WEBVTT 00:00.750 --> 00:08.460 OK and welcome to the general reading section of the course as you know in this section of the course 00:08.940 --> 00:15.180 we're going to be going through the specific analysis and specific strategies for each question type 00:16.110 --> 00:22.650 you're going to have several lectures in the section that actually break down each specific question. 00:22.740 --> 00:30.360 As I've told you before or you may have heard before the reading strategies for the academic section 00:30.450 --> 00:33.840 and the general section are actually the same. 00:34.050 --> 00:42.420 So if you're if you are coming over from the academic side to watch some of these videos the strategies 00:42.420 --> 00:45.840 being talked about actually really really good. 00:46.020 --> 00:57.000 And sometimes when you are when you are first when you're first learning about the child's exam and 00:57.060 --> 01:01.080 you're just being introduced to the reading section even if you're back and when you're an academic 01:01.080 --> 01:10.460 student right when you're an academic student one moment while we get rid of that little box when you're 01:10.470 --> 01:20.910 an academic student sometimes you are thinking about your thinking about how to do the best on a given 01:20.910 --> 01:28.950 question for example and sometimes it's actually easier to be introduced to it through the general reading. 01:28.950 --> 01:34.410 Because a general reading is actually a lot simpler than the academic but it gives you a good introduction 01:34.410 --> 01:40.920 to strategy and tactics because sometimes that's the first thing you're focusing on strategies and tactics 01:40.920 --> 01:48.060 before you really get into the complexities of a reading passage passageway anyway in this first video 01:48.630 --> 01:53.490 in his very first video the only thing I'm going to talk about in this first video are the different 01:53.490 --> 01:59.970 question types that you're going to see on the general reading or the academic reading. 02:00.270 --> 02:06.440 And so when we talk about the different question types right we have some different question ties. 02:06.500 --> 02:13.650 But to start off before we even go to that point or go to go to review that the reading section is really 02:13.710 --> 02:16.430 a combination of two real skills. 02:16.830 --> 02:20.380 It's the combination of scanning and comprehension. 02:20.610 --> 02:26.130 Well I talk about comprehension of course you have the sentences within the passage and the questions 02:26.580 --> 02:32.880 but also when I say the word comprehension I'm also including within that synonym language because the 02:32.880 --> 02:36.730 I'm reading is all about vocabulary synonym language. 02:36.810 --> 02:41.730 You have to be able to understand and comprehend that in them language and you have to be able to scan 02:41.730 --> 02:46.770 and find the matching and correlating sentences for the different question types. 02:46.770 --> 02:54.230 So doing well on the reading section is really a combination of those two skill sets. 02:54.270 --> 02:57.140 Skin scanning and comprehension. 02:57.570 --> 03:03.090 And one thing that I you may have heard me recommend to students or some of the live videos and I'll 03:03.090 --> 03:10.200 say it again here is that you have to take the time to work on specific skills are going to make you 03:10.200 --> 03:11.350 better. 03:11.370 --> 03:16.320 So I think it's actually a great idea to sometimes not even worry about when you're looking at a reading 03:16.320 --> 03:22.390 passage and looking at questions is sometimes a great idea to not even focus on answering the questions. 03:22.530 --> 03:26.680 Just work on your scanning ability work on your scanning ability. 03:26.760 --> 03:33.390 Work on improving your speed at finding the matching sentences for these the questions or going order 03:34.230 --> 03:41.010 work on finding the matching sentences the correlating sentences get better at that get more accurate 03:41.010 --> 03:41.880 at that. 03:41.880 --> 03:43.970 Work on that skill set. 03:44.550 --> 03:46.600 Ok work on that skill set. 03:46.650 --> 03:52.480 Try to get faster at it but you have to sometimes just practice that specifically. 03:52.710 --> 03:57.290 Some people just like to take the whole a whole test right. 03:57.300 --> 04:01.090 But they don't work on the skills that are going to actually make them better. 04:01.770 --> 04:02.010 All right. 04:02.010 --> 04:06.660 Now let's go and get into these different types of questions. 