1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:02,340 Hello there, everybody. 2 00:00:02,340 --> 00:00:08,220 And now it is time for another strategy video for the general reading. 3 00:00:08,700 --> 00:00:12,900 Thank you so much for joining me today. 4 00:00:13,260 --> 00:00:20,160 And I hope today in this video you're going to learn a lot about how to handle the short answer question. 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:27,210 The short answer question is a question type, where you'll see a full question with a question mark 6 00:00:27,210 --> 00:00:27,930 at the end. 7 00:00:29,130 --> 00:00:38,400 And it's very important with a short answer question that you actually pay attention to the directions, 8 00:00:39,990 --> 00:00:40,590 right? 9 00:00:40,590 --> 00:00:45,030 Like here, for example, read the directions, take take 10 seconds and read the directions. 10 00:00:48,750 --> 00:00:49,030 Right. 11 00:00:49,110 --> 00:00:52,410 It says no more than two words and or a number. 12 00:00:53,970 --> 00:00:55,800 No more than two words at a number. 13 00:00:58,190 --> 00:00:59,750 And that's very important. 14 00:01:01,590 --> 00:01:04,500 Because if you write three words. 15 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:06,000 Answers wrong. 16 00:01:06,510 --> 00:01:08,400 Yeah, answers wrong. 17 00:01:08,700 --> 00:01:10,800 You can't put multiple answers. 18 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:12,870 You can't write more than two words. 19 00:01:12,870 --> 00:01:16,170 And yes, a and and the count is a word. 20 00:01:18,060 --> 00:01:18,390 All right. 21 00:01:18,390 --> 00:01:21,850 So let's go ahead and look at the strategy. 22 00:01:21,870 --> 00:01:26,160 We're going to pause for a second and then we'll pull up a page and look at the strategy for the yes 23 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:27,480 no, not given question. 24 00:01:30,370 --> 00:01:30,590 Okay. 25 00:01:31,030 --> 00:01:36,640 So let's take a look at the strategy for the short answer question. 26 00:01:37,030 --> 00:01:38,290 It's like most short answer. 27 00:01:38,290 --> 00:01:42,190 It's like the other questions in this area of the strategy chart. 28 00:01:43,180 --> 00:01:45,100 The short answer question goes in order. 29 00:01:47,170 --> 00:01:49,750 You want to read through the questions and spot the easiest ones to do. 30 00:01:49,750 --> 00:01:52,660 First, underline the keywords and the question. 31 00:01:52,660 --> 00:01:55,900 Scan to find the matching sentence to your first easiest question. 32 00:01:56,110 --> 00:02:00,280 Then find the language in the passage sentence that answers the question. 33 00:02:00,430 --> 00:02:01,600 Write the answer. 34 00:02:01,780 --> 00:02:03,850 Pay attention to the. 35 00:02:04,390 --> 00:02:05,050 Pay attention. 36 00:02:05,050 --> 00:02:05,590 Pay attention. 37 00:02:05,590 --> 00:02:06,130 Pay attention. 38 00:02:06,130 --> 00:02:08,050 Pay attention to the instructions. 39 00:02:08,650 --> 00:02:12,040 Because if you write too many words, you're going to get it marked wrong. 40 00:02:14,260 --> 00:02:15,370 You're going to get a mark wrong. 41 00:02:15,370 --> 00:02:19,810 So let's go back and look at what we're dealing with for this short answer question. 42 00:02:20,410 --> 00:02:22,360 This is from book number 12. 43 00:02:23,020 --> 00:02:25,840 It is the North Sydney Council. 44 00:02:27,100 --> 00:02:36,430 If you are working along with us, please make sure that you stop the tape right here and you can do 45 00:02:36,430 --> 00:02:37,870 this question yourself. 46 00:02:37,930 --> 00:02:40,360 Then come back and check your answers. 47 00:02:40,690 --> 00:02:46,870 So I hope that you have purchased the book number 12, book number 13, and you're able to follow along 48 00:02:46,870 --> 00:02:54,490 with us and stop the tape and work on your own and then check your your answers and strategy during 49 00:02:54,490 --> 00:02:55,630 our explanation. 50 00:02:57,990 --> 00:02:58,440 Okay. 51 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:04,800 All right. 52 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,010 So is the got our questions. 53 00:03:08,010 --> 00:03:10,690 Is there anything that's easier to do first? 54 00:03:10,700 --> 00:03:17,070 So there's something the financial advice program. 55 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,210 The Financial advice program. 56 00:03:21,900 --> 00:03:22,500 Right. 57 00:03:23,430 --> 00:03:25,650 That will be really easy to find. 58 00:03:26,850 --> 00:03:32,370 This passage is really short and so everything is going to be like right next to each other. 