OK and welcome to the general reading section of the course as you know in this section of the course
we're going to be going through the specific analysis and specific strategies for each question type
you're going to have several lectures in the section that actually break down each specific question.
As I've told you before or you may have heard before the reading strategies for the academic section
and the general section are actually the same.
So if you're if you are coming over from the academic side to watch some of these videos the strategies
being talked about actually really really good.
And sometimes when you are when you are first when you're first learning about the child's exam and
you're just being introduced to the reading section even if you're back and when you're an academic
student right when you're an academic student one moment while we get rid of that little box when you're
an academic student sometimes you are thinking about your thinking about how to do the best on a given
question for example and sometimes it's actually easier to be introduced to it through the general reading.
Because a general reading is actually a lot simpler than the academic but it gives you a good introduction
to strategy and tactics because sometimes that's the first thing you're focusing on strategies and tactics
before you really get into the complexities of a reading passage passageway anyway in this first video
in his very first video the only thing I'm going to talk about in this first video are the different
question types that you're going to see on the general reading or the academic reading.
And so when we talk about the different question types right we have some different question ties.
But to start off before we even go to that point or go to go to review that the reading section is really
a combination of two real skills.
It's the combination of scanning and comprehension.
Well I talk about comprehension of course you have the sentences within the passage and the questions
but also when I say the word comprehension I'm also including within that synonym language because the
I'm reading is all about vocabulary synonym language.
You have to be able to understand and comprehend that in them language and you have to be able to scan
and find the matching and correlating sentences for the different question types.
So doing well on the reading section is really a combination of those two skill sets.
Skin scanning and comprehension.
And one thing that I you may have heard me recommend to students or some of the live videos and I'll
say it again here is that you have to take the time to work on specific skills are going to make you
better.
So I think it's actually a great idea to sometimes not even worry about when you're looking at a reading
passage and looking at questions is sometimes a great idea to not even focus on answering the questions.
Just work on your scanning ability work on your scanning ability.
Work on improving your speed at finding the matching sentences for these the questions or going order
work on finding the matching sentences the correlating sentences get better at that get more accurate
at that.
Work on that skill set.
Ok work on that skill set.
Try to get faster at it but you have to sometimes just practice that specifically.
Some people just like to take the whole a whole test right.
But they don't work on the skills that are going to actually make them better.
All right.
Now let's go and get into these different types of questions.
You of course have the field the brain question the field in question is one of the easiest questions
on the exam and the field in question.
And you can see the strategy there.
I'm not going to necessarily go over the strategy right now.
When we go over we will be going over the specific questions in different passages.
I will be going over strategy and going through 1 3 6 and what that means.
But we have our field of play in question which is one of the easiest questions.
It goes in order.
You have your sentence completion question on the right side as it says there.
It goes in order mainly And I say that because I've seen this situation before I can't recall specifically
where it didn't necessarily go in order it may have been one of those situations where you have two
questions in the same paragraph and they have them inverted.
But I say mainly but I will probably say like 90 percent of the time from what I've seen and observed
in going through all these passages it is that they go in order of your short answer questions your
short to questions are the questions that I ask you to provide a one to three word answer to specific
questions.
You want to always make sure you pay attention to how many words are allowed in the instructions and
an answer.
Because if he says the answer can be no more than two words and with three words Oh they are marking
that wrong.
You have your flowchart questions which go in order.
If I didn't say a short answer question goes in order your flowchart questions are those questions where
they have one question then they have an arrow pointing down and then they have the next question they
have an arrow pointing down.
Those are the flowchart questions and they go in order.
And then finally you have your multiple choice questions which go in order you want to know with the
multiple multiple choice questions that sometimes the questions the the question the questions and also
sometimes the answers can come from a combination of two sentences.
So you just want to be aware of that.
And then you have which is for some students the dreaded Yes don't give in question are true or false
given question for me personally is not that much of a complicated question.
I think students sometimes overthink it and worst students mess up with their Yes don't I given question
is because they actually start making inferences and making inferences is not required.
The Isles exam does not deal with inference questions actually.
What if you're taking the Tofel exam then yes you do have you do have inference questions but for the
child's exam that's where students really mess up as they start making inferences.
Well maybe this will maybe that maybe this but maybe that you don't do that with the Yes don't I given
question then we will talk about and walk through the strategy more specifically when we go over that
particular or that specific question type down there at the bottom it has a note in terms of watching
for STARTING POINT sentences or watching for sentences that have semi-colons and ends sometimes with
these questions are going horder the the the Western sentence might be actually you might have a starting
point language.
What that means is sometimes they'll take two sentences and create one question and they'll be certain
language in the question that is from one sentence and then the other part of the language and the question
is actually what's being used for the true Fosdyke given or for the feel the blank question.
