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Okay.

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So in this next video, we're going to take a look at the differences and similarities of the general

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and academic reading comprehension for the illness exam.

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When it comes to the aisles exam for the reading comprehension, the there is basically the same when

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it comes to the general and the academic.

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Some students believe that the general exam is very different than the academic exam when it comes to

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the reading section, but actually it isn't.

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And I think after you listen to this lecture, you'll understand what the similarities are and what

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the differences are, and that the similarities far, far outweigh the differences.

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So let's get started.

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First of all, we can take a look at the similarities in the question types.

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Look at this list here.

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Do you see any difference?

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Look at the academic question types and look at the general question types.

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As you see, they are the same question types.

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Short answer yes.

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No.

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Not give in headings.

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Matching paragraph location is the same as section location summary multiple choice flowchart which

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we don't have.

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There is the same.

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Also let me look at it is the exact same question types.

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So that should tell you something.

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There should be a clue as to how similar the academic and the general are in terms of their question

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types.

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Let's keep moving forward.

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Now, if the question types are the same, that also means that the strategies are the same.

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I have had several students take my course and before I add it in this section for the general course,

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my general exam students will just look at the videos for the academic section, for the course, for

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reading comprehension, and they would just apply those strategies from the academic section to the

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general section and score 7/8 nines on their reading.

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The reason why they were able to do that is because the strategy is the same.

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The question types are the same.

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The strategy for a short answer question is the same as a strategy for a short answer question for general.

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The strategy for a matching question for academic is the same strategy and for the general in terms

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of a matching question.

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So question types are the same, strategies are the same because the question types are the same.

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So you're probably wondering, well, what are the differences between these two?

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Well, you have differences in the passage types when it comes to the academic section.

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We have three long multi paragraph passages and you have three question types for each passage.

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What that means is that if for for passage number one, you're going to have a yes no given question,

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a headings question and maybe a matching question.

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You have three types of questions for each passage.

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That means that generally for the academic section, you're going to have nine question types.

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Sometimes those question types might be duplicated because, as you know, they love asking the yes

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no, not giving question.

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That's why you have to be great at it.

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All right.

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For the academic section, the vocabulary is academic and technical, although with the technical words,

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they really don't factor into any of the questions, but they do have technical words in the passages.

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They have more challenging synonym relationships.

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And of course, the topics for the academic section you're going to get into science and history, archaeology,

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sociology, psychology, art, history, you know, all, all construction, building space science,

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robotics, I mean, all kinds of academic topics are what you're going to get into for the academic

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section.

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Now, how does a general how does the general passage type differ?

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Well, for the general, usually in section one, you're going to have 2 to 3 passages.

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The general has like these short passages.

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Very short passages.

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So in section one, it's going to normally be 2 to 3 passages.

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Section two is going to be two passages, and in section three is going to be the more difficult one,

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whereas normally just one longer passage, but you have these short passages and normally in sections

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one, in section two, you have one question type for passage.

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So for the first one, they may have a news article.

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And the only question you have to ask you, the only question you have to answer for that might be a

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yes no, not given question.

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Then they're going to have another passage, which might be an advertisement for something, and for

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that one you might have to do a headings question.

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So the difference is, is in terms of the general has more passages, but they're very short.

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Now the vocabulary is normally upper intermediate level vocabulary.

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It doesn't really get far into, you know, heavy, heavy academic vocabulary or any technical vocabulary

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because, you know, the general reading is for people that are doing it for academic purposes.

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You know, people that are doing it for I'm sorry, the general exam is for people that are doing it

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for immigration purposes or they're doing it for licensing purposes.

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The academic is for those that are going to university.

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Now, of course, with the general passages for the reading, the everyday, the the synonym relationships

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in terms of the vocabulary are going to be much easier for you to process.

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Now we can see from this list here that the topics that you're going to have for the general are very

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different than the academic.

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You're going to have social life, work life, personal life, newspaper, journal articles, advertisements,

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employee manuals.

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You see, it's everyday kind of stuff, everyday kind of topics, everyday kind of issues that you're

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going to face in in the general and the general reading comprehension.

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But remember the similarities that I just told you about the question.

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It doesn't.

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The question types are the same for the academic and the general.

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The question strategies are the same for the academic or in the general right.

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If you can do if you've been studying for the academic reading section, you should be able to breeze

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through the general reading section because the passages are a lot easier and they use the same strategies.

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Now some advice and suggestions that I have for you.

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I think you should study the questions strategies in the course academic reading section because like

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I said, the strategies are the same.

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Also, watch the live class videos applying the question strategy to the general reading passages.

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There are some live class videos that walk through a general reading passage showing you how the strategies

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are applied to the general reading passage.

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This will give you a lot of great advice on how to really apply the strategies to the passage.

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That's the focus of this course.

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The entire course.

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The entire course is focusing on your ability to apply strategy, to apply tactics.

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We don't just tell you how to do the course.

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You know, that's what you get when you look at the books and you read the books and some of these other

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courses, they say, Well, this is how you do it, right?

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We tell you how to do it, but more importantly, we show you what to do.

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We show you how to do it.

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We demonstrate and illustrate the strategies and tactics so you can have a high rate of success.

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You want a big impact.

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This is what I need you to do.

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Study hard, apply the strategy, and then analyze what you've done.

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A lot of students don't do that last step, right?

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They study.

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They take a practice test.

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They move on to the next practice test.

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You have to be able to go back and analyze what you've done with what you've done with these general

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reading passages in terms of when you finish answering, go back and analyze a sentence in relationships,

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go back and analyze how they tried to trick you or fool you.

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Go back and analyze.

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Break it down.

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That's how you're going to have a high rate of success.

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If you watch the live course videos that I've included.

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You're going to see what I mean in terms of breaking it down and analyzing.

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Our process is very, very easy.

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The process that I just described for you, you need to study.

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You need to apply.

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You need to analyze those three things for the general reading success that I want you to have.

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Just to tell you a little bit more about us, we have offices and satellite programs all over the globe.

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You can look here and see that we're very involved in several different places, and I hope that you

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really have a chance to enjoy all parts of this course.

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If you have any questions, you can be sure to ask me and I'll be happy to answer any question that

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you have.

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Our big concept is that we want you to stick with us.

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We're going to help you get that score you want.

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I want to wish you good luck.

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As you can see there, my name is Keenan Campbell.

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I am an Isl Tinto full expert and I look forward to helping you on your journey.

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Talk to you soon.

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Good luck.