WEBVTT 00:00.900 --> 00:07.200 OK so in this next video we're going to take a look at the differences and similarities of the general 00:07.230 --> 00:14.820 and academic reading comprehension for the Isles exam when it comes to the Isles exam for the reading 00:14.820 --> 00:15.960 comprehension. 00:16.260 --> 00:22.560 The there is basically the same when it comes to the general and the academic. 00:22.560 --> 00:29.130 Some students believe that the general exam is very different than the academic exam when it comes to 00:29.130 --> 00:32.200 the reading section but actually it isn't. 00:32.580 --> 00:38.070 And I think after you listen to this lecture you'll understand what the similarities are and what the 00:38.070 --> 00:43.990 differences are and that these similarities far far outweigh the differences. 00:44.010 --> 00:45.740 So let's get started. 00:49.930 --> 00:57.880 First of all we can take a look at the similarities in the question types look at this list here. 00:58.000 --> 00:59.890 Do you see any difference. 00:59.890 --> 01:07.960 Look at the academic question types and look at the general question types as you see they are the same 01:07.960 --> 01:09.860 question types. 01:09.970 --> 01:17.310 Short answer yes don't give in headings matching pair ref location is the same as Section location summary 01:17.320 --> 01:22.830 multiple choice flowchart which we don't have there is the same also. 01:23.000 --> 01:27.720 I mean look at it is the exact same question types. 01:27.850 --> 01:30.230 So that should tell you something. 01:30.360 --> 01:39.310 There should be a clue as to how similar the academic and the general are in terms of their question 01:39.310 --> 01:44.230 types because Keep moving forward. 01:44.300 --> 01:52.140 Now if the question types are the same that also means that the strategies are the same. 01:52.570 --> 02:00.460 I have had several students take my course and before I added in this section for the general course 02:01.030 --> 02:09.370 my general exam students will just look at the videos for the academic section for the course for reading 02:09.370 --> 02:15.220 comprehension and they would just apply those strategies from the academic section to the general section 02:15.550 --> 02:19.830 and score 7s 8s nines on their reading. 02:19.840 --> 02:25.600 The reason why they were able to do that is because the strategy is the same. 02:25.600 --> 02:28.220 The question types are the same. 02:28.350 --> 02:34.090 The strategy for a short answer question is the same as a strategy for a short answer question for General 02:34.320 --> 02:41.680 the strategy for a matching question for academic is the same strategy for the general in terms of a 02:41.680 --> 02:43.120 matching question. 02:43.210 --> 02:48.820 So question types are the same strategies are the same. 02:48.820 --> 02:51.490 Because the question types are the same. 02:51.790 --> 02:58.360 So you're probably wondering well what are the differences between these two 03:02.210 --> 03:06.000 well you have differences in the passage types. 03:06.010 --> 03:15.650 OK when it comes to the academic section we have three long multi-paragraph passages and you have three 03:15.650 --> 03:18.350 question types for each passage. 03:18.350 --> 03:24.460 You know what that means is that if for for passage number one you're going to have a yes don't give 03:24.460 --> 03:25.010 in question. 03:25.040 --> 03:28.190 The headings question and maybe a magic question. 03:28.280 --> 03:31.560 You have three types of questions for each passage. 03:31.570 --> 03:37.220 K that means that generally for the academic section you're going to have 9 question types. 03:37.230 --> 03:44.210 Ok sometimes those question types might be duplicated because as you know they love asking the yes no 03:44.210 --> 03:45.300 not given question. 03:45.320 --> 03:48.240 That's why you have to be great at it. 03:48.470 --> 03:57.110 For the academic section the vocabulary is academic and technical although with the technical words 03:58.520 --> 04:03.800 they really don't factor into any of the questions you know but they do have technical words in the 04:03.800 --> 04:05.390 passages. 04:05.390 --> 04:12.170 They have more challenging set of number relationships and of course the topics for the academic section. 04:12.170 --> 04:20.330 You're going to get into science and history archaeology sociology psychology art history you know all 04:20.330 --> 04:25.580 all construction building space science robotics. 04:25.610 --> 04:31.460 I mean all kinds of academic topics are what you're going to get into for the academic section. 04:32.300 --> 04:36.070 How does a general how does the general passage type differ. 04:36.260 --> 04:41.270 Well for the general usually as Section One you're going to have two to three passages. 04:41.270 --> 04:47.090 The general has like these short passages very short passages so in section 1 it's going to normally 04:47.090 --> 04:49.010 be two to three passages. 04:49.010 --> 04:53.780 Section 2 is going to be of two passages that in Section 3 is going to be the more difficult one whereas 04:53.780 --> 04:56.350 normally just one longer passage. 04:56.750 --> 05:03.820 But you have these short passages and normally in section 1 in section 2 you have one question time 05:03.830 --> 05:05.110 for passage. 05:05.440 --> 05:12.220 OK so for the first one they may have a news article and the only question you have to ask you only. 05:12.260 --> 05:17.350 The only question you have to answer for that might be a yes don't give in question. 