And so when that situation happens that there's a there's a part of the sentence that's really just
the starting point and then the second sentence is actually was being used for the comparison for like
a yes don't like giving question and sometimes you see the same thing with the semi-colon you might
have a sentence with a semi-colon in the passage in the reading passage and semi-colon is really a separation
of two clauses and what they're doing many times is they'll take that sentence in the reading passage
that has a semi colon separating the two clauses and then they'll make it or Krita into one one sentence
for a question and when that happens you have to be aware again that we're dealing with a starting point
situation and you know what when we come across as situation in the specific question analysis is analysis
then I'll point that out to you.
OK.
All right.
Now those are all the first questions that we're going to are going through all the questions that go
in order.
So if you're not clear what it means by going in order what I mean by that is after you after you have
questioned nine they say for example Question 9 is in paragraph 3.
After that you'll find question and after that you'll find an 11 and then after that you'll find questions
12 those questions go in order.
OK.
It doesn't necessarily mean they go paragraph by paragraph you know Question 9 might be in paragraph
2 and then Question 10 might be in paragraph 4.
All right.
And then after question for your final paragraph you have to question 2 in paragraph 4.
Then you'll find Question number three.
However if paragraph if question I'm sorry if question 1 is in paragraph if question to me and you say
that kind of way a question 9 is in paragraph 2 in question.
T.N. is in paragraph 4.
That means that question 11 is not going to be in between those two.
Question number 11 has to come after question number 10.
So I hope I made that clear.
All right.
Our other question types are a summary question which is where they have a paragraph is basically a
field the blank question.
But sometimes they're taking sentences from different paragraphs and smashing them together into a summary.
You have a peer replication question.
One of the more challenging questions for most students most of the time you're you're going to see
this question.
And in reading passage number three
and let me just say I'll save that for the year about about reading passage three.
You also have your matching question which is where they'll give you several names in a box and you
have to match the name in the box to one of the questions.
Most of the time you're looking at what somebody said imagine what they said to one of the questions
that's a matter of again of your being able to recognize that in a language you have this question is
say something like Which section are the following statements are true for I should have an s on there
that was in the statement I have to make that correction which correction of the following statements
true for should say this is really like the old classification question they used to do all the academic
tests which you don't really see that often anymore.
Basically they're asking you you know you have different statements and they're saying well this statement
which section does it belong to.
All right which section does it belong to which which classification does it belong to really.
That's the way I think about it.
I mean I'm not sure if you've heard or heard or thought about differently but for me in my mind that's
what that's what it seems like they're doing here.
Then you had your headings question and you have your Which section contains the following.
This is the same as the which paragraph has the following is a peer replication question is just worded
differently.
And the last thing I was going to talk about I started talking about it but then I stopped talking about
it is dealing with Section 3 Section 3 on the general reading test section 3 really is a reading passage
that's the same almost as the academic writing is at the same difficulty level at the the academic.
So if you're an academic student and you want to use some extra practice look at some of the section
3s from the general reading test because those have the same difficulty level as the academic test.
And so I wanted to say that about Section 3 the way it works on the general reading is Section 1 in
section 2.
I would say are are much much easier than the section 3 right there.
They're much the passengers are shorter they're not as dense and they're much more easier or easy to
manage.
So sections 1 and 2 can actually be a breeze for you if you know what you're doing.
And that's where we're going to do in this section of the course for general reading is you know make
sure you know what you're doing and then when you get to Section 3 you have to do something.
There's more on the level of the academic test.
OK.
And the reason why they do that is they have to be able to separate a student that's an 8 or 9 from
a student that is a 5 or 6.
A student there's a five or six is going to have a hard time doing section 3.
A student can get a score from a seven to nine.
Is going to be able to more manage the difficulty level in section 3.
So that's why Section 3 is harder is harder because the test makers have to be able to separate the
students.
If all the sections were the same it is Section 1 in section 3 where the same difficulty level of sections
1 and 2.
Well then how are you going.
How are you going to know the difference between a 5 student and a 7 student.
Right.
They do things to be able to separate students by their levels.
That was done that way.
OK.
So this has been a review of the question types that you have to deal with on the general reading section.
And now we're going to move into our next lectures our next lectures will review the specific strategies
for each specific question type.
And so I look forward to teaching you along the way.
And remember if you have any questions about this lecture or questions that I have in terms of my reviewing
of the different strategy then please be sure to comment on the video and I'll try to answer your question.
I know some people are going to ask me Can I have this document that you have here can I have this document
that I have to be careful with giving away documents or information but you're more than welcome to
stop the video and take notes from the video and things like that.
But I'm very hesitant in terms of giving away documents because sometimes my stuff appears places magically
and people take my things so.
Anyway I look forward to teaching you.
And and let's move forward.
So thanks a lot.
And I'll talk to you soon.