WEBVTT 00:00.840 --> 00:01.310 All right. 00:01.440 --> 00:04.890 So here we're looking at the short answer question strategy. 00:06.330 --> 00:11.550 And we're going to be looking at what is the proper method that we have to use when we're doing a short 00:11.550 --> 00:15.710 answer question for the Isles reading comprehension passages. 00:18.040 --> 00:23.620 With the short answer question it's pretty basic in terms of the basics you have to read a question 00:24.340 --> 00:30.030 you have to understand the requests that answer you have to provide the answer within the word limit. 00:30.030 --> 00:30.400 Right. 00:30.400 --> 00:35.780 Sometimes they'll say you know you have these no more than two words or no more than three words. 00:36.070 --> 00:39.570 Also important note this question goes in order of course. 00:39.580 --> 00:44.710 What that means is that after question number four you'll have question number five of the number five 00:44.710 --> 00:46.170 we have number six. 00:46.180 --> 00:52.570 So our short answer questions go in order which is really really helpful to do as you saw earlier when 00:52.570 --> 00:54.580 we were doing the fill in the blank question. 00:54.580 --> 00:55.600 Very very good. 00:55.600 --> 01:01.040 Understand that this is what a short answer question looks like. 01:01.040 --> 01:01.450 All right. 01:01.480 --> 01:05.250 So you know we have our 14 15 16 17. 01:05.350 --> 01:06.870 That means these go in order. 01:07.040 --> 01:13.060 Ok they go and order and as you see the directions there say use no more than two words. 01:13.130 --> 01:18.850 Again what that means is you can use two words or you can use one word but you cannot put three words 01:19.450 --> 01:20.460 with three words. 01:20.460 --> 01:22.440 Then your answer is wrong. 01:22.690 --> 01:28.320 For example if you put a small car that's three words a is a word. 01:28.480 --> 01:28.870 Right. 01:28.870 --> 01:30.890 So just just be aware of that. 01:31.060 --> 01:31.470 OK. 01:31.480 --> 01:32.450 Be aware of direction. 01:32.450 --> 01:36.920 So many students lose points because they can't follow simple directions. 01:36.970 --> 01:40.540 You have to follow simple directions when you're doing the exam. 01:41.320 --> 01:47.040 So as I said earlier with the short answer question the question will go in order. 01:47.140 --> 01:52.000 That means that after number 14 you'll find number 15 and after that you'll find Number 16. 01:52.250 --> 01:58.060 All right so this is very very important that when you have a reading passage that the first thing you 01:58.060 --> 02:01.890 do is you look and see what kind of questions do I have. 02:02.080 --> 02:05.800 Normally you're going to have two or three different types of questions. 02:05.800 --> 02:12.680 Normally it's three like you might have a Yes don't I given question short answer question type and 02:12.680 --> 02:15.450 also have a paragraph location question. 02:15.710 --> 02:17.840 So you know that sure yes. 02:17.900 --> 02:21.760 No not giving question your short answer questions go in order. 02:21.980 --> 02:27.950 So you will make sure you do those first and then to the paragraph location question last. 02:27.950 --> 02:28.650 All right. 02:28.700 --> 02:29.040 You. 02:29.060 --> 02:32.230 All you want you want to make sure that you keep that in mind. 02:32.250 --> 02:38.840 But yes our short answer question that goes in order in terms of is questions if you don't work. 02:38.840 --> 02:43.460 Question number two is question number four is that means you're going to find Question number three 02:43.460 --> 02:46.160 in the middle. 02:46.190 --> 02:51.880 The first thing you want to do with the short answer question is you want to examine the questions and 02:52.030 --> 02:58.840 quickly decide which ones are the easiest to locate in the passage these will be the questions to do 02:58.840 --> 03:00.400 in the set first. 03:00.750 --> 03:01.120 Right. 03:01.120 --> 03:09.970 So for example when we look at these questions here 14 15 16 and 17 probably the easiest two questions 03:09.970 --> 03:12.880 to do first are probably number 16 or 17. 03:12.880 --> 03:19.810 The reason why is there were 16 has the word Australia and in Wales standings Australia is very easy 03:19.810 --> 03:24.870 to find 17 easy to find because a North Sea right. 03:24.910 --> 03:32.290 So I would probably start with number 16 or 17 even if I know what number 16 is that on November 15 03:32.290 --> 03:34.170 and 14 are going to be before that. 03:34.390 --> 03:38.890 So it's very important to look at which questions are the easiest to do first when you're looking at 03:39.280 --> 03:47.100 a set of short answer questions because you're being efficient is very very important. 03:47.120 --> 03:51.590 A lot of students are not efficient when they're when they're doing this. 03:51.590 --> 03:56.630 So the first thing the next thing you want to do in terms of step two after you have sorted out which 03:56.630 --> 04:00.620 questions you're going to do first is you want to look at the question and choose the key words from 04:00.620 --> 04:01.890 the question. 04:01.910 --> 04:08.210 These will usually be the primary subject object or the verb most likely is going to be your subject 04:08.300 --> 04:09.880 or object that you're looking at. 04:11.310 --> 04:15.870 You want to pay particular attention to the names dates and other proper nouns as those are easy to 04:15.870 --> 04:18.660 find. 04:18.690 --> 04:25.620 Step three you want to take those keywords from the question scan the passage scan the passage for those 04:25.620 --> 04:31.280 keywords you want to find the sentence that those keywords are coming from in terms of understanding. 04:31.280 --> 04:38.070 Question design what they're doing for that for the Isles exam is they are looking at the reading passage 04:38.070 --> 04:44.190 or look they're looking at a specific paragraph and then they're looking at one sentence and creating 04:44.190 --> 04:51.000 a question from that one sentence or sometimes they will look at two sentences and from those two sentences 04:51.000 --> 04:55.420 they will create one question by making a compound sentence or something like that. 04:55.680 --> 05:00.020 So you have to understand that's how they make questions for the exam. 05:00.090 --> 05:03.500 So you have to do the you have to do the opposite of what they're doing. 05:03.600 --> 05:08.520 You have to look at the key words in the question and then go to the passage and find the sentence that 05:08.520 --> 05:10.240 they took that question from. 05:10.290 --> 05:13.430 If you do that you're always going to find the answer very fast. 05:13.650 --> 05:20.670 So to do well it also gives a reading about your ability to scale step forward in terms of answering 05:20.670 --> 05:22.170 the question. 05:22.170 --> 05:27.570 Answer the question is very very straightforward once you find your key word sentence you want to go 05:27.570 --> 05:34.230 back and quickly read the question you want to recognize or identify the specific answer they're looking 05:34.230 --> 05:37.560 for and then locate that answer in the sentence. 05:37.620 --> 05:38.310 OK. 05:40.510 --> 05:47.380 These are all the instructions all together on one page if you want to look at that or freeze the video 05:47.410 --> 05:49.890 and look at all the instructions together. 05:50.530 --> 05:54.570 The short answer questions are really easy to do. 05:54.700 --> 05:59.710 The key things are to remember that the question goes in order and you have to scan it and locate the 05:59.740 --> 06:00.170 center. 06:00.190 --> 06:02.440 The question is coming from. 06:02.530 --> 06:07.590 These are great questions and these are questions you can get a lot correct on. 06:07.590 --> 06:12.340 All right so thanks a lot for listening to the strategy. 06:12.370 --> 06:15.630 And now let's go through some examples so you can see how it all works. 06:15.640 --> 06:16.420 Talk to you.