This and you start over a little bit so we're going to go through reading comprehension.
And I want to talk about some strategy some basic strategies that you need for doing well.
And then I'm going to go through a book number 12 passes the test number five reading the first refasten
test number five and also test number 6 reading passages 1 and 2.
If we have enough time to go through all that I will.
The vocabulary is very important.
The better your vocabulary the more you get to understand the faster you can understand.
If you don't have vocabulary a lot of times it messes with you because you're guessing.
And you don't understand meaning in terms of the eyes exam when it comes to reading comprehension.
It is all about synonym language
Sadam language and understanding.
Paraphrasing
all the aisles exam when it comes to the reading section the writing section the speaking section even
the listening section is all about your ability to understand it in a language and to be able to understand
paraphrasing because that's often what they used to be able to test or English Remember as an English
test.
Yes the test of your English skill and for the Isles exam the best way they go about doing this is through
sin in them language Im paraphrasing.
So that's why vocabulary is so important.
Right.
Because if you have a good vocabulary and you understand the strategy that it's about setting them language
I'm paraphrasing then that's very helpful.
Another thing that helps break good in terms of reading comprehension and if you have taken my course
and you listen to some of the lectures this is something you would know
right questions that go in order and those that don't.
This is a very very key point.
Some of the questions on the exam go in order others don't.
Right now I lay all this out in the different lectures.
I'm not going to go through it in great detail here but your true false knight given your fill the blank
your short answer questions your sense of completion questions.
You know those questions go in order right.
That means that you know after number one you'll find them to have the number till you'll find number
three.
And there are other questions that don't go in order like in question sometimes don't go in order.
There we have location questions don't go in order.
Sometimes a summary question doesn't go in order.
Now why is that important.
Because if you know questions that go in order you're able to then find where the next question is you're
not looking all over the reading passage or something.
Now another important point is understanding
what the Isles reading is about Isle's reading is about your ability to scan a lot people make a big
big mistake with reading comprehension because they try to just read the passage and then answer the
questions.
The exam is not designed for that.
All right.
The exam is not designed for you to have time to read the whole passage then answer the questions.
That's not how it works.
Right.
The way it works is done by scanning is your ability to look at a question to scan quickly through the
passage for where that information is located and then being able to find your answer based on that
scent is where the information is located.
People that are able to do well in terms of time management are very good at the skill of scanning.
Right.
So you have to be good at that skill.
The better a person is at scanning and locating this information where the question comes from the the
higher that person scores years and the better they are at time management.
So there are certain skills that you have to have to do well.
Right we're taught them all.
So we're taught them out skills to do well at reading comprehension.
You have to have vocabulary skill.
You have to have synonym language skill.
You have to have the skill of scanning.
OK.
That improves accuracy and also improves time management those things.
Another thing that's very very helpful is application of strategy.
For some people the unders they understand the strategy but they don't do a really good job of applying
the strategy so that application of strategy is very very important.
Right.
You have to be able to apply it consistently well consistently well but I would say that these are the
top five things you have to be able to do well to get a great score in reading comprehension.
Right.
Is not this not overly complicated.
But again you have to be able to apply it very well.
So today I'm going to be going through them which Well when we talk them out questions strategy and
how you go about answering different questions.
And if you have any questions along the way.
If you have any questions along the way please feel free to ask.
All right if if you did these reading passages already and you got an answer wrong and you want to ask
me why did I get this one wrong.
Please ask me and I will answer it.
I will answer it for you.
I'll try.
You should be able to.
I'll try my best.
All right so let's get started.
So.
So I want to see
where was
this is the one I want right.
So this is the reading passage that I'm looking at.
Right.
And like this from Baldemor 12 is Testim for five.
If you have a question type it for me please.
OK.
You have you have a question type it because I might not be able to answer your question immediately
but if you type it I can make sure that I answer it for you.
OK.
And also there's a record of it so that you don't have to try to remember it.
I don't have to try to remember what your question was.
You have if you have a question type it please.
So the first thing that I do when I have a reading message or first thing that you should do we have
a reading passage.
Don't start reading there I don't start looking at that topic sentences or any of that kind of stuff.
First thing you do go look at the kind of questions you have to do you'll see some things highlighted
in yellow but that's because I was using it to teach you.
So the first thing I do is you look at what kind of questions do you have.
Right.
So we have a true false given question that we have a field of blame question.
Right.
So when I look at this I look at it and I say OK I have a true false in a given question.
These questions go in order.
That means after number one is going to come number two.
Number two is going to come after number three so forth and so on that goes in order.
I'm really happy because that means this information is going to be easy to find.
If I'm good at scanning and then when we get to our other plain questions again these questions go in
order.
So I'm really happy that Mieses information is going to be easy to find.
