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Okay, so let's get started.

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Thank you very much for joining me today.

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This is a live group reading class.

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And the purpose of this live group reading class is to go over reading strategy as it applies to certain

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question types.

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So let's get started.

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So I'm going to be going through two passages, and those two passages will cover five different questions.

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Passage one has a headings question, a multiple choice question and a summary question or a it's called

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a paragraph Fill the blank question.

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Passage two has a field of blank question, the normal type of field of blank blank question.

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And it also has a yes no, not given question or a true false not given question.

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There's there's a a slight difference between those two questions.

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Not not any difference in strategy, but in terms of whether you're dealing with facts or opinions.

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So coming up first, I'm going to be going through the first passage, which is from Cambridge 16 General

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Test one, Section three.

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As I said in the announcement, Section three of the general exam is at the exact same level as the

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academic exam.

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So this reading passage is appropriate for those taking the general test and those taking the academic

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tests.

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On the general test.

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Section one and Section two are much easier than the academic, but then Section three is at the same

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level as the academic test.

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And the reason why they do that is because they want to be able to separate people in terms of a rubric

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score.

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So for those of you that can that are taking the general test, if you can manage Section three.

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Those are the people that are normally getting scores of seven, eight and nine on the reading section.

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The title of this one, again, is called Plastic is No Longer Fantastic, and it is in Cambridge 16

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General Test one, Section three.

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Again, we have three question types.

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We have a headings question, multiple choice question and a summary question.

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On my screen right here.

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You can see the reading passage and you'll be able to see the reading passage on my screen if you don't

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have it yourself.

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If you have it yourself, you can use what you have in front of you.

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But this is what the reading passage is.

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You can see from the length of the reading passage that this is at the same level as the academic test.

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Now, like I said, we have three types of questions we're dealing with here.

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We have the headings question, the multiple choice question and a summary question or what some people

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call it as a paragraph.

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Fill in the blank question.

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In terms of strategy.

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You know, first we'll go through the headings, question the multiple choice and the summary question.

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I'm reviewing strategy that I've already covered in the Udemy course, but I'm going to review it very

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briefly here also.

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So for a headings question, normally you want to complete this question the last one of the set.

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So for example, I would do the multiple choice question and the summary question first and then go

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back and do the headings.

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Question.

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The reason why I'm going to do that is because by doing the multiple choice and the summary question

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first.

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It gives me an opportunity to be able to look at the paragraphs, understand what the different paragraphs

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are about, so that when I go back and do the headings question, I have much more information about

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what's going to be the proper heading for that specific paragraph.

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If you just start with the headings question, you have no background information, you have no information,

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you're going into it blank.

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And that's why students often waste a lot of time doing it and over reading and reading too much.

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So essentially your job with the headings question is to find the right heading title for the paragraph.

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Most of the time.

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The vast majority of the time.

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The first sentence and at most the first two sentences are all that you need to answer the question.

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That's all you need, right, for for the for the majority of these types of questions.

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Now, they normally are going to have maybe 1 or 2 questions that will require more depth or should

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be depth of reading in a paragraph, more depth of reading in a paragraph.

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And the reason why they have those more difficult questions is those are the questions that separate

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students.

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Those are the questions that only a student maybe this can get a seven, 8 or 9 on the exam can really

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answer well.

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So whenever you're doing the reading section or the listening section of the exam, they always there

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questions.

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Questions are at different levels, different levels of difficulty.

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All the questions are not the same level of difficulty because you have to be able to separate students

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and that's the way it's done.

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In terms of a multiple choice question.

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This is a question type that goes in order.

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And your first job is to highlight the key words and then you want to locate the matching passage sentence.

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That's what you want to be able to do.

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You can locate the matching passage sentences one at a time and answer them or locate all the matching

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sentences and then answer them whatever is works best for you.

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Now, it is possible for a multiple choice question to be a combination of two sentences in a passage

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where they'll take two sentences.

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They'll take some information from one sentence, some information from the next sentence, put that

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together to form a question.

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It is also possible that sometimes the matching sentence is a starting point.

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It's a starting point of where they want you to start from, but then the answer is located in the following

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sentence.

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So they do all these different types of things to be able to hide and disguise where answers are.

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The key point with the multiple choice question is that the correct answer is going to be paraphrased.

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It's going to be paraphrased in the matching sentence.

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It will be a paraphrase.

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And then finally, we have our summary question for the most part.

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This question goes in order.

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It is possible if you have two blank lines in one sentence, that you'll find them in the opposite order.

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That's possible.

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But this is essentially a fill the blank question.

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They're taking sentences from one passage or normally sentences from two passages to two paragraphs

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I'm sorry, two paragraphs, and you place them in a single paragraph.

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In a single paragraph.

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And so it follows the same structure and strategy as a fill in the blank question.

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Where you highlight the key words in the sentence.

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Locate the matching sentence.

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Note what words are before and after the blank line because those words will point directly to the answer

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choice.

