Okay, So let's go ahead and get started.
In today's live class, I'm going to be going over reading strategy application for the Isles exam.
This lecture in this class is appropriate for those taking the general exam and the academic exam,
because for the general exam, your third reading passage is at the same difficulty as the academic
academic exam.
So is appropriate for both.
Let's go ahead and get started.
So today we're going to be going through two passages, and those two passages are going to cover four
question types.
Fill the blank.
True, false.
Non given paragraph or section location and choose to from a list.
Of course, for two of these questions the field, the blank and the true false not given the questions
go in order for the paragraph, location and the choose two from a list.
The questions may not necessarily come in the right order.
So coming up next, we're going to go over Cambridge.
Book 17 is the academic book from Cambridge, Book 17, which recently was released.
I'm going to be going through test two reading passage one, the Dead Sea Scrolls.
For this passage.
We have to question types.
Fill the blank and true.
False.
Not given.
So here you can see the reading passage right here in front of you.
This is passage one.
And normally in passage number one, the reading passage is going to be between 5 to 600 words.
This normally passes.
Number one is the easiest of the three for the academic exam.
And so it's about 5 to 600 words for passage one.
Also, we can see our two question types on the left side of the screen.
You see a field of blank question and on the right side of the screen you see the yes, no, not giving
question.
Right.
So our question type is yes, no, not given.
Right.
Sometimes you see it as true, false, not given.
And I'll explain that difference in a moment.
I'll explain that difference in a moment.
In terms of strategy for this question type, you have to be able to recognize the keywords and the
questions.
You have to scan for the matching sentences for those questions.
Now, also keep in mind that when you look at a question, you have some words in a question that are
really great for scanning and they have other words in the question that relate to the language that
they're using to make something true, false or not given.
And I'll be going through that today because it's very important when you're doing this type of question
to be able to recognize what language are they using to make something true, false or not, given a
lot of students may make the mistake of looking at the entire question and trying to say, is this entire
question true, false or not, given there's always very specific language in a question that they're
using to make something true or false or not given.
Now, when you're answering questions, yes means that the information is confirmed is correct.
No means there's a contradiction.
And not giving means that the information or some information that's inside the question is missing
not stated.
We don't know.
We don't know if it's confirmed or as contradicted.
The passage is silent to some information right now with the field of blank question.
This is one of the easiest questions to be able to handle.
You have to be able to recognize the question key words.
You have to be able to scan for the matching sentences.
One thing that's important that I want you to recognize is that when you're doing this kind of question,
what happens very often is they'll look at the passage when when they're making the questions for passage,
for a field, the blank question type they may take.
One sentence and create a question.
Or they may take information from two sentences or three sentences and create a question.
So sometimes you might have a situation where in the passage you have language from a question located
in two different sentences.
But the answer is going to come from one of those sentences.
But it's not always we're using one specific passage sentence to create one specific question.
Sometimes it comes from a combination of two sentences, and you're going to notice that today.
Something else to note about a field of blank question is that the answer must connect to the language
that's before and after the blank line.
Right before and or after the blank line.
That's really important to understand because I get a lot of questions from students.
Can this answer be correct?
And my question always is to them is, does this answer connect directly to the language in the passage?
Does the passage language before or after the blink line directly connect to that as an answer?
And inevitably, the answer is no, it does not, because it is not about whether you think an answer
can or cannot be right.
They're not asking you that.
They're not asking you what do you believe?
What?
What is the what?
Which answer choice is a possibility.
They're not asking you that.
They're asking you to recognize the paraphrasing or the synonyms of the language that before and after
the blank line.
And how does it connect to that language?
What answer connects to that language?
So we have to be clear about that.
Now for this passage we're going to do we have a field blank and a true false, not given question type.
Right.
That's what we have.
We have a field of blank and a true false not given to type.
So you may ask yourself, which do you do first?
In this case, we have two questions to go in order.
So really, it's about whichever one is the easiest for you to do.
If you're better at the fill the blank question, then start with that one first.
If you're better at the true false than that given question, start with that one first.
It doesn't matter.
They both go in order.
So, I mean, for most people it's the field.
The blank question is really easy to do.
So most people would start with that one.
Now, before starting either question type, go ahead and scan for the keywords in both question sets.
Because this is going to allow for you to watch out for all the keywords when you are starting.
All right.
So here is our question on the left, which is our field of blank question and our question on the right,
which is actually a true false not giving question.
Right now, what I want you to do is I want you to take 2 minutes and I want you to try to identify
the keywords in the field, the blank question, and identify the keywords in the true false, not given
question.
