OK so in this next video we're going to take a look at the differences and similarities of the general
and academic reading comprehension for the Isles exam when it comes to the Isles exam for the reading
comprehension.
The there is basically the same when it comes to the general and the academic.
Some students believe that the general exam is very different than the academic exam when it comes to
the reading section but actually it isn't.
And I think after you listen to this lecture you'll understand what the similarities are and what the
differences are and that these similarities far far outweigh the differences.
So let's get started.
First of all we can take a look at the similarities in the question types look at this list here.
Do you see any difference.
Look at the academic question types and look at the general question types as you see they are the same
question types.
Short answer yes don't give in headings matching pair ref location is the same as Section location summary
multiple choice flowchart which we don't have there is the same also.
I mean look at it is the exact same question types.
So that should tell you something.
There should be a clue as to how similar the academic and the general are in terms of their question
types because Keep moving forward.
Now if the question types are the same that also means that the strategies are the same.
I have had several students take my course and before I added in this section for the general course
my general exam students will just look at the videos for the academic section for the course for reading
comprehension and they would just apply those strategies from the academic section to the general section
and score 7s 8s nines on their reading.
The reason why they were able to do that is because the strategy is the same.
The question types are the same.
The strategy for a short answer question is the same as a strategy for a short answer question for General
the strategy for a matching question for academic is the same strategy for the general in terms of a
matching question.
So question types are the same strategies are the same.
Because the question types are the same.
So you're probably wondering well what are the differences between these two
well you have differences in the passage types.
OK when it comes to the academic section we have three long multi-paragraph passages and you have three
question types for each passage.
You know what that means is that if for for passage number one you're going to have a yes don't give
in question.
The headings question and maybe a magic question.
You have three types of questions for each passage.
K that means that generally for the academic section you're going to have 9 question types.
Ok sometimes those question types might be duplicated because as you know they love asking the yes no
not given question.
That's why you have to be great at it.
For the academic section the vocabulary is academic and technical although with the technical words
they really don't factor into any of the questions you know but they do have technical words in the
passages.
They have more challenging set of number relationships and of course the topics for the academic section.
You're going to get into science and history archaeology sociology psychology art history you know all
all construction building space science robotics.
I mean all kinds of academic topics are what you're going to get into for the academic section.
How does a general how does the general passage type differ.
Well for the general usually as Section One you're going to have two to three passages.
The general has like these short passages very short passages so in section 1 it's going to normally
be two to three passages.
Section 2 is going to be of two passages that in Section 3 is going to be the more difficult one whereas
normally just one longer passage.
But you have these short passages and normally in section 1 in section 2 you have one question time
for passage.
OK so for the first one they may have a news article and the only question you have to ask you only.
The only question you have to answer for that might be a yes don't give in question.
Then they're going to have another passage which might be an advertisement for something.
And for that one you might have to do a headings question so the difference is in terms of the General
has more passages but they're very short.
Now the vocabulary is normally upper intermediate level vocabulary.
It doesn't really get far into you know heavy heavy academic vocabulary or any technical vocabulary
because you know the general reading is for people that are doing it for academic purposes.
You know people that are doing it for him.
I'm sorry.
The general exams for people that are doing it for immigration purposes or they're doing it for licensing
purposes.
The academic hour is for those that are going to university now now of course with the general passages
further reading the everyday the the synonym relationships in terms of the vocabulary are going to be
much easier for you to process.
Now we can see from this list here that the topics that you're going to have for the general are very
different than the academic you're going to have social life work life personal life newspaper journal
articles advertisements employee manuals you see is everyday kind of stuff every day kind of topics
every day kind of issues that you're going to face in the general and the general reading comprehension.
But remember the similarities that I just told you about the question.
It does if the question types are the same for the academic and the general.
The questions strategies are the same for the academic or the employee and the general Reich.
If you can do.
If you've been studying for the academic reading section you should be able to breeze through the general
reading section.
OK because the passages are a lot easier and they use the same strategies
now some advice and suggestions that I have for you I think you should study the questions strategies
in the course academic reading section because like I said the strategies are the same.
Also watch the live class videos applying the question strategy to the general reading passages.
There are some live class videos that walk through a general reading passage showing you how the strategies
are apply to the general reading passage.
This will give you a lot of great advice on how to really apply the strategies to the passage.
That's the focus of this course the entire course the entire course is focusing on your ability to apply
strategy to apply tactics.
We don't just tell you how to do the course you know that's what you get when you look at the books
and you read the books and some of these other courses say well this is how you do it right.
We tell you how to do it.
But more importantly we show you what to do.
We show you how to do it.
We demonstrate and illustrate the strategies and tactics so you can have a high rate of success.
You want a big impact.
This is what I need you to do.
Study hard apply the strategy and then analyze what you've done.
A lot of students don't do their last step right.
They study they take a practice test they move onto the next practice tests.
You have to be able to go back and analyze what you've done with what you've done with these general
reading passages in terms of when you finished answering go back and analyze a set a number of ships
go back and analyze how they try to trick you or fool you go back and analyze.
Break it down.
That's how you want to have a high rate of success if you watch the live coarse videos that I've included.
You're going to see what I mean in terms of breaking it down and analyzing.
Our process is very very easy.
The process that I just described for you you need to study.
You need to apply.
You need to analyze those three things for the general reading success that I want you to have this
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Good luck.