have the potential to be particularly serious for Children experiencing auditory function. Deficit. Okay, basically, all this noise is having a negative effect on Children. That is what this preliminary study is telling us. So the answer to question number three is going to be be okay. We're gonna put be over there and we are now done with this question set. I hope you found this helpful. Also you in the next video in which will go over how to answer practice. Set number two. 36. Paragraph Location: Practice Set 2: here, there. In this video, we're going to be going over practice at number two for the paragraph. Location. Question. This question comes from the Cambridge. I'll spoke Number nine. Test number three Reading passage number three. The title of this reading positive is information theory The big idea. Now let us come down to our questions. You might notice that we have some key words here that are already highlighted. I'll get to that in just a second. Now, over here we have our six questions. The question says which paragraph contains the falling information? And we have to use thes six paragraphs from a through F as our answer choices. Now I've already gone ahead and mark the key words here. So for question number 27 I've marked the factors that are affecting the transmission off information. That's what we are looking for. So remember in paragraph location questions, we are looking for very specific information. So here we are looking for the specific factors that are affecting the transmission off information For question number 28 we're looking at an example of how unnecessary information can be omitted, so unnecessary information is going to be a key ward and omitted omitted means to remove for question Number 29. I've marked Shannon on Shannon's attitude to fame. That's what we are looking for. For Question number 30 we're looking for the details off a machine that is capable off interpreting incomplete information. So machine is a key ward on interpreting incomplete information. For Question number 31 we are looking for a detailed account of an incident involving information theory. An incident is something that is unexpected, that you don't expect to happen. And usually it's something bad, something negative, an event that is negative or unexpected. For question Number 32 we have marked Shannon. Shannon is our keyword is a proper noun. So we are looking for a reference to what Shannon initially intended to achieve in his research. So what were Shannon's initial intentions with his research? So those are the key words that I've marked, and you should already know by now that when we are answering the paragraph, location questions well, we have to do is we have to mark the keywords for these questions and then leave them alone and then go ahead and do the easy questions forest. So in this question, said, I'm assuming that I've already answered my easy questions first and now I'm returning back to these questions at the end after having already answered all the questions from my reading Passage three, having already answered all the easy questions first. So since I'm assuming that I've already answered the easy questions first, I have marked some key words here. The proper noun. Shannon. I went ahead and marked that so that you can see how we already have access to certain information from answering the easy questions first, typically speaking, when you return to these difficult questions after having answered the easy questions first , you should be able to answer most of the difficult questions, especially with paragraph location questions. You should be able to answer most of them right away because you will already be familiar with these keywords with a content and with the information in each one of thes paragraphs . So, generally speaking, they should not take you. Ah, very long time and the should not really be that difficult. So in these questions, we are assuming that we have already found some keywords related to the key word Shannon. So we're going to start off by looking for the answers to question number 29 on number 32 because both of these questions have the keyword Shannon in them. All right, so now when I go ahead and I start to scan my paragraphs and I start to scan the area around the keyword Shannon, I'm going to be looking for two pieces of information. First, I'm going to be looking for Shannon's attitude to fame. Okay, that's one of the things I'm looking for. The other thing that I'm looking for is Shannon's initial intentions. What did Shannon initially intend to achieve in his research? So I'm looking for these two things, depending on whichever one I find. First, I'm going to be answering that question first. So here we go. We're going to be looking for attitude to fame on initial intentions. So I am going to start from over here, since this is where the key ward first appears. Okay, there you go. So here we have the key word a claim, a claim. A claim means to praise or two recognize someone's accomplishments. So this is talking about fame. This is a synonym ward for fame. So I'm going to go ahead on Mark that here on, let's go ahead and read this sentence, it says. While at Bell Laboratories, Shannon developed information theory but shunned the resulting acclaim. So to shun means to avoid or to ignore or to reject something okay, mainly to reject something. So Shannon rejected the resulting acclaimed Appraise the Fame. He didn't want it. So here, question Number 29 is talking about a reference to Shannon's attitude to fame. Okay, so the answer for question number 29 is going to be be. We already know now Shannon's attitude to fame, which was that he didn't want it. He rejected it. I'm going to go ahead and put a cross next to this paragraph B just so we know that we've already used this paragraph. So then we don't have to scan this paragraph again when we are looking for our other keywords. Great. Now I'm going to keep scanning around the keyword Shannon in the remaining paragraphs because I'm still looking for that other piece of information. I'm still looking for Shannon's initial intentions with his research, so let's see if we can find that. Okay, here it has the word originally okay, Originally is or could be a synonym for initially something that happened in the beginning . Okay, now here says he set out, he set out to do something again. This is talking about the beginning. It's talking about when he began his work when he began at the age of 22 years. So it seems to be talking about that other piece of information that we're looking for. So let's go ahead and read it. We can just start up here. This all seems light years away from the down to Earth uses Shannon, originally hot for his work, which began when he was a 22 year old graduate engineering student at the prestigious M. I T. In 1939. He set out with an, apparently simply to pin down the precise meaning off the concept of information. So that is what he set out to do. It talks here about his initial intentions or his original intentions that he had for his work when he began this work. So that is going to be our answer for this other question that we were looking for, which waas down over here question number 32. That is going to be See? Okay, so we've already found the answers to be and see you let us go ahead and move on to our other questions next. Now, over here, I don't really see any other great keywords. I mean, I don't really have any proper announce names off people, places or numbers or dates or anything like that. So they all seem pretty even in terms off their level off difficulty. It seems that all of them, we'll take pretty much the same amount of time to find in the passage. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to start going through each paragraph one by one . And then once I've looked at the paragraph, then I will try to figure out which question that paragraph is the best answer choice for okay. The reason I'm doing this is because we only have six paragraphs in this entire reading passage on. We have six questions. So that means that each and every paragraph in this reading passage is going to be an answer choice. Okay, so all the paragraphs are going to be used as an answer choice. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm just going to take a second look here at my keywords, and I'm going to have thes keywords in the back of my mind so that I can see which information correlates with which paragraph. So I'm looking for factors affecting the transmission off information. I'm also looking for an example of how unnecessary information can be removed. Next, I'm looking for a machine that can interpret incomplete information, some sort of machine. Then finally, I'm looking for an incident. Something negative that happened regarding information theory. So those are the key words that I'm going to have in the back of my mind as I go about scanning each paragraph one by one. Here we go. We're going to start off with paragraph A. Okay, now, over here, I see the word failing hair. It talks about how the probe was beginning to show its age. And ah, it's talking about failing parts. So what do you think? This relates to something that is failing. Failing parts. Which question do you think that this information relates to? Can you guess it relates to an incident involving information theory? Because an incident is something unexpected. You don't expect it to happen, but it still happens. It's an event that happens, and it's something negative. So I think that A is going to be the answer for a question. Number 31. Let's go ahead and double track and let's go ahead on read this area where it talks about the feeling part. It says sensors and circuits were on the brink of failing on NASA exports. Realized that they had to do something or lose contact with their probe forever. So it's talking about how the parts are failing, and NASA has to do something about it in order to resolve this problem. So that is an event that right there is an event that happened. So let's put a cross next to that since we've already used this answer choice. And let us put that as her choice for question Number 31. Great. Now let us move on to our next paragraph. Will skip be will also skip. See, since we've already used those, let us move on to D. Okay, Over here is talking about how noise sets a limit on the rate of information that can pass along. Basically, he's talking about how no is can limit information and it can limit communication. Okay, now what do you think that correlates to? Which question do you think is talking about 27? An explanation of the factors affecting the transmission of information transmission is sending him language for communication. So it's asking us for the factors that affect transmission off information or that can influence communication. What can influence communication? What can change it here is talking about how noise and unwanted sounds can interfere with information. It's talking about how noise can set a limit at the rate at which information passes along . So let's go ahead and read these two sentences just to confirm that this is, in fact, the correct answer. Choice no is usually means unwanted sounds which interfere with genuine information. Okay, so noise interferes with genuine information. It can really affect the way in which the transmission off information happens. Next sentences information theory generalizes this idea via theorems that captured the effects off noise with mathematical precision. In particular, Shannon showed that noise sets a limit on the rate at which information can pass along communication channels while remaining error free. So basically What this is saying is that noise affect the transmission of information. What factors affect the transmission of information? What are the factors? Noise? Unwanted sounds So D is going to be the answer for question. Number 27. Let us move on to the next paragraph. E Mm, Not really sure about that one. Let me let me come back to my questions here. So I'm looking now for only two things. There are only two questions left. I'm looking for how unnecessary information can be removed. That's the first piece of information we're looking for. The second piece of information I'm looking for is a machine, a machine that can interpret incomplete information. So let's see if we can find that we only have two paragraphs left e and F. So it should be pretty easy for us to narrow that down. Let's see. Not sure about this. It seems to be talking about a machine. Um, as in is talking about the Voyager spacecraft, and it's talking about the different machinery used in the Voyager spacecraft. But let me just skip that for now. I'm going to skip E for now. I'm just going to come down to F. And then I should be able to answer this by process of elimination. Here we go. Let's can paragraph f Okay, so here we have the word redundant rhythm and means that something that is repeated so usually something that is repeated is unnecessary. It's unnecessary. So that is sending him language. Question Number 28 is asking us for an example off how unnecessary information can be removed. So it seems to be talking about this. Let's go ahead and read the sentence just to confirm. Shannon also laid the foundations off more efficient ways of storing information by shrimping out superfluous or redundant bits from data which contributed little riel information. As mobile phone text messages like I can see you show, it is often possible to leave out a lot of data without losing much meaning. Okay, so it's talking about how we can still understand this message. I mean, it's not spelled out like I can see you but still weaken. Figure that out by looking at these letters what the message is. So it's saying that we can basically get rid of unnecessary information. We don't really need every bit of information, so is talking about an example off how unnecessary information can be omitted. It can be removed. We don't need it. So f is going to be the correct answer for question Number 28 on Since we only have one paragraph left now, that has to be E for question number 30. So question number 30 has to be. E is talking about a details off a machine capable of interpreting incomplete information. Let's just go ahead and double check that. Anyway. We are looking for something, really, to a machine is talking about technological feat. Maybe something there here is talking about an hour detecting system that could be sending them language for machines. Lasers is talking about lasers. Also, it's a sort of machinery. Yeah, it seems to be talking about that somewhere around here. Let's just go ahead and read the sentence. It says. Other codes have become part of everyday life, such as the Universal Product Code or bar code, which uses a simple error detecting system that ensures supermarket check out lasers can read the price even on, say, a crumpled bag off crisps. Now see, that was freaky guys talking about how these lasers this machinery can read information, which is the price. It can read information even on a crumpled bag off crisps. Or, in other words, it can read information even when it's not completely available. Okay, like a crumpled bag of crisps. If a bag of crisps is crumpled up, that means that the barcode is not entirely visible because the bar code will also be kind of crumpled up so the information will be incomplete, right? But regardless off that incomplete information, the lasers can still read that information, which in this case, is the price. So that was that was tricky, used very high level, sending them language there. But that is the correct answer for question. Number 30 is talking about details off a machine, a laser that is capable of interpreting incomplete information, incomplete information as in, for example, on a crumpled bag of crisps. OK, that is incomplete information so the laser can still read it, even though it's incomplete. So I hope all of that makes sense for you. I hope you now have a good understanding of how to answer these paragraph location questions In the next video. We're going to be looking at how to ask for the next type of question. I'll see you there 37. How to Answer Headings Questions: How's it going? Guys? Welcome back in this video, we're going to be looking at how to answer the headings. Question. Let's take a look. This is what the headings question looks like. And the way to identify it is well says Over here tells you that you have a list of headings and you have to find the correct matching paragraph for each one of thes headings . This question is not in order on. It is a challenging question. Let me give you a bit more explanation. So since this question is not in order, it is challenging. This is a question that you would save for the end. And once again, when I say save something for the end, I don't mean save it for the end of your test. What I mean is you should answer the easy questions in a reading passage forced and then return to the difficult questions, like the headings question at the end off that reading passage. So for each reading passage, you answer the easy questions first, and then you answer the difficult questions. Then you will move on to the next reading passage, and again, you're going to repeat the same thing. You will do the easy questions first and then the difficult questions at the end off the reading passage. And then you would move onto the next reading passage and repeat the same thing. So this is a question that you should save for the end off that reading passage in whichever reading passage. It appears you should save it for the end off that reading passage and why we do that is so that you have a better understanding off what the passage is about. Because when you answer the easy questions first, you will give yourself the time on the chance to familiarize yourself with the content in each off the paragraphs in the passage. Now, this is a main idea. Question. This is an important distinction. So before you might remember when we talked about how to answer the paragraph location question in the paragraph location question. We were looking for very specific information. Well, in the headings Squash in, we are looking for the overall trist off the entire paragraph. We are looking for the main idea. So with this question, examiners want to know if you understand the main idea off the different paragraphs. Do you understand the overall meaning, also known as chest. Next, be careful off the exact language trap. There's quite common. You will see this in different types off reading questions. And this is a trap that appears in the listening module as well. So be careful of this. Don't just pick an answer because the exact same keywords are used. A lot of times the examiners are going to throw in the exact keywords just to trick you because they know that if your level of English is not very high, then you are going to fall for that trap you're going toe. Choose an answer just because you see the same word appear in the reading passage. So don't do that. Always be on the lookout for the synonym language. You have to be ableto understand the overall meaning off what is being talked about in the paragraph. Now with the headings question, we're basically trying to identify the main idea as you already know by now. And the way that we do that is by reading certain sentences in the paragraph. We don't read the whole paragraph. We only read certain sentences and within those certain sentences. The most important sentence is the first sentence. It's also called the topic sentence or the controlling sentence because it controls what the paragraph is going to talk about. Or you can look at it as an overview off what the paragraph is going to be about, so that first sentence is very important. I will also go ahead and say that the second Sons is also quite important. The most important is the first sentence. The second most important sentence is the second sentence, and the reason for this is that often times what the examiners will do is they will combine the first sentence and the second sentence into one single question. Remember that in most of these questions, you are going to have an answer that comes from one or two sentences and often times they will combine two sentences to make a single sentence question. So also be sure to read the second sentence as well. It's very important now. Each heading can only be used once, so when you get this question, you're not going to have a scenario where you will use the same answer choice twice, so that's not going to happen each heading will only be used once, and the example heading will not be used. So there's going to be an example in there that they will put in there in the questions that just to show you how the question works. So that example heading is not going to be used. Now let's talk about the basic strategy for this question type. The first thing is we are going toe underline or circle the keywords in the answer choices . Okay, so the answer choices are going to be the list off the headings. Those are the after choices were going to mark the keywords in those answer choices and then try to find those keywords Anson them language for those keywords in our paragraphs. Next, what you have to do is you have to go to the shortest paragraph and do that first. So you're going to have a bunch of different paragraphs in your reading passage. Locate the shortest one first, do that first, and then once you answer the question for the shortest paragraph first, then you would move on to the next shortest paragraph and then the next shortest and then the next shortest. And so on. The reason that we do this is because when you answer the shortest paragraphs first you are going to save yourself a lot of time because they're going to be quite easy to answer. So that's why we do those first. Remember, the goal here is to get as many questions correct as possible. So in order to do that effectively, you have to answer the easy questions farce. So start with the shortest paragraphs. All right, now here We're talking about those sentences. Remember, we talked about how the first and the second sentence are the most important ones in the whole paragraph. These two sentences, the first sentence and the second sentence are going to give you a very good overview off what the whole paragraph is going to talk about. Now some aisles teachers are going to tell you to read the first sentence and the last sentence because what happens in traditional paragraphs is that in a traditional paragraph before sentence is going to give you the overview off what the paragraph is going to be about, and then the last sentence kind of summarizes that paragraph it. It's like a concluding sentence that wraps up everything that this paragraph talks about. OK, so usually that happens in traditional paragraphs. But here's the thing in the aisles exam, these examiners are oftentimes not