Hey everyone how are you doing today.
Let's go ahead now and talk about the headings question a lot of students have asked me about the headings
question.
A lot of students have difficulty with the headings question and actually the strategy for this question
is not that difficult to understand.
It's the application of the strategy that's a real problem for the students.
So first let's go ahead and go through the strategy for doing the headings question and then I'll give
you a couple of examples so that you can kind of understand how to really apply and do this kind of
question.
All right so in terms of the headings question what they really are asking you here is they're asking
you to really figure out the main idea or the just right the headings question is a main idea question.
That's what it is.
It's a main idea question.
And so when you're doing a main idea question you have to know that the most important sentence of all
is the topic sentence right.
Because the topic sentence is going to control and tell you exactly what that paragraph is about.
But really that's that's really the main thing you have to do here.
You have to discover what is this paragraph mainly talking about and that's where the challenge is because
a paragraph headed because a heading question requires you to have an understanding of the meaning.
What is this paragraph talking about.
OK so let's look at the strategy for doing this.
This particular kind of question.
This is what it looks like.
So as you can see here we have in the head in the box a set of headings and then we have the questions
at the bottom 14 15 16 17 18.
First notice of course that we have more headings than we have questions and you can only use a heading
once you can use a heading more than once and you can only pick one answer for question right.
So that means that some of the headings don't belong.
All right so the first strategy they like to tell students.
Number one don't do this question first in your set.
Don't do it first one is in your set.
What I mean by that is if you are reading passage 1 and you have a headings question and reading passage
1 what you should do is if you get if in reading passage while you have a headings question you have
a matching question and you have a short answer question.
What you want to do is do the short answer question and do the matching question first.
Ok then do the headings.
QUESTION The reason why is because if you do the short answer question first and the matching question
you will have looked at a lot of the reading passage while doing that question those questions.
Then when you come back and do the hanging's question it is so so much easier to do because you're familiar
with the different paragraphs.
They're not new to you.
If you start with the headings question first if you start with it first you're going to spend so much
time reading and reading and reading trying to understand.
And that's how you waste time.
OK.
So when we're doing this test everybody is about being fish in.
All right so you want when you do this question you want to begin by doing these short paragraphs first
because they're going to be easier to answer and you can get those correct easier.
Your overall goal is to get as many correct as I can as you can.
Also by doing the shorter shorter paragraphs first you can start getting rid of some of the answer choices
and it reduces your selection to choose from.
Which is also a good strategy.
All right the headings question is a synonyms test.
OK.
Synonyms test because when you look at the paragraph in the language in the paragraph they're not going
to use the exact same language in the Hening they're going to use synonyms for the meaning.
And so you have to have a good grasp of them and then language in order to do a good job on this particular
question.
Now I want you to be careful when picking answer choices simply because they have the same words.
That's what we don't want to do.
We don't want to pick an answer choice just because it has the same words OK.
We don't want to do that.
So let's make sure that we don't do that when we're doing this because this test is designed to get
rid of students they have a very low level of English one way they do that one way they do that is by
giving them exactly which to choose from because they'll choose the exact language and then they'll
get that answer wrong.
Right.
So like I said before the most important sentence is a topic sentence which is the first sentence of
a paragraph it explains with a pair of revers about enchain what makes this question difficult is that
you must understand meaning just happens to be a very good test of somebody's English ability.
You have to understand meaning must understand meaning have to makes it a challenge is not like a field
a blank question or a short answer question.
All right so here is our specific strategy.
Quickly read through the possible answer choices underlining any key words that stand out to you.
That's very important in the answer choices because those are some of the that's some of the synonym
language you're probably going to use.
Go to the lowest shortest paragraph and read either the first and last sentence or the first and second
sentence.
Both strategies work.
If you're a fast reader read the first second and the last.
Then you go to your headings and you choose the one that captures the same meaning that you basically
found a topic sentence from.
All right.
And then you move on to the next shortest paragraph short appear shortest paragraph and repeat the process.
So that's how we do the headings question is those four easy steps.
But the trickiest application.
So let's take a look at some examples of the headings questions so you can see how we apply this question.
Not hard to do but you've got to have a good understanding of English.
OK.
So thanks a lot.
Talk to you soon.
Let's go over this headings question.