Questions to do on the aisles reading exam.
And as with all the reading question types, you can face this on the general general exam or you can
encounter it on the academic exam.
So let's go ahead and move through the strategy.
So when it comes to the question, this is really as it says, it's a matching question.
So the requirements are really, really straightforward.
It just requires you to match a name or category with the question language.
Right.
That's what you're doing.
So when you look over here, you have the question, seven, eight, nine, ten, right here.
And then below that, you have the the categories, the gorilla experiment.
The experiment with children, the TV experiment.
Three different categories of experiments.
And your job is to look at number seven and decide, was number seven part of the gorilla experiment,
the children's experiment or the TV experiment?
Which one?
So of course, what you have to do is you have to be able to go and scan.
There is a scanning requirement.
You have to go and scan and look for the matching language in the passage that matches number seven.
Read the sentence or sentences sometime two sentences where you see that language and it will tell you,
was it a part of the gorilla children's or TV experiment?
And then so what you're doing is you're just matching meaning.
You're matching meaning that's essentially what you're doing here.
Okay.
So now some helpful strategic information for you that I want you to really watch out for it.
As I said, the question doesn't go in order, but it's easy to do.
It's possible.
It is possible for a name or a category to appear more than one.
So especially when you have names, you might have some people's names that appear.
Two, three, four, five, two, three, four, but two or three times sometimes.
So we have to really be aware of that.
Now, if you have one or two names that appear two times or three times and you have three other names
that appear once, do all of these single appearances first, because those are going to be the easier
to do.
And you get some of the you get some of the possible answer choices out of the way quickly.
Okay.
Let's go ahead and move forward and look at one of these matching questions.
So here you can see that we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, no, seven
names, seven names in the box.
And we have five questions.
That means two of these could possibly not be used.
Remember, it all depends on the directions.
Always check your directions.
You want to see if the directions say you can use the name more than once.
Now sometimes students ask me the question, should I be scanning for the keywords, identifying the
keywords and the questions, or should I be identifying the keywords in the box?
And to be honest with you, it really depends.
Sometimes you're going to identify the keywords and the questions and find that language.
Sometimes you're going to you're going to be able to just identify and locate the words in the box.
In this situation, we're going to be identifying the words in the box because they're so easy to find,
right?
I mean, they're proper they're proper nouns.
New York, Mexico City, Cambridge, Los Angeles.
So what we're going to do is we would find the name, read the sentence, and then we can pick which
choice it matches.
So, for example, in paragraph B, we see Los Angeles and it says in Los Angeles, state regulations
are forcing manufacturers to try to sell even cleaner cars.
So clearly that's a match for number one.
Number two is right after it.
Local authorities in London are campaigning to be allowed to enforce anti pollution laws.
That should be laws themselves.
At present, only the police have the power to do so.
But they tend to be busy elsewhere.
So this one is a match.
For what?
What does this want to match for?
Right.
Which question?
Right.
Which question?
Look at it very carefully.
Number two.
Right.
Number two.
So number two, you would write down London as her answer choice.
London is the answer choice.
Now, if they had a, B, C, D, E, F, g, h, I, then you would write down just the letter.
All right.
Now, in paragraph D, paragraph RD, we find question number four.
As part of a European Union environmental programme.
A London City Council is wresting an infrared spectrometer from the University of Denver in Colorado.
It gauges the pollution from a passing vehicle.
More useful than the annual stationary rest.
That is the British standard today.
So this information is a match for number four.
So for a number for our answer that we would put down is London.
So you see here we've used London twice.
So this is the this is the type of question where if you looked at the directions, if you looked at
the directions, it would say you can use a name more than once.
Also with this question, what I want to point out to you is I mentioned that it is possible that this
question does not go in order.
So, for example, number four was found.
The answer number four was found in paragraph D.
The answer for number three is found in paragraph number F.
And it says electronic innovations make possible increasing sophistication.
Rates can vary according to road conditions, time of day and so on.