writing traditional paragraphs. So that means that if you read the last sentence hoping to find some sort of a conclusive sentence, some sort of a conclusion regarding that paragraph, it is very likely that you're not going to find it. Often times you're not going to find it, because in the aisles they don't really use traditional paragraphs all that often. Sometimes they will, but oftentimes they don't use it. So the last sentence can be helpful sometimes, but most of the times it is not going to be helpful for you. So here is what I suggest. You should first read the 1st 2 sentences. Those are the most important sentences. Read those first and once you have a good understanding off what this paragraph is going to talk about, then try to find the answer. Try to see if that information matches up with any off your answer choices. If you find the answer after reading the 1st 2 sentences, great, you've already solved the question, and you can move on to the next paragraph. However, if you don't find the answer after reading the 1st 2 sentences, then you should move on and read the final sentence. Okay, so usually you will be able to find the answer after just reading the 1st 2 sentences. But if you still don't find the answer, then it makes sense to read this last sentence in the paragraph. Now Step Number four is just to go to the headings questions, look at the answer choices and just choose the answer choice that captures the same meaning . So you underlined certain keywords in the answer choices, and now you are looking for those keywords and synonym language for those keywords in the shortest paragraph, and you are reading the 1st 2 sentences and maybe the last one if you still don't find the answer. But once you read these sentences and once you have the general just off what the paragraph is talking about, then you just have to match the paragraph with the correct answer choice. And finally, you just have to repeat that process once again. So you're going to now move on to the next shortest paragraph after answering your question . You're going to move on to the next shortest paragraph and then you're going to repeat this process until you finish all the questions. Great. So that's our strategy. Now let me show you some examples. So here we have an example in which I'm only going to be answering two questions for you over here number 14 and number 15 just to show you how it works. And then in the following videos will go into more detail when we asked the practice questions, but here I just want to give you a general overview off how to tackle this question. So here we go. The first thing you're going to do is pay attention to how many paragraphs are going to be used. So here it says, we're going to be using paragraphs B and from D through F. So this is important so that you don't waste time searching answers in a paragraph in which the answers are not going to be found. Okay, so pay attention to the paragraphs. The next thing you have to pay attention to are the answer choices, which are the list of headings that you have over here in the box once again. Each one of these answer choices can only be used once. And then over here they're going to give you a little example off how to answer the question. So they're telling you, for example, the question is asking you which answer choice is the best match for paragraph A. So paragraph A is the question, and these are the answer choices. So which is the best match? It tells you in the example that for an example like this paragraph A, the correct answer is going to be number four. So since you know that Number four is an answer choice that is already used for the example , just cross it out, put a line across it so that you don't confuse yourself so that you can really narrow down the answer choices that are available to you. So cross out the answer choice that has already been used because you're not going to be using it for any off the rial questions that you have here. Finally, you're going to mark the keywords you're going to mark the keywords in the answer. Choice is, of course, that is the only place where you have key words. You don't really have any keywords in the questions, so you're going to be marking the keywords in the Asir choices. And the last thing you need to know is that when you start to answer these questions, you may be wondering which questions should I start, Which should I start with paragraph C or paragraph D? Well, it's just a matter off finding the shortest paragraph and starting with that. So just see, which is the shorter paragraph is a sea or is a deep. So if in this example, I'm assuming that the shortest paragraph is paragraph D. So if paragraph D is the shortest paragraph out of thes two options, I'm going to start with paragraph D. So let's go ahead and ah, start to answer these questions, I'm going to start off by first answering question number 15 since that has the shortest paragraph. So here is our question number 15 paragraph D. And here is our paragraph D. So here we have the paragraph on, we basically have to find out which, as her choice out of thes three answer choices, is going to be the best fit for this paragraph. So remember What are we going to do? Can you guess? What is the first thing that we're going to do? If you guessed we read the 1st 2 sentences, then you are correct. So here I've highlighted in this pink color the 1st 2 sentences. Here we have our first sentence and then starting from here, we have our second sentence. So I'm going to try to find my answer after reading these two sentences. And if I still don't find my answer, then I'm going to read this last sentence over here. So let's go ahead and read this. Now. This book is a narrative history. Off climatic shifts during the past 10 centuries on some off the ways in which people in Europe adapted to them. Part one describes the medieval warm period roughly 900 to 1200. Great. So those are our two sentences. So every time you have to do basically the same thing, read the first and the second sentence first. And then if you don't find the answer, read the last sentence. Now, here's what I want you to do. I want you to think about what are these two sentences talking about? What is the main idea being communicated in these two sentences. Take a moment to think that through. What is the main idea? What is this paragraph going to talk about? This paragraph is going to talk about this portion over here. This is really the summary off our main idea. This is the Trist is talking about how this book is a narrative history off climatic shifts during the past 10 centuries. That is the controlling idea. That is what this whole paragraph is going to talk about is going to give more details regarding this main idea. So that is the main idea. And this is an important skill you have to be able to identify based on the 1st 2 sentences , you have to be able to identify the main idea off that paragraph. So in this case, this portion underlined in the green color is our main idea. Now take a look over here. It says narrative history, narrative history. What is that synonym language for? Take a look at the answer choices here. What is this term sending them language for? Can you guess? If you guessed study, then you are correct. This is synonym language. for study. A narrative history is talking about the book being a narrative history. Another use of synonym language is over here past 10 centuries. What is that synonym language for past 10 centuries That is synonym language for 1000 years . So since we have located our synonym language here on the main idea off this paragraph is about this book being a narrative history or a study off climatic shifts during the past 1000 years. So the correct answer for question number 15 is going to be Answer choice number three, Let us move on to our next question. Question number 14. This time we have paragraph C. So we've already eliminated as her choice number three. We've already used that. So remember, we're not going to be using after choice number three because each answer choice can only be used once. So really, you have to decide between these two. These are the only available answer choices now. So here is our paragraph, and you can see that this paragraph is much longer than the previous paragraph. So that's why we started with the shorter one first. So now we're moving on to the longer paragraph on. Once again. What are we going to do? The first thing that we're going to do is read the 1st 2 sentences. Let's go ahead and read them. Reconstructing the climate change is off. The past is extremely difficult because systematic other observations began only a few centuries ago in Europe and North America, or records from India and tropical Africa are even more recent. Now here's what I want you to do. I want you to take a moment to think about what the paragraph is going to talk about. Based on the information that you have in these two sentences, I want you to identify the main idea. What is the main idea? Go ahead, think it through. So these two sentences are really talking about how reconstructing the climate changes of the past is extremely difficult. So trying to figure out what the climate change used to look like in the past is a difficult thing to do, and that is really the main idea. That is what this whole paragraph is going to expand upon. So that's the just That's it right there. So you have to be able to look at the first sentence and the second sentence and maybe the last sentence sometimes and you have to be able to identify the chest off that paragraph. So usually you're not going to find the just in the entire sentence. You're not going to find the just in the entire first on the second sentence. No, it's usually going to be just a small portion in that 1st 2 sentences, and you have to be ableto identify that. Now let's take a look at the synonym language being used here. So here we have this portion. It's as climate change is off the past. What do you think that is sending language for? Take a look at these two answer choices. What is this synonym language for? Climate change is off the past weather records. It is sending them language for weather records. Of course, it can also be another rephrasing off this portion over here, past climatic conditions. That very well could be the case. So we're not sure it could be that the answer is number one. OK, it could be number one because we have our synonym language here past climatic conditions. But remember, the main idea that we have here is about how reconstructing the climate change of the past is very difficult. That's what we're talking about. So ask her choice. Number one is about how past climatic conditions can be determined is talking about the method in which the past climatic conditions can be determined. But here it's not really talking about the method. It's talking about the difficulty, the difficulty related to reconstructing these past climatic conditions. So what this paragraph is talking about is how reconstructing the climate changes of the past is very difficult because all the weather observations that we have are only a few centuries old. Our records, it says, are very recent, very recent, so that's what makes it difficult. And so it's basically saying how we need to gather more knowledge. We need to gather more data now. At this point, where you can do is if you are not sure about the answer. What you can do is also you can read the last sentence, so let's go ahead and read it. In this case, it says, we are close to a knowledge off annual summer and winter temperature variations over much off the Northern Hemisphere going back 600 years, so What it's telling us here is that we are very close to a knowledge off the annual summer and winter temperature variations, meaning that we are almost there. But we just need more data, See? So what is really talking about is how we have a growing need for weather records, because if we can gather more records, then we will have a complete knowledge. Right now, we don't have complete knowledge. We are close, but we don't have complete knowledge because our data is very recent. So that's why we need more data. So the correct answer is going to be number two. So that's it. I hope that gives you a better understanding of how to go about answering this question type. Now, in the next two videos, we're going to be delving much deeper into how to answer the heading squash in when we go through our practice questions. So that's coming up next 38. Headings: Practice Set 1: in this video, I'm going to show you how to answer the headings question in more detail. So here I have a practice set from Cambridge Aisles Book number eight, test number four. And this particular example is from reading passage number one. So let us begin by looking at our instructions. So here we have a total of five questions on in this passage. We have six sections or six paragraphs from a through F. Well, we have to do is we have to choose the correct heading four sections B through F. Note that we have sections A through F but we're really only looking at B through F and ah , we have to look for the correct answer for these paragraphs and choose one of the answer choices from this list of headings. So we're not going to be looking at paragraph A because that is just an example. So this answer choice answer. Choice four is not going to be used. So what we're going to do is right away. We can just put a line across it, since this is something that is not going to be used. So here is our reading passage. Weaken begin by looking at the title Land off the Rising Some on. This is a question that you have to return back to after you have already answered all the easy questions in reading passage number one. So once you already answered all the easy questions like fill in the blanks. Yes, no multiple choice. Then at the end off, um, answering those questions after having already answered those easy questions, then you are going to return back to this difficult question at the end off reading passage number one. So let us begin. The first thing that we're going to do is we have to identify which question we should answer first. Well, which question do you think we're going to be answering first, do you remember? So we have a bunch of different paragraphs here. Which paragraph should we start with? You might remember from my previous video that we always have to start with the shortest paragraph because the goal is to get as many questions correct as possible so you will increase your odds off answering more questions. Correct if you start with the shortest paragraphs first. So in this example, you may have noticed that we have a lot off double paragraphs here, for example, For section F, we have double paragraphs. So we have two paragraphs here. Four section E. It's the same thing. We again have two paragraphs here for Section D. We have two paragraphs, one over here and then one down here and then for see we only have one paragraph. And then for B, we have two paragraphs. So a lot of double paragraphs and I'm going to get to how to answer these questions that have double paragraphs were going to get to that in just a bit before. Now we're going to start off with the shortest paragraph and which one is that? That is paragraph C. So that's where we're going to start. We're going to start by answering question number two, first section C. So the first thing that we have to do after identifying the shortest section is we have to look at the topic sentence. The topic sentence is the most important sentence in a paragraph. On it is the first sentence in the paragraph. So we're going to be reading the first sentence in the paragraph, and I'm also going to be reading the second sentence. Oftentimes the answer choice might combine the 1st 2 sentences and presented as a single sentence. So I'm going to be reading the 1st 2 sentences on if I still don't find my ass or then I'm going to come back and I'm going to read this last sentence. So let's begin traditional ways off teaching form the basis off the lesson on the remarkably quite classes take their own notes off the points made on examples demonstrated . Everyone has their own copy off. The textbook supplied by the Central Education Authority, mourn Busho as part of the concept off free compulsory education up to the age of 15. So what is this paragraph really talking about? What is this whole paragraph talking about? You have to be able to understand the gist off the paragraph. That's what this question is all about. So what this whole paragraph is really talking about is this part over here, it's talking about the traditional ways of teaching, and then it's just describing to us what those traditional ways of teaching our And then it's going into the details off those traditional ways off teaching. So let's see if we can find something about traditional ways of teaching. So here we have our answer choices. Okay. I don't really see any synonym language here regarding the traditional way of teaching. So I'm going to come back to my paragraph. I'm not really sure what my answer is here. So what I'm going to do now, I'm also going to read the last sentence it says here. Besides approving textbooks, Mon Busho also decides the highly centralized national curriculum on how it is to be delivered. Okay, so it seems to be talking very much about Mon busho. We have mon bush or hear the word again appears over here. And it's basically talking about the traditional ways of teaching in relation to the central authority that is mon busho. And then down here is again talking about how mom Busho decides the national curriculum. And basically it's talking about the impact that mambo show has on the teaching system. So let's see if we can find something related to that. And I did see the word mon bushel over here. So here is talking about the influence off Mon Busho. Well, that is our answer right there because it's talking about how Moon Busho is the central authority, and it has so much influence that it decides to national curriculum and the way in which classes are taught. So it's really talking about the influence off mambo show that is synonym language. So the correct answer for question number two Section C is going to be number one. So I'm going to put Number one next to that. And another thing that I like to do is I just like to put a cross next to it so that I can save some time looking at the answer choices that are actually available to me. So I don't have to waste time looking again at the answer choices that I've already used. Okay, so if it helps you go ahead and put a cross across it and then you can move on to the next question and then repeat doing the same thing. Okay, so we've answered second, See? Now let's move on to the next paragraph. Now what is the next shortest paragraph? So we're done with see what is the next shortest paragraph? This one is pretty large. Day seems to be about the same size guys. You know what I think that all of them seem to be the same size for me, they're pretty much all the same size. There's not really a big difference here, so often times you will notice that there is a significant difference. For example, some paragraphs and sections may be much shorter in comparison to the rest of the sections , but sometimes this may not be the case. For example, here it's not the case, so I'm not going to be looking for the next shortest paragraph because they're pretty much all the same length. So I'm just going to start up here with B, and then I'm just going to move down these sections one by 11 after the other. So here we go. Now, here's what you have to consider when you are looking at a double paragraph section, a section that has two paragraphs. How are you to answer a question like this? How will you determine the gist off this section when you have two paragraphs? Well, it's quite simple. All you have to do is just read the first sentence off the first paragraph and then read the first sentence off the second paragraph and that will give you a good understanding off what these paragraphs are talking about, what this section is talking about. If you still don't find the answer, then you can go ahead and read the second sentences in the two paragraphs. And if you still don't find the answer, then you can go ahead and read the last sentence off the two paragraphs. But you're probably not going to have to do this. I have not really have had to do this in the past. Usually, I just read the first sentence off the two paragraphs in a section, and that gives me my answer. So you really should not have the need to read anything more than the first sentence off the two paragraphs. So let's go ahead and take a look. Let's read this first sentence here. Lower secondary schools in Japan cover three school years from the seventh grade, age 13 to the ninth grade, age 15. Okay, so he's talking about the lower secondary schools in Japan and then down here. It's as classes are large, usually about 40 on our own streamed, so here it just seems to be giving me more detail about the lower secondary schools from grade seven to grade nine. So let's see if we can find something related to that in our answer choices. Here we go. This is our answer background to middle years education in Japan, So middle ears is sending them language for great seven through nine. So it's giving us that ground information on this age group it's talking about. It's just giving us general information about the lower secondary schools, and it's just talking about how many students there are and, ah, what their ages are. And so one. So the correct answer for paragraph be question Number one is going to be seven. Number seven. Let's put that there. And if it helps you, you can also go ahead and just put this line across it. Great. Now let us move on to the next paragraph. Section D. So again, in section D, we have two paragraphs. So again we're going to be doing the same thing. I'm going to read the first sentence in the first paragraph of Section D, and then I'm going to read the first sentence in the second paragraph off section D. So here we go lessons all follow the same pattern. Okay, so pattern is the key. Word is basically going to talk about the pattern in which the lessons are organized. The whole paragraph here is going to talk about the pattern off teaching. Let's move on to our second paragraph. After the homework has been discussed, the teacher explains the topic off the lesson slowly and with a lot off reputation on elaboration. Okay, so here is talking about what the teacher does after the homework has been discussed. What happens after the homework has been discussed? That's what this whole paragraph is about. So that gives us the overall meaning off this section, the pattern in which the lessons are taught and what happens after the homework has been discussed. So let's look at the, um, as her choices here and let's see which one matches