1 00:00:02,830 --> 00:00:06,310 So let's talk about some specific exam causes and effects. 2 00:00:06,790 --> 00:00:13,990 And right now, what I'm talking about specifically relates to the Tofel and Niles exam and some of 3 00:00:13,990 --> 00:00:20,560 the things that increase their anxiety and the impact of that increase of of anxiety. 4 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:26,490 So in terms of listening. 5 00:00:27,910 --> 00:00:31,450 Causes of increased anxiety on the listening exam. 6 00:00:32,260 --> 00:00:40,060 When you encounter unfamiliar words or phrases, unfamiliar accents, having to listen and write simultaneously. 7 00:00:41,060 --> 00:00:47,810 That's something that happens on the Tofel and on the exam pressure to complete within the time limit. 8 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,520 Lack of specific question strategy or lack of specific skills. 9 00:00:52,850 --> 00:00:57,350 All of these increase your anxiety level. 10 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:04,340 When I talk about lack of specific skills, whether you're talking about the full exam or the Isles 11 00:01:04,340 --> 00:01:11,410 exam, there's a requirement on the listening section to be able to understand, paraphrasing, right 12 00:01:11,510 --> 00:01:13,340 to understand synonym language. 13 00:01:13,970 --> 00:01:19,160 And so if you're able to do that, you know, then you have less anxiety. 14 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:21,800 But when you can't do that, it increases your anxiety. 15 00:01:22,570 --> 00:01:28,420 The effects, of course, are poor time management getting behind insufficient information or incomplete 16 00:01:28,420 --> 00:01:29,920 or inaccurate answers. 17 00:01:30,670 --> 00:01:35,080 So these causes related to listening increase anxiety. 18 00:01:35,870 --> 00:01:37,580 And these are the effects. 19 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:47,920 So of course, what you want to do to reduce anxiety and listening is to work on these areas. 20 00:01:49,390 --> 00:01:54,970 What a lot of students don't understand is that doing well on these exams is about skills. 21 00:01:56,140 --> 00:01:57,670 It's a skills test. 22 00:01:58,510 --> 00:02:00,520 It's not an intelligence test. 23 00:02:01,630 --> 00:02:03,220 Is the skills test. 24 00:02:04,460 --> 00:02:09,470 I've taught several students who are not that smart. 25 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,920 But they get better scores on students. 26 00:02:14,310 --> 00:02:20,670 They get better scores than students who are know are very, very hard working or very, very bright. 27 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:31,050 And very often it's not is because that student may not be as, you know, as as swift or as clever 28 00:02:31,050 --> 00:02:31,980 or clear. 29 00:02:32,610 --> 00:02:35,520 But they have they have the skills. 30 00:02:37,170 --> 00:02:39,660 So it's not an intelligence test. 31 00:02:39,660 --> 00:02:40,770 It's a skills test. 32 00:02:40,770 --> 00:02:44,220 And too many, too many students don't work on their skills in terms of reading. 33 00:02:45,180 --> 00:02:51,450 Of course, when you lack vocabulary, it increases your anxiety. 34 00:02:52,940 --> 00:02:57,440 When you lack discipline, it increases your anxiety. 35 00:02:58,770 --> 00:03:05,190 Now, when I talk about lack of discipline, what I'm talking about in terms of reading is overeating. 36 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:11,070 Overeating or not sticking to your technique. 37 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,990 And that's the same for the aisles or the full exam. 38 00:03:15,990 --> 00:03:17,670 The exact same thing. 39 00:03:18,810 --> 00:03:23,700 A lack of discipline increases so much anxiety for you all. 40 00:03:24,870 --> 00:03:29,940 I tell people to on the Tofel exam, Hey, this is the strategy. 41 00:03:30,270 --> 00:03:32,420 You find this key word sentence. 42 00:03:32,430 --> 00:03:35,520 Once you find this key word sentence, you read your sentence. 43 00:03:36,150 --> 00:03:39,790 You only read the next sentence if it has a certain level of connecting language. 44 00:03:39,810 --> 00:03:42,780 If it doesn't, your answer is in the keyword sentence. 45 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:44,670 They know that. 46 00:03:45,420 --> 00:03:46,110 But then. 47 00:03:46,290 --> 00:03:48,300 But then they have a lack of discipline. 48 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:49,340 So what do they do? 49 00:03:49,350 --> 00:03:50,790 They read the whole paragraph. 50 00:03:52,310 --> 00:03:52,650 Right. 51 00:03:52,730 --> 00:03:57,170 They end up wasting time because of that anxiety, that lack of discipline. 52 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:58,940 Same thing on the exam. 53 00:03:58,970 --> 00:04:00,200 I teach technique. 54 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:01,610 I teach strategy. 55 00:04:02,270 --> 00:04:05,300 I can't give you the discipline to to to follow it. 56 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:07,240 Time. 57 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:15,310 Pressure, of course, increases anxiety lacking strategy needing to reread whenever you're having to 58 00:04:15,310 --> 00:04:22,270 reread sentences over and over and over again, that increases your anxiety and then being unfamiliar 59 00:04:22,270 --> 00:04:23,530 to with the test. 60 00:04:26,630 --> 00:04:28,510 So what are the effects of this? 61 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,570 These these these causes that increase anxiety? 