Singapore is advancing in this direction with a citywide network of transmitters to collect information
and charge drivers as they pass certain points.
So this is a match for number three.
So for number three, you will put the answer as Singapore.
Right.
So that is the way that a matching question works.
Okay.
Let's go ahead and move to the second example.
Now, with this one, I'm going to give you an opportunity.
I'm going to give you an opportunity to practice applying the strategy we just went over in the first
example.
So on the left hand side, you see questions nine through 12, and above that you see letters A through
F.
You need to find the matching statement for each person.
Now you don't have the full passage in front of you.
Others point a few things out.
The name Louisa in the passage refers to Mrs. Cargill.
And of course, where you see the word husband.
That's referring to Mrs. Cargill's husband.
All right, so what you need to do is go ahead and set your timer for 5 minutes.
There are four questions.
Set your timer for 5 minutes.
It's really important that you feel time, pressure, always work with time pressure, everybody.
Now you need to stop the lecture.
Stop the lecture because I'm going to move forward and go over the answer choices.
If you want to work on your own, stop the lecture and go ahead and answer questions nine through 12
right now.
Okay.
Let's move forward and go over the answer choices.
So the correct answer choice is I'm going to give the answers.
Right now, number nine, the answer is C, number ten.
The answer is a number 11.
The answer is D and number 12, the answer is F.
Now, I'll go over the questions in the order in which they appear in the passage.
First number ten, it says on January 20th, Lewis's husband.
So we know we're talking about number ten.
Lewis's husband wrote to the carbolic smoke ball company.
And then in that second paragraph, it says there was no reply.
So the matching language to this is he filed a complaint which was never responded to.
Remember, that's what we're doing.
We're finding the matching language.
The matching language.
We can't say that he initiated a legal case because they said he wrote to the company.
So when you're writing to the company, very often you are filing a complaint.
So we can't have C for number ten.
We can't do that because we don't have any language that matches initiating a legal case.
However, for number nine, we see that language.
For number nine, it says Luisa.
Luisa recovered and sued.
That is matching language for sea initiated a legal case.
Now, number 11, Judge Hawkins.
So finding the matching names is never an issue.
Your job is to find the matching language.
Judge Hawkins pointed out that adverts were not aimed at the wise and thoughtful, but at the credulous
and weak.
So here the matching, the language matches choice.
Dhe described the audience of the advertisement.
It says the advert or advertisement was not aimed at people who were wise and thoughtful.
It was named at people who were credulous and weak.
So they're talking about the person.
They're talking about the person.
So the correct answer choice here is.
DD We cannot choose E as an answer choice where E says that it claimed that most of the advertisements
are fraudulent.
We're not saying they were fraudulent.
They are talking about the people.
Again, your job is to find the matching language.
To paraphrase that language, that's the English test.
And number 12, it seems to me that if a person chooses to make extravagant promises of this kind,
he probably does so because it pays him to make them.
So you have to ask yourself of these answer choices A through F.
What is the matching language?
F treated the advertisement as a type of contract.
He was paid to make those statements.
That implies that we're talking about a contract that was made.
You give me money.
I say these words contract.
So everybody that's what they're testing here.
You always have to keep in mind it's not an intelligence test is an English test.
They're testing your ability to recognize matching language.
So now let's go ahead and move on to another example.
Here is our third example.
And here we have if we look in the box A through C, we have three choices, but there are four questions.
That means one of these names is going to be used twice.
One of these names is going to be used twice.
So again, if you want to work along with me and check your application of strategy and tactics, go
ahead and set your timer for 4 minutes.
We're going to put a lot of pressure on this one, everybody.
A lot of pressure because sometimes there's a lot of time pressure.
So for this one, we have four questions, but we're going to set our timer for 4 minutes.
We're going to really amp the pressure up because I think that's what you need to really be successful
sometimes on the real exam.
You might be running out of time and you don't have all the time available.
Like normally you might have 6 minutes to do these four questions.
