Hello, everybody, and thank you for joining me.
And another question, strategy review.
Now we're going to go ahead and look at a very difficult question for a lot of students on the aisles
reading exam.
We're going to take a look at and really try to tackle the paragraph location question.
So let's go ahead and get into it.
So look here on the right and you can remember and recall.
What does this question look like?
It always going to say which paragraph contains the following information.
Or sometimes if you're doing the general exam, which section contains the following information?
It doesn't matter if it's the general or the academic exam.
The exact same question strategy the exact same question strategy.
Right.
Except for on one test they may use section and on the other they'll use the words paragraph.
But in terms of the requirements, the idea is really, really straightforward.
They want you to locate the paragraph that has the information.
So, for example, number 14 says.
A comparison of the past and present transportation methods.
So you have to look and find which one of these paragraphs, which one of the paragraphs A through H,
which one of the sections has information that is comparing the past and the present transportation
methods.
Right.
Or for number 16, the relative merits of cars and public transport.
Again, which paragraph is talking about that?
Which paragraph is discussing the merits of cars and public transport?
Now vocabulary comes, it becomes very important because they're using words like Merritt's.
So if if you don't know what that word means, it might cause you some pause and hesitation that can
slow you down.
So vocabulary is always really, really important.
Or like number 18 that says the increasing use of motor vehicles.
Which paragraph is talking about the increasing use of motor vehicles?
Now this question does require scanning.
Right.
You must scan for the matching language from the question or for the question.
However, there is a there's a very difficult way to go about scanning, and there is an easier way
or less difficult method of scanning.
And I think after I explain this to you, you're going to understand maybe why you found this question
to be so difficult in the past, because I'm going to tell you how to make the scanning process much,
much easier.
Now, we have to always think about that.
We have to match language, location.
And this question can be difficult because the matching language can be from any sentence in a paragraph.
Right now, topic sentences can be very, very helpful because topic sentences tell you what a paragraph
is about.
And very often if you understand that controlling idea from the topic sentence or the first two sentences,
it can help, you know that that paragraph contains the information for that question.
However, keep in mind you can have one paragraph that has eight sentences and they may pull information
from the fifth sentence in a paragraph.
So it can be very, very challenging.
But like I said, I'm going to tell you how to make it much easier.
So this is a difficult question, a time consuming question.
So we're always I'm always going to recommend that you do it last very often in a reading pass.
Just say you're doing reading passage number two.
The paragraph location question is going to be mentioned first in the question said.
You'll be mentioned first.
So for example, the paragraph location question might be questions 15 to 19 and then questions 20 to
24 might be filled the blank question and then questions 25 to 29 could be a yes no, not given question.
So if you haven't set up that way, if you haven't set up that way, do not start.
Even though the paragraph location question is first in the set of questions, don't do it first.
Again.
Don't do it first.
There's a reason why if you do it first, you're about to make it really, really difficult because
the question does not go in order and you'll be spending 10 minutes just trying to scan and wasting
so much time.
Do the in order questions first, then go back and do the paragraph location question.
Then go back and do the paragraph location question because that's going to give you an opportunity
to read through a lot of the paragraphs, and it will give you an opportunity to note if you come across
any of the key words from the paragraph location question, because first you're going to highlight
the key words in the paragraph location question, then you're going to go do the other question types
in that set then.
And then when you're doing the other question types, you're going to underline or highlight.
If you come across any of those key words from the paragraph location question, then when you finish
the in order question types or the other question types like a matching question.
Then you're going to come back to the paragraph location question.
It'll be much easier because you would have probably found you probably would have found half to half
the answer choices already.
Okay.
So let's go over the strategy now, more specifically in terms of the paragraph location question.
As I said earlier, you want to first locate the keywords and the questions.
This is very crucial to saving time after you have highlighted or underlined the keywords and the questions
like here for numbers one through six.
Then you go and do the other questions, do the end or the questions or like the matching question in
the set first.
You're doing that because it's going to give you a great opportunity to look at the information in all
the other paragraphs because you are doing these questions that go in order.
Also, you're going to keep your eyes open for any of those words that you've highlighted, any of those
keywords you've highlighted in the paragraph location question.
Then you're going to return to the question, return to the paragraph location question.
And probably you would have already found a language that might match numbers one, three, four and
five.
So four of them you may have already been able to do right away because you were able to note where
you saw that keyword language.
Right.
Then you're going to go ahead.
Now, if you haven't found number one and number six yet, then you're going to go ahead and scan for
the matching paragraphs for those questions, making sure you pay attention to topic sentences with
topic sentences, because those could be very, very helpful for you.