up. Case has nothing about less successful students. It's not talking about success. Typical format. There we go. It's talking about a typical format off a maths lesson. That's our answer. It's talking about the format format means structure. So he's talking about the structure, For example, here, you see how it's talking about the pattern. Okay, pattern is a structure that's a format, and then here is talking about what happens after the homework has been discussed again. That is format structure, the order in which classes are taught and how they're taught. That is structure. So the correct answer here is going to be five number five. Now, you may be saying to yourself, Hey, I do not see the word Matt in there. I do not see the word math in the first sentence here or in the first sentence down here. So how do I know that that is the correct answer Choice? The reason that I know that this is the correct answer choice is because I trust the strategy. You have to trust this strategy, guys, everything that I'm teaching you here in regards to the strategy, you have to trust it. So even though I don't see the word math over here, I know that that has to be the correct answer because there's nothing else that talks about the pattern or the structure or the format. This is the only answer choice that talks about it. So I know that this is the correct answer choice, even though I do not see the word math in the four sentence. And if I was to actually start scanning my paragraph, for example, if I start scanning my paragraph over here, I'm pretty sure I'm going to find the ward math in there somewhere. If I start to scan for it, let's see if we can find a word math in here somewhere. We should be able to find it. There we go. Is talking about math over here. Okay. So I don't have to find the word math in order to know that this is the right answer. I know that this is the right answer because no other answer choice is talking about the format off the lessons. So that's how you know? Okay, so you really don't have to read any more than the first sentence. And maybe if you don't find the answer than you can look at the second sentence and the last sentence, but you should be able to find the answer right away. After you read the topic sentence most of the times. So our answer is going to be number 54 Question number three. Let's put that next to number three on. I am also going to cross this out, since I've already used up this after choice and let us move on to our next question. The next paragraph is paragraph e. Let's see what that is about. It is remarkable that large, mixed ability classes could be kept together for maths throughout all their compulsory schooling from 6 to 15. So here this whole paragraph is talking about the mixed ability classes. Mixed ability means, basically, that students have different levels off ability. So some students are fast learners. They learn very quickly. But other students learn slowly so they have different levels off ability, some maybe more intelligent than others or more experienced than others. So that is a class in which people have different levels off ability. That is a mixed ability. Class on Dhere This paragraph is talking about the mixed ability classes and how to keep them together for this Matt schooling. Let's look at our second paragraph. This scarcely seems adequate help to enable slow learners to keep up. Okay, now it seems that the second paragraph is in a little bit of disagreement, maybe with this forced paragraph. So the first paragraph is talking about how large mixed ability classes can be kept together. But the second paragraph is saying that this scarcely seems adequate toe help enable slow learners to keep up. That's what this whole paragraph is talking about. It's talking about. How is it that slow learners are going to be able to keep up because there are students with different levels, off ability. Some are fast learner, so fast learners are going to be learning very quickly. So in such a situation, how are the slow learners going to keep up? That's what this paragraph is about. So let us come up to our answer choices and let's see if we can find something related to that helping less successful students. OK, that could be our answer. Ah, let us move on. I want to make sure that we don't have any other answer choice that may be a better fit. The success of compulsory education? Nope, nothing about expenditure. The key to Japanese successes doesn't mention that, either. Nothing about homework. So the correct answer has to be number two, because question number two is using synonym language for slow learners. It says less successful students, so that is synonym language for slow learners. So let's come down here and put answer choice number two as our answer for question number four. Okay, and let us move on to our final paragraph section F. Okay, so here is section F. So what are the major contributing factors in the success off maths teaching? Well, this paragraph is asking us what are the major contributing factors to success. So that's what this whole paragraph is exploring. It's exploring the question. What are the major contributing factors in the success off Matt teaching? It's focused on success. What makes mouth lessons successful here we have our second paragraph. Other relevant points relate to the supportive attitude off a class towards slower pupils. The lack of competition within a class on the positive emphasis on learning for oneself on improving one's own standard. Well, this here just seems to be giving us more information about the major contributing factors to success. It's just telling us why the classes are successful. It's giving us more concrete examples, and it's giving us more details on why these classes are successful. So let's see if we can find something related to that. So we've already used this answer choice. Here we go. The success off compulsory education. Actually, I see the word success here and talking about the success of compulsory education. But down here I see another answer choice, which is a very good fit. It says the key to Japanese successes in math, education, guys. Which one do you think is the correct answer? Choice number three or number eight? Which one do you think is the correct answer? Choice? They're both talking about success, but the correct answer choice is number eight. Because here we have more specific detail. Is telling us the key to Japanese successes in math education? OK, compulsory education. I'm not really sure what that means. But here is talking about the key, the specific reasons why Japanese lessons are successful, The specific reasons. What is the key key for success in what type of education? Well, math, education, And it's talking about math education. Here in Section F. It's talking about math teaching, Okay, so that is the correct answer for Section F. The correct answer is going to be number eight, and that's it were all done with this question set. I hope that makes sense and in the next video, we're going to go over another example this time from reading passage Number three. When we talk about how to answer, practice that number two. So stay tuned for that, and I'll see you there. 39. Headings: Practice Set 2: Welcome back in this video, we're going to be looking at practice at number two for the headings. Question. This example comes from the Cambridge. I'll spoke Number eight. Test number two. This is reading passage number three. Here we have questions from 27 to 32. A total of six questions on We have six paragraphs from a through F. Here are the answer choices on Here are the questions. So let's come down to our reading passage. This reading passage is on the meaning and power off smell, so we're going to start off by first answering the question that hasta shortest paragraph. So let's take a look. Here we have paragraph A B looks pretty short. Sea is pretty short. De is also pretty sure, and then these two are a little bit larger. So let us start here with we'll start with Paragraph D. That seems to be the shortest of them all. So here the four sentence reads smell, however, is ah, highly elusive phenomenon. Orders, unlike colors, for instance, cannot be named in many languages because thes Pacific vocabulary simply doesn't exist. So elusive means something that cannot be captured, something that is difficult to cross. So here is talking about how smell is not so easy to grasp. And it's not so easy to talk about because the vocabulary doesn't exist. So the just off this entire paragraph is this part over here. Smell is, ah, highly elusive phenomenon, highly elusive, meaning it is difficult to talk about. So let's look at our answer choices right away. We see the 1st 1 The first answer choice talks about the difficulties of talking about smells, that a synonym language for saying that smell is highly elusive. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it, so it's difficult to talk about smells. So that is going to be the answer for Paragraph D. Number 30. Let me just confirm that was yes, that was, in fact, paragraph T. So the answer to question number 30 is going to be the Roman numeral one. Let's just confirm let's just go through the rest of four answer choices just to make sure that this is, in fact, our answer choice. It says nothing about personal relationships, nothing about studies, nothing about the brain, nothing about groups, nothing about why smell is not appreciated. Why smile is a superior sense and nothing about smell on feelings. So that is, in fact, the correct answer choice. So let us go ahead and put that as our answer choice for question number 30 on This is something that you may choose to do or not to, depending on your preference. Personally, I like to cross thes out so you can do that if you want. Let us move on to the next shortest paragraph. Paragraph C, the first sentence in this paragraph reads. In spite of his importance to our emotional and sensory lives, smell is probably the most undervalued sense in many cultures. The reason often given for the low regard in which smell is held is that in comparison with its importance among animals, the human sense of smell is feeble on undeveloped. Okay, so it's undeveloped, feeble knees weak. So this whole paragraph is talking about why smell is the most undervalued. Okay, why is it the most undervalued? Let's just move that here. Why is it the most undervalued sense in many cultures? So that's what this entire paragraph is talking about. So let us come up to our answer choices. Let's see if we can find that Here we go. Why? Our sense of smell is not appreciated. That is sending them language for why it is undervalued. Why is it undervalued? Okay, and then here is talking about the reasons why we don't hold the sense of smell in very high regard is talking about the reasons for that. So the correct answer for paragraph C for question number 29 is going to be the Roman numeral six. I'm going to put across across it a line across it. And then let us put that as our answer choice for paragraph C, we have number six. Great. Noticed that so far I haven't really had the need to read the last sentence off the paragraph. So most of the times you won't have to read the final sentence in the paragraph. The 1st 2 sentences are going to be enough. So be sure to read the first and the second sentence in the paragraph. And if you still don't find the answer, then go ahead and read the last sentence off the paragraph. So let us move on to our next shortest paragraph. So the rest of these paragraphs seemed to be pretty much the same size. So maybe we'll start here. Be looks, perhaps a little bit shorter. Maybe we'll start there. So paragraph bees talking about how orders are also essential cues in social bonding. So this is really going to talk about the role off smell, the role of orders in social bonding. So that's what this entire paragraph is going to be about. Let's read the second sentence. One respondent to the survey believed that there is no true emotional bonding without touching and smelling a loved one. So he's talking about the importance off smell in relationships, social bonding. Let's look at our answer choices. Here we have it, the roll off smell in personal relationships. There's no other answer choice that talks about that. There's no other answer choice that talks about the role off smell, the importance off odors in personal relationships in social bonding. Okay, so that is going to be the answer to paragraph B. You might notice. Now here's the thing, guys. You might notice that here The answer Choice Number five says the interpretation off smells as a factor in defining groups. Now, groups can be synonym language for ah social group like it could be talking about social bonding. Right groups are social structure, so it's possible that this could be the answer choice. But Paragraph B is mainly focused on bonding in personal relationships. They're talking about loved ones. Okay, here it's really talking about social bonding in the context, off touching and smelling a loved one. So we're not just talking about any group, really. We're talking about personal relationships. Intimate relationships are family and maybe friends. So that's why Number two is going to be the correct answer choice. If you're not sure, if you think that you're not sure if the correct answer choices Number two or number five, you can always just come down here and read the last sentence in the paragraph and figure out with certainty what is the correct answer. So let's just go ahead and do that, the last sentence here reads. Most of the subjects would probably never have given much thought toe order as a cue for identifying family members okay again, personal relationships, family members before being involved in the test. But as the experiment revealed, even when not consciously considered smells register. Okay, so we're talking about social bonding in the context, off personal relationships, family relationships. So the correct answer for Paragraph B is going to be asked her choice. Number two. Let us put a line across it, since we've already used that one. And now I think the rest off our paragraphs are pretty much all the same. Length. Paragraph A, E and F are pretty much all the same length. So we can we can start anywhere. Maybe. Maybe I'll start with E. It does seem that e is a little bit shorter, so maybe I'll start there. So here we go. Most of the research on smell undertaken to date has been off a physical, scientific nature. So here is talking about the research is talking about the research that has been conducted on the nature of smell. Significant advances have been made in the understanding off the biological and chemical nature off olfaction. Olfaction is just a fancy word, which means something related to smell. Okay, so olfaction. But many fundamental questions have yet to be answered, so he's talking about research and is talking about how there are still unanswered questions. There are still questions that need to be answered by researchers. So this whole paragraph is focused on research is talking about what research has discovered so far on its also talking about the limitations off research is talking about the advances that have been made in the research regarding olfaction. Regarding Smell On is talking about the fundamental questions that have yet to be answered . Okay, there are things about our sense of smell that have yet to be discovered. So let's see which one talks about research here. We see future studies into smell. Okay, so studies is sending them language for research. So that is very likely are answer. Let me just go through the rest of thes answer choices, Just to be sure. Here is talking about the relationship between the brain and the nose. Says nothing about that interpretation of smells for defining groups has nothing about groups, says nothing about why smell is a superior sense, and it says nothing about the relationship between smell unfeeling. So the correct answer choice is going to be number three. If you're not sure, you can also come down and read the last sentence here, it says questions like these mean that interest in the psychology Off Smell is inevitably set to play an increasingly important role for researchers. So it's saying that there are questions that we have to answer on. These questions are going to result in more research in the future. That's what it's really saying that in the future these questions are going to play an increasingly important role for researchers because we don't have the answers to these questions. So in the future we're going to be doing more studies, more research. So that is the only answer choice, which fits for this paragraph. So the correct answer is going to be number three. So that was paragraph E. The correct answer is Number three. I'm going to come up here on Put a line across it, since I've already used that on her choice and let us move on to our other remaining questions. So paragraph A and paragraph F they're pretty much the same size, so it doesn't matter which when you start with, I'm just gonna start with paragraph A. So here we go. A survey conducted by Anthony Sign it. I think that's how it said I'm not sure. At Montreal's Concordia University asked participants to comment on how important smell wants to them in their lives. Okay, so it's going to be talking about the importance of smell, How important is smell to people in their lives? That's what this entire paragraph is going to talk about. So, guys, this is a very important skill, being able to read the topic sentence and being able to identify that part in the topic sentence, which tells you what the whole paragraph is going to talk about. Because if you can figure this out, then you have basically figured out the chest off the entire paragraph. So that's why I'm underlining these parts over here in the blue color for each one of these paragraphs so that you can learn toe, identify that portion in the topic sentence that tells you what the whole paragraph is going to talk about. Okay, so I want you to work on this when you go and, ah, start to practice these questions on your own practice, identifying this part that gives away the just off the paragraph. Okay, so this paragraph is going to talk about the importance off smell to people in their lives . Here is our second sentence it became apparent that smell can evoke strong emotional responses. Okay, so he's talking about the importance off smell in relation to the emotional responses. So he's talking about why smell is important to people. Well, it seems to be talking about the fact that smell can evoke strong emotional responses, and that's why it's important to people in their lives. So that's what that whole paragraph is about. Let's look at the answer choices. The relationship between the brain and the nose. No, it doesn't really mention the brain. It's talking more about the emotion interpretation of smell in defining groups. Nope. Nothing about that says nothing about smell being a superior sense. The relationship between smell and feelings there, Rico emotions is sending them language for feelings, and it's talking about how smell can evoke strong emotional responses. It can evoke strong feelings. So, really, we're talking about the relationship between smell on emotions, so that is the correct answer for Paragraph A great. Now we only have one final paragraph left Number F. Let's go ahead and read our first sentence. However, smell is not simply a biological and psychological phenomenon. Smell is cultural. Hence it is a social on historical phenomenon. So this paragraph seems to talk about the importance off the cultural aspect and the importance of the social aspect. That's what this whole paragraph is focused on its talking about. How smell is not just, ah biological on a psychological phenomenon. It's more than that. It's about the culture, and it's about the social aspect. So this whole paragraph is going to talk about culture and the role of smell in the social context. So let's see which answer choices the best match. Kay says Nothing about the brain. It says here the interpretation off smells as a factor in defining groups. What is culture guys? What is culture? A culture is a group of people, right is a group of people who share certain things in common. So when a bunch of people come together, when a group comes together and when the group gets large enough, it turns into a culture. So it seems that this may be our answer. Let's just confirm here is talking about smell being a superior sense, So that's not the answer. And we've already used this answer choice. So that's not the answer, either. So the only correct answer choice that we have left here now, is this one over here? Number five. It's talking about the importance off smell in a social context in a cultural context, in defining groups, that is synonym language. So the correct answer here for Paragraph F is going to be number five. So there you go. Those are all of our answers. I hope that you have a better understanding of how to answer these questions. Now, this question is all about understanding the meaning and understanding the synonym language . If you can do that, you're going to perform very well on this question. In the next video, we'll talk about how to answer the next and the final type of question, so I'll see you there. 