04:06.690 --> 04:13.440 You of course have the field the brain question the field in question is one of the easiest questions 04:14.190 --> 04:19.980 on the exam and the field in question. 04:20.270 --> 04:21.780 And you can see the strategy there. 04:21.860 --> 04:25.990 I'm not going to necessarily go over the strategy right now. 04:26.310 --> 04:34.200 When we go over we will be going over the specific questions in different passages. 04:34.200 --> 04:38.820 I will be going over strategy and going through 1 3 6 and what that means. 04:39.090 --> 04:42.030 But we have our field of play in question which is one of the easiest questions. 04:42.030 --> 04:43.500 It goes in order. 04:43.710 --> 04:49.710 You have your sentence completion question on the right side as it says there. 04:49.740 --> 04:57.140 It goes in order mainly And I say that because I've seen this situation before I can't recall specifically 04:57.630 --> 05:02.760 where it didn't necessarily go in order it may have been one of those situations where you have two 05:02.760 --> 05:06.560 questions in the same paragraph and they have them inverted. 05:06.750 --> 05:13.200 But I say mainly but I will probably say like 90 percent of the time from what I've seen and observed 05:13.200 --> 05:18.790 in going through all these passages it is that they go in order of your short answer questions your 05:18.810 --> 05:27.750 short to questions are the questions that I ask you to provide a one to three word answer to specific 05:27.750 --> 05:29.210 questions. 05:29.310 --> 05:34.590 You want to always make sure you pay attention to how many words are allowed in the instructions and 05:34.600 --> 05:35.610 an answer. 05:35.610 --> 05:40.620 Because if he says the answer can be no more than two words and with three words Oh they are marking 05:40.620 --> 05:41.750 that wrong. 05:42.120 --> 05:45.750 You have your flowchart questions which go in order. 05:45.900 --> 05:51.110 If I didn't say a short answer question goes in order your flowchart questions are those questions where 05:51.210 --> 05:56.100 they have one question then they have an arrow pointing down and then they have the next question they 05:56.100 --> 05:57.960 have an arrow pointing down. 05:57.960 --> 06:01.970 Those are the flowchart questions and they go in order. 06:02.520 --> 06:10.920 And then finally you have your multiple choice questions which go in order you want to know with the 06:10.920 --> 06:19.530 multiple multiple choice questions that sometimes the questions the the question the questions and also 06:19.530 --> 06:23.840 sometimes the answers can come from a combination of two sentences. 06:23.910 --> 06:25.460 So you just want to be aware of that. 06:25.800 --> 06:32.100 And then you have which is for some students the dreaded Yes don't give in question are true or false 06:32.250 --> 06:39.730 given question for me personally is not that much of a complicated question. 06:39.750 --> 06:45.720 I think students sometimes overthink it and worst students mess up with their Yes don't I given question 06:46.200 --> 06:52.530 is because they actually start making inferences and making inferences is not required. 06:52.530 --> 06:57.310 The Isles exam does not deal with inference questions actually. 06:57.320 --> 07:02.670 What if you're taking the Tofel exam then yes you do have you do have inference questions but for the 07:02.670 --> 07:07.330 child's exam that's where students really mess up as they start making inferences. 07:07.590 --> 07:14.680 Well maybe this will maybe that maybe this but maybe that you don't do that with the Yes don't I given 07:14.840 --> 07:21.000 question then we will talk about and walk through the strategy more specifically when we go over that 07:21.000 --> 07:29.410 particular or that specific question type down there at the bottom it has a note in terms of watching 07:29.410 --> 07:36.460 for STARTING POINT sentences or watching for sentences that have semi-colons and ends sometimes with 07:36.460 --> 07:47.050 these questions are going horder the the the Western sentence might be actually you might have a starting 07:47.050 --> 07:48.440 point language. 07:48.670 --> 07:56.710 What that means is sometimes they'll take two sentences and create one question and they'll be certain 07:56.710 --> 08:03.760 language in the question that is from one sentence and then the other part of the language and the question 08:04.180 --> 08:11.070 is actually what's being used for the true Fosdyke given or for the feel the blank question. 