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All right, so.

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Before I move on and we actually go into answering these questions.

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Does anybody have a question about anything that I have covered so far?

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If you have a question about anything that I've covered so far, please ask me your question in the

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chat box and I'll address your question right now.

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If there are no questions, I'll move forward and we will start going into answering these questions

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and applying this strategy.

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I'll wait about 20s to see if there's a question.

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And if not, I'm going to move forward.

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Okay, let's move forward.

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So coming up next, let's go ahead and first for this first reading passage, we're going to practice

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the skill of highlighting or underlining the key words and then scanning for the matching sentences.

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Again, here is our reading passage.

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So the first skill test we're going to work on is not really question scanning, but we're going to

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underline and write down the question keywords.

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That's what we're going to do.

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First, we're going to underline and write down the question keywords if you have your own passage in

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front of you.

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Then you can just underline the keywords in the in the different questions.

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If you don't, then you should write down the keywords on a piece of paper next to you or write down

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the key or type them on your phone.

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Or whatever, because you're going to need to be able to see those key words when we start scanning

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for the matching sentences.

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So what I want you to do, what I want you to do is I want you to find the keywords for all three questions,

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the headings question, the multiple choice question and also the summary question.

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So I want you to I want you to scan for keywords in all three questions.

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So I'm going to give you.

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About a minute.

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One minute.

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And I want you to locate the keywords in each of the question types.

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One minute, everybody.

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Like I said, if you don't have it, if you don't have your own copy in front of you, write down what

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the key words are on a piece of paper.

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You're going to need to do that.

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So now some of you may be asking, well, why?

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Why are we highlighting the key words in the headings?

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Question Why are you doing that?

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If we're going to do the multiple choice question and the summary questions first, why does he want

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me to highlight the keywords in the headings?

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Question This is why by doing that you're putting the keywords in your mind.

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And that way when you're doing the multiple choice question, the summary question, you know, you're

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you may come across some information that relates to those keywords in the headings.

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Question And it's going to be much easier for you to go back and answer that question.

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That's the reason why I asked you to do that.

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So even though you're not going to do the headings question first, you still want to highlight those

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key words.

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Then you want to be able to do the other ones.

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If I'm highlighting the keywords and the questions, these these are the keywords that I have identified.

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Identify the keywords in the different headings.

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Like I said, I'm going to keep that information in my mind when I move forward and do the multiple

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choice and the summary question for 35.

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I have highlighted for Fernando say and Glass water bottle.

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What I look at this question.

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You know, glass water bottle is very specific and that's going to help me find the keyword sentence

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or the starting point, one of those two things.

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But really, the really important information here is Fernando Say.

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When it says, What does Fernando say?

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That means we're going to find something in quotations, something that he said.

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So whatever he said is going to have to be in that sentence where we see glass water bottle or right

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after that where we see glass water bottle.

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But that's what we're trying to pay attention to.

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In 36.

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The key words there are fascinating about Fernando's story.

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We'll find question 36 where we find that information.

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37 is Colossus Bike Helmet.

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We're looking and trying to find whatever answers to 37 is going to come where we see that.

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And then for the summary question, you can see the different words that I have highlighted there.

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Creators money from the bank that's going to help me find 38 immediate funding advertising will help

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me find 39 create bottles in two colors.

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That's really going to that should be easy to find.

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And they're receiving a more significant amount.

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That's the information that's going to help me to be able to find the matching sentences.

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Being able to scan and find matching sentences is the entire key to being able to answer questions quickly

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and accurately.

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When students are not able to do that.

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They end up overeating, reading too much and then they choose wrong answer choices.

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Also students that are not disciplined, meaning they find the right matching sentence, but they just

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decide, I'm going to read ten more sentences because I want to, quote, be sure.

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Then you get confused.

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Then you read information for wrong answer choices and you get answers wrong.

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So, you know, it requires discipline.

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All right, So now the next thing that I want you to do is, as I said earlier, you should have written

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down those key words from the questions, because the next thing we're going to do is find the matching

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sentences.

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We're working on skills here.

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I'm teaching.

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So this is not just here's the passage.

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Turn on 20 minutes and work.

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No, this is I'm teaching you skill, so I'm taking it step by step.

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All right.

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So the next thing we're going to do is try to locate the matching sentences, the matching sentences

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before I go forward.

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Is there anybody that has not written down all the keywords yet and they want more time to do that?

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If you have not done that, you should have done it because on the next screen you're only going to

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see the passage.

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That's all you're going to see on the next screen.

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And if you don't have those keywords down in front of you, you're not going to be able to really locate

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the matching sentences.

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I'm going to give you.

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One minute and 30s maybe two minutes.

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And all I want you to do is to scan the passage and locate the matching sentences.

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If you're doing it, if you don't have the passage in front of you, then when you're locating the matching

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matching sentence, you can just do something like paragraph B, line two or paragraph C, line one,

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right?

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You can do it that way.