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OC and welcome to the general reading section of the course.

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As you know, in this section of the course, we're going to be going through the specific analysis

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and specific strategies for each question type.

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You're going to have several lectures in this section that actually break down each specific question.

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As I've told you before, or you may have heard before, the reading strategies for the academic section

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and the general section are actually the same.

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So if you are if you are coming over from the academic side to watch some of these videos, the strategies

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being talked about are actually really, really good.

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And sometimes when you are when you are first, when you're first learning about the exam and you're

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just being introduced to the reading section, even if you're when you're an academic student, right.

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When you're an academic student, one moment while we get rid of that little box.

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When you're an academic student, sometimes you are thinking about you're thinking about how to do the

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yes on a given question, for example.

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And it's sometimes it's actually easier to be introduced to it through the general reading because a

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general reading is actually a little bit simpler than the academic.

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But it gives you a good introduction to strategy and tactics because sometimes that's the first thing

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you're focusing on strategies and tactics before you really get into the complexities of of a reading

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passage.

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But anyway, in this first video and there's very first video, the only thing I'm going to talk about

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in this first video are the different question types that you're going to see on the general reading

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or the academic reading.

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And so when we talk about the different question types, right, we have some different question types.

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But to start off, before we even go to that point or go to go to review that the reading section is

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really a combination of two real skills is the combination of scanning and comprehension.

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When I talk about comprehension, of course you have the sentences within the passage and the questions,

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but also when I say the word comprehension, I'm also including within that synonym language because

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the aisles reading is all about vocabulary, synonym language.

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You have to be able to understand and comprehend synonym language and you have to be able to scan and

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find the matching and correlating sentences for the different question types.

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So doing well on the reading section is really a combination of those two skill sets, skin scanning

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and comprehension.

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And one thing that I you may have heard me recommend to students in some of the live videos and I'll

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say it again here, is that you have to take the time to work on specific skills that are going to make

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you better.

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So I think it's actually a great idea to sometimes not even worry about when you're looking at a reading

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passage or looking at questions is sometimes a great idea to not even focus on answering the questions.

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Just work on your scanning ability, work on your scanning ability, work on improving your speed,

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at finding the matching sentences for these for the questions that go in order work on finding the matching

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sentences, the correlating sentences get better at that, get more accurate at that, work on that

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skill set, work on that skill set, try to get faster at it.

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But you have to sometimes just practice that specifically.

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Some people just like to take the whole a whole test, right?

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But they don't work on the skills that are going to actually make them better.

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All right.

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Now let's go ahead and get into these different types of questions.

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You, of course, have the fill the blank question, the field.

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The blank question is one of the easiest questions on the exam and the fill in the blank question.

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You can see the strategy there.

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I'm not going to necessarily go over the strategy right now.

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When we go over the when we go over the specific questions in different passages, I will be going over

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strategy and going through one through six and what that means.

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But we have our field of blank question, which is one of the easiest questions.

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It goes in order.

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You have your sentence completion question on the right side, as it says, there it goes in order mainly.

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And I say that because I've seen a situation before, I can't recall it specifically where it didn't

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necessarily go in.

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Old order.

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It may have been one of those situations where you have two questions in the same paragraph and they

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have them inverted.

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But I say mainly, but as I would probably say like 90% of the time from what I've seen and observed

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and going through all these passages, that is, that they go in order.

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You have your short answer questions.

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Your short answer questions are the questions that just ask you to provide a 1 to 3 word answer to specific

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You want to always make sure you pay attention to how many words are allowed in the instructions in

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an answer.

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Because if it says your answer can be no more than two words and you put three words, oh, they are

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marking that wrong.

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You have your flowchart questions which go in order that if I didn't say it, the short answer question

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goes in order your flowchart questions are those questions where they have one question, then they

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have an arrow pointing down and then they have the next question.

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They have an arrow pointing down.

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Those are the flowchart questions, and they go in order.

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And then finally you have your multiple choice questions which go in order.

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You want to note with the multiple, multiple choice questions that sometimes the questions, the the

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questions, the questions that also sometimes the answers can come from a combination of two sentences.

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So you just want to be aware of that.

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And then you have, which is for some students, the dreaded yes no, not giving question or true false

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not giving question.

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For me personally, it's not that much of a complicated question.

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I think students sometimes overthink it.

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And where students mess up with their yes no not given question is because they actually start making

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inferences and making inferences is not required.

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The exam does not deal with inference questions.

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Actually, with not if you're taking the total exam then yes, you do have you do have inference questions.

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But for the exam, that's where students really mess up as they start making inferences.

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Well, maybe this, well, maybe that but maybe this but maybe that.

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And you don't do that with a yes no not giving question.

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And we'll talk about and walk through the strategy more specifically when we go over that particular

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or that specific question type.

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Down there at the bottom.

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It has a note in terms of watching for starting point sentences or watching for sentences to have semicolons

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and ends.

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Sometimes with these questions that go in order, the the the, the question sentence might be actually

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you might have starting point language.

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What that means is sometimes they'll take two sentences and create one question and they'll be certain

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language in the question that is from one sentence and then the other part of the language.

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And the question is actually what's being used for the true false not given or for the feel of the blank

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And so when that situation happens, that there's there's a part of the sentence that's really just

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a starting point.

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And then the second sentence is actually what's being used for the comparison for like a yes no, not

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given question.

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And sometimes you see the same thing with the semicolon.

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You might have a sentence with a semicolon in the passage, in the reading passage.

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And a semicolon is really a separation of two clauses.

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And what they're doing many times is they'll take that sentence in the reading passage that has a semicolon

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separating the two clauses, and then they'll make it or create it into one one sentence for a question.

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And when that happens, you have to be aware again that we're dealing with the starting point situation.

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And, you know, when when we come across that situation in the specific question, analysis, analysis,

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then I'll point that out to you.

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All right.

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Now those are all these first questions that we're going to are going through, all the questions that

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go in order.

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