08:11.140 --> 08:18.380 And so when that situation happens that there's a there's a part of the sentence that's really just 08:18.380 --> 08:24.730 the starting point and then the second sentence is actually was being used for the comparison for like 08:24.730 --> 08:30.880 a yes don't like giving question and sometimes you see the same thing with the semi-colon you might 08:30.880 --> 08:41.020 have a sentence with a semi-colon in the passage in the reading passage and semi-colon is really a separation 08:41.020 --> 08:48.700 of two clauses and what they're doing many times is they'll take that sentence in the reading passage 08:48.700 --> 08:56.350 that has a semi colon separating the two clauses and then they'll make it or Krita into one one sentence 08:56.350 --> 09:03.190 for a question and when that happens you have to be aware again that we're dealing with a starting point 09:03.190 --> 09:11.640 situation and you know what when we come across as situation in the specific question analysis is analysis 09:12.220 --> 09:14.750 then I'll point that out to you. 09:15.010 --> 09:15.810 OK. 09:16.270 --> 09:18.810 All right. 09:19.700 --> 09:25.940 Now those are all the first questions that we're going to are going through all the questions that go 09:25.940 --> 09:27.000 in order. 09:27.040 --> 09:34.150 So if you're not clear what it means by going in order what I mean by that is after you after you have 09:34.150 --> 09:38.900 questioned nine they say for example Question 9 is in paragraph 3. 09:38.950 --> 09:44.980 After that you'll find question and after that you'll find an 11 and then after that you'll find questions 09:45.070 --> 09:47.620 12 those questions go in order. 09:48.150 --> 09:48.880 OK. 09:49.270 --> 09:55.900 It doesn't necessarily mean they go paragraph by paragraph you know Question 9 might be in paragraph 09:55.930 --> 09:59.940 2 and then Question 10 might be in paragraph 4. 09:59.940 --> 10:00.670 All right. 10:00.790 --> 10:05.660 And then after question for your final paragraph you have to question 2 in paragraph 4. 10:05.830 --> 10:07.920 Then you'll find Question number three. 10:07.930 --> 10:17.230 However if paragraph if question I'm sorry if question 1 is in paragraph if question to me and you say 10:17.230 --> 10:22.070 that kind of way a question 9 is in paragraph 2 in question. 10:22.080 --> 10:24.920 T.N. is in paragraph 4. 10:25.030 --> 10:28.920 That means that question 11 is not going to be in between those two. 10:29.020 --> 10:32.700 Question number 11 has to come after question number 10. 10:32.770 --> 10:34.810 So I hope I made that clear. 10:34.840 --> 10:35.110 All right. 10:35.110 --> 10:42.730 Our other question types are a summary question which is where they have a paragraph is basically a 10:42.730 --> 10:45.080 field the blank question. 10:45.340 --> 10:52.510 But sometimes they're taking sentences from different paragraphs and smashing them together into a summary. 10:52.510 --> 10:54.800 You have a peer replication question. 10:54.940 --> 10:59.290 One of the more challenging questions for most students most of the time you're you're going to see 10:59.290 --> 11:00.520 this question. 11:00.760 --> 11:03.690 And in reading passage number three 11:06.700 --> 11:11.990 and let me just say I'll save that for the year about about reading passage three. 11:12.070 --> 11:17.830 You also have your matching question which is where they'll give you several names in a box and you 11:17.830 --> 11:22.510 have to match the name in the box to one of the questions. 11:22.510 --> 11:27.650 Most of the time you're looking at what somebody said imagine what they said to one of the questions 11:28.270 --> 11:34.060 that's a matter of again of your being able to recognize that in a language you have this question is 11:34.050 --> 11:40.830 say something like Which section are the following statements are true for I should have an s on there 11:40.840 --> 11:45.910 that was in the statement I have to make that correction which correction of the following statements 11:45.960 --> 11:52.570 true for should say this is really like the old classification question they used to do all the academic 11:52.570 --> 11:55.450 tests which you don't really see that often anymore. 11:55.450 --> 12:02.020 Basically they're asking you you know you have different statements and they're saying well this statement 12:02.050 --> 12:04.930 which section does it belong to. 12:04.930 --> 12:09.880 All right which section does it belong to which which classification does it belong to really. 