Match the language up and then you would have found your answer choices.
Let's go ahead and take a look at an example here.
All right.
So in this example, we look at section A first look, a section a first.
And within the first two sentences of Section A, I can see that it belongs to question number three.
The climate of the earth is always changing.
In the past it is it has it has altered as a result of natural causes.
Nowadays, however, the term climate change is generally used when referring to changes in our climate.
Clearly from the very first sentence.
From the very first sentence.
I know that this is really the match for number three.
So you can see how important.
You can see how relevant it is to understand topic sentences.
Look at look at Section B.
The greenhouse effect is very important when we talk about climate change as it relates to the gases
which keep the earth warm already.
We're talking about a greenhouse effect.
This matches, number one, a natural phenomenon.
We're talking about a natural phenomenon here.
Right.
And I know that just from the topic sentence.
Just from the topic sentence.
Now, the topic sentence is it doesn't work like that 100% of the time.
But I'm telling you, they're very, very helpful.
But as I've told you in the past, sometimes they're going to design some of the questions or only a
student they can get in eight or nine in reading, we'll be able to do very well.
And those are the ones when you might have a big paragraph of eight or nine sentences, and they'll
pull a sentence from sentence number six or sentence number five in that big paragraph.
And that one is more difficult to scan for.
Now Section D.
There are many institutions around the world whose sole priority is to take action against these environmental
problems.
A clearly a match is clearly a match for number four.
So really, sometimes a paragraph location question is very much like a headings question sometimes.
Sometimes it's very much like a headings question.
Very much like a headings question because you could look at numbers one, two, three and four.
And they can actually be headings for these sections.
Right.
But as I've told you, it's not always that way.
The topic sentences are very helpful, but sometimes they'll pull information from the middle of a paragraph
and you need to be aware of that.
You must be aware of that.
Right.
And here we have another example.
Section A The probability that two right handed people would have a left handed child is only about
9.5%.
The chances rise, the chance rises to 19.5%.
If one parent is a leftie and 26% if both parents are left handed.
So this matches what where they talk about how likely one handedness is born.
This is where you're going to find that information.
Section B genetic theory is also undermined by results from Peter Pepper and his team at Queen's University
in Belfast, Ireland in 2004.
The psychologist used ultrasound to show that by the 15th week of pregnancy, fetuses already have a
preference as to which thumb they suck.
So this one is matching number three, right?
This is where you're going to find that information.
And then paragraph C.
But even if these correlations were true, they did not explain what actually causes left handedness.
Furthermore, specialization on either side of the body is common among animals.
So this is where you're going to find the information for number one preference of using one side of
the body in an animal species.
You see the way that works.
Very often, not always.
Very often.
This question is very similar to a headings question.
Very similar.
Now when I get into the next lectures and I'm showing you how to analyze this question and scan with
this question from a full from a full reading passage, we'll come across some of the ones where the
information is located in the middle of a paragraph.
Right.
And that is going to be much more of a challenge to do.
Right.
Here's another one.
Right.
Here's one more.
And with this one look at paragraph DX, it also seems that the neurological roots of the biology of
the bilingual advantage extend to brain areas more traditionally associated with sensory processing.
When monolingual and bilingual adolescents listen to simple speech sounds without any intervening background
noise, they show highly similar brainstem responses.
Right.
So this one is more.
Difficult, right?
This is more difficult.
Because, look, this is one where it comes in the middle.
This is one where it comes in the middle.
Right.
Because number 11 now, I can guess from this from this paragraph that we're talking about, bilingual
and monolingual.
Monolingual.
I can get that from the paragraph.
But what might mess with some people is where does it talk about they're different.
So you see in the very in the first three sentences or the first two sentences, they tell you that
they're talking about processing.
Then they tell you how monolingual and bilingual are the same.
And then in the next third sentence, they tell you how it's different.
So that information for number 11 was pulled from the third sentence.
The exact information for number 11 was pulled from that third sentence.
Really the last sentence.
But from the first two sentences, I can tell that this is where I'm going to find information about
bilingual and monolingual.
Right.
There would have to be another paragraph that's also talking about monolingual and bilingual.
For me to have to really go in search, search specifically where they're talking about difference.
Right.
So I just wanted to point that out to you.
I wanted to point that out to you.
All right.
So coming up next.
Coming up next, I'm going to be going ahead, moving forward and going through a full passage application,
really showing you the scanning process, showing you how we highlight the key words first in the question,
then do the other questions in this set and come back to the paragraph location question, because we've
made it much easier.
Thanks a lot.
Talk to you soon.
Take care.