40. How to Answer Pick from List Questions: Congrats on making it this far into the course. This here is the final type of question that we're going to be discussing in this video. We're going to talk about the pick from a list question in which you'll have a question on . You'll have to choose two or three different answer choices as the correct answer choices for your given question. So here we go. This is what this question looks like. This question is not in order and, as indicated by the red dot over here, this is a difficult question. So a pick from the list question is going to ask you to choose either two or sometimes three answer choices from the given options. In this case, you only have to choose to correct answers on. Also, I want you to take note that when it's as choose to letters, those two letters are going to be the answer choices for two separate questions. So in this case, one of the answer choices you can put for Question number 11 and the other correct answer choice. You have to put in for question number 12. The order off the answer choices doesn't really matter as long as you choose the two correct answers, it doesn't matter in which order you Ah, answer them. Let's go over a bit off explanation for this question type. So, as you know, this question is not an order, and it's a very challenging question. This is perhaps the most challenging question that you're going to see on the reading test . So definitely saved this one for the end. Do this question last so that you get a chance to familiarize yourself with what the passages about. Okay, so once you have a better understanding off the passage, it's going to be much easier for you to answer this question type. Okay, now, when you start to scan for the keywords from this question, wish you have to do is first. You have to scan for the main keywords that come from the question. So the question is going to be asking you for some very specific information on you have to be able to locate language, synonym language that talks about that specific information that somehow relates to that specific information. Once you have located that area, in which you think it's going to talk about the specific information that you're looking for. After that, you should start to search for the keywords from the answer choices. Okay, so first you should search for the specific information, sending them language that talks about the specific information from the question. And then once you have located that area, when you think that is going to talk about the specific information that you're looking for , then you should try to target down on the keywords from the answer choices and see if you can find any synonym language from the answer choices. We'll cover this in more detail very soon. Next, you need to know that the answer to the question may be found in one paragraph or in multiple paragraphs. Most of the times you're going to be finding the answer to the question in multiple paragraphs. So, for example, if there are two different answer choices, then you might find one answer choice in one paragraph, and you might find the next answer choice in a completely different paragraph. Next, you need to know that some information that is presented in the answer choices may not exist, so the answer choice may talk about certain ideas that are not even mentioned in the reading passage. Next, you must be able to scan the passage. We've talked about this for every question type that we've discussed so far. This is an absolutely essential skill to getting a high school on the reading section, so you have to be able to scan the passage, and you have to be able to understand synonym language. Lastly, just like every other question type, this question is also going to be formed from only 1 to 2 sentences in the reading passage . So what I mean by that is that let's say, if you have two different answer choices that you are looking for, so you might find one answer choice in one paragraph on the other answer. Choice in a different paragraph. Well, in each one off those paragraphs, the after choices are going to come from only 1 to 2 sentences. So you might find one sentence that talks about your answer choice in one paragraph, and you might find another sentence or another 1 to 2 sentences in the next paragraph. Okay, great. Now let's talk about the basic strategy. So the first thing that you have to do is you have to underline or circle the keywords in these questions and then leave them alone. Okay, we're going to leave them for last after marking the keywords. Now, one thing to pay attention to is which keywords you're going to be marking. In most cases, you're going to be marking the keywords from the questions if you want. You can also mark the keywords from the answer choices, especially if you happen to find proper noun or numbers or dates. In that case, it can make sense to also marked the keywords from the answer choices. But I want you to be careful because it can be easy to waste time when you start to look for keywords from the answer choices. Because, like I mentioned before, some of these answer choices may not even exist. Okay, so that's why most of the times you should be focusing on the key words from the questions . The questions are going to be asking you for some very specific information, so you should keep an eye out for these keywords from the questions and sending them language that talks about the specific information that the question is asking you for now . Once you have finished marking these keywords, you can simply move on to the next step, which is Leave them alone on Go and do the other easy questions first. So questions that are easier and questions that are in order, like fill in the blank, multiple choice and so on. Do those questions first, Remember, our goal here is to answer as many questions correctly as possible, so always saved the difficult questions for the end and do the easy questions first. While you are answering these easy questions, what you have to do is you have to keep an eye out. Okay, be on the lookout for key words that you have marked in the question in Step number one. So be on the lookout for these keywords from the questions. While you are looking for the answers to the easy questions, and if you happen to come across keywords or sending them language from the question, then just go ahead and mark them so that you can easily identify them. When you do return back to these questions at the end. So you're going to mark the keywords, do the easy questions forest. Then you're going to be on the lookout for these keywords and synonym language from these questions, and you're going to mark them if you find any keywords and send them language on. Once you have finished answering all of the easy questions. Once we're done with that, after that, you are going to return back to these pick from list questions. So do the easy questions first, and once you're done with them, return back to these difficult questions at the end off the reading passage. Finally, what you're going to do is you will start by answering the questions for which you have already found the key words. So remember when you were looking for the key words while answering the easy questions? Maybe you ended up finding some keywords from these questions. Well, if you did find these keywords and you mark those keywords when you return back to these questions when you return back to these pick from list questions, you should start off by answering the questions for which you have already found the key words, the synonym language and so on. Okay, so start there because those are going to be the easiest questions for you to answer. Okay, Now, let me take you through some examples off. How exactly to answer these questions. Here we go. We're going to be looking at this question for our example. So this is actually just one question, but actually, we have two different answer choices for this question. So in this case, the question says which two off these advantages off online social networking are mentioned in reading passage number three. So what? I want you to take note off here. Is this part over here? What are we really focusing on? We are focusing on advantages. That is the specific information that this question is asking us for. So here is how we're going to be answering this question. The first thing that you have to do is you have to pay attention to how many answers you will have to write for this question here. It tells us we have to choose to letters. So both of these letters and by letters they mean answer choices from a through E. Two of these answer choices are going to be correct. We have to choose to off these letters and answer them separately. Okay. Separately, that means one letter per question. So we're going to choose one letter for question number 18 and one letter for question number 19. The order doesn't matter. It could be in any order as long as they are the correct as our choices. Next, you are going to mark the keywords from the question mark the keyword that is asking you for the specific information. In this case, we are looking specifically for advantages. This is the key word that I'm going to be looking for in my reading passage when I'm answering the easy questions. First, I'm going to be looking for any language that talks about some sort of benefit or some sort of an advantage. Note that these keywords from the question are likely going to be more useful than keywords in the answer choices. Most of the times these keywords from the questions will be more helpful to you because, like I mentioned before, the some of these answer choices may not even exist the only time where it would probably make sense to mark keywords from the answer choices would be. If you have proper noun names, numbers, dates and so on, then it can be helpful to mark the keywords from the answer choices. But in the beginning, what I would do is if I have this question in a reading passage, I would only mark the key word from the question. And then I would leave it alone. I don't want to marquee word from the after choices and then have all of these keywords in the back off my mind. While I'm looking for the answer to the easy questions first, that's going to be too much information for me to handle, so I'm not really going to do that. I'm only going to focus on the main key word from the question, so these key words are going to be more useful for you in most situations. So what you have to do is just underlined or circled these keywords and then leave thes questions for last for the end off your reading passage. Whichever reading passage this question appears in, you have to leave it for the end off that reading passage, and then you're going to go and finish the easy in order questions first, and then you're going to return back to these questions at the end. Take note that some of these key words are not going to be helpful. For example, this particular question comes from a reading passage that talks about online social networking. Well, if the whole or reading passage is going to be about online social networking than this, keyword is not really going to help us. This is a repetitive key ward, so it's not very useful. So for that reason, I'm not going to mark this keyword. So once you've marked this keyword, leave it alone, do the easy questions first. And then when you return back to these questions at the end of your reading passage, then you should start off by answering the questions for which you have already located the keywords in the passage. Okay, now let's go ahead and start to answer this question. So here is the question. It says which to off these advantages off online social networking are mentioned in Reading Passage three. So once you have marked this keyword from the question, you're going to do the easy questions first, and what I would do is while I am looking for the answers to the easy questions, I'm going to be on the lookout for any language that talks about some kind of an advantage or a benefit. Okay. And if I find out language anywhere in the reading passage, I'm just going to market and then I'm going to finish my easy questions, and then I'm going to return back to that part so that I can start answering these difficult questions at the end. And, of course, I'm going to start off by answering the question for which I have already found the synonym language. Now, once you return back to these questions at the end, you can go ahead on dMarc the keywords from the answer choices as well, especially if you have proper noun. In that case, you can choose to mark the keywords from the answer choice. So I'm going to go ahead and mark these keywords from the answer choices just to show you. But do keep in mind that most of the times you will not really need to use any keywords from the answer choices. Okay, most of the times you will only have to focus on the key words from the question. So I'm just marking these key words here in the Asir choices just to show you If you were to mark the keywords in the answer choices, how would you do it? But most of the times you should not really be marking the keywords from the answer choice , because there's no need to do so. So let's say that here we have these two paragraphs and our answer is going to be found in these two paragraphs. Notice that here we have paragraph A and here we have paragraph E. So the two answer choices are going to come from two different paragraphs. So what I would do is, while I am looking for the answers to the easy questions, I'm also going to be searching for any language that says anything about advantage. So let's say I'm scanning for my answer to the easy questions. While I'm scanning for my answer to the easy questions. I'm also looking for this keyword advantage. Is there anything in here that talks about some sort of an advantage? And here it talks about how the week tie contact have exploded. It seems to be talking about how, before it was difficult for us to maintain weak ties before this was difficult. But now we can't now the number off week tie contacts has exploded. Well, that sounds like an advantage that is sending him language. It doesn't say anywhere. The word advantage. We don't see that word anywhere. But still, this here is an example. Often advantage. This is synonym language. So I'm pretty sure that I'm going to probably find my answer somewhere around here, because right here I have located my synonym language for the keyword advantage. So this is probably going to be my matching statins. So once I have located this area where it talks about the advantage, I'm going to mark this area. And after I finish my easy questions first, then I'm going to return back to this when I start to answer my difficult questions at the end. So when I returned back to this area because I know that it talks about advantage now I'm going to start looking for the specific keywords from the answer choices. Now I am focusing on these keywords from the answer choices. Not before first, I'm looking for advantages, and once I have located that area, then I am looking for these keywords from the answer choices. So let's go ahead and see if we can find any keywords from the answer choices, Do we see anything here? Well, I see this phrase right here. It says number off week tie contacts has exploded, has significantly increased. That's what that means. By the way, if you don't know what week high contacts means, that just means people who you're not friends with. But maybe they're acquaintances, like you know them. But they're not best friends with you. They're not close family members or close friends, but still you know them. Maybe they are co workers. Or maybe they are someone who you don't spend a lot of time with. But you do see them every now and then, so they're not very strong friends. They are what you can call weak tie contacts. You kind of know them. You don't completely know them. You kind of know them a little bit. So here we have, sending them language for this part. Over here, it says online socializing is an efficient way off keeping touch with a lot of people. So to keep in touch with a lot of people means that you can also keep in touch, not just with your good friends but also with your acquaintances with your week tie contacts. So the number of people with whom we are connected with has exploded. That is synonym language. So the correct answer here is going to be be, that is, one off are correct. Answer choices. Let's look at the next correct answer choice. So the next answer choice is going to come from this paragraph. So again, what am I going to do? I'm going to first begin by looking for language that relates to some sort of an advantage . First, I'm looking for some sort of an advantage. Do I see anything here that could be an advantage or an example? Often, advantage on here I see it's talking about are well be. It's talking about how online social networking can have tangible effects on our well being , Harris says. We need never feel alone. That's an advantage, Harris. As there's more off a safety net now, we feel safer. That is also an advantage. So here it talks about a bunch of different advantages. So now that I have located this area, hear what I have is my matching sentence. This is my matching sentence. I know that I'm going to find my correct answer choice somewhere around here. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to start to look for the specific keywords from the answer choices. So let's see if I can find any keywords or any synonym language from these answer choices. So what I see over here is it says we need never feel alone. We don't have to feel lonely anymore. Well, that is synonym language for this part Over here. It can be reassuring to be part of an online social network. When something is reassuring, it means that you feel safer. You don't feel alone because there are other people there to come for to you to support you . So that is synonym language on the correct answer is going to be D. So those are our to correct answer choices B and D. Now let us take a look at another question. Here we have the question that asks us about two disadvantages. Which two of these disadvantages off online social networking are mentioned in reading Passage three. So now what I'm going to do is while I'm looking for my answers to the easy questions, I'm also going to be on the lookout for any language that talks about a disadvantage. And if I find that in my reading passage, I'm going to market and then I'm going to return back to it at the end. So let's say that we have these two paragraphs for this question. We have paragraph B on paragraph F, so our two answer choices are going to come from these two different paragraphs. So what I'm going to do is while I'm scanning for my answers to the easy questions first, I'm also going to be on the lookout for any language that talks about a disadvantage. So here, let's see if we can find anything related to disadvantage. So over here we have the term in accurate. So it's saying that what they could hear, for example, when people turned to social networks for news when they're looking for trusted and relevant news, the information that they find can be inaccurate. This is a disadvantage. We don't see the word this advantage, but this is an example offer this advantage that is synonym language. So in this area we have found our matching satins. So what I would do is, I would simply I would simply mark this area. Maybe I would put a little arrow next to it when I am looking for my answers to the easy questions. And then I would return back to these difficult questions. At the end, I would return back to this area where it talks about the disadvantage. And when I come back to this area, I know that it's going to talk about a disadvantage in this area. So what I'm going to do next is I'm going to start scanning for keywords from my ass or choices. So let's go ahead and see if we can find any keywords from our answer choices. Do we see anything? So over here we have the term information. So information is one of our key words on here. We have the term inaccurate. That is the main disadvantage that the news that people here can be inaccurate that term inaccurate is synonym language for unreliable, unreliable something that you cannot trust, something that can be wrong, unreliable. So the correct answer choice or one off the correct answer choices is going to be the letter A. Now let's move on to the next paragraph. Again, I'm looking for language related to disadvantage. First, I want to find the area where it talks about a disadvantage. I want to look at that area first and after I have located that area. Then I'm going to be scanning for the keywords from my answer choices. So let's see if it talks about some sort of a disadvantage in this paragraph right here. It's as we may have to give up some ability to show very limited glimpses off ourselves to others. It's basically saying that we have to learn to live or more transparent life. Okay, We have to live a more transparent life. We have to be more open with other people about what we're doing about what's going on in our lives, Okay, so people are going to have access to more information about us. So in this area, it seems to be talking about a disadvantage that is an example off a disadvantage because that means that I have to give up my privacy. I have to be more transparent about what's happening in my life with other people. So here it talks about a disadvantage, and now that I have located this area. Now I'm going to start looking for the key words from my answer choices. Basically, I want to see what answer choice is going to be the best fit. So over here it talks about how we have to now live a more transparent life that is synonym language for lack off privacy. So using social Network sites may result in a lack off privacy. So that is going to be our second disadvantage. So the correct answer choice is going to be e. So those are the two disadvantages Letter A and letter E. So I hope you have a better idea of how to answer this question type. And in the next two videos, we're going to be looking at practice questions for how to answer this question type. And we're going to be digging into more detail, so you'll get to see two different examples and get a better idea off. How toe really master this question type 41. Pick From List: Practice Set 1: Okay. Now, in this video, we're going to take a look at a practice question for the pick from the list question. This particular example comes from the Cambridge aisles book Number six. Test number four. This is reading passage number two. So here is our passage. It says literate women make better mothers. It's a question on it is going to explore this question. So let us come down to our questions here. You'll notice that I've already highlighted certain keywords. And then here we have our questions, so we only have one question, but you have to write the answers as two separate questions. So here are the answer choices on what you have to do just to reiterate, just to summarize everything that we've talked about in the previous video. What you have to do is when you get a question like this, you will simply come down to this question on Mark the keywords from the question. So this question says, which two important implications drawn from the Nicaraguan study are mentioned by the writer off the passage. So in this question, we are looking for two implications off the Nicaraguan study. Implications means basically what kind of conclusions we can draw from the study Or what does the study suggest we should do? So that is what implication means. So what you have to do is just marked the keywords in the question and then leave this question alone. Then you're going to go ahead and do the other easier questions first. So here we have reading passage number two. So you would first answer all the easy questions from reading passage number two. And then once you have answered all off those easy questions in this passage, then you are going to return back to this difficult question at the end. Okay, at the end off this reading passage number two. So then, when you answer this question at the end of the reading passage number two, then you can move on to the next reading passage, which is reading passage number three. So in this question, I'm going to assume that I have already answered my easy questions first. And I'm also going to assume that while I was answering