WEBVTT 00:00.330 --> 00:06.130 This and you start over a little bit so we're going to go through reading comprehension. 00:06.750 --> 00:12.520 And I want to talk about some strategy some basic strategies that you need for doing well. 00:12.750 --> 00:21.180 And then I'm going to go through a book number 12 passes the test number five reading the first refasten 00:21.180 --> 00:26.270 test number five and also test number 6 reading passages 1 and 2. 00:26.310 --> 00:30.170 If we have enough time to go through all that I will. 00:30.500 --> 00:32.820 The vocabulary is very important. 00:32.820 --> 00:37.170 The better your vocabulary the more you get to understand the faster you can understand. 00:37.440 --> 00:42.010 If you don't have vocabulary a lot of times it messes with you because you're guessing. 00:42.720 --> 00:49.330 And you don't understand meaning in terms of the eyes exam when it comes to reading comprehension. 00:49.370 --> 00:51.670 It is all about synonym language 00:55.930 --> 00:59.310 Sadam language and understanding. 00:59.560 --> 01:00.610 Paraphrasing 01:03.380 --> 01:09.860 all the aisles exam when it comes to the reading section the writing section the speaking section even 01:09.860 --> 01:17.810 the listening section is all about your ability to understand it in a language and to be able to understand 01:17.810 --> 01:24.980 paraphrasing because that's often what they used to be able to test or English Remember as an English 01:24.980 --> 01:25.830 test. 01:26.730 --> 01:33.360 Yes the test of your English skill and for the Isles exam the best way they go about doing this is through 01:33.390 --> 01:35.630 sin in them language Im paraphrasing. 01:35.910 --> 01:39.490 So that's why vocabulary is so important. 01:39.750 --> 01:40.050 Right. 01:40.050 --> 01:45.720 Because if you have a good vocabulary and you understand the strategy that it's about setting them language 01:45.720 --> 01:48.600 I'm paraphrasing then that's very helpful. 01:48.600 --> 01:54.000 Another thing that helps break good in terms of reading comprehension and if you have taken my course 01:54.090 --> 01:56.940 and you listen to some of the lectures this is something you would know 01:59.680 --> 02:09.660 right questions that go in order and those that don't. 02:09.800 --> 02:12.990 This is a very very key point. 02:13.010 --> 02:17.910 Some of the questions on the exam go in order others don't. 02:17.930 --> 02:21.170 Right now I lay all this out in the different lectures. 02:21.170 --> 02:27.920 I'm not going to go through it in great detail here but your true false knight given your fill the blank 02:27.950 --> 02:32.200 your short answer questions your sense of completion questions. 02:32.510 --> 02:36.560 You know those questions go in order right. 02:36.560 --> 02:41.120 That means that you know after number one you'll find them to have the number till you'll find number 02:41.120 --> 02:41.770 three. 02:42.080 --> 02:47.900 And there are other questions that don't go in order like in question sometimes don't go in order. 02:47.950 --> 02:50.750 There we have location questions don't go in order. 02:50.750 --> 02:53.660 Sometimes a summary question doesn't go in order. 02:54.050 --> 02:55.530 Now why is that important. 02:56.500 --> 03:03.010 Because if you know questions that go in order you're able to then find where the next question is you're 03:03.010 --> 03:06.770 not looking all over the reading passage or something. 03:06.860 --> 03:11.490 Now another important point is understanding 03:14.830 --> 03:23.200 what the Isles reading is about Isle's reading is about your ability to scan a lot people make a big 03:23.200 --> 03:27.460 big mistake with reading comprehension because they try to just read the passage and then answer the 03:27.460 --> 03:28.810 questions. 03:28.960 --> 03:33.320 The exam is not designed for that. 03:33.340 --> 03:34.550 All right. 03:34.550 --> 03:42.800 The exam is not designed for you to have time to read the whole passage then answer the questions. 03:42.830 --> 03:44.690 That's not how it works. 03:45.770 --> 03:46.110 Right. 03:46.130 --> 03:54.470 The way it works is done by scanning is your ability to look at a question to scan quickly through the 03:54.470 --> 04:01.010 passage for where that information is located and then being able to find your answer based on that 04:01.010 --> 04:03.270 scent is where the information is located. 04:03.740 --> 04:12.040 People that are able to do well in terms of time management are very good at the skill of scanning. 04:12.190 --> 04:12.580 Right. 04:12.610 --> 04:15.940 So you have to be good at that skill. 04:16.240 --> 04:25.250 The better a person is at scanning and locating this information where the question comes from the the 04:25.390 --> 04:30.200 higher that person scores years and the better they are at time management. 