Now, when you're looking at the true false nine given question, I want you to see if you can identify
not just the normal keywords, but what language, what language in the question are they going to use
to determine if something is true, false or not given?
So go ahead and take 2 minutes and try to do that and then I'll come right back to you.
Okay.
So if we're looking at it over here for the field of blank questions, I know it's going to start from
where they talk about three Bedouin shepherds.
Right?
I know it's going to start from there.
So I'm for the first thing I'm looking for is actually this war right here, Qumran.
Because that's a very easy word to find.
Then I'm looking for where it talks about three Bedouin shepherds.
Now for question number one.
Noise and braking would help me find the correct sentence.
And I know that the answer must connect to teenager through.
That's why you see that in green, because that's what the answer must connect to.
For question two, I'm.
I'm looking for teenagers and my answer must connect to went into what I find that right sentence and
I find the right sentence.
All I'm looking for is the paraphrasing of the language went into for number three.
I'm looking for found and containers made of right.
I'm looking for paraphrasing or synonyms in that sentence for containers made of.
Now, one thing I want you to notice about questions two and three is questions two and three are actually
in the same sentence.
They're in the same sentence.
So that means there's a good chance that these answers might be in the same sentence or these answers
may be in sentences that are back to back.
Because like I told you, sometimes they'll take two sentences and they'll combine it into one question
sentence.
Or here we have two questions and two questions in the same sentence for a number four, right?
First, I'm looking for that 150 B.C.E 70 C That's going to clue me in that I'm in the right spot to
find the right right sentence.
We're looking for a language related to written by.
And my answer must connect to a paraphrasing or synonym of known as When I find the right sentence.
That's all I'm looking for.
I'm not trying to read the whole sentence.
I'm not trying to understand the whole sentence.
All I'm looking for is where's known as.
Right.
And then number five, written mainly written mainly in my answer must connect to that.
I'm looking for the paraphrasing or the synonym of that language.
Okay.
That's how you make it easy.
Now for the true false not giving question again, we're dealing with true false.
That given we're dealing with facts.
Where I would deal with facts.
All right.
Now for number six.
The correct sentence will relate to Bedouin teenagers something about money and receive that's going
to help me find the right sentence.
The language that you see in Green were disappointed.
Right.
That language is the language in the question that's used to be able to determine if something is going
to be true, false or not, give it.
Right.
Is Fort Worth its follow up?
You were disappointed.
As soon as I look at this question.
Right.
I'm saying it was that is going to say they were disappointed as well.
Say they were not disappointed or it's going to be empty about whether they're disappointed or not.
Number seven, not the correct sentence will say something about academics.
You'll say something about origin, and then it's going to say something about there is an agreement.
Right.
I can look at the question and see.
Right.
That's the that's the twist language.
That's the language that determines true or false are not given.
For number eight.
You see the same thing.
Most of the books, most of.
As soon as you see that language, you have to be able to see this is what they're playing with, right?
The test makers, they whenever they create a question for a yes no, not given question.
True or false?
Not given question there.
It always has the language that they're playing around with to make something true or false or not given.
Number nine is very easy to find Copper Scroll.
And then we're looking at written in an unusual way.
That's the twist language.
Ma Samuel Very easy to find.
Right.
Was he given this as a gift?
Was he not given this as a gift?
Does it say he does?
Is it silent?
All right.
Number 11, also very easy to find 1950s educational establishments.
And number 12.
Something pieced together in 2017, in 2000 years.
Right.
So a lot of these questions have really good information.
But the words like the words like Bible.
Copper Scroll Bar Samuel 1950 Educational Establishment 2017.
Those that language helped me find the right sentence.
That's the language that helps you find the right sentence.
The language in green is what they're going to use to determine true, false or not given.
All right.
So before we start going through the passages and you try to answer the questions, does anybody have
any questions about what I've talked about so far?
If you have a question about anything I've talked about so far, type it in the chat box and I'll try
to answer your question before we get started.
Once we get started, once we get started answering the questions, please don't put anything in the
chat box because it'll be a distraction.
All right.
But if you have any questions about.
Fill in the blank questions or true false, not given questions.
Go ahead and type your question right now and I'll try to answer your question.
You're going to have to type your question.
You're not going to be able to go on video.
If you have your video on, go in and turn your video off so you're not distracting anybody else.
All right.
No questions.
Let's go ahead and keep going.
All right.
So here is the feel, the blank question.
All right.
You see the passage on there.
If you have the if you had your own passage in front of you, go ahead and use your book.
Right.
You have 7 minutes to answer these first five questions.
7 minutes.
And I am using a timer.
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