my easier questions first during that time I kept these keywords in the back of my mind. I was on the lookout for these keywords while I was answering my easy questions first. So I had these keywords in the back of my mind. And when I was looking for my answers to the easy questions, I came across this keyword Nicaraguan study and over here as well Nicaraguan study. So immediately I recognized that these are keywords from the pick from list question. So when I saw these keywords, I marked them so that it would be easy for me to locate these keywords when I do return back to my pick from list questions at the end. So those are the assumptions that are making for this question? I'm assuming that I already found this particular keyword from my pick from list question. I've already found Nicaraguan study. So next what I'm going to do is I know where I found this key words. So I can immediately go to that spot in the reading passage. And when I go to that spot, I can simply search for my other key word. So I'm going to look for the key word implications or something related to study findings. A research results, okay, some sort of a conclusion that we can draw I'm going to be looking for this keyword on also for sending them language for this keyword in the area where are located this keyword Nicaraguan study. So I'm going to be looking for implications around here and right away. I see that I have to work implications over here. So now that I have located my other keyword implications, my job is going to become so much easier. So, guys, this is why you have to do the easy questions farce. Because when you answer the easy questions first you're going to give yourself the chance to familiarize yourself with the reading passages with the content in these reading passages. And that way you don't have to spend all this time to look for these keywords from the beginning. I mean, if I didn't mark these keywords before, and if I didn't have thes keywords in the back of my mind while I was answering the easy questions first, then this would be rather difficult for me. So it's useful to have thes keywords in the back of your mind while you're answering the easy questions first so that you can quickly answer these questions when you do return back to them at the end. So now our job has become pretty simple. I know that I'm going to find my ass or probably somewhere around here. Okay, so now all I'm going to do is I'm just going to look for what those implications are. So let's go ahead and figure out what the implications are for this Nicaraguan study. So here it says, the Nicaraguan study may have important implications for governments and aid agencies that need to know where to direct. Their resource is okay, so one of the things that they're talking about is the allocation off resource is where to direct their resource is. That's one of the things that they're talking about. Then it says, Sandy Ford says that there is increasing evidence that female education at any age is an important health intervention in its own right. Okay, so here is talking about how female education is an important health intervention. I'm also going to go ahead and read my next sentence over here because I see the word results on results is synonym language for implications. So I'm going to go ahead and read the next sentence as well, it says the results off. The study lends support to the World Bank's recommendation that education budgets in developing countries should be increased not just to help their economies but also to improve child health. Okay, so what is saying here is that basically the education budgets should be increased in developing countries, and we do this not just to help their economies, but also to improve child health. So here it's really talking about a resource is on budgets and how we should spend the money. That's one of the implications that is talking about in this paragraph. So let's come down to our answer choices and let's see if we can find something related to money. Resource is or budget. Okay, so here I see nothing about that. Nothing there either. Here. Also, I don't see anything about money. Nothing there either. I see economy, and then here I see the word money. So Harry says money spent on female education will improve child health. Well, that is exactly what this paragraph is telling us. It's telling us that we should increase the budgets because that is going to improve child health right there. It says that So this is one off for answers. The letter E is going to be one off our answers now. Let us go ahead and see which other answer choice is going to be the other correct answer choice, By the way, hear it mentioned economy. But it's not really talking about money. It says improving child health can quickly affect the country's economy. It doesn't say anywhere that when the child health improves, that is going to have a positive effect on the country's economy. It doesn't say that, so that is obviously not the correct answer choice. Not not for this paragraph, at least. So let's move on and let's try to find the other implication. So now I'm going to look again for Senate in language related toe implications. Another thing that you could do is you could simply look at the keywords from the answer choices and try to see which keywords you can find in the paragraph. For example, you might choose to mark certain keywords from the answer choices like, um, education, mature women campaigns, successful maternal literacy programs and so on. So you could do that, and then you could try to find those keywords in the paragraph, but I'm not going to do that most of the times. This is not going to be the best option for you. Most of the times you should only focus on the key words from the question and then try to find which ask her choice is the best match. So in this case, I'm not going to mark the keywords from the answer choice because I don't see any great keywords here. And also because I've already located the area where it's talking about implications. So I don't think I need to mark the keywords from the answer choices. So I'm just going to directly start scanning this paragraph for anything related to implications. So here we go. Okay, here, saying the Nicaraguan studies suggests we may be able to bypass that. So to suggest suggest is synonym language for implication. What is it implying? What is the implication? What is the study suggesting the study is suggesting that we may be able to buy past that, but I don't know what that is. What is this pronoun referring to? We don't know that. So what we're going to do is we're going to read the previous sentence to figure out what this pronoun is referring to. So the previous sentence reads. But we thought that even if we started educating girls today, we'd have to wait a generation for the payoff. But the Nicaraguan study says that we may be able to bypass that. So what this sentence is saying here is that before we thought that if we started educating girls today, we would have to wait for a generation for a very long time for that to have any positive effect. But the Nicaraguan studies suggest that that is not true, that we may not have to wait for such a long time. We may be able tow bypass that or in other words, we may be able to take a shortcut. We can somehow shorten that process and make it much shorter. That's what it's saying here. So let us look at our answer choices again. It is better to educate much your women than young girls. Well, it doesn't say anything about how it's better to educate mature women than young girls. It's not talking about a comparison. It's not comparing mature women to young girls, so that is not the correct answer B says similar campaigns in other countries would be equally successful, not says nothing about AH, similar campaigns in other countries. See says the effects off maternal literacy programs can be seen very quickly. Okay, that is our answer, the highest synonym language. We can see the positive effects off this program very quickly. We don't have to wait for a very long time. Harris says that before, we used to think that we would have to wait for a very long time to see any positive effect . But that is not true. This study suggests that we can bypass that. We can make it faster and quicker. So the correct answer choice is going to be C. And then he says about economy. So that's not the correct answer choice here. So the only to correct answer choices are going to be the letter C and the letter e great. So I hope you see how this works, what I would suggest you do one more time just to summarize everything. Focus on the key words from the question. Okay, those are going to be the most useful keywords for you. The keywords from the question most of the times. You should not really have the need. I mean, if you have a good question, if you have good keywords in the question like I have over here, then you really should not have the need to mark the keywords in the Asir choices. You can choose to do that if you're having a hard time, or you can choose to do that. If there are proper noun in the key words of the answer choices, then you can choose to do that. But, ah, I suggest that you just stick to the keywords from the question. In the next video, I'm going to show you another example. We're going to go over practice at Number two, in which I'm going to show you a question in which we don't have any keywords. Okay, I'm going to show you a question in which we don't have any good keywords, and in that case you would have to mark the keywords in the answer choices and use that to locate your answers. So that's coming up next. Stay tuned for that, and I'll see you in the next video 42. Pick From List: Practice Set 2: Welcome back in this video. We're looking at our second practice example. This one comes from the Cambridge. I'll spoke Number nine Test number three and this is reading passage number two. So here are article is about title power. Let us come down to our question on Let's take a look. So here we have our pick from the list question, and in this case, what you'll notice is that we don't really have a question with keywords. The question says which five off the following claims about title power are made by the writer. There is no good keyword in here That can really help you to find the correct answer. So in this case, what can you really do? You cannot really use keywords like title power or writer. This keyword over here is a repetitive keyword. The whole article is about title power, so that's not going to help you. So when you get a question like this and it can happen is probably not so common. But this can happen, and you should definitely prepare for a question like this. So when you get a question like this, what you have to do is don't do anything at all. I mean, you cannot really mark the keywords in the question and then be on the lookout for that. What I would do personally is I would not really mark any keywords for this question. I wouldn't mark any keywords in the question because there aren't any. And I also would not mark keywords from the answer choices, because these are so many answer choices that I really cannot effectively hold all of the's keywords in the back of my mind while I'm answering the easy questions first. And you also have to keep in mind that some of these answer choices may not even exist. So when you get a question like this, just don't do anything with it. Just go ahead and do the simple questions first, the easy questions first, and then come back to this question at the end. Okay, so in the previous examples that you saw, we had a question in which we actually had keywords. So in that case, we decided toe mark the keywords, and then we decided to do the easy questions forest, and also we, um, kept our eye out. We were on the lookout for those keywords from the question from the pick from the list question. But in this case, we cannot really do that. So don't mark any keywords, just do the easy questions for it and then return back to this question at the end. So for this example, I'm going to assume that I have already answered my easy questions, and now I'm returning back to this question at the end. So let's go ahead on start to answer this question type. The way we're going to do it is we're going to mark the keywords in the answer choices. So let's go ahead and do that. Here we have, um, answer choice eight. It says it is a more reliable source of energy than wind power. The key word is reliable in answer choice be It is focusing on replacement, replacing all other forms off energy in Britain. Britain is a good keyword. That is a proper noun. It may be helpful an option c r keyword is result actually not result. Ah, public pressure is a better keyword. We're going to focus on that public pressure some much better. Keyword. Here we have air pollution for answer choice. E it's focusing on existing power stations. It's specifically focusing on the closure, shutting down these existing power stations in Britain. Here we have national income increasing national income. G. We have resistance, resistance from WHO from other fuel industries. For letter H, we have cheaply says it could be sold more cheaply for letter I. Let's see. It's talking about compensating for the shortage. Oh inland site for energy production. So what is really saying is that there is a shortage off energy production in these areas on its talking about compensating for that energy production for that shortage of energy production. Next we have the letter. I let her eyes talking about a shortage off inland sites for energy production and then finally, letter J. It's talking about coastlines. Okay, so what I'm doing here is I'm trying to find the best keywords. There are a couple other words in here that I could use to ah, find the right fit for the correct answer for this question. But I don't want to overwhelm myself with too many keywords. If you mark too many keywords, it's going to become difficult for you to keep them in the back of your mind, OK, so try to keep them at a minimum. Try to mark as a few key words as possible, but at the same time, make sure that the key words that you do mark are useful keywords. They should be easy to locate. So these are my keywords. And what I'm going to do now is I'm going to browse over these keywords one more time just so I can hold them in the back of my mind while I scan my reading passage for these keywords. One thing I do want to point out is that if you just go straight to this question, this is going to be a very difficult question for you to answer. And it's going to take up a lot off your time, okay, but this is why we return to questions like this at the end. For questions like this, it is very important that you give yourself the time and the opportunity to familiarize yourself with a content in the reading passage by doing the easy questions first. So if you have answered the easy questions first, you should be able to choose most of the correct answer choices or right off the bat. It really shouldn't take you that long. Okay? So let's go ahead and start to browse over these keywords so that we can scan for these keywords when we are Look at our passage. So here we have reliable replace other forms. Britain, public pressure, air pollution closure, existing power stations, Britain increasing national income resistance, other fuel industries, resistance from other fuel industries, cheaply shortage of inland sites. And then we have coastlines. Great. So let us go and, um, try to look for these keywords. So I'm just going to go ahead and start scanning this reading passage for any off those keywords that we just looked at. I'm going to scan for any off those keywords and see if any of them jump out. Okay, here we have Britain. I'm not going to start reading my sentences right away. I just want to mark the keywords first, and then I'll come back and I will read around the keywords next. Here. I see another key word. Look at that. I see reducing its carbon dioxide emissions. Can you guess? What is that? Sending them language for carbon dioxide emissions. This here is synonym language for air pollution right there. Air pollution. That is synonym language. Let's go ahead and see what else we confined here. I have another he word Britain. Okay, I see. Island Island is sending them language for coastlines. Harry mentioned coastlines, so that is synonym language. Here we have U K. That is synonym language for Britain. He was talking about prices, competitive prices that could be synonym language for cost talks about how it could be sold more cheaply, so that could be sending them language for that. Okay, let's move on to the next paragraph. Yes. I want you to be scanning with me, okay? I want you to also be looking for the key words here. Is he constant constant here? I also see predictable. These could be sitting in words for reliable. See that year, reliable. That could be sitting him language for that. Okay, let's see what else here is talking about sites, potential site? I'm not sure, but maybe this could be useful because I remember that here is talking about inland sites that could be useful. Harris has islands, and here it's as coasts. So those are sending in words for coastline remember that down here it's as coastlines. So that is synonym language. They don't see anything there. Here is as islands could be sending them language for coastlines. Here I have the word Britain. All right, there we go. So these are all of the key words that I've been able to find. I haven't been able to find all the keywords, but I found a good number off them, and this is a good place to start. We can start to answer this question, and we can start to narrow down our answer choices. So this is a good place to start on, DA. What I'm going to do is let's just begin with maybe not Britain because the word Britain appears several times. So I don't want to start there because this might take up too much time. So I will instead start with this keyword here carbon dioxide emissions, and that will send them language for air pollution. So let's read around this area. It says the technology raises the prospect off Britain becoming self sufficient in renewable energy and drastically reducing its carbon dioxide emissions. So we're talking about reducing air pollution. Let's look at the answer choice, and let's see if that matches up. It would cut down on air pollution, so to cut down is sending them language for to reduce. So that is one off our answer choices. Let's go ahead and mark that. Let us move on to our next keyword. Hera mentions Island. I'm not sure about that. The word island also appears a couple times, so maybe I won't start there. I see the word Island Coast couple times down here as well, so I'm not going to start with that. Rather, let's see if we can start with a different key work. Maybe this one prices competitive prices and down here in one of the answer choices, it talked about how it could be sold more cheaply than any other fuel type. Let's see if that is true. Is the title power going to be sold more cheaply? Is that going to happen? Let's see, Harris says. Title sites have already been identified that will produce 1/6 orm or off the U. K s power and at prices competitive with modern gas turbines on undercutting those off the already ailing nuclear industry. Alright, guys, what do you think is this going to be? Our correct answer is H one off our answers. What do you think the answer is? No. H is not the correct answer, because age is saying that it could be sold more cheaply than any other fuel type. But up here, it doesn't say anything about being sold cheaply. It says that the prices are competitive, which means that the prices are, um, on par with other prices with prices for other energy sources. So that could mean that the prices are pretty much the same, but it doesn't say anything about the prices being cheap. It does say that the prices would undercut. Okay, so that means that the prices would be cheaper. But it doesn't say that the prices will be cheaper than all the other energy sources. It says that the prices are going to be cheaper only in comparison to nuclear industry. Okay, so H is not are correct. Answer. If you want, you can go ahead and simply eliminate that by putting a line across it. If it helps you. Ah, you can go ahead and do that, but you don't have to let us move on and ah, Let's see what else we can answer next. Let's move on to this predictable and constant. So this sentence says, Let's start up here because this is a court. Abu Bakker, the hajj in charge of the South Hampton Research, said the prospects for energy from tidal currents are far better than from wind because the flows off water are predictable and constant. So what it's saying is that basically, title energy is better than wind because it's more predictable. It's more constant. Or, in other words, it's more reliable. So is a going to be the correct answer here. What do you think? Letter A says it is a more reliable source of energy than wind power. Yes, that is exactly what it says in the reading passage. So this is our other correct as her choice. All right, two down, three more to go. Let's keep moving on. We're done with that and what I will do next is well, let's just I think the only other keywords we have our island on Britain and both of those keywords appear several times throughout this passage. So let's just start with Britain will just start up here. Undersea turbines which produce electricity from the tides, are set to become an important source off renewable energy for Britain. Does it say anything about how these turbines are going to become an important source of renewable energy for Britain? Does it say that in the answer choice, Let's check. B says it would replace all other forms of energy in Britain. Okay, I haven't seen that yet and hear the word Britain appears again. So let's also read that answer choice. It says it could contribute to the closure off many existing power stations in Britain. Okay, I don't see that s so far either. So let's move on to the next area in which the word Britain appears, which is over here. So let's read the sense the technology raises the prospect off Britain becoming self sufficient in renewable energy and drastically reducing its carbon dioxide emissions. Okay, we already read that we could have just kept it. There was no need to read it because we already read it before, but let's read this next one. If tide, wind and wave power are all developed, Britain would be able to close gas, coal and nuclear power plants and export renewable power toe other parts of Europe. Well, there's our answer, guys. It says that it would be able to close, gonna put that in blue color, that Britain would be able to close these other plants or other sources of energy like gas , coal, nuclear power and so on. That is exactly what it says down here in the answer