Hello.
Hello there.
And welcome to another video in this lecture series of specific question and strategy review.
We're going to look again at the fill the blank question.
The reason why I'm doing two videos for the field of blank question is because they love to they love
to ask this question on the general reading section.
And so I'm going to do another video explaining the strategy and applying the strategy for the field.
The blank question, just to make sure you got it.
This reading passage that I'm going to be doing is from book number 12.
You should have book number 12 already.
I recommend buying book number 12 and book number 13.
Those are the latest books for the exam.
And you should stop the tape now if you want to do it yourself and then come back and listen to my analysis
of the strategy and tactics that were used to answer the questions.
Other other other than that, let's go ahead and get started.
Before we start going through it, let's review the strategy again.
I did this in the previous video you just watch, but I'm going to do it again.
In this video we're talking about the fill the blank question and the feel of the blank question is
the one that's right here.
In terms of strategy, questioning goals in order you want to read through the questions and spot the
easiest ones to do first.
If you're in section one or two, sometimes they don't really differentiate between questions that are
a little bit more difficult than others in terms of language and the question so that they're easier
to find because a lot of times the questions are just going or each question is founded in different
section, especially in sections one and two.
If you're in section three, then that second point I'm making might apply a little bit more in terms
of looking for questions that have language that's easier to find first.
So you want to underline the keywords and the questions, excuse me, then you want to scan and find
the matching sentence to your first easiest question.
Again, that's so important because if the easiest question to find is number is number eight and number
eight is in paragraph three, that means question seven, six and five have to be in in paragraphs one
and two because the question is go in order.
Now, when you have a field of blank question, you want to really, really pay attention to the language
that comes before or after that blank line, the language that comes before or after that blank line.
That language is critical.
When you look when you find the matching sentence, that's the language you look for to be able to point
you towards the answer choice.
Right.
So when you find them, when you find the language in the passage sentence that matches the language
before, before or after the blank line, that's your language that points to the answer.
That makes answering fill the blank question so, so easy.
All right.
Now let's go ahead and I'm going to walk through this reading passage and demonstrate for you the application
of strategy.
Again, this reading passages from the IS on the general exam and it is from book number 12.
Excuse me, if you are an academic student, you can still watch this video because this video uses
the same strategy that you would use to apply to fill the blank questions for the academic test.
All right.
So let's go ahead and move through this.
So let's look at our questions and what I'm looking at these questions.
I do see a couple of a couple that are going to probably be a little bit easier to do.
First, we have we have this one right here.
See, you pointed out until we have this and right here in terms of 60 hours and also right here where
it talks about 10 hours.
Right.
Those are going to be probably pretty easy to find.
All right.
60 and ten and 48, right.
Those are going to be really easy to find.
Right.
So I could, if I wanted to, I could start with number 22 and number 23, and then I would know number
21 is before that.
And I would know that 24, 25, 26, 27 are after number 23.
But if I do 22 and 23/1, that gives me my starting point.
All right.
So that's what I was that's what I was talking about when you heard me earlier, going through the strategy
in terms of doing the ones that are easiest to do first, the key word language for a number 21 is do
not apply to and and for number 22, the language before the blank line provided the number 23 is something
that belongs to the workers.
That language is important.
Number 20 for carrying out various.
And then we have these other words that are really easy driving, loading, unloading number 25 is going
on a.
All right.
And also the word transport and the word vehicle.
All right.
So the number 25 I know is going to be some type of vehicle because it says other form of transport.
That means number 25 has to be a form of transport.
Okay.
So that one that one actually is probably going to be pretty easy.
Number 26, we're talking about a period at the workstation and something that the driver has.
All right.
And number two, we're talking number 27, stopping and starting and also important language before
that blank line causes a delay.
So let's go ahead and go through these questions.
I'm going to do I'm going to do 22 and 23/1, because I see those numbers and I know that's going to
be easy to find.
And then I can go I know I can easily find number 21 because it has to be before 22 because this question
goes in order.
All right.
So let's have a look first at number 22 and 23.
All right.
So.
22 we see right here.
Here, 60.
Right.
We'll see right here.
Here's ten.
All right.
That means that, you know, we have number 22 right here.
That means we have number 23 right here.
That means number 21 has to be above this.
21 is going to be up here in this area.
And 24, 25, 26 are going to be a little bit further down.
Okay.
So let's look at number 22/1 and number 23.
All right.
22.
When I look at the center for 22, it says maximum working hours, 60, 60 hours per week, provided
the blank is no more than 24 provided the right.
I'm looking for that language in that sentence where we see 60 hours.
Here's the language right here.
Right.
So long as so long as the right so long as the 48 hour average is maintained.
All right.
So so long as the 48 hour average is maintained.
So what's so long as the what is maintained?
Our answer is going to be right here, the word average.
Right now, some people say, well, wouldn't you put 48, 48 hour average?
No, I wouldn't put 48 hour average because in the question we have the words 48 hours is already there.
Right.
Provided the average is no more than 48 hours.
So our answer right here is going to be average.
Right average is our answer now.
Let's look at number 23 night work.
I'm sorry, I forgot that.
That's actually going to help actually help us out a lot.
I should have actually pointed that out.
We have the word night work right there.
That's going to help us find a 10 hours.
10 hours was the real clue.
But night work also night work can be no more than 10 hours with the blank of the workers.
So in that sense, as with 10 hours, I'm looking for something that belongs to the workers.
Right.
Something that belongs to a worker in this sentence.
What belongs to a worker?
All right, I'll see it.
What belongs to a worker?
It's right here.
Workforce agreement, right?
A workforce agreement belongs to a worker.
This is something that belongs to a worker.
Workforce is the same as worker.
Again, everybody.
Synonym language.
So long as synonym language for provided workforce similar for workers.
So a workforce agreement is the same thing as a workers agreement or agreement for workers.
Always keep in mind they do this they love to do to do this in the listening section also.
And if you've watched my listening videos, you know this.
They love to play with word order.
Right.
Like here, here it says agreement of the workers here.
It says agreement of the workers.
Right.
Agreement of the workers.
And then when you look up at the up here, it says workforce agreement, workers agreement.
They love to switch the word order around, move the word or order around.
They love doing that.