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We're now going to show you how to attack the short answer question.

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The short answer the question is one of the easier questions on the aisles reading exam.

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And so we're going to now explain to you the strategy and then give you a couple of examples of how

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to really attack and succeed on this question.

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So some helpful information.

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This question goes in order, which means that after number five, you'll find number six.

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After number six, you'll find number seven.

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This is one of the easier question types to do, and it is an open answer question, which means you'll

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have a sentence with the question mark at the end.

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And your job is to find the word or words that answer the question.

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So this question will require you to provide a 1 to 3 word answer.

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You have to understand the information that is required by the question so you can look here on the

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right hand side of the screen and you'll see questions.

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Right before Perkins Discovery with what group in society was the Color Purple associated?

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What potential did perk and immediately understand that his new dye had.

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Right.

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So you see, they're asking asking you a question and you have to provide an answer in no more than

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two words.

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Right.

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So very, very straightforward question.

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I know you can really succeed and increase your point score with this question.

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Now, as with almost all the questions, there is a scanning requirement.

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So you have to look at a question and decide the keywords, right?

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So clearly for this one, the the whole passage is about this guy Perkin.

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So the name Perkin is not going to be a keyword here, but what is this question asking about?

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There are some good keywords here, Discovery Group and Society and Color Purple.

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Those would be the key words that I would highlight or underline in this question.

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Right.

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For number nine, potential understand and new die.

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Those are the key words that I will highlight.

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Right.

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So you have to really be able to look at a question and decide on the key words and the question.

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And that's what those are the key words that you're going to scan for, right?

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Those are the key words that you're going to scan for.

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Number ten.

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What was the name of the person?

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Perkin consultant before setting up his own die works.

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Right.

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Keywords here.

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Name of a person.

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OC and the words die works and consulted.

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Those will be my keywords that when I'm scanning, I will look for those keywords.

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I will scan the passage for those keywords.

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Now this question goes in order, which means see, most likely for me.

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I'm going to start with question number 11, because I know that another name of a person is going to

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be there and names are really easy to find.

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Right.

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And the word die works is very, very specific.

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There's most likely not going to be a synonym for die works.

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So so when I'm looking at this, I'm going to probably start with number 11, right?

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And that I would know 12 and 13 are below ten.

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Nine and eight are above that.

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So you have to really recognize synonym language when you're doing this kind of question because very

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often the words are language that they use in the questions in the past might be different.

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So as I told you, this is a short or open answer question.

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So in terms of strategy, you have to make sure that you first examine all the questions, identify

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the keywords.

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Start with the easiest question, first scan for the passage match, and then apply the question strategy.

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That's what we're doing here.

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That's what you need to do every single time.

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When it comes to question strategy for the short answer or open answer question.

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So let's look at this here.

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Right here.

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What I've done is I have you have the questions and you have the language from the passage that applies

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to the question.

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Right.

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And again, if you want to review, you can see the strategy right there on the right hand side.

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Right.

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If you just want to review the strategy again, I'm always putting it there on the right side for you

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to take a look at it.

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For what period of time has hearing loss in schoolchildren but study in New Zealand.

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Right.

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So if I'm if I'm scanning I'm going to look for a sentence that has talks about school children hearing

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loss and sometimes some type of time period.

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Right.

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So when I look at this question, I can see that this is the sentence that I should be looking for in

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the sentence I should have found.

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Because I see hearing loss.

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I see New Zealand, I see children and I see my time period, which is the answer to decades.

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In addition to machinery loss, what other type of noise can upset children?

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So this one was easy.

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I just had to find machinery.

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Machinery, noise.

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And when we look at this sentence, we can see those experiencing these disorders often find sounds

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such as crowd noise and noise generated by machinery, painful and distressing.

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So my answer, I'm going to write our my answer is going to be crowd noise.

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Now, according to the directions, I could write two words.

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So that means that writing crowd noise is acceptable.

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Let's look at another one.

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Who reported the same story of European diseases.

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Among the indigenes from the American interior.

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The missionaries and the traders who ventured into the American interior told the toll the same appalling

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story.

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Right.

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So the answer that I would write is missionary and traders, because it says I can write no more than

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three words.

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So missionaries.

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Now, if I write, be clear.

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If I write missionaries and the traders, I wrote, what, four words?

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Four words violation of the instructions marked wrong.

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All right.

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And then for 14, what is the steel existing feature of old world invasion of the new key words here

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steel existing feature that's really important.

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Still existing feature and old world will probably be easy to find because there's not really a synonym

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for Old World.

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Here we have a down here.

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That decline has reversed in our time as a mirror.

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Indian populations have adapted to the old world's environmental influence.

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But.

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The demographic triumph of the invaders, which was the most spectacular feature of the old world's

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invasion of the new steel stands.

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Right.

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So still stands, still existing.

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What was still standing, what was still standing, the demographic triumph.

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So our answer is demographic triumph.

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See how that works?

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All right.

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And here's one more.

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Number six is which part?

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Of some step whales provide its shade for people.

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Provide its shade.

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Key language here.

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Which part provided shade?

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Now, again, they're not going to use the same language.

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So look here at number six.

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Others are more elaborate with long step passages leading to the leading to the water via several stories.

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Bill from stone and supported by pillars.

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They also included pavilions.

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The sheltered visitors.

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Right.

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The sheltered visitors.

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Right.

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So the answer is what some of you may look at.

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See that word highlighted there?

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Pillars.

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All right.

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That's where that word is highlighted, because we were doing another question for another question

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type.

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Right.

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But here, look at it.

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When you look at this sentence, what does the synonym language for provide its shade?

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Right.

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Look at it very carefully.

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Before I tell you what language there is the same as provided shade.

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Right.

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Sheltered.

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Sheltered sheltered visitors sheltered as four shade visitors as four people were provided.

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The shelter.

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The pavilions.

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The Pavilion's provided the shelter.

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The pavilions.

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You see how that works?

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Synonym language.

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Now, number seven is really straightforward.

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Also, I like number seven.

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You know, if I were doing this one, I would probably start with number seven because of the word southern

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Rajasthan.

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Right.

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So it says.

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And really, when I look at the sentence, I'm looking for a serious climatic event.

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I'm not going to try to understand the whole sentence.

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I'm not going to try.

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I'm looking for a serious climatic event.

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Their condition hasn't been helped by recent dry spells.

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Southern Rajasthan suffered an eight year drought.

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There's my climatic event.

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My answer is drought.

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And number eight says who are frequent visitors to Steppe Wales nowadays, tourists flock to Wales and

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far flung corners of northwestern India to gaze in wonder at these archaic architectural marvels from

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1000 years ago.

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Answer is tourist.

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And you can see that it's going in order.

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Six is in this paragraph, seven in this paragraph eight is in the final paragraph.

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Now, I should say, if you go and really look at this reading passage, you'll see that between numbers

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seven and eight, there are two or three other paragraphs.

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So it doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to be in the very next paragraph.

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Number seven, it's in paragraph three, AFAIK.

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And number eight is in paragraph number six or seven.

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So they can be there can be paragraphs between the questions.

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So coming up next in the upcoming lectures, I'm going to be using real reading passages to show you

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full passage application, right?

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How to really scan through a real passage and how to do an application through a real passage.

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Because I know for some of you, you're looking at it and saying, well, how did you find that right

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sentence?

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How did you locate that sentence?

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In the upcoming lectures, I'm going to be using real passages to show you how to scan, how to pull

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out the keywords, how to scan, and how to apply the strategy to a full passage.

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So take care and I look forward to talking to you soon.