05:17.380 --> 05:21.520 Then they're going to have another passage which might be an advertisement for something. 05:21.830 --> 05:29.090 And for that one you might have to do a headings question so the difference is in terms of the General 05:29.090 --> 05:32.750 has more passages but they're very short. 05:33.020 --> 05:37.300 Now the vocabulary is normally upper intermediate level vocabulary. 05:37.340 --> 05:44.090 It doesn't really get far into you know heavy heavy academic vocabulary or any technical vocabulary 05:44.600 --> 05:49.540 because you know the general reading is for people that are doing it for academic purposes. 05:49.700 --> 05:51.390 You know people that are doing it for him. 05:51.530 --> 05:52.100 I'm sorry. 05:52.340 --> 05:57.590 The general exams for people that are doing it for immigration purposes or they're doing it for licensing 05:57.590 --> 05:58.590 purposes. 05:58.760 --> 06:05.370 The academic hour is for those that are going to university now now of course with the general passages 06:05.390 --> 06:12.710 further reading the everyday the the synonym relationships in terms of the vocabulary are going to be 06:12.710 --> 06:15.680 much easier for you to process. 06:15.710 --> 06:24.020 Now we can see from this list here that the topics that you're going to have for the general are very 06:24.020 --> 06:30.740 different than the academic you're going to have social life work life personal life newspaper journal 06:30.740 --> 06:37.970 articles advertisements employee manuals you see is everyday kind of stuff every day kind of topics 06:37.970 --> 06:44.490 every day kind of issues that you're going to face in the general and the general reading comprehension. 06:44.900 --> 06:50.130 But remember the similarities that I just told you about the question. 06:50.150 --> 06:55.200 It does if the question types are the same for the academic and the general. 06:55.300 --> 07:01.430 The questions strategies are the same for the academic or the employee and the general Reich. 07:01.430 --> 07:02.720 If you can do. 07:02.930 --> 07:09.710 If you've been studying for the academic reading section you should be able to breeze through the general 07:09.710 --> 07:11.070 reading section. 07:11.570 --> 07:16.330 OK because the passages are a lot easier and they use the same strategies 07:19.640 --> 07:26.870 now some advice and suggestions that I have for you I think you should study the questions strategies 07:26.930 --> 07:33.910 in the course academic reading section because like I said the strategies are the same. 07:33.950 --> 07:41.540 Also watch the live class videos applying the question strategy to the general reading passages. 07:41.540 --> 07:47.990 There are some live class videos that walk through a general reading passage showing you how the strategies 07:48.050 --> 07:51.550 are apply to the general reading passage. 07:51.560 --> 07:59.190 This will give you a lot of great advice on how to really apply the strategies to the passage. 07:59.240 --> 08:07.130 That's the focus of this course the entire course the entire course is focusing on your ability to apply 08:07.370 --> 08:10.790 strategy to apply tactics. 08:10.790 --> 08:16.760 We don't just tell you how to do the course you know that's what you get when you look at the books 08:16.880 --> 08:22.330 and you read the books and some of these other courses say well this is how you do it right. 08:22.340 --> 08:24.170 We tell you how to do it. 08:24.200 --> 08:27.260 But more importantly we show you what to do. 08:27.260 --> 08:29.030 We show you how to do it. 08:29.090 --> 08:34.070 We demonstrate and illustrate the strategies and tactics so you can have a high rate of success. 08:37.440 --> 08:38.940 You want a big impact. 08:38.940 --> 08:40.890 This is what I need you to do. 08:40.890 --> 08:46.590 Study hard apply the strategy and then analyze what you've done. 08:46.710 --> 08:49.620 A lot of students don't do their last step right. 08:49.620 --> 08:53.730 They study they take a practice test they move onto the next practice tests. 08:53.730 --> 08:58.650 You have to be able to go back and analyze what you've done with what you've done with these general 08:58.650 --> 09:04.860 reading passages in terms of when you finished answering go back and analyze a set a number of ships 09:05.310 --> 09:10.350 go back and analyze how they try to trick you or fool you go back and analyze. 09:10.350 --> 09:12.010 Break it down. 09:12.030 --> 09:20.450 That's how you want to have a high rate of success if you watch the live coarse videos that I've included. 09:20.940 --> 09:25.610 You're going to see what I mean in terms of breaking it down and analyzing. 09:27.210 --> 09:29.540 Our process is very very easy. 09:29.610 --> 09:33.850 The process that I just described for you you need to study. 09:34.020 --> 09:35.440 You need to apply. 09:35.460 --> 09:44.260 You need to analyze those three things for the general reading success that I want you to have this 09:44.680 --> 09:46.500 Ill tell you a little bit more about us. 09:46.510 --> 09:52.210 We have offices and sell programs all over the globe. 09:52.750 --> 09:59.260 You can look here and see that we're very involved in several different places and I hope that you really 09:59.260 --> 10:07.360 have a chance to enjoy all parts 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