Okay.
Thank you, everybody, for joining me today for this live class.
This live class, as stated in the announcement, is covering the reading section.
Question type of true.
False given also.
Yes, no, not given.
And that is what will be specifically covered today.
As you know, we have one live class per month.
And again, in that live class, I normally cover a specific topic or subject that students might be
struggling with.
And I can say with certainty that the true false not giving question is one of those question types
that students really have a problem with.
So my hope today is to go through this in a way that makes it very plain for you in terms of how to
manage this question in a very easy way so that your your answer accuracy rate goes up tremendously.
If you have any questions during this live class, you can ask the question in the chat box.
There won't be any other live microphones and a live class.
I don't do that because I'm recording this live class, and if the recording has the proper sound quality,
it can be uploaded into the Udemy course so somebody can watch it again later on.
Or if somebody has to leave the live class and they want to finish it, they can watch it later on.
And if I have your background microphones on, it will destroy that possibility.
So let's go ahead and get into the true, false net giving question.
So first question I have.
Why do students have difficulty with the.
Yes, no, not giving question.
You can put a response in the chat box to this.
If you're if you're a student that's having trouble with the.
Yes, no, not given question, go ahead and and type in the chat box and explain what you think is
your difficulty or your problem with the question type.
Or if you just have some idea of why students in general have difficulty with a yes no not given question.
I'll give you 30 seconds, 45 seconds to respond in the chat box with whatever your difficulty is,
whatever your challenge is, because today is the day.
That you can have your specific challenge or problem addressed in a live session.
So we do have some responses filtering in right now.
Let's have a look at what some people are saying.
Bina just say it is oh no one not giving a very confusing OC.
Yeah being a that is definitely part of it.
Also no one not giving a lot of students are confused by knowing not given and being a part of.
My hope is that after today you won't be confused anymore.
Mariam says they can't understand or find the synonym of paraphrase language.
I'm going to assume that, Mariam, you're talking about when scanning or trying to scan and find a
matching sentence.
That is true.
That can be difficult.
And I am going to address that today also.
Because of the ambiguity and the questions.
Um.
There's no real ambiguity in the question.
I'll have to I'll think about that in terms of what you mean by it.
Traps in the passage.
No.
There are no traps in the passage.
There's trap language or wrong language.
That's in the question.
But there's no trap in the passage.
See next one.
And if I mispronounce any of your names today, please forgive me.
I'm just going to say.
Vincent.
Vincent says overthinking or confusing the answer choices.
Overthinking is a big problem.
I agree, Vincent.
Overthinking is a big problem.
A lot of students try to be too smart, and they think that they have to come up with the answer.
Some statements can be implicitly inferred, making it ambiguous.
No, it's not.
It's not.
That's a problem.
When you all start inferring or thinking that you need to make an inference, you know, to try to fill
in missing blanks.
That's where you're messing up, right?
That's a problem.
Well.
Anything else?
So when I put a whole paragraph in there, I can't read that right now.
No one not giving.
Okay, everybody, let's stop putting things in the box, please.
The passage contradicts everything in the question.
Yeah.
I see that a lot of you have a lot of confusion.
Right.
I see a lot of you have a lot of confusion.
Please, everybody, if you have a video on, turn your video off.
Look, I'm not going to say.
I'm going to I'm not going to repeat that.
If if you keep showing your video, what I'm going to I'm going to, like, eliminate you from the class.
And I don't want to do that.
All right.
So a lot of you were able to identify some of the difficulty in terms of the.
Yes, no, not giving question.
Right.
So for for right now, please stop putting things in the box.
Right.
So these are some of the reasons why students have difficulty and some of you are able to identify this.
Searching for missing information not given.
A lot of students struggle with the option of not giving because for most of you in your educational
life, you've come across true and false or yes and no.
You all know that.
But very few have come across having to deal with, not given.
You're not familiar with what not given means.
And sometimes you all confuse, you know, is something not given in the passage or something, not
given the question, and that you simply have to understand that it's a one way situation.
You're looking for what's not given in the question, not what's not given in the you know, what's
not given in the passage.
This is not you know, you're not looking at it both ways.
Another big mistake are making assumptions.
Making an inference.
Connections that don't exist.
Trying to apply common sense.
Believe it or not, that's a big problem.
Trying to apply common sense people thinking that.
And this is where we deal with overthinking sometimes.
Sometimes students tried to look at the whole passage sentence and the whole question language, all
the language.
And they completely that that's that's has that that is not the strategy that the strategy that is taught
in this course.
And that's where it gets into overthinking.
And that really is because you lack strategy or lack the ability to apply strategy properly.
Thinking that you need to come up with an answer is not about you.
It's about comparing the language, right?
It's not about what you think.
A big problem also is deals with if you have a lack of English skill and when you have a lack of English
skill, a lot of times that that's what ends up happening with.
That's what ends up causing overreading or overthinking is a lack of English skill because you can't
understand the context now in terms of dealing with false and not given.
You can look at this question and passage here, and this is a good example of how students will confuse
false and not given.
So right here it says the question right, then strike out, put the arrow here.
The question says South America is the only country where the red matcha variety is located.
Then the passage says Matcha has been located in West Africa and even in more abundance in South Asia.
So is this answer false or is this answer not given?
Right.
Well, this had to be false or not given.
And I could tell you right now it's going to students are going to give.
I'm going to see.
All right.
Here we go.
This is what I'm talking about here.
False.
Not giving.
False.
Not giving.
False.
You all see that?
You see it, you see the problems, right?
All right, please stop.
All right, stop, please.
So I can address this.
Stop, please.
Like an address.
Okay.
So.
50% of you are wrong.