62 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:38,900 You end up picking wrong answers, picking exact language answers, guessing, wrong, wasting time. 63 00:04:39,170 --> 00:04:40,640 Those are the effects. 64 00:04:43,020 --> 00:04:44,370 In terms of writing. 65 00:04:46,190 --> 00:04:51,710 Again, the clock running, not having accurate exam simulation. 66 00:04:51,710 --> 00:04:53,180 I talked about that earlier. 67 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:56,000 Not having a plan or following a plan. 68 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,290 Increasing anxiety, fake ignorance. 69 00:05:01,550 --> 00:05:04,940 Unfamiliar questions, wanting to be right. 70 00:05:05,930 --> 00:05:07,040 All these things you can. 71 00:05:07,130 --> 00:05:11,930 All these things you can resolve before the exam. 72 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:15,740 All of these you can resolve before the exam. 73 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:24,000 But when you don't resolve it, when you don't take care of business before you take the exam and these 74 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:29,730 things happen to you, this is what's increasing your anxiety during the writing. 75 00:05:31,790 --> 00:05:33,920 The effect is horrible. 76 00:05:34,430 --> 00:05:40,430 You have increased grammar, lexical mistakes, waste of time, poor organization, not giving the examiners 77 00:05:40,430 --> 00:05:43,580 what they want, not doing what increases your score. 78 00:05:44,540 --> 00:05:51,050 Because you allow these things to put you in an anxiety zone that you don't want to be in. 79 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:58,310 I told you once you cross the once you cross the the Goldilocks zone of anxiety, and these are the 80 00:05:58,310 --> 00:06:01,730 types of things that push you over to push you out of the zone. 81 00:06:03,350 --> 00:06:04,880 Then you have this effect. 82 00:06:06,550 --> 00:06:13,270 So much of of of not doing well on the exam is cause and effect related to anxiety. 83 00:06:16,630 --> 00:06:19,720 And then you have anxiety causes that result from speaking. 84 00:06:21,330 --> 00:06:22,290 It's high pressure. 85 00:06:22,300 --> 00:06:28,960 Now, this is more total specific, the time pressure one because on the IL speaking, there's no time 86 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:29,650 pressure. 87 00:06:30,790 --> 00:06:32,770 The aisle speaking your anxiety. 88 00:06:32,770 --> 00:06:39,280 I don't have this on here, so I'll just verbally say it for the aisles exam your your speaking anxiety 89 00:06:39,310 --> 00:06:45,910 doesn't necessarily come from a clock like on the Tofel what it comes from is being in front of somebody 90 00:06:45,910 --> 00:06:49,540 very often being in front of a person. 91 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:52,600 For some people that can cause them anxiety. 92 00:06:54,250 --> 00:06:58,780 And again, there are ways to get around that sometimes or ways to prepare for that. 93 00:06:59,980 --> 00:07:08,740 A lack of confidence puts the anxiety the that you have to think and speak at the same. 94 00:07:09,010 --> 00:07:10,210 Think and speak. 95 00:07:11,530 --> 00:07:13,900 That increases anxiety, fear, mistakes. 96 00:07:15,330 --> 00:07:21,540 Once you're once you're into speaking section, whatever grammar you know is what you know. 97 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:31,230 So when the test begins, don't don't have fear of grammar, mistakes, whatever, you know, you know. 98 00:07:31,230 --> 00:07:32,460 So you go with it. 99 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:37,500 But if you're if you're thinking about your grammar, you're increasing your anxiety and you're not 100 00:07:37,500 --> 00:07:42,330 going to do well, or if you have unfamiliar questions or unfamiliar vocabulary. 101 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:46,140 This affects your fluency, increases your hesitation. 102 00:07:46,140 --> 00:07:47,340 You make more mistakes. 103 00:07:47,340 --> 00:07:48,850 You have short answers. 104 00:07:48,890 --> 00:07:49,230 All right. 105 00:07:49,230 --> 00:07:52,710 There are a couple of questions I want to address now before I move to the next section. 106 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:53,250 All right. 107 00:07:53,250 --> 00:07:59,070 So, Ben, I'm going to talk about in the next section, I'll be talking about solutions. 108 00:07:59,820 --> 00:08:02,520 And so hopefully I'll address your question then. 109 00:08:05,380 --> 00:08:06,220 Infinix. 110 00:08:06,220 --> 00:08:08,230 Hot Infinix Hot nine. 111 00:08:08,230 --> 00:08:09,550 That's a strange name. 112 00:08:09,820 --> 00:08:10,990 Infinix Hot nine. 113 00:08:10,990 --> 00:08:15,370 What I'm going to talk about in the next section will address what you what your question is. 114 00:08:20,180 --> 00:08:24,060 Gagandeep asked me your vocabulary question in the Udemy course. 115 00:08:24,060 --> 00:08:25,820 I'm not going to address that right now. 116 00:08:30,700 --> 00:08:31,300 Yeah. 117 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:31,810 Yeah. 118 00:08:31,810 --> 00:08:40,120 And also nor your question is valid nor but ask me that question in the Udemy course and I'll happily 119 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:41,440 I'll happily answer it then. 120 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:43,900 All right, let's keep going.