choice. Not here by Rather in letter e. It says it could contribute to the closure off many existing power stations in Britain, right? So we can shut down other sources of energy while stations for other sources of energy like wind, nuclear and so one. So that is our other correct answer choice. All right, two more to go. So let's see if we can find the other remaining answers. I'm just going to scan for the other area where the word Britain appears, which it's down here somewhere down here. There we go. So here he says, the single undersea turbine farm would produce far more power than needed for the Channel Islands, and most would be fed into the French grade and re imported into Britain, blah, blah, blah. That is not talking about anything from our as our choice so we can just ignore it. Okay, Now let us move on to our other keywords, which was island on a coast. Let's see if we can find anything related to that. So let's read this. Ah, sentence starting from here, perhaps, unlike wind power, which Britain originally developed. So here the word Britain appears again, which Britain originally developed and then abandoned for 20 years, allowing the Dutch to make it a major industry. Undersea turbines could become a big export earner. Toe island nations such as Japan and New Zealand guys, What is it talking about here? Here? It's saying that the undersea turbines could become a big export earner. It could it could make a lot of money. I remember seeing that in our answer choices, it mentioned that somewhere Not quite sure. Let's just check here. Here we go, increasing national income. So we didn't find anything suggesting that the answer could be letter I or J. We have the word coastlines here, but ah yeah, we did find another answer choice, which seems to be the right fit here. So it could be a means of increasing national income. How are we going to do that? Well, we could export the energy that we create from title power. So that is our other correct answer choice. Letter F. All right, one more as a choice to go. So let's see which one is going to be the right fit. So now let's just go over our keywords one more time. Actually, I'm going to across this one out because I have scanned for all the areas in which the word Britain appears. And I did not see anything about how titled Power could replace other forms of energy. I didn't see that anywhere. So I'm going to put a line across it because I don't think that that is going to be my answer. What is likely to be my answer is something related to perhaps public pressure. I didn't see this keyword either, though not sure about that. But let's just refresh our mind one more time with the key words that we are focusing on. So now we're specifically looking for public pressure, resistance from other fuel industries, shortage of inland sites on coastlines. Let's see if we can find anything related to those four keywords. Okay, so we just got done with reading the sentence and ah, let's see, here we have the word site Island coasts up here, so this is a good area to read. Also, I see the keyword Britain. It seems that I missed it before. So let's go ahead and read this sentence and see if we find our answer here. You research has now identified 106 potential sites for tidal power 80% around the coasts of Britain. The best sites are between islands or around heavily indented coasts where there are strong tidal currents. Okay, so they're talking about how the best sites are between islands or around coasts or coastlines. So let's come down to our answer choice hair. It says it could compensate for the shortage off inland sites for energy production. I don't see anything about there being a shortage off inland sites. Doesn't say that here in letter J, it says it is best produced in the vicinity off coastlines with particular features. Yes, that is the answer. That is what it says. It talks about how the areas that are between islands or that are around coastlines are the best places. See that right here, it says the best sites are between islands. Put that in blue color. The best sites are between islands or around heavily indented coasts. So that is going to be our final answer. And we have now finished al answering this question, guys, congratulations on finishing this video because this was the final type of question and also one of the most difficult types of questions that you can see on the rating exam. So we are now done with talking about all the different question types, and I hope that you now have a solid foundation for being able to answer each and every single type of question that you can see on the reading test. In the next video, I'm going to be answering the entire reading exam from beginning to finish, starting with reading passage number one on finishing off at or reading passage number three. So you're going to get a chance to see me answer the entire reading test in the next video , so I'll see you there 43. Full Reading Test: Passage 1: Hey, guys, welcome to this video. So now that you know how to answer every single question type, what we're going to do now is I'm going to be answering an entire reading test for you here . So I'm going to be going through each one of the passages. Passage number one, then two, then three. And I'm going to be finishing this reading test from the beginning to the end. So since there are three passengers and I do want to keep these video short, I'm going to be splitting this exam that I'm going to be doing. I'm going to be splitting it into three videos. So in this video, we're going to answer reading passage number one. And then in the next video, I'm going to answer reading passage number two. And then in the next video. After that, I will be answering reading passage number three. So in these three videos, you will get a good sense of how to answer the entire reading test from the beginning to the end. So let's begin here. We have our reading passage number one. By the way, this example, all of this entire test. In fact, it comes from the Cambridge Iose Book number 12. This is a test number seven. So in test number seven, we're going to be doing reading passage number one in this video. So here is our first question. The first question is a headings question, and you might remember that these don't go in order and these are more on the challenging side. So you want to save thes questions for the end. But before I just leave these questions and I move on to doing the easy questions first, the first thing you have to still do is marked. The keywords marked the keywords so that when you are answering the easy questions, if you happen to come across any of thes keywords, you can mark them. And then it will be much easier for you to answer these questions when you do return back to them at the end. So that's what I'm going to do here. I'm just going to be marking some of the most important keywords in the answer choices here . So in the forest answer choice, it seems to be focusing on the correct timing, the importance of getting the timing right. Okay, it's all about timing here. 2nd 1 young meets old number three developments to the disadvantages that's going to be a major keyword, disadvantages or disadvantage in this case, off tortoise populations. Okay, so the tortoise populations were somehow at a disadvantage. That's what we're looking for with number three number four planning a bigger idea. Bigger idea. Planning is also part of me. That's pretty much the whole answer choice there with number five tortoises popular the islands. This is more about population. The next one carrying out a carefully prepared operation. Okay, this one is about a carefully prepared operation. Next number seven looking for a home for the island's tortoises. So this one is about looking for a home, and then finally, the start off the conservation project. So here you will notice that we have a total off eight answer choices number one through eight. And here we only have seven questions. So that means that one of these answer choices it's not going to be used. So once you have marked these keywords, all you have to do is just leave them alone, kind of half them in the back of your mind, the ones that you've just highlighted and move on to the next set of questions. We're going to return back to the headings questions at the end. So here is our next set of questions. It's just these fill in the blank questions over here, and then we have our reading passage number two. So we'll go over that in the next video. In this video, we're just going to be focusing on answering these fill in the blank questions and after we answer these easy questions first, then we're going to go ahead and do the difficult headings. Questions next. Okay, so again, the first thing that we're going to do here is we're going to mark the keywords just like with headings questions. Also, be sure to read the instructions. Here. You can only write an answer that contains one word very important. Okay, here is talking about originally from mainland South America, that's going to be an easy keyword. I can remove that. Actually, this is a better keyword, but here we don't have any questions to answer. This is just a statement, but still it can be useful to mark the keywords in the statements because they can still help you to locate the correct area in which you should be looking for your answer. Because we know that these fill in the blank questions they go in order. That means that the answer to question number nine is going to come after the answer to question number eight. And the answer to question number eight is going to come after these sentences right here. These statements, even though they're not asking us for an answer, they will still go in order one after the other after the other and so on. So this can still be useful. Okay, here. We're talking about the numbers on Galapagos Islands. They increased due to lack off predators. Down here, we have great keywords. 17th century, 17 nineties. Those are great keywords. Okay. Something about whaling ships we don't really need to be, You know so much on the lookout for these other keywords. Once you find one great keyword, you can pretty much figure out the rest of it. So the first priority should be to locate that main keyword. The easiest keyword. Once you find that area in the reading passage, then you can start to look for other keywords from the question within that area. So once I find the keyword 17 nineties, then once I locate that area in the reading passage, then within that area I'm going to be looking for other keywords from this question, such as whaling ships. And also be careful about these connecting words kept for for what? Used by by who? That's going to be a noun. So these words that are connecting words, the words that come right before the blank line on words that come right after the blank line. These words can give you clues about what is the right answer. Because the correct answer has to fit here in this blank line like a jigsaw puzzle, it has to be the perfect fit. It has to be grammatically correct. It has to be the correct syntax, the correct structure, the correct plurality. Okay, so the correct answer is going to fit in here like a jigsaw puzzle. So these words that come right before the blank line and right after the blank line they can help you to determine if the answer choice that you have chosen is in fact the correct answer choice. Okay, let us move on over here is talking about how this Waas used to produce something kept for these air keywords we can pay more attention to later on. OK, but these are not the main keywords that I'm looking for. The main keywords that I'm going to be looking for are going to be 17 nineties or in this case, 17th century. Okay, I'm looking for the main keywords first, and then I'm looking for the other keywords. Question number 11. Something about being hunted by hunted by someone, right. They have to be hunted by someone on the island. Number 12 Habitat destruction Establishment Agriculture is going to be easy to find various dash, not native baby tortoises. That will be easy to find as well. All right, so we have all of our key words now, and, um, another thing to pay attention to is the title. Now the title can actually help you to figure out what is the correct paragraph where you're going to find your answers. Because this title tells us that all of this information is talking about the decline off the Galapagos tortoise. All of this is about the decline. So any paragraph where we notice it's talking about decline that is going to be are correct paragraph in which we're going to find all the answers for this. One more thing I want to point out is that I remember that in our headings questions. We had a key word, and the key word was disadvantage. It is very likely that this disadvantage, the paragraph in which is going to talk about this disadvantage, is going to be the same paragraph in which it's going to talk about this decline because decline and disadvantage, they might talk about the same ideas. Okay, so let us start to now scan for are answers to these questions. We are going to be scanning for these keywords. But do remember. Keep in mind that while you are scanning for the answers to these questions, you also have to have in the back of your mind these keywords just so that if you happen to come across any of them, you can mark them and make your job easier when you do return back to these questions at the end. So let us have these in the back of our heads. Timing right Young meets old disadvantage planning a bigger idea. Tortoises populate the island Carefully prepared operation, looking for a home on conservation project. Those are the key words. We're going to have them in the back of our minds while we look for are answers to these easy questions. So here, I'm going to start off by looking for mainland South America because that's a proper noun and then also Galapagos. And that will tell me, Actually, you know what I don't need to do that. 17th century is going to be very easy to find. In fact, even though I marked these keywords thes could be useful to help us locate the answer to the next question. Because once we figure out where this area is, we can figure out that this area has to come after this area so these keywords could be useful. But in this case, I have such a fantastic key ward 17th century that I really don't need. Thies He works, so I'm going to mark them out. I don't need those. I'm just going to start here directly from 17th century. So let's look for that. And then also 17 nineties. Okay, here we go. Nothing there. Here I see. 17th century. Here I see. 17 nineties. Let's just make sure that these keywords don't appear again. Nope, Pretty sure I'm going to find my answers in this paragraph. Okay, now our question. Size 17th century. Small numbers taken onto ships used by Used By Who? Let's find out. So, Harris says, from the 17th century onwards, pirates took a few onboard for food. But the arrival of whaling ships in the 17 nineties solid ist exploitation grow exponentially. Okay, so who took a few onboard? Pirates did. That's what it says over here. Took a few onboard a few ah, fewest synonym language for a small number. Small numbers taken onto ships on board, right that took a few onboard. Onboard is synonym language for taking on to ship used by who Pirates. Pirates is the correct answer there. So let's go ahead and fill that in pirates. Okay, so the answer is Pirates. Let's go ahead and just mark that over here as well, just so that you can see it easily. Okay, Now the next question asked us about something related to this keyword and whaling ships. So let us look at the question. The question says 17 nineties, very large numbers taken onto whaling ships kept for for what? On also used to produce produce. What? So we're looking for two now owns here, So these tortoises were kept for something and used to produce something. Let us find out what that is over here, it says. But the arrival whaling ships in the 17 nineties saw this exploitation grow exponentially. Now notice how they're talking here about exploitation. This could be synonym language for disadvantage. Remember, we talked about this keyword from the headings. Question. Disadvantage! It could be talking about a disadvantage here, we're not sure, but let's keep reading on and let's confirm So they were kept for something and used for something here. It says that they acted as food supplies. To act as food supplies means to be used for something. So let's read, this sentence here says, Relatively immobile and capable off surviving for months without food or water. The tortoises were taken on board these ships to act as food supplies during long ocean passages, so we know that they were used for food in the next sentence, it says. Sometimes their bodies were processed into high grade oil, so it said. What did we produce with them? What were they used to produce? They were used to produce oil, to produce a synonym language for processed into that, a synonym language. So let us go ahead and fill that in as our answers. Very large numbers taken onto whaling ships kept for what? For food. Also used to produce what they were processed into oil notice. I don't say high grade oil. I don't say food supplies, even though that's what it said in the passage. I don't say that because here we can only have an answer. That is one word. One word only. Great. Let us move on to our next question. Number 11. Hunted by who? On the islands hunted by someone. Let's find that out. So we found the answer to question number 10 here. So the answer to number 11 has to come after this point. Now, if you want, you can put the question numbers next to the area where you found the answers for them so that you can figure out the order in which to look for the answers. So here we found the answer to question number eight over here number nine here. Number 10 here. So 11 has to be somewhere down here so you can put the question numbers next to the area where you find the answers. If that helps you, If you want to do that, go ahead and do it. I'm not going to do this here because I feel that I'm going to find all of my answers in one or maybe two paragraphs, so I don't have to look around. You know, I don't have to jump throughout my reading passage to try to find these answers, because fill in the blank questions tend to be pretty simple. Most of the times they're not going to be more than 1 to 2 paragraphs. And I know that this whole question said, is talking about the decline of the Galapagos toward it. So that decline is really going to be talked about in one main paragraph, maybe two paragraphs. So because I'm not expecting to be searching throughout the entire reading passage, I don't feel that I need to put the numbers off the questions next to them next to the answers, so I'm not going to do that. But if it helps you go ahead and feel free to do so. Okay, let's move on to question number 11. We want to find out who was hunting the tortoises. So let's look for that language. Something related to hunting. It says Exploitation. Over here. That could be some sort of synonym language, but not exactly okay. Over here, I see hunted, hunted. So that is going to be my main keyword. Hunted. Let's find out who was hunting the tortoises. They hunted a tortoises and destroyed their habitat to clear land for agriculture. Okay, they hunted. But who are they? Who is that pronoun referring to In order to find out, we have to read the previous sentence to which this pronoun is referring back to. Okay, so let's read that previous sentence. Harris says This historical exploitation was then exacerbated. Exacerbated means to make something worse. Okay, toe make something worse. It was then exacerbated when settlers came to the island. Settlers. Settlers are the ones who hunted the tortoises. They destroyed their habitat. So that is going to be the correct answer for question number 11 settlers hunted by settlers on the islands. Let's fill that in over here. Great, now we only have one more question left. Question number 12 for this question said. And we are looking for something related to habitat destruction, actually to 12 and 13. One question, but split up into two answers. So let's look for this keyword habitat destruction. Okay, there we go. Habitat destroyed their habitat. That is synonym language for habitat destruction to destroy habitat. Okay, so we've found our area. So let's go ahead and read the question as well. Habitat destruction for the establishment, off agriculture and by various what, various something that are not native to the islands. What are not native to the island, not native. They do not belong there. They hunted the tortoises on, destroyed their habitat to clear land for agriculture. Okay, we know that it was for agriculture. They also introduced alien species. Okay, The word alien means not native something that does not belong like aliens from outer space . They do not belong on the earth or they are not common to the earth. Right? So that's why we say that they are aliens in the UFOs, the same word we use for species as well. For example, I might say that cattle pigs. Goats scratch. They do not belong in this area because they come from other countries from other areas. Okay, so to be alien means that it is not native there. It is not commonly found there. So alien species were introduced, ranging from cattle, pigs, goats, rats and dogs to plant on aunt that either prey on the eggs and young tortoises. Okay. Young is sending them language for babies. Right? Young tortoises, baby tortoises. Remember we saw that down here. It talked about baby tortoises. Died a synonym language or damage or destroy their habitat. Okay, so what did they introduce? The introduced alien species species that do not belong. So species is going to be the correct answer here. I'm gonna put that in green. So Harris says, for the establishment of agriculture and by various species not native to the island. Now the next part here says, which also fed on baby tortoises on tortoises. What? Something that belongs to tortoises. We see that here with the apostrophe. We are looking for something that belongs to the tortoises. So they fed on baby tortoises and we already found the synonym language for that. It said young tortoises up here, but here says that either prey on pray on the eggs and young tortoises or damage or destroy their habitat. So these eggs, they belong to the tortoises. They prey on their eggs that is, sending them language for to feed on, to prey on a synonym language for to feed on, to pray means to hunt and then eat an animal to be fed also means to eat, so they're talking about the same thing that it's synonym language. So these alien species fed on baby tortoises on on Tortoise's eggs eggs. That is the correct answer there. Okay, so we have now finished answering all of our fill in the blank questions. We are now done with