12:09.880 --> 12:11.530 That's the way I think about it. 12:11.560 --> 12:17.710 I mean I'm not sure if you've heard or heard or thought about differently but for me in my mind that's 12:17.740 --> 12:21.700 what that's what it seems like they're doing here. 12:21.850 --> 12:28.820 Then you had your headings question and you have your Which section contains the following. 12:29.050 --> 12:34.120 This is the same as the which paragraph has the following is a peer replication question is just worded 12:34.120 --> 12:35.100 differently. 12:35.680 --> 12:40.180 And the last thing I was going to talk about I started talking about it but then I stopped talking about 12:40.180 --> 12:51.420 it is dealing with Section 3 Section 3 on the general reading test section 3 really is a reading passage 12:51.430 --> 12:58.370 that's the same almost as the academic writing is at the same difficulty level at the the academic. 12:58.390 --> 13:05.890 So if you're an academic student and you want to use some extra practice look at some of the section 13:05.890 --> 13:14.510 3s from the general reading test because those have the same difficulty level as the academic test. 13:15.010 --> 13:21.510 And so I wanted to say that about Section 3 the way it works on the general reading is Section 1 in 13:21.510 --> 13:23.060 section 2. 13:23.080 --> 13:28.490 I would say are are much much easier than the section 3 right there. 13:28.490 --> 13:35.830 They're much the passengers are shorter they're not as dense and they're much more easier or easy to 13:35.830 --> 13:36.830 manage. 13:36.850 --> 13:41.410 So sections 1 and 2 can actually be a breeze for you if you know what you're doing. 13:41.410 --> 13:46.150 And that's where we're going to do in this section of the course for general reading is you know make 13:46.150 --> 13:52.100 sure you know what you're doing and then when you get to Section 3 you have to do something. 13:52.140 --> 13:54.880 There's more on the level of the academic test. 13:55.150 --> 13:55.910 OK. 13:55.930 --> 14:03.580 And the reason why they do that is they have to be able to separate a student that's an 8 or 9 from 14:03.580 --> 14:06.110 a student that is a 5 or 6. 14:06.330 --> 14:12.520 A student there's a five or six is going to have a hard time doing section 3. 14:12.520 --> 14:15.290 A student can get a score from a seven to nine. 14:15.490 --> 14:20.170 Is going to be able to more manage the difficulty level in section 3. 14:20.170 --> 14:25.690 So that's why Section 3 is harder is harder because the test makers have to be able to separate the 14:25.690 --> 14:26.620 students. 14:26.800 --> 14:33.910 If all the sections were the same it is Section 1 in section 3 where the same difficulty level of sections 14:33.910 --> 14:34.860 1 and 2. 14:35.080 --> 14:35.950 Well then how are you going. 14:35.950 --> 14:40.140 How are you going to know the difference between a 5 student and a 7 student. 14:40.300 --> 14:40.660 Right. 14:40.660 --> 14:44.580 They do things to be able to separate students by their levels. 14:44.590 --> 14:46.110 That was done that way. 14:46.330 --> 14:46.990 OK. 14:47.440 --> 15:01.080 So this has been a review of the question types that you have to deal with on the general reading section. 15:01.240 --> 15:10.570 And now we're going to move into our next lectures our next lectures will review the specific strategies 15:10.690 --> 15:14.070 for each specific question type. 15:14.410 --> 15:17.540 And so I look forward to teaching you along the way. 15:17.860 --> 15:26.770 And remember if you have any questions about this lecture or questions that I have in terms of my reviewing 15:26.770 --> 15:36.500 of the different strategy then please be sure to comment on the video and I'll try to answer your question. 15:36.640 --> 15:43.240 I know some people are going to ask me Can I have this document that you have here can I have this document 15:44.760 --> 15:49.660 that I have to be careful with giving away documents or information but you're more than welcome to 15:50.080 --> 15:53.940 stop the video and take notes from the video and things like that. 15:54.010 --> 15:59.790 But I'm very hesitant in terms of giving away documents because sometimes my stuff appears places magically 16:00.400 --> 16:02.670 and people take my things so. 16:03.280 --> 16:05.490 Anyway I look forward to teaching you. 16:05.850 --> 16:08.200 And and let's move forward. 16:08.200 --> 16:09.420 So thanks a lot. 16:09.460 --> 16:10.850 And I'll talk to you soon.