Right.
Do not put.
Who is this?
Jannati.
Do not.
I said very clearly.
Do not put any links or anything like that in my course.
Do not do that.
All right.
Don't.
I'll repeat it again before I address the question.
That chat box is for questions only.
Not for you putting links in there or anything else or cross communication in a chat box.
If I see it again, whoever does it, I'm putting you out the class, period.
All right.
So in terms of false and not giving the correct answer here is not given.
Right is not given.
When you look at the question, right, Red Mesa is the only country or South America is the only country
where red matcha variety is located.
When you look at the question here, when you look at this question here, what is the language?
And this is what helps.
What is the language that will determine if something is true or false or not given in the question?
I'm not talking about the key words.
The key words will be South America and red matcha.
Those will be the key words to scan for the right the right sentence.
What is the language in the question?
I'm not asking I'm not asking for an explanation of the answer.
That's not what I'm asking for.
Yeah.
Thank you, Sharif.
Right.
The language and the question that the determines if something's going to be true or false or not given
is the only country.
The only country.
Right.
Is it the only country where you find red?
Is that the only country?
Now.
When you look at the passage sentence, do you see anything?
Do you see anything that says it's the only country?
Right.
You can't confirm that.
The passage doesn't contradict that.
It doesn't confirm it.
It is missing.
That part is missing.
We don't know if it's the only country.
Right.
We don't know that.
Now.
It's not because South America is missing.
Right.
All right.
Good piece, because that also but also the answer is not given.
The answer is not given.
Also, somebody can make the argument in terms of South America is missing also.
Right.
We don't know.
Right.
We don't know.
So a lot of students mess up and I'm not sure why somebody would choose false.
I'm not clear about that.
I don't know.
I can't I can't tell you why.
I can't tell you why.
The answer's not because it's not it's not contradicted.
Right for this for this answer to be false, it would have to say red matcha is found in West Africa.
Right.
That's the only way.
This answer can be false.
Is if it says red matches found in West Africa or red matches also found in South South Asia.
That's the only way the answer can be false.
It has to be a contradiction.
Right.
So that's that's something that you want to be clear on.
Stop overthinking it and just apply the strategy as it's given.
So something of what I mentioned very quickly in terms of just not giving versus true or false, not
given.
These are slightly different.
In terms of meaning.
There is no difference in strategy.
There is no difference in strategy at all.
If if something is yes.
No, not given.
You're dealing with the opinion, view or belief of the writer.
You're trying to verify if the writers belief statement or opinion is something that is is is.
Yes, yes.
You can agree with it.
No, no, the passage doesn't agree with it or the passage doesn't give any information about.
So, yes, no, not giving is dealing with opinions.
If you're dealing with true, false, not given here, you're dealing with factual information about
a topic.
And you really are asking yourself, are is this fact true, false or not given in the passage?
Now, this might be helpful when you're thinking about it.
This might be helpful when you're thinking about it in terms of scanning.
If something of a question is yes no, not given your scanning for the authors opinions, views or beliefs.
If an answer is true, false or not given, then you're scanning for statements that are factual in
nature.
And understanding that difference then can can help maybe in that respect.
But in terms of strategy, there is no difference in strategy.
There is no difference in application of strategy.
And that's why very often you'll see me treated the same in terms of saying yes, no, not given.
And Nabila.
Your response?
Wouldn't this still be ambiguous as much as a superset of Red Monster?
That's what's called overthinking the Billa.
That's that's a you are giving a perfect example of overthinking.
I don't need you to be that smart.
Right.
Just is the language comparison.
There is the language comparison.
Okay.
The bill is on here talking about super classes.
That's not.
You're overthinking it.
Okay.
You're overthinking it.
All right.
So that's the difference between.
Yes.
No, not giving true false not giving slight difference and only meaningful if we're talking about something
in terms of scanning.
Some helpful points to remember for us, no doubt given question.
The questions go in order.
After number one, you'll find number two.
After number two, you'll find number three.
After number three, you'll find number four, so forth and so on.
With a not given question.
Sometimes you'll have you'll find a sentence that has that has relevant information to the question.
Sometimes they'll be just a complete absence of any information on the on on the not giving question.
There's going to be one of each type in the set.
There's going to be at least one true.
At least one false.
At least one not given.
So if you have five questions, there's going to be at least one of each.
We talked about this already.
Don't overread.
And when I'm talking about overread here, I'm not really talking about overthinking.
I'm talking about students who decide, well, I'm just going to read the whole paragraph.
And I'm just going to read the whole paragraph and digest all this information and come up with what
I think is the answer.
And that is why you end up getting those answers wrong most of the time.
Is overeating taking into information, too much information instead of doing a language comparison,
meaning strangers be aware of language that changes meaning such as every all.
Some.
Most always.
Often.
A few.
Occasionally.
Being aware of the twist language in the question.
This is probably the most important thing that I'm going to end up discussing today or helping you to
be able to identify today is the what I call the twist language.
And what I mean by this, there is there's always language in the question.
There's always language in the question that a test designer is going to use to twist it towards true.
Twist it towards false or twisted towards that given.
If you're able to identify what that language is, it makes the answering process to be so much easier.
And then the final thing I'll talk about in terms of a helpful point to remember is question and answer
creation.
Understand that a question can come out of two sentences.
And what I mean by that is that sometimes and this is something they're doing a lot more now than they
used to do in the past, where they may take one or two words from one sentence and then they might
take two or three words from the next sentence.
And then they use that information to combine into one question.
And so when you're trying to find an answer, you might find the question language in one sentence and
then find the answer language and the next sentence.
So you want to be aware of that as a as a possibility.