all of our easy questions, and now we can move on to answering the difficult questions next. So in this first reading passage, we only had two questions sets. We already did this one, and now we only have one more left, which is the headings questions so we can do those next. And the question for you now is which headings question. Do you start with? Which one should you start with? Can you guess? Well, first I'm going to start off by answering this question first. Okay? Because we just answered a whole bunch of questions from fill in the blanks that talked about the decline of the Galapagos tortoise. All of these questions are talking about disadvantages. How we exploited tortoises, how we took large numbers of them. We used him for food, for producing oil, how they were hunted by settlers, how we destroy their habitat with alien species. And then the alien species ate their babies and their ex Hall of that sounds terrible. That is all talking about this advantages. So I'm going to start there. So this answer answer Choice number three is going to be the correct fit for paragraph B. I'm pretty sure off that. So we're just going to put number three next to paragraph B. That is the correct answer. Choice. Okay, let's move on now. Now what I have to do is can you guess I'm going to start off by answering the questions for which we have the shortest paragraphs. So here that is paragraph See paragraph D on paragraph G. So I'm going to force do C, then D Then I will do G then I will do E. And then I will do the remaining paragraphs, Paragraphs A and paragraph F Those are the two largest one. So I'm gonna keep those for the end. So let us begin by first answering paragraph c So you might remember now the way to answer the headings questions is we just have to read the topic sentence, which is the first sentence and the second sentence. And if you still don't find the answer, then go ahead and read the final sentence in the paragraph. The headings question is not asking you for specific information. Rather, the headings question is asking you about the main idea off the paragraph. What is the main idea? The just off that paragraph and the way to find out the gist or the main idea is just by reading the first in the second sentence and maybe the last sentence off the paragraph, and that will tell you everything that you need to know about what this paragraph is about . So let's go ahead and do that. The first sentence here. It's as today only 11 off the original sub species survive on off these several are highly endangered Okay, So we are going to be focused on endangered species, how they're endangered. That seems to be the main point of focus here. Next sentence says, in 1989 work began on a tortoise breeding center just outside the town off Porto Villamil on Isabella, dedicated to protecting the island's tortoise populations. Okay, so here is talking about how we began toe work on something so that we could protect the islands towards population. We wanted to save them, protect them, conserve them. I remember seeing something about conservation here, Over here, down here. This as the start off the conservation project. Okay, To conserve means to save, to protect, to take care off. So it's talking about how this project started. How was for paragraph C? So that is the correct answer for paragraph C. Let us move on. Paragraph D is next. It is also a very short paragraph, so we'll begin there. The problem was also a pressing one up. To be a pressing problem means to be a very important problem, a serious problem. Next sentence says captive bred tortoises can't be introduced into the wild until they're at least five years old and way at least 4.5 kilograms, at which point their size and weight and their hardened shells are sufficient to protect them from predators. Okay, so what is talking about is that these captive bred Portis is cannot be reintroduced into the wild at the wrong time. They have to be introduced at the right time. Okay, Timing is very important. And it talks about that over here. The importance of getting the timing right. The timing includes allowing enough time for them to reach the correct age, the correct size so that they can have the time to grow their shells for their shells to become hardened so that predators cannot prey upon them cannot hunt them. So the correct answer. Ask her choice. Number one is going to belong to number four. Question number four. Okay, let us move on to our next shortest paragraph, which I believe was paragraph tree. Yep. So we're going to start with that one next. Now here, the first sentence reads upon their release, the juvenile tortoises quickly spread out over their ancestral territory investigating their new surroundings on feeding on the vegetation. Okay, so here is talking about how the juvenile tortoises quickly spread out. That's what it's talking about, how they quickly spread out. Let us also read the second sentence. Eventually, one tiny tortoise came across a fully grown giant who had been lumbering around the island for around 100 years. OK, so is talking about how a tiny tortoise came across a fully grown giant. Let us look at our answer choices. Here is talking about how young meets old. A tiny tortoise meets a fully grown one. Young meets old. There's no other answer choice here. That can be the correct fit for that. Tortoises popular the islands. Maybe that maybe that because it does say here, Harris says, how juvenile tortoises quickly spread out. But here it's really focusing on young tortoises. Juvenile means young babies, Children. That is what it means to be juvenile. So it could be that, but we're not sure, right. So when you're not sure what you have to do is just read the final satins off the paragraph , and then you can be sure. So let's go ahead and read the final sentence. The two stood side by side, a powerful symbol off the regeneration of an ancient species. The two stood side by side, the young and old. So now I'm sure that the correct answer is going to be number 24 paragraph G. There we go. Let us now move on to the next shortest paragraph, which is E E is the next shortest paragraph. So here we go. Four years. Repatriation efforts were carried out in small numbers, with the tortoises carried on the backs off men over weeks off long, treacherous hikes along narrow trails. But in November 2010 the environmentalist and Kelapa Gross National Park liaison officer Godfrey Merlin visiting private, more yacht captain and a helicopter pilot gathered around a table in small cafe in Puerto Ayora on the island off Santa Cruz. Toe workout. More ambitious reintroduction. Okay, so they want to do something bigger. That's what they're saying, that they want to reintroduce the tortoises at a larger scale. Here. They're talking about how, before we used to carry the tortoises in small numbers over the backs off men, right? This wasn't very effective. But what they want to do now is to something bigger, something more ambitious. And I saw that as my answer choice over here planning a bigger idea. So that is going to be the correct answer. Choice for paragraph E. Question number five. That is going to be number four. All right, now, let us move on to our next shortest paragraph. Now we only have paragraphs A and F left. So maybe we'll just start over here with paragraph A Forests off spiny cacti high cover much off the uneven lava plains that separate the interior off the Galapagos Island off Isabella from the Pacific Ocean. With its five distinct volcanoes, the island resembles a lunar landscape. Okay, It seems to just be describing this region I'm not sure about which answer. Choice is the best fit for that. I'm going to go ahead and read the final sentence as well. In the absence of significant predators, they grew to become the largest and longest living tortoises on the planet, weighing more than 400 kilograms, occasionally exceeding 1.8 meters in length and living for more than a century. Okay, so here it's talking about how, in the absence of predators, these tortoises were able to grow too large sizes, and it's talking about their native land. Actually, it's talking about their native habitat, the area in which they used to live. And here, if you scanned some keywords, you can see how it's talking about colonisation, settling population. So it's basically talking about how the tortoises used to be before human arrival. The next paragraph starts to talk about human arrival, and here is talking about before human arrival. So here it's talking about how the tortoises populated the islands. There was a time when the tortoises used to populate the island. They used to grow the huge sizes, huge weights. Okay, so that is going to be the answer for Paragraph A. And then finally we have paragraph F. Let's see what that one is about. This unprecedented effort was made possible by the owners off the 67 meter yacht White Cloud, who provided the Galapagos National Park with free use off their helicopter on its experienced pilot, as well as the logistical support off the yacht. It's captain and crew. Originally an air ambulance, the yachts helicopter has a rear double door in a large internal space that's well suited for cargo. So a custom create was designed to hold up to 33 tortoises with a total weight off about 150 kilograms. Okay, so it's really talking about how they carried out a certain mission. It was some sort of a mission, some sort of a project that they were working on. So if we come up to our answer choices here, we can see that the correct answer choice is going to be this Number six carrying out carefully prepared operation. It was some sort of a mission, an operation, and it was carefully prepared with the help off these helicopters and all of these different resource is. So that is going to be the correct answer for paragraph F number six. So that's it for this video in the next one. We're going to be continuing answering this reading test and the next one we're going to be answering reading passage Number two 44. Full Reading Test: Passage 2: All right, Welcome back. So in the previous video, we went over the reading passage number one. This time we'll go over reading passage number two. So we're basically going to be repeating the same thing that you saw me do with the passage . Number one. We are going to first do the easy questions, and then we will do the difficult questions at the end. Here we have a reading passage on the intersection off health sciences and geography. Let us come down to our questions. So here we can see that we have a paragraph, location, question, and then down here, we have a sentence. Completion question. So which one of these questions do you think we should do first? The paragraph, location, question or the sentence? Completion? Question. If you guessed sentence completion question, then you are correct because these questions that go mostly in order, whereas the paragraph location questions don't. So what we will do is we will do these easy questions first, and then we will do this question set. But before we do these sentence completion questions, we still have to mark the keywords. So we're going to be marking the keywords from the paragraph location question so that we can have these keywords in the back off our minds so that when we are searching for answers to these easy questions, we can be in a better position to answer these when we do return back to them at the end. So let's go ahead and start to mark these keywords. So here, with number 14 we have acceptance eliminated number 15. We are looking for examples off physical conditions. Okay, some sort of physical conditions that are caused by human behavior. Remember, guys, we are looking for a very specific information. When it comes to paragraph location questions. We are looking for very specific information in number 16. It says that we have to look for a reference to classifying. Disease is okay, so we are looking for some sort of classification of diseases based on what, based on the geography based on how far they extend geographically. Number 17 we are looking for reasons why access to health care can vary can be different within a country. We can also go ahead and include This part can vary Now here with question number 18 we are looking for a description off health geography. Okay, as a mixture, some Mischer off different academic fields. And finally, question number 19. We have a particular illness that we're looking for and this illness is quite rare. A rare illness, maybe just that part. And that is pretty much it. I think we have most of our key words here, all the good ones anyways, So we're going to keep these keywords in the back of her minds when we go around hunting for the answers to these questions. So let's go ahead and mark the key words here as well. And then we'll start to answer these questions. Okay, so certain diseases have disappeared. So we're looking for the disappearance of certain diseases. Thanks to what? Something improved, something changed. Something became better Health care number 21 contact between people and losing their usefulness. Question number 22 We are looking for disease, causing something that it's probably going to be a noun that has to be a noun, a disease causing what something and hot, damp regions. Those air good keywords. They should be easy to find. Then, Here, with number 23 we have pollution. We are looking for cause of pollution that burns a particular fuel. Then here we have growth of cities. Impact on nearby. What, nearby? Something probably some sort of an area number 25. We are looking for Dash is one disease. Okay, so maybe a type of disease. We're looking for a type of disease that has been eradicated. It has been eradicated, but it is growing. See, it is growing after having been eradicated. So that's what we're looking for. And then finally, number 26. We are looking for Ah, physical barrier, such as what? So probably an example off a physical barrier. And this barrier prevents people from reaching the hospital. Perfect. So here we have all of our key words now, and I am now going to start answering these questions. Before I do that, I'm going to browse over these keywords one more time just so I can have them in the back of my just so I can have them in the back of my mind. So here we go. We're looking for acceptance. Eliminated physical conditions. Human behavior. Classifying disease is based on geography. The reasons why access to healthcare can vary health, geography as a mixture and then finally a rare illness. And then down here, I'm going to start off by forced looking for this keyword hot, damp regions. And then pollution is also a good one. Ah, but I'm going to go with this one. I think that this is the easiest one to find. So let's look for this keyword first, and then we'll work our way around it. Hot, damp regions is what we're looking for. Here we go. I remember seeing something about being eradicated. I'm just gonna be marking them for now. Okay, here is talking by geography. Remember, we had something about that geographical region. There we go. Warm and damp environment. What is that? Sending them language for warm and damp environment is sending him language for this part right here. Hot, damp regions. So we're going to find our answer there for question. Number 22. Right here. Warm and damp environment. Most probably. We're going to find our answers here, but let's go ahead and read this part. So this is probably going to be our matching sentence. So here it says, perhaps one of the most obvious examples off this idea is malaria prone areas which are usually tropical regions that foster a warm and tamp environment in which the mosquitoes that can give people this disease can grow. Okay, so this question right here, it's asking us disease causing dash are most likely to be found in hot, damp regions. Disease causing. What? What says that up here? Malaria prone areas which can give rise to mosquitoes, they foster mosquitoes. Disease causing what? Disease causing mosquitoes. It is these mosquitoes that give people this disease. So that is going to be our correct answer for question number 22. I'm gonna put 22 right next to that. Okay, so now that we know where the answer to 22 is, we can figure out the rest of them. So maybe we'll start off by first looking for question number 20 and 21 since they will come before this part. So let's look for that first 20 and 21. So we'll start with 21. So we're looking for contact between people and ah, losing their usefulness, contact and losing usefulness. Does it say anything about that here. Okay. Not quite there. Maybe appear here. Contact People come into contact on DA I don't see anything about usefulness or losing usefulness. Let's just read this part. Then we'll figure it out. So right here we found our keyword. People come into contact, so we're going to be reading this sentence. The sentence in which this keyword appears it starts from over here. In a world that is far more globalized than ever before, people come into contact with one another through travel and living closer and closer to each other. So I haven't found my answer yet. Let's keep reading on. As a result, super viruses on other infections resistant to antibiotics are becoming more and more common. Okay, so they're talking about resistance to antibiotics, how these super viruses and these infections no longer respond to antibiotics to medicines . So here they're talking about how these medicines are losing their youthfulness. They're losing their usefulness because they no longer work. So what no longer works antibiotics. They no longer work. That is going to be our answer. So let's come down to our question here. The question says we are at number 21 it says, because there is more contact between people, what are losing their usefulness? The answer is of course. Antibiotics. Over here. The answer Waas Mosquitoes. Let us now answer this question. Question number 20. So question number 20 says certain diseases have disappeared thanks to better. What? Thanks to better something and health care. Okay, so two things have helped in, um, eradicating certain diseases. Health care on something else. Let's find out. So, question number 22 was here. 21 was here. So 20 has to be up here probably right. These questions, they go mostly in order. So we're going to assume that they're going to be in order. But very rarely. They may not be okay about maybe 20% of the times. They may not be in order. So here we go. We are looking for eradication. Here we go. It talked about how some diseases have been eradicated. Do you to do? To what? Due to improvements in vaccinations and availability of health care. So we were looking for two things. One of them, we already knew was health care. The other thing that changed that got better was vaccinations. So vaccinations is going to be the correct answer for question number 20. Thanks to better vaccinations on health care Now let's move on to question number 23. Here we are looking for pollution on particular fuel. Those are our key words. So the question says one cause of pollution is dash that burn a particular fuel. So something burns a particular fuel. Let's find out. 22 was here, so 23 has to be down here. So here. I already see the word pollution. Not is one off our keywords. Um, let's see if there's anything else something related to fuel. A particular fuel here. I see. Cole Cole is a type of fuel. Onda here, it mentions pollution again. Okay, so let's start from over here. It says in many large cities the wind is not strong enough to clear the air off the massive amounts off smog and pollution that caused all of these diseases. Okay, let's move on down here. Part of the problem is, of course, the massive number of cars. Okay, cars, air using ah, fuel, probably right. The massive number off cars being driven in addition to factories that run on coal power. Okay, so factories also use fuel, but which is going to be the correct answer? Guys, cars or factories. Let's look at this down here. One cause of pollution is dash that burn a particular fuel. We're not just looking for any fuel. We're looking for a very particular fuel. So what is the correct answer? Cars or factories? Over here? It's talking about how part of the problem is cars. Cars create pollution. But it's saying that in addition to cars, we also have factories that run on coal power. Coal is a very specific type of fuel, So that's why the correct answer is going to be factories, not cars, because it mentions cars. But it doesn't say that cars use a particular type of fuel. It doesn't say that in this passage. So the correct answer is factories, because factories do use a particular type of fuel called coal. Let's put 23 right there and, ah, let's come down to our questions and the answer here is going to be factories. Now let's move on to the next question. Question number 24. It says the growth of cities often has an impact on nearby. What, nearby, what something some, some sort of an area. So we're looking for keywords. Growth off cities on impact on nearby. Let's take a look. So here we had the answer to question number 23. So 24 probably will be after that, Maybe over here or down here. Let's see. Okay, here we go. We see the word expansion. That is synonym language for growth. Here we see big cities and ah there. I also see the word country's recent years led to cutting down our forests. Okay. Ah, I think I think we're going to find our answer here. So let's just read this sentence. The rapid industrialization off some countries in recent years has also led to the cutting down off forests to allow for the expansion off big cities. Which makes it even harder to fight the pollution with a fresh air that is produced by plants. So it's basically saying that because of industrialization, the cities are seeing a lot of growth. And because the cities are growing, we have to cut down more and more forests. And if the plants are dead than it becomes harder to fight the pollution. So if we come down to our question here, look at what the question is asking us for we're looking for a nearby area that was impacted because of the growth of cities. What was impacted as a result off the growth of cities? The answer is forests. Forests. Remember, it said that we have to cut down the forests in order to make space for the growing city. So that is the correct answer there. And, ah, the next question question Number 25 says Dash, is one disease that is growing after having been eradicated. So let's find out what that disease is is probably going to be a type of disease or or the name of a disease. So let's find out what disease is growing after having been eradicated. Okay, so that was our answer to question number 24. The answer to question number 25 will probably be somewhere down here, so let's take a look. Okay, Harris says. Re emerging, re emerging. What does it mean to re emerge to re emerge means to come back or