We're now going to show you how to attack the short answer question.
The short answer the question is one of the easier questions on the aisles reading exam.
And so we're going to now explain to you the strategy and then give you a couple of examples of how
to really attack and succeed on this question.
So some helpful information.
This question goes in order, which means that after number five, you'll find number six.
After number six, you'll find number seven.
This is one of the easier question types to do, and it is an open answer question, which means you'll
have a sentence with the question mark at the end.
And your job is to find the word or words that answer the question.
So this question will require you to provide a 1 to 3 word answer.
You have to understand the information that is required by the question so you can look here on the
right hand side of the screen and you'll see questions.
Right before Perkins Discovery with what group in society was the Color Purple associated?
What potential did perk and immediately understand that his new dye had.
Right.
So you see, they're asking asking you a question and you have to provide an answer in no more than
two words.
Right.
So very, very straightforward question.
I know you can really succeed and increase your point score with this question.
Now, as with almost all the questions, there is a scanning requirement.
So you have to look at a question and decide the keywords, right?
So clearly for this one, the the whole passage is about this guy Perkin.
So the name Perkin is not going to be a keyword here, but what is this question asking about?
There are some good keywords here, Discovery Group and Society and Color Purple.
Those would be the key words that I would highlight or underline in this question.
Right.
For number nine, potential understand and new die.
Those are the key words that I will highlight.
Right.
So you have to really be able to look at a question and decide on the key words and the question.
And that's what those are the key words that you're going to scan for, right?
Those are the key words that you're going to scan for.
Number ten.
What was the name of the person?
Perkin consultant before setting up his own die works.
Right.
Keywords here.
Name of a person.
OC and the words die works and consulted.
Those will be my keywords that when I'm scanning, I will look for those keywords.
I will scan the passage for those keywords.
Now this question goes in order, which means see, most likely for me.
I'm going to start with question number 11, because I know that another name of a person is going to
be there and names are really easy to find.
Right.
And the word die works is very, very specific.
There's most likely not going to be a synonym for die works.
So so when I'm looking at this, I'm going to probably start with number 11, right?
And that I would know 12 and 13 are below ten.
Nine and eight are above that.
So you have to really recognize synonym language when you're doing this kind of question because very
often the words are language that they use in the questions in the past might be different.
So as I told you, this is a short or open answer question.
So in terms of strategy, you have to make sure that you first examine all the questions, identify
the keywords.
Start with the easiest question, first scan for the passage match, and then apply the question strategy.
That's what we're doing here.
That's what you need to do every single time.
When it comes to question strategy for the short answer or open answer question.
So let's look at this here.
Right here.
What I've done is I have you have the questions and you have the language from the passage that applies
to the question.
Right.
And again, if you want to review, you can see the strategy right there on the right hand side.
Right.
If you just want to review the strategy again, I'm always putting it there on the right side for you
to take a look at it.
For what period of time has hearing loss in schoolchildren but study in New Zealand.
Right.
So if I'm if I'm scanning I'm going to look for a sentence that has talks about school children hearing
loss and sometimes some type of time period.
Right.
So when I look at this question, I can see that this is the sentence that I should be looking for in
the sentence I should have found.
Because I see hearing loss.
I see New Zealand, I see children and I see my time period, which is the answer to decades.
In addition to machinery loss, what other type of noise can upset children?
So this one was easy.
I just had to find machinery.
Machinery, noise.
And when we look at this sentence, we can see those experiencing these disorders often find sounds
such as crowd noise and noise generated by machinery, painful and distressing.
So my answer, I'm going to write our my answer is going to be crowd noise.
Now, according to the directions, I could write two words.
So that means that writing crowd noise is acceptable.
Let's look at another one.
Who reported the same story of European diseases.
Among the indigenes from the American interior.
The missionaries and the traders who ventured into the American interior told the toll the same appalling
story.
Right.
So the answer that I would write is missionary and traders, because it says I can write no more than
three words.
So missionaries.
Now, if I write, be clear.
If I write missionaries and the traders, I wrote, what, four words?
Four words violation of the instructions marked wrong.
All right.
And then for 14, what is the steel existing feature of old world invasion of the new key words here
steel existing feature that's really important.
Still existing feature and old world will probably be easy to find because there's not really a synonym
for Old World.
Here we have a down here.
That decline has reversed in our time as a mirror.
Indian populations have adapted to the old world's environmental influence.
But.
The demographic triumph of the invaders, which was the most spectacular feature of the old world's
invasion of the new steel stands.
Right.
So still stands, still existing.
What was still standing, what was still standing, the demographic triumph.
So our answer is demographic triumph.
See how that works?
All right.
And here's one more.
Number six is which part?
Of some step whales provide its shade for people.
Provide its shade.
Key language here.
Which part provided shade?
Now, again, they're not going to use the same language.
So look here at number six.
Others are more elaborate with long step passages leading to the leading to the water via several stories.
Bill from stone and supported by pillars.
They also included pavilions.
The sheltered visitors.
Right.
The sheltered visitors.
Right.
So the answer is what some of you may look at.
See that word highlighted there?
Pillars.
All right.
That's where that word is highlighted, because we were doing another question for another question
type.
Right.
But here, look at it.
When you look at this sentence, what does the synonym language for provide its shade?
Right.
Look at it very carefully.
Before I tell you what language there is the same as provided shade.
Right.
Sheltered.
Sheltered sheltered visitors sheltered as four shade visitors as four people were provided.
The shelter.
The pavilions.
The Pavilion's provided the shelter.
The pavilions.
You see how that works?
Synonym language.
Now, number seven is really straightforward.
Also, I like number seven.
You know, if I were doing this one, I would probably start with number seven because of the word southern
Rajasthan.
Right.
So it says.
And really, when I look at the sentence, I'm looking for a serious climatic event.
I'm not going to try to understand the whole sentence.
I'm not going to try.
I'm looking for a serious climatic event.
Their condition hasn't been helped by recent dry spells.
Southern Rajasthan suffered an eight year drought.
There's my climatic event.
My answer is drought.
And number eight says who are frequent visitors to Steppe Wales nowadays, tourists flock to Wales and
far flung corners of northwestern India to gaze in wonder at these archaic architectural marvels from
1000 years ago.
Answer is tourist.
And you can see that it's going in order.
Six is in this paragraph, seven in this paragraph eight is in the final paragraph.
Now, I should say, if you go and really look at this reading passage, you'll see that between numbers
seven and eight, there are two or three other paragraphs.
So it doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to be in the very next paragraph.
Number seven, it's in paragraph three, AFAIK.
And number eight is in paragraph number six or seven.
So they can be there can be paragraphs between the questions.
So coming up next in the upcoming lectures, I'm going to be using real reading passages to show you
full passage application, right?
How to really scan through a real passage and how to do an application through a real passage.
Because I know for some of you, you're looking at it and saying, well, how did you find that right
sentence?
How did you locate that sentence?
In the upcoming lectures, I'm going to be using real passages to show you how to scan, how to pull
out the keywords, how to scan, and how to apply the strategy to a full passage.
So take care and I look forward to talking to you soon.