04:30.220 --> 04:33.360 So there are certain skills that you have to have to do well. 04:34.300 --> 04:35.250 Right we're taught them all. 04:35.260 --> 04:40.210 So we're taught them out skills to do well at reading comprehension. 04:40.210 --> 04:42.460 You have to have vocabulary skill. 04:42.670 --> 04:44.960 You have to have synonym language skill. 04:45.010 --> 04:47.600 You have to have the skill of scanning. 04:48.150 --> 04:49.050 OK. 04:49.270 --> 05:03.800 That improves accuracy and also improves time management those things. 05:03.890 --> 05:07.930 Another thing that's very very helpful is application of strategy. 05:08.090 --> 05:14.450 For some people the unders they understand the strategy but they don't do a really good job of applying 05:14.450 --> 05:21.350 the strategy so that application of strategy is very very important. 05:22.210 --> 05:22.580 Right. 05:22.600 --> 05:32.350 You have to be able to apply it consistently well consistently well but I would say that these are the 05:32.350 --> 05:38.550 top five things you have to be able to do well to get a great score in reading comprehension. 05:39.450 --> 05:40.020 Right. 05:40.050 --> 05:42.310 Is not this not overly complicated. 05:42.330 --> 05:44.540 But again you have to be able to apply it very well. 05:44.540 --> 05:51.450 So today I'm going to be going through them which Well when we talk them out questions strategy and 05:51.450 --> 05:53.810 how you go about answering different questions. 05:54.030 --> 05:57.010 And if you have any questions along the way. 05:58.470 --> 06:02.550 If you have any questions along the way please feel free to ask. 06:02.550 --> 06:09.960 All right if if you did these reading passages already and you got an answer wrong and you want to ask 06:09.960 --> 06:12.660 me why did I get this one wrong. 06:12.840 --> 06:15.060 Please ask me and I will answer it. 06:15.090 --> 06:16.850 I will answer it for you. 06:16.850 --> 06:17.540 I'll try. 06:17.550 --> 06:19.780 You should be able to. 06:20.060 --> 06:21.060 I'll try my best. 06:24.930 --> 06:26.350 All right so let's get started. 06:30.210 --> 06:30.880 So. 06:30.950 --> 06:33.060 So I want to see 06:36.470 --> 06:37.080 where was 06:45.800 --> 06:48.650 this is the one I want right. 06:48.650 --> 06:52.140 So this is the reading passage that I'm looking at. 06:54.200 --> 06:54.640 Right. 06:54.740 --> 06:59.840 And like this from Baldemor 12 is Testim for five. 06:59.990 --> 07:02.630 If you have a question type it for me please. 07:03.040 --> 07:03.820 OK. 07:04.720 --> 07:10.500 You have you have a question type it because I might not be able to answer your question immediately 07:10.830 --> 07:13.890 but if you type it I can make sure that I answer it for you. 07:13.950 --> 07:14.310 OK. 07:14.310 --> 07:18.090 And also there's a record of it so that you don't have to try to remember it. 07:18.090 --> 07:20.580 I don't have to try to remember what your question was. 07:20.750 --> 07:24.800 You have if you have a question type it please. 07:24.810 --> 07:30.360 So the first thing that I do when I have a reading message or first thing that you should do we have 07:30.360 --> 07:31.670 a reading passage. 07:31.710 --> 07:37.770 Don't start reading there I don't start looking at that topic sentences or any of that kind of stuff. 07:37.860 --> 07:44.530 First thing you do go look at the kind of questions you have to do you'll see some things highlighted 07:44.530 --> 07:47.680 in yellow but that's because I was using it to teach you. 07:47.680 --> 07:51.060 So the first thing I do is you look at what kind of questions do you have. 07:51.150 --> 07:51.520 Right. 07:51.520 --> 08:00.070 So we have a true false given question that we have a field of blame question. 08:00.160 --> 08:00.530 Right. 08:00.580 --> 08:08.990 So when I look at this I look at it and I say OK I have a true false in a given question. 08:09.070 --> 08:11.320 These questions go in order. 08:11.470 --> 08:13.950 That means after number one is going to come number two. 08:13.960 --> 08:18.450 Number two is going to come after number three so forth and so on that goes in order. 08:18.490 --> 08:22.800 I'm really happy because that means this information is going to be easy to find. 08:22.930 --> 08:31.760 If I'm good at scanning and then when we get to our other plain questions again these questions go in 08:31.760 --> 08:32.340 order. 08:32.390 --> 08:37.670 So I'm really happy that Mieses information is going to be easy to find. 08:37.790 --> 08:38.120 Right. 08:38.120 --> 08:47.830 So when we are looking at the true false and given question the main thing that we want to be able to 08:47.830 --> 08:51.910 do is we want to be able to 08:54.720 --> 08:57.960 highlight the keywords in the question right. 