to return, so that is sending him language for how diseases are coming back after. So that is sending them language for how diseases are coming back after having been eradicated. It's saying that diseases continue to spread that they are still growing. They are re emerging and they are growing. So let's read this sentence here. It's probably going to be our matching sentence. It says it is an increasingly important area off study. In a world where diseases like polio are re emerging, respiratory diseases continue to spread and malaria prone areas are still fighting to find a better cure. So which disease has returned back after having been eradicated? Which disease says right here diseases like polio are re emerging. So polio is going to be the correct answer for question number 25. Polio. I'm gonna put 25 right there on. Let's fill that in. Polio is one disease that is growing after having been eradicated. Remember, guys, we can only have an answer. That is one word only. Always be mindful of the instructions. I didn't mention that before, but I'm sure you figured that out. Okay, now, question number 26 our final one. We are looking for a physical barrier, some sort of a physical barrier that can prevent people from reaching the hospital. Okay, let's find out what that is. So here we have our question number 25 right there. So 26 will probably be down here. Okay, I hear I see the word health, geography, health, geography. I remember seeing that health geography. There we go. Right here. I see health geography. That is for our paragraph, location question. So if I see it, what I can do is I can just kind of market. I'll just use a different type of marking, just so I don't confuse myself. Let's see here. I'll do this all. Just put a box around it. Health geography, So I can come back to this later on when I come back to my paragraph. Location questions. Okay, So we are looking for a physical barrier that is going to prevent people. Right. So here I see the word prevention. And I'm looking for a sort of physical barrier, A type of physical barrier. I don't see that here. It does talk about geography, but I don't see the example of physical barrier. So let's just keep moving on. Don't see a physical barrier there either. No, not there either. I do see it. I do see the word difficult here. It says that the levels off health care in the area. Let's see. Yeah, maybe difficult that do do get access to this. Health care may be difficult for people if there is amount in between their village on the nearest hospital. So here we have a bunch of key words. We have to keyword hospital. We have the word difficult, which is synonym language for this down here prevent people. It can prevent people so it can make it more difficult. It can make it difficult to get health care or to get medical attention. Those are synonym words. So I'm pretty sure the answer is here. In fact, I already see an example off our physical barrier. But let's go ahead and read this sentence from over here. Individuals working in the area off the geography off health care provision attempt to assess the levels off health care in the area. For instance, it may be very difficult for people to get medical attention because there is a mountain between their village on the nearest hospital, and then it goes on to talk about some other stuff that doesn't seem to be related to the physical barrier. So I'm pretty sure that this is going to be my answer because that is an example off. Ah, physical barrier. It doesn't say physical barrier, but that is an example of physical barrier. And we have found the rest of our key words here. So that is going to be the correct answer. So let's just fill that in Mountain and there we go. We are now finished with the sentence completion questions, and we are now going to return back to these paragraph location questions and guys. When we start to answer these questions, you're going to see how much easier it is to ask her these questions now. Because now we are already familiar with this reading passage because we did these easy questions first. So with these questions, we're going to start off by answering the questions for which we have already found some information or keywords. I remember seeing health geography. So I will start over there and then we'll figure out the rest of these. So you may remember that I put a box around this keyword health geography so we might find our aunts or somewhere around here. So here it talks about health, geography and the keyword health. Geography also appears over here. So it seems that this paragraph is mainly going to be talking about health geography. So let's go ahead and find out what exactly health geography is here. It seems to be defining the definition. It says health. Geography is the combination off on the one hand, knowledge regarding geography and methods used to analyze and interpret geographical information on on the other, the study off health diseases and health care practices around the world. The aim off this hybrid science Okay, hybrid science that is synonym language, which means a mixture of hybrid is a mixture off two or more things. So the aim of this hybrid science is to create solutions for common geography based problems. Okay, so we now know that health geography is basically a mixture off different disciplines, different fields off study here, Question Number 18 says a description of health geography as a mixture off different academic fields. So the matching question for Paragraph D is going to be question number 18. So let's put that answer choice right there. By the way, take note that here it does say that you may use any letter more than once. That means that any of the answer choices that we put over here can be used more than ones . So right here we have a total off six questions and we have paragraphs a through H So that is basically the whole reading passage a through H. So that is a B C D e f g h. That is a total of eight paragraphs. So we have eight paragraphs and six questions. But we may not use some of these paragraphs because we can use the same as her choice twice so very, very important to always be mindful off these instructions up here, you may use any letter more than once. And ah, these are the answer choices and the questions. Okay, so let us move on now, and ah, let's see, where should we start? Let's see, What should we do next? Perhaps will start over here physical conditions caused by human behavior because I remember an area where it talked about cars and factories and on the different ways in which humans are affecting the environment affected by human behavior. So I remember it. Talked about that somewhere up here. Here we go. Right here. I talked about pollution and how we are affecting the world by using. All these machines are like cars and using factories and because of rapid industrialisation . All of this is synonym language for human behavior, things that are caused by human behavior. So this part right here, where it says part of the problem is, of course, the massive number of cars being driven in addition to factories that run on coal power, the rapid industrialization and yada yada yada. All of this stuff is talking about examples off physical conditions caused by human behavior. The fact that we now have pollution in the air is a physical condition. So that paragraph, paragraph C is going to be the correct fit for question number 15. Great. Let's move on to the next question. The next one that I want to answer. Is this one right here? Because I remember seeing something about the level of access to health care. I do know where that paragraph is. It talked about over here how the access to the level of health care can be difficult in certain areas because of physical barriers like a mountain, so we might find our answer over here. Let's just double check. So the question here is asking us for reasons why the level of access to healthcare can vary within a country. What are the reasons right? It's asking us for different reasons. So let's take a look. I'm looking for any keywords related to rare, something that is not common, not frequent. Anything related that Check this out, guys, Hillary says much less of a problem. Much less of a problem is sending them language for rare in this case, because you may remember up here when we were answering the easy questions, it talked about how in warm and hot, damp environments mosquitoes can give rise to diseases. Well, it's saying that this disease malaria, which is caused by mosquitoes, is not a problem in high altitude deserts. In other words, malaria is rare in high altitude desserts. That is tricky synonym language. So you have to keep an eye out for things like this. You know, keywords can be hidden right in front of you, and you have to be able to detect it to figure out how that keyword is hiding in a paragraph. So malaria is an illness, and this illness is very rare in this area. So question number 19 is asking us about a description off the type of area where a particular illnesses rare. Yes, malaria is rare in which area in high altitude desserts. So the correct answer for question number 19 is going to be the letter B. Okay, two more left, Number 14 on a number of 16. So let's just start to Scown for perhaps we'll start here. This looks like a better keyword, classifying diseases geographically. So we're looking for anything related to classification of diseases based on geographic factors. Mentions geography here, but it doesn't say anything about classifying the diseases. No, that whole paragraph is about pollution. This whole paragraph is pretty much about health geography. I don't see it there, either. Nothing there. Here we go here is talking about how the interactions between humans and the environment could lead to illness is different illnesses. So basically the different type of geography can expose you to different types of illnesses . So that seems to be talking about this part, how we can classify diseases based on geography. So here it's talking about geography. Environment is geography. And then down here, it's talking about how health geographers can map the spread of illnesses right they can map the spread of illness is an attempt to identify the reasons behind an increase or decrease in illness, basically based on geographical factor so they can map it based on how far the disease extends geographically. So that is going to be the correct answer. Choice for question number 16. That is going to be F. Now we only have one more left. Question number 14. So let us look for this keyboard acceptance. We are looking for an acceptance that not all diseases can be totally eliminated. Where does it say that acceptance? Okay, let's Let's check over here. If we see something here is just talking about geography and malaria, okay, Doesn't say anything about acceptance there. That is just talking about pollution. I think that maybe our answer there, I'm not quite sure. And acceptance that not all diseases can be totally eliminated. It does seem to be talking about that. Ah, because take a look at this. It talks about eradication off illnesses over here on DA. Over here, it says people will always be prone to illnesses, so to be prone to illness means to be exposed to illness is basically saying that we will always have diseases. We cannot get rid of them completely. So the sentence says, while people will always be prone to illness, the study of how geography effects our health could lead to the eradication of certain illnesses and the prevention of others in the future. So when we say that people are always going to be prone to illness, that is synonym language for acceptance, because we are accepting that this is always going to happen, and the best that we can do is just figure out ways to minimize it. Okay, so the correct answer to question number 14 and acceptance that no all diseases can be totally eliminated that is found in paragraph d. There we go. So the letter D is used twice over here 14 and number 18 and then everything else is used just once. Great. So those are all of our answers for the paragraph Location questions on for the sentence completion questions. So that's there for this one. In the next video, we're going to finish up this reading test by doing our final passage, which is going to be passage number three. So I'll see you there 45. Full Reading Test: Passage 3: welcome back. So in this video, what I was supposed to do and what I said I was going to do is I was going to answer the reading passage number three for you and ah, show you how it's done in front of you. But I think that you already have a very good idea. A very good understanding of how to answer these questions. If you have made it this far into the course than knowing how to answer these questions should be easy for you. So what I'm expecting is that you already know how to answer these questions. So before I was going to answer these questions for you, But what happened is I ended up changing my mind. I think that it would be much more helpful if you just went ahead and try to answer these questions on your own. So this way you will get some extra hands on practice. So what I would like for you to do is download these questions from the resource is if you just look under the resource is Tab, you should find these questions in there. So download that pdf and go ahead and answer these questions in your own time. If you can answer them while setting a timer, then go ahead and do that. If you would like to answer these questions without a timer, that is also all right. But do keep in mind that before you take the test, you should take some time to answer several off these questions without a timer as well as way the timer. Okay, so go ahead and answer these questions and when you have answered them than what I would like for you to do is compare your answers with my answers. So I'm also going to be attaching an answer sheet in the resource is section as well. So under the resource is for this video, you will find the questions, and then you will find a second version in which I'm going to half the answers listed out for each one of thes questions. So give it a try and come back and check your answers and see if you got them all right, 46. Final Tips: all right. You finally made it here to this final video off our course in this video. I want to leave you with some final tapes to ensure your success. These are some off the things that you need to do before your exam, so let's get to it. So what to do before the day off her test? The first thing that you should be doing is you should lightly review any content that you're still struggling with. Now, notice off, emphasized the words lightly review. This means that I don't want you to use this day or this night as an intense study session . If it's the day before your test, you should already know how to answer your exam. Questions only used this time to do a light review. This means that you should not be spending any more than 1 to 2 hours for your review. Now you should be doing this because you should use this day to relax on, to refresh your mind and body so that when you go into your exam the next day, your mind and body feel fresh and at their best. Now it's very important that you know exactly where the test is on how to get there. So the day before the test make sure that you check the map on that. You know how long it's going to take for you to get to the test center Now for you to perform well on your test, it's very important that you get yourself a good night's sleep. This is very important to refresh your mind and body the next day, so make sure that you don't stay up at night to prepare for your exam. Research shows that students who sleep at least seven hours the night before an exam the typically score higher than those students who only get six hours of sleep. So even that one extra hour makes a huge difference. So make sure that you get as much sleep as you need to feel well rested on prepared for your exam the next day. Now, all of that preparation is going to be for nothing if you don't wake up on time the next day, so make sure that you set an alarm so that you can wake up on time. If you're like me, then you may need to set two or three alarms to make sure that you wake up on time as a side note, you should avoid setting more than three alarms, because this way, people often end up oversleeping. Okay, you're gonna keep pressing that snooze button over and over, and you're going to end up oversleeping. So don't set more than three alarms and keep them at most 10 to 15 minutes apart from each other. Next, get together everything that you're going to need for her exam. You'll need to prepare all the materials that you're going to need for your test the night before. So what do you need to bring to your test? Here are the things that you need to bring for your isles exam. First, you have to bring your original on valid passport, so you have to bring your original passport on. It should be valid, meaning that your passport should not be expired. Take note that driving licences on student ideas are not accepted as identification. You have to bring your passport. Next, you have to print out the confirmation email for the test, so when you register for your exam, you're going to receive a confirmation email and you have to print it out and bring it to your test. This document is going to be stamped. Next. You should bring to colored photocopies of your passport. Now, this is just a precautionary measure, just in case you have not sent the photocopies or you haven't uploaded them with your application. So in such cases, you can bring the photocopies off your passport with you and submit them at the test center . Next, bring along four colored, passport sized photographs off yourself. This is also another precautionary measure. This is just in case. The photo that you uploaded in the registration form is not clear. So if the uploaded photo is not clear, then you can submit thes colored, passport sized photographs off yourself at the test center. You're going to need some stationery items, so carry your own pencils, sharpener razors on pens. If you're going to use pens to write, I don't suggest using pens to write your task. One. And task to essay pencils are better because you can erase your mistakes and easily correct them. But essentially, you want to carry your own stationery items just in case the test centre does not provide them so most of the time, that exam centre will have all of these things, so you don't have to worry about it. But just in case they don't have it, it's always better to have your own stationery items next or water bottle. This is optional. I want you to note that your water bottle has to be transparent without any writing or labels on it. I also want you to note that water bottles are not allowed in some test centers. In such a case, if water bottles are not allowed, there's going to be a water facility at your exam centre. Next up, we have snacks now. This is also optional. I want you to note that snacks are not allowed in the test room. However, you can eat them while you're waiting to go into the examination hall. Sometimes this can be a long wait so it can be helpful to have some snacks along so that you can keep your energy levels up. All right, now we're moving on to what to do on the day off the test. First of all, start your morning strong. This means that you should eat a healthy and filling breakfast toe fuel yourself for the upcoming examination, you're going to have to sit for a couple hours straight, so make sure that you've properly energized yourself. Here are some good brain foods that you might want to consider eating before a test. Whole grains such as oatmeal, granola and king. Wow, These are great meals because they are very rich in carbohydrates so they can give you energy for a long period of time. Another personal favorite is fresh fruits on vegetables, so make sure that you confirm that you have everything you need to take with you to the test on the day off the test itself as well. So you should have already done this the night before, but just confirmed that you have everything you need on the day off the test as well. Be on time. It's very important. Ideally, you should aim to get to your exam centre at least 30 minutes before your test. If you arrive after the test starts, then you're not going to be allowed to take the test. Go to the bathroom before you leave your house. Go to the restroom so that you don't have to waste time going to the restroom at the test center. All right, Now, the moment of taking the test is before us. And here are some quick things that you should do right before you take your test. Gotta pee. We'll use the bathroom before the test because there are no bathroom breaks in your exam. If you are in the middle off the test and you do need to use the restroom, then you must raise your hand to the Examiner and ask them for permission. Now, if you're in the middle off taking your test, I suggest that you do not go to the bathroom during the listening test. This is because if you go to the bathroom, the listening test will not stop for you on. You're going to miss the answers on. As a result, you're going to get a lower score overall, so avoid going to the bathroom during the listening test. If you must go, then it's best to go during the reading or the writing section off your test. However, really try to avoid going to the bathroom during her exam. Try to take care of all of this right before your test or right before leaving your house. Now it's very important that you stay calm on positive during your test. It's normal to feel nervous before an exam. Just relax onto your past. One way that you can relax yourself is you can focus on deep breathing, so breathe in and breathe out. Another way to relax yourself and to put yourself in a positive mood is to stretch your arms, stretch your legs, crack your back if you need to and get the blood flowing. So those are all of my final tips before you go into the exam. We have now arrived at the end of our course. Guys, we have finished our entire journey. It has been a really honor and a really pleasure to have been your teacher. I really enjoyed every moment of teaching you. I wish you a hearty congratulations and the best of fishes on your Isles exam. On a final note. I just want to say that you've worked really hard to get this far into the course, so I want you to relax. Give yourself a pat on the back on focus on studying the parts that you're still not sure about. That still need work. If you enjoyed this course, guys, check out the other courses and share it with your friends and family if they also need help with writing the essay. Cheers, everyone. I wish you the best of luck on your journey in whatever goals you have in life. Whether that is toe work in an English speaking country or to study abroad, my best wishes are with you.