All right.
So here we're looking at the short answer question strategy.
And we're going to be looking at what is the proper method that we have to use when we're doing a short
answer question for the Isles reading comprehension passages.
With the short answer question it's pretty basic in terms of the basics you have to read a question
you have to understand the requests that answer you have to provide the answer within the word limit.
Right.
Sometimes they'll say you know you have these no more than two words or no more than three words.
Also important note this question goes in order of course.
What that means is that after question number four you'll have question number five of the number five
we have number six.
So our short answer questions go in order which is really really helpful to do as you saw earlier when
we were doing the fill in the blank question.
Very very good.
Understand that this is what a short answer question looks like.
All right.
So you know we have our 14 15 16 17.
That means these go in order.
Ok they go and order and as you see the directions there say use no more than two words.
Again what that means is you can use two words or you can use one word but you cannot put three words
with three words.
Then your answer is wrong.
For example if you put a small car that's three words a is a word.
Right.
So just just be aware of that.
OK.
Be aware of direction.
So many students lose points because they can't follow simple directions.
You have to follow simple directions when you're doing the exam.
So as I said earlier with the short answer question the question will go in order.
That means that after number 14 you'll find number 15 and after that you'll find Number 16.
All right so this is very very important that when you have a reading passage that the first thing you
do is you look and see what kind of questions do I have.
Normally you're going to have two or three different types of questions.
Normally it's three like you might have a Yes don't I given question short answer question type and
also have a paragraph location question.
So you know that sure yes.
No not giving question your short answer questions go in order.
So you will make sure you do those first and then to the paragraph location question last.
All right.
You.
All you want you want to make sure that you keep that in mind.
But yes our short answer question that goes in order in terms of is questions if you don't work.
Question number two is question number four is that means you're going to find Question number three
in the middle.
The first thing you want to do with the short answer question is you want to examine the questions and
quickly decide which ones are the easiest to locate in the passage these will be the questions to do
in the set first.
Right.
So for example when we look at these questions here 14 15 16 and 17 probably the easiest two questions
to do first are probably number 16 or 17.
The reason why is there were 16 has the word Australia and in Wales standings Australia is very easy
to find 17 easy to find because a North Sea right.
So I would probably start with number 16 or 17 even if I know what number 16 is that on November 15
and 14 are going to be before that.
So it's very important to look at which questions are the easiest to do first when you're looking at
a set of short answer questions because you're being efficient is very very important.
A lot of students are not efficient when they're when they're doing this.
So the first thing the next thing you want to do in terms of step two after you have sorted out which
questions you're going to do first is you want to look at the question and choose the key words from
the question.
These will usually be the primary subject object or the verb most likely is going to be your subject
or object that you're looking at.
You want to pay particular attention to the names dates and other proper nouns as those are easy to
find.
Step three you want to take those keywords from the question scan the passage scan the passage for those
keywords you want to find the sentence that those keywords are coming from in terms of understanding.
Question design what they're doing for that for the Isles exam is they are looking at the reading passage
or look they're looking at a specific paragraph and then they're looking at one sentence and creating
a question from that one sentence or sometimes they will look at two sentences and from those two sentences
they will create one question by making a compound sentence or something like that.
So you have to understand that's how they make questions for the exam.
So you have to do the you have to do the opposite of what they're doing.
You have to look at the key words in the question and then go to the passage and find the sentence that
they took that question from.
If you do that you're always going to find the answer very fast.
So to do well it also gives a reading about your ability to scale step forward in terms of answering
the question.
Answer the question is very very straightforward once you find your key word sentence you want to go
back and quickly read the question you want to recognize or identify the specific answer they're looking
for and then locate that answer in the sentence.
OK.
These are all the instructions all together on one page if you want to look at that or freeze the video
and look at all the instructions together.
The short answer questions are really easy to do.
The key things are to remember that the question goes in order and you have to scan it and locate the
center.
The question is coming from.
These are great questions and these are questions you can get a lot correct on.
All right so thanks a lot for listening to the strategy.
And now let's go through some examples so you can see how it all works.
Talk to you.