Now it's time to move forward and take a look at the multiple choice question here.
We're going to be taking a look at the standard multiple choice question, the standard multiple choice
question.
When it comes to the multiple choice question, what you need to understand is basically there are three
different types of multiple choice questions.
The multiple choice standard question is where you choose between you choose between A, B, C and D,
right?
Or sometimes A, B and C, then you have the pick 2 to 5 from a list where you have to maybe pick instead
of just picking one choice from A, B, C, D, you have to pick two choices.
And then a lot of times the sentence completion question is set up like a multiple choice question where
you might have seven or eight different choices A, B, C, D, E and each choice is the second part
of A of a sentence or the part of a sentence that you need to complete.
So really you have kind of three different three different types of multiple choice questions.
I'm going to refer to the standard type as multiple choice and choose 2 to 5 from a list and then sentence
completion.
Okay.
So for this question, we're going to be looking at the multiple choice standard question, right.
The question where they like you see their for number ten on the right hand side where it says research
completed in 1982 found that in the United States soil erosion and then you have to decide between A,
B, C and D what happened in 1982.
Right.
And what happened to the research what did the research in 1982 say about soil and soil erosion?
Was it A, B, C or D?
So in terms of the question requirements, this question is asking you to go to the passage and decide
which choice provides the answer, right?
There is a scanning requirement.
So for example, you would have to look at number ten.
And number ten is a really actually, all of these questions here are really easy to find because number
ten has the date in 1982, number 11 has the date mid eighties and Denmark, and number 12 has New Zealand
and 1984.
So really all of these are really easy to find because of those dates.
So you have to scan and find the matching sentence and then you have to make sure that you watch out
for the synonym language because it might be easy to find the sentence.
But then when you read the sentence, they're going to use synonym language for the correct answer choice.
And that's where the English test comes in.
That's where the test of English happens.
Right.
They might make it easy to find the right sentence.
But then when you read it, are you able to pull out the synonym match for the correct answer choice?
That's where the real talent occurs.
That's where the English ability occurs.
Now in terms of the strategy, you have to identify the the question, the question, keywords.
That's step number one.
You must identify the question keywords, select the language in each question that are keywords and
easiest to scan for in the passage.
Next, you want to be able to identify the easiest question and then begin your scanning process.
Scan and find the matching language in the passage.
Then we have to read the matching sentence or sentences.
You want to be aware that with a multiple choice question, they may require you to read two sentences,
not one sentence, and then you want to apply the answer strategy.
The answering strategy is very straightforward.
Once you find the matching sentence or sentences, read them and see which of the answer choices A,
B, C, or D matches the information that is located in those sentences.
Only one choice can be correct with a with a standard multiple choice question, you cannot pick two
things.
The other answer choices will not be there.
So that's why it's critical that you're able to scan and find the matching sentences.
Right.
Some students make the big, big mistake of overeating reading too much.
That's a big, big mistake that happens.
So let's take a look at a couple of examples of how the answering strategy works right now in the upcoming
lectures.
In the upcoming lectures, we're going to be we're going to be using a full passage to show you the
scanning process, the the highlighting, the key words process and the answering process using full
passages here.
I'm just talking a little bit about the answering strategy.
So number five says the example of the fruitless affair underlines the writer's point about.
Right.
So we look here in this first paragraph, it says, concern about these practices and their effects
on pollinators.
Is it new?
In her 1962 ecological alarm cry.
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson warned of a fruitless fall that could result from the disappearance of
insect pollinators.
Right.
So the fruitless fair or really the fruitless fall that should be, they have the question stated wrongly,
the fruitless fall underlines the writer's point about bee the impact of losing insect pollinators.
You don't see A, you don't see C.
You don't see D.
That's why it's so critical that you find the correct matching sentence.
Because you won't see you won't see the wrong answers.
But if you're overeating and also, you know, I tell students, don't go looking for wrong answers.
You want to get really good at finding them matching sentences.
Number six.
Why can honeybees adapt to the modern agricultural system?
Why can't honey bees adapt to the modern agricultural system?
So it says here.
But it wasn't just familiarity that determined this choice.
The bees biology is in many ways suited to the kind of agricultural system that was emerging.
For example, honeybee hives can be closed up and moved out of the way when pesticides are applied to
a field.
So the correct answer here would be see honeybee hives can be protected away from pesticides.
Right as we go on to another example.
Number one says one of the claims Rodman makes is that.
So here is William Rodman.
It says so.
It may seem farfetched to suggest that humans have been causing global warming ever since our ancestors
started burning and cutting forests to make way for fields at least 7000 years ago.
Yet.
That's the view of retired climate and climate scientist William Rudman.
So at the beginning, it says it's far fetched.
It's far fetched, but it tells us that's what William Rudman believes.
What does he believe?
Right.
What is the matching choice for what he believes to be?
People have affected the climate for thousands of years.
Now, of course.
The trick is and the key is you're being able to you're being able to locate and scan for this matching
sentence.
That's what you have to be able to do.
Number two says, What information did the research at Vostok reveal for the first time?
Now here the word Vostok is mentioned right before this sentence right here that says in recent times.
Is mentioned right before.
But when you read this, go ahead and take the time if you need to and read these two sentences.
But when you read these two sentences, the answer C becomes really, really evident in terms of what
the research reveal for the first time, right revealed.
It says the last methane peak occurred around 11,000 years ago at about 700 parts per billion, after
which the levels began to fall.
But read the next sentence because of the word.
But.
But instead of continuing to fall to what Rudman says should have been a minimum of about 450, today,
the atmospheric methane began to climb again 5000 years ago.
So the research saw that the methane levels began to increase.
All right.
And then for one more example, the writers suggest we can look at paragraph number two.
But if you ask them to make a list of antisocial behaviors, you're getting into an area where there's
going to be considerable disagreement right now in the sentence right before this.
It talks about, you know, the writer in terms of what his thoughts are.
But you can see here from this sentence that the correct answer would be C, and then in paragraph B,
what surprised the writer?
What surprised the writer about the imposition of ASBOs?
It is striking.
There's the synonym for surprise.
That's how I notice the sentence.
It is.
It is a striking fact that the majority of ASBOs imposed since the law was enacted have been handed
out to young people and children.
So the correct answer would be See?
All right.
So coming up next, we're going to go ahead and do full passage application.
We're going to show you the scanning process answering an application.
Thank you so much for joining me and I look forward to talking to you in the next.