Right.
So when we are looking at the true false and given question the main thing that we want to be able to
do is we want to be able to
highlight the keywords in the question right.
So there's talk about really quickly the strategy a true false question.
Right.
So some of you have probably the true false given
Yes.
To answer your first question yes.
Truth is not given always goes in order.
Yes.
No not given me true false not given goals in order.
Yes.
No not given always goals in order for the blame goes in order.
Short answer questions go in order.
Right.
These questions always go in order always right.
Right now I'm working a book number 12 and in Book Number 12.
They go in order and Book Number Seven.
They went an order in book number phi.
They go and order and book 10 and they go in order.
That hasn't changed.
Easy type of questions go in order.
Well in general in general the questions that go and order are a little bit easier to handle the matching
question doesn't go in order.
But the magic question is not difficult.
Right.
So I mean there are questions that are the most difficult questions are your paragraph location question
your your question.
That's a summary question is a little bit more challenging.
And the headings question is a challenging question right.
But those are the three most challenging questions for students.
So for a true boss that question given question or first thing we want to do of course is underline
underline the key words
in the questions to decide which questions which questions are easy is to locate ferse
find the path matching passages language.
Then you are comparing the
terms of the question in the passage right.
This is our basic strategy that we have in terms of in terms of strategy for finding this information
for a true get Giving question right unaligned killers and a question decide which questions are easiest
to first find a matching passage language for a question.
Why.
And then you have to compare right now some students are confused.
By the meaning of true false not given so I'm just going to break that down very quickly.
True.
What is true me
all of the information
in the question.
Come on we can see in the passage sentence.
Right.
That's what truly is all the information the question that we can see in the passage since
they will often paraphrase
what have the same meaning.
Right they'll paraphrase to have the same meaning.
That's what true means.
Right.
That's the meaning of true.
No one comes to a false false means.
This is what false means false meaning is that the subject object or verb or the question is different
opposite or change in the baskets.
Right that's what the false me.
It's very important that you understand this part.
OK.
That's why a lot people get this one wrong not giving what is not given me the giving means information.
And the question is missing.
From the passage Centrex
right information in the question is missing from the passage sentence.
You are always comparing the question to the passage not the passage to the question.
Question to that question.
To the passage not passage to the question.
It is a one way comparison.
Very often the passage sentence might be longer than the question.
But if all that all if all the information in the question is there.
They answer is true.
All the information in the passage sentence does not have to be in the question.
All right this very point I understand you're not comparing the passage to the question you're comparing
the question to the passage.
That is very important and that's something that a lot of people get rock right but that's how we understand
it.
So now I'm going to walk through this quick.
Does anybody have any questions about this before I walked through this question this first question
of truth was not getting any question.
No questions asked
all right so think for the first step as I told you you want to look at the keywords in the question.
Right.
So here I know the first one looking at is about the thickness bark
I am looking at core goal and think is barg.
Those are important whereas I'm looking for a second question.
We're talking about synthetic cork and we are talking about scientists right.
And we're talking about same cellular structure right.
That Warsame was very important.
All right.
The next one has a very easy word defining in 25 years and why you know we're dealing with the first
and second harvests.
Right this is this one thing that I would be doing if I'm working on paper is I'm highlighting I'm underlining
these keywords.
Dry atmosphere conditions writes drives those.
That's what's important.
Right.
Only way remove
is by you right.
So these are the key words in each question.
And I would quickly underline that when we look at these questions right which one would you say and
what you that you can type or answer don't speak it type or answer which one would you say is the easiest
to do.
Number three.
Correct.
So when you're doing your test you start with number three.
This applies whether you go in the general exam or the academic is a sane strategy.
We start with number three right.
So since we're starting with number three we will be looking for something information.
We're talking about 25 years.
Right.
And if you see right here on the right side you see over here this is 25 years.
That tells me that this is where this information is coming from.
Right now this is number three right.
This is number three.
So what does that mean.
That mean that that means number two and one are above it that means number four and five are below
it.
This is going to help me to be able to find where information is located it's faster because I was able
to find number three very quickly.
That means two and one are before it and four or five are below it right now if we look back down at
our questions you can see where everything is.
Number two is dealing with scientists and cellular structure.
Number one is dealing with a bark or a stick or bark.
So if you look right here
over here on the left side where it talks about technology.
Well OK and it talks about sails right here.
That's where.
Number two is number two is right in that area where we see sales and technology technology is a synonym
that they're using for scientists or scientific development.
It was the sales that means number two was right here before that in others in the top of the paragraph
we see bark and growing and fixups.
Right.
That means that this is where this is where number one it's.
So as you can see it goes in order.
Right it goes in it goes in water.
All right that's number one.
Is bad handwriting.
That's.