08:57.960 --> 09:02.110 So there's talk about really quickly the strategy a true false question. 09:18.320 --> 09:18.590 Right. 09:18.590 --> 09:21.170 So some of you have probably the true false given 09:25.580 --> 09:26.330 Yes. 09:26.350 --> 09:28.740 To answer your first question yes. 09:28.770 --> 09:31.610 Truth is not given always goes in order. 09:32.150 --> 09:32.360 Yes. 09:32.360 --> 09:35.080 No not given me true false not given goals in order. 09:35.090 --> 09:35.910 Yes. 09:35.960 --> 09:39.970 No not given always goals in order for the blame goes in order. 09:40.040 --> 09:42.230 Short answer questions go in order. 09:42.530 --> 09:42.770 Right. 09:42.770 --> 09:49.160 These questions always go in order always right. 09:49.190 --> 09:53.750 Right now I'm working a book number 12 and in Book Number 12. 09:53.810 --> 09:56.490 They go in order and Book Number Seven. 09:56.510 --> 09:58.970 They went an order in book number phi. 09:59.000 --> 10:02.390 They go and order and book 10 and they go in order. 10:02.630 --> 10:04.030 That hasn't changed. 10:06.260 --> 10:08.440 Easy type of questions go in order. 10:08.660 --> 10:19.100 Well in general in general the questions that go and order are a little bit easier to handle the matching 10:19.100 --> 10:20.900 question doesn't go in order. 10:21.080 --> 10:23.360 But the magic question is not difficult. 10:23.900 --> 10:24.360 Right. 10:24.360 --> 10:32.470 So I mean there are questions that are the most difficult questions are your paragraph location question 10:33.050 --> 10:35.560 your your question. 10:35.600 --> 10:38.460 That's a summary question is a little bit more challenging. 10:38.870 --> 10:43.320 And the headings question is a challenging question right. 10:43.580 --> 10:47.750 But those are the three most challenging questions for students. 10:48.220 --> 10:55.260 So for a true boss that question given question or first thing we want to do of course is underline 10:56.520 --> 10:58.340 underline the key words 11:02.340 --> 11:17.630 in the questions to decide which questions which questions are easy is to locate ferse 11:24.990 --> 11:28.240 find the path matching passages language. 11:28.950 --> 11:31.080 Then you are comparing the 11:39.810 --> 11:44.360 terms of the question in the passage right. 11:44.370 --> 11:51.840 This is our basic strategy that we have in terms of in terms of strategy for finding this information 11:51.840 --> 11:59.070 for a true get Giving question right unaligned killers and a question decide which questions are easiest 11:59.070 --> 12:03.280 to first find a matching passage language for a question. 12:06.910 --> 12:07.930 Why. 12:08.800 --> 12:14.790 And then you have to compare right now some students are confused. 12:16.490 --> 12:22.650 By the meaning of true false not given so I'm just going to break that down very quickly. 12:23.750 --> 12:24.280 True. 12:24.320 --> 12:25.400 What is true me 12:29.030 --> 12:31.190 all of the information 12:36.300 --> 12:38.940 in the question. 12:39.080 --> 12:45.490 Come on we can see in the passage sentence. 12:45.720 --> 12:46.310 Right. 12:46.470 --> 12:51.030 That's what truly is all the information the question that we can see in the passage since 12:53.840 --> 12:56.720 they will often paraphrase 13:00.350 --> 13:02.740 what have the same meaning. 13:04.280 --> 13:07.270 Right they'll paraphrase to have the same meaning. 13:07.270 --> 13:09.170 That's what true means. 13:09.490 --> 13:09.910 Right. 13:09.910 --> 13:12.700 That's the meaning of true. 13:12.920 --> 13:18.410 No one comes to a false false means. 13:49.140 --> 13:56.080 This is what false means false meaning is that the subject object or verb or the question is different 13:56.140 --> 13:58.730 opposite or change in the baskets. 13:59.230 --> 14:00.830 Right that's what the false me. 14:00.870 --> 14:03.970 It's very important that you understand this part. 14:04.360 --> 14:04.930 OK. 14:04.930 --> 14:12.830 That's why a lot people get this one wrong not giving what is not given me the giving means information. 14:14.120 --> 14:19.620 And the question is missing. 14:22.520 --> 14:25.340 From the passage Centrex 14:27.880 --> 14:32.700 right information in the question is missing from the passage sentence. 14:32.800 --> 14:38.700 You are always comparing the question to the passage not the passage to the question. 14:38.760 --> 14:40.210 Question to that question. 14:40.210 --> 14:42.920 To the passage not passage to the question. 14:43.760 --> 14:47.650 It is a one way comparison. 14:47.910 --> 14:53.060 Very often the passage sentence might be longer than the question. 14:53.320 --> 14:57.520 But if all that all if all the information in the question is there. 14:57.540 --> 14:58.980 They answer is true. 14:59.830 --> 15:05.170 All the information in the passage sentence does not have to be in the question. 