That's normal, but we're going to set the timer on 4 minutes.
So what I want you to do is stop the lecture.
Stop the lecture.
Set your timer for 4 minutes and answer questions seven through ten.
Answer questions, seven through ten.
Okay, let's do that now.
All right.
I know you've done a great job.
Let's go ahead and move on and check the answer.
Choices for seven through ten.
Okay.
So as you know, with a matching question, it doesn't go in order.
We find question ten and paragraph F, we find questions nine and seven in paragraph G.
And then question eight is in paragraph H.
So a matching question does not go in order.
But normally these are pretty easy questions to do because you just have to find the name.
You just have to find the name and you know, somebody is going to be used at least twice.
So giving the answers, number seven is B, number eight is C, number nine is B.
And number ten is a.
Now I'll go over the answer choices in the order in which they appear in the passage.
So first of all, question number ten.
It says with our own personal degree of amplification.
So as an animated composite depicts faces at varying stages of caricature, viewers respond to the stage
that is most recognizable to them.
So again, we have to ask ourselves we have to ask ourselves, what does this language match?
It matches choice.
A a single caricature can be recognized straight away.
I'm sorry.
This just matches number ten.
We're talking on number ten now.
Number seven.
Number ten.
When a choice when given a choice, people will have different views regarding character, which regarding
which caricature best represents a particular person's face.
So let's look at it again.
Question ten.
With our own personal degree of amplification.
So as an animated composite depicts faces at varying stages of caricature.
Viewers respond to the stage that is most recognizable to them.
So that's for question ten.
Question ten that matches that language in the passage matches.
When given a choice, people will have different views regarding which caricature best represents a
person's a particular person's face.
Number nine People misunderstand what is involved in the design of a caricature.
People misunderstand what is involved in the design of a caricature that matches this language.
A lot of people think so.
Whenever somebody, somebody a sentence starts off, a lot of people think very often they're about
to say what they're thinking is wrong.
A lot of people think that caricature is about picking out someone's someone's worst feature and exaggerating
it as far as you can.
Sellars says that's wrong.
So what a lot of people think is wrong, that matches number nine about people misunderstanding.
All right.
Number seven, a single caricature.
That's a tricky word to pronounce.
A single caricature can be recognized straight away if the parts of the face are appropriately positioned.
So, first of all, when the ratios between the features are correct, that's talking about in terms
of the parts of the face are appropriately positioned.
Again, they're testing.
Can you match that language?
You see that face instantly, right?
A single caricature can be recognized straight away instantly.
That's the matching language, everybody.
That's the matching language that we need to look for.
And finally, number eight and evaluation of the work of different caricaturist will provide new information
about how we see faces from dozens of different artists.
That matches this first part and evaluation of the work of different caricaturist.
Right.
That matches that first part with the hope of tapping their intuitive knowledge.
That matches the second part will provide new information about how we see faces with the hope of tapping
their intuitive knowledge of what is and isn't crucial for recognition.
All of that in that second part after the word hope matches.
After the word will.
Okay.
So again.
Matching up language.
That's what makes the matching question a little bit difficult.
Finding the right sentence is never the problem.
Right.
That's never the problem.
The real test here is, can you match language?
And that's why to me, this matching question is somewhat similar to a headings question because with
the headings question, you are essentially doing the same thing.
You're looking at the topic sentences or the first two sentences of a headings question for a paragraph.
And then you're looking at the answer choices and saying which answer choice matches the controlling
or central idea of this paragraph?
You have to be able to interpret language and find a match.
With a heading question, with a matching question here.
You're doing the same thing.
You're looking at the question number seven.
And then you're finding the language that matches that question.
Who said that language?
Which person said that matching language?
We're paraphrasing the language of the people.
They're testing you to see if you can find that paraphrase.
Okay.
So thank you so much for joining me.
It's been awesome having you in the class.
We're now going to do a full passage application so you can see strategy and scanning at work.
Thanks a lot and I'll talk to you soon.