15:05.230 --> 15:11.770 All right this very point I understand you're not comparing the passage to the question you're comparing 15:11.770 --> 15:15.040 the question to the passage. 15:15.260 --> 15:22.630 That is very important and that's something that a lot of people get rock right but that's how we understand 15:22.630 --> 15:22.930 it. 15:23.140 --> 15:25.010 So now I'm going to walk through this quick. 15:25.120 --> 15:29.920 Does anybody have any questions about this before I walked through this question this first question 15:29.920 --> 15:31.860 of truth was not getting any question. 15:42.060 --> 15:42.980 No questions asked 15:48.480 --> 15:57.710 all right so think for the first step as I told you you want to look at the keywords in the question. 15:57.930 --> 15:58.300 Right. 15:58.320 --> 16:03.530 So here I know the first one looking at is about the thickness bark 16:08.310 --> 16:11.460 I am looking at core goal and think is barg. 16:11.770 --> 16:17.890 Those are important whereas I'm looking for a second question. 16:17.970 --> 16:26.680 We're talking about synthetic cork and we are talking about scientists right. 16:26.710 --> 16:30.460 And we're talking about same cellular structure right. 16:30.460 --> 16:33.240 That Warsame was very important. 16:33.250 --> 16:34.390 All right. 16:34.870 --> 16:43.970 The next one has a very easy word defining in 25 years and why you know we're dealing with the first 16:43.970 --> 16:46.700 and second harvests. 16:46.910 --> 16:53.960 Right this is this one thing that I would be doing if I'm working on paper is I'm highlighting I'm underlining 16:53.960 --> 16:55.400 these keywords. 16:56.270 --> 17:02.120 Dry atmosphere conditions writes drives those. 17:02.270 --> 17:03.760 That's what's important. 17:05.550 --> 17:06.200 Right. 17:07.600 --> 17:11.680 Only way remove 17:14.250 --> 17:16.700 is by you right. 17:16.700 --> 17:18.800 So these are the key words in each question. 17:18.810 --> 17:27.260 And I would quickly underline that when we look at these questions right which one would you say and 17:27.260 --> 17:32.540 what you that you can type or answer don't speak it type or answer which one would you say is the easiest 17:32.540 --> 17:33.110 to do. 17:37.250 --> 17:38.330 Number three. 17:38.390 --> 17:39.770 Correct. 17:39.770 --> 17:45.200 So when you're doing your test you start with number three. 17:45.240 --> 17:52.050 This applies whether you go in the general exam or the academic is a sane strategy. 17:52.050 --> 17:55.020 We start with number three right. 17:55.020 --> 18:00.680 So since we're starting with number three we will be looking for something information. 18:00.680 --> 18:05.910 We're talking about 25 years. 18:06.460 --> 18:06.850 Right. 18:06.850 --> 18:13.720 And if you see right here on the right side you see over here this is 25 years. 18:13.720 --> 18:17.200 That tells me that this is where this information is coming from. 18:17.860 --> 18:22.310 Right now this is number three right. 18:22.310 --> 18:23.120 This is number three. 18:23.120 --> 18:24.560 So what does that mean. 18:24.650 --> 18:30.530 That mean that that means number two and one are above it that means number four and five are below 18:30.530 --> 18:31.000 it. 18:31.910 --> 18:37.250 This is going to help me to be able to find where information is located it's faster because I was able 18:37.250 --> 18:40.260 to find number three very quickly. 18:40.470 --> 18:48.690 That means two and one are before it and four or five are below it right now if we look back down at 18:48.690 --> 18:55.340 our questions you can see where everything is. 18:55.340 --> 18:59.200 Number two is dealing with scientists and cellular structure. 18:59.210 --> 19:04.290 Number one is dealing with a bark or a stick or bark. 19:04.400 --> 19:05.990 So if you look right here 19:09.070 --> 19:12.630 over here on the left side where it talks about technology. 19:12.750 --> 19:16.090 Well OK and it talks about sails right here. 19:16.090 --> 19:16.690 That's where. 19:16.690 --> 19:24.230 Number two is number two is right in that area where we see sales and technology technology is a synonym 19:24.340 --> 19:28.320 that they're using for scientists or scientific development. 19:28.330 --> 19:34.510 It was the sales that means number two was right here before that in others in the top of the paragraph 19:34.540 --> 19:38.540 we see bark and growing and fixups. 19:38.830 --> 19:39.130 Right. 19:39.130 --> 19:44.530 That means that this is where this is where number one it's. 19:44.590 --> 19:47.770 So as you can see it goes in order. 19:48.160 --> 19:50.970 Right it goes in it goes in water. 19:51.860 --> 19:53.020 All right that's number one. 19:53.080 --> 19:54.520 Is bad handwriting. 19:54.850 --> 19:54.970 That's.