59 00:03:32,370 --> 00:03:36,180 You see, we have like, let's see, we have six questions. 60 00:03:36,180 --> 00:03:39,240 That means everything is going to be really, really close together. 61 00:03:39,810 --> 00:03:45,630 But financial advice program is probably going to be very easy to find in terms of number 19. 62 00:03:45,630 --> 00:03:47,970 And that means that everything else will be above that. 63 00:03:48,570 --> 00:03:54,990 So if I were doing the real exam, I would probably do the number 19/1 and then I know number 20 is 64 00:03:54,990 --> 00:03:56,370 directly after that. 65 00:03:57,210 --> 00:04:02,490 And then I know number 18 through 15 are above that in order. 66 00:04:03,570 --> 00:04:04,050 All right. 67 00:04:04,530 --> 00:04:05,910 Let's go through and look at our questions. 68 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:07,260 Look at the keywords. 69 00:04:09,060 --> 00:04:13,830 Like I said, if I were doing the real exam, I would jump right into 19, find it, answer it, then 70 00:04:13,830 --> 00:04:15,030 move to the next one. 71 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:18,780 That's that's what we would do for doing the real exam. 72 00:04:18,990 --> 00:04:20,040 But I'm not right now. 73 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:28,980 I'm trying to point out to you in terms of what our keywords and so which employees. 74 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:37,030 All right. 75 00:04:37,030 --> 00:04:39,220 And not work regular hours. 76 00:04:43,150 --> 00:04:44,530 This is going to be a synthesis. 77 00:04:44,530 --> 00:04:47,620 Talking about looking after a relative. 78 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,240 What does it mean when it says, look after a relative, somebody who's sick? 79 00:04:54,500 --> 00:04:54,860 All right. 80 00:04:54,860 --> 00:05:00,290 This next one, we're dealing with a choice between two alternative periods of time. 81 00:05:00,290 --> 00:05:03,020 That means we're looking for two time periods next to each other. 82 00:05:05,230 --> 00:05:13,760 Uh, this next one is going to be about additional holidays being entitled to additional holidays. 83 00:05:18,990 --> 00:05:19,590 Right. 84 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,800 And so it's talking about how long must you work? 85 00:05:23,370 --> 00:05:30,030 How long must you work to get additional holidays, work without a break. 86 00:05:31,980 --> 00:05:40,500 And they were talking about professional employees that you can see. 87 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:44,560 Professor employees that you can see. 88 00:05:46,390 --> 00:05:50,040 So let's go ahead and look through that and see. 89 00:05:50,050 --> 00:05:56,410 So number 19 says, what does the what does the financial advice program advise? 90 00:05:57,490 --> 00:06:00,640 What does the financial advice program advise to people about? 91 00:06:02,140 --> 00:06:02,530 All right. 92 00:06:02,530 --> 00:06:08,380 So our financial advice program, there it is right now. 93 00:06:08,380 --> 00:06:10,870 We need to find what kind of advice they give. 94 00:06:10,900 --> 00:06:13,210 So the War is financial advice program. 95 00:06:13,210 --> 00:06:15,580 This is an example of a starting point. 96 00:06:15,940 --> 00:06:18,340 You've heard me talk about this in the other sentences. 97 00:06:18,340 --> 00:06:19,840 This is a starting point. 98 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:23,290 But this isn't this isn't the sentence that has our information. 99 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:30,490 The sentence that has our information is right here because it's talking about advisors. 100 00:06:31,700 --> 00:06:32,260 Right? 101 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:38,370 We provide the services of advisors specializing in pensions. 102 00:06:38,380 --> 00:06:45,070 So our answer that we're looking for is dealing with pensions. 103 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:47,010 Right. 104 00:06:48,180 --> 00:06:49,740 We're dealing with pensions. 105 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,130 And pensions is our answer for that one. 106 00:06:58,670 --> 00:07:01,070 Right, is the one to be the word pensions. 107 00:07:03,110 --> 00:07:11,420 And so now let's go ahead and mark that as our answer for number 19. 108 00:07:13,890 --> 00:07:15,420 We're dealing with pensions. 109 00:07:17,970 --> 00:07:24,690 And now let's go ahead and look at doing our next one. 110 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:33,070 All right. 111 00:07:33,070 --> 00:07:33,850 There's our next one. 112 00:07:33,850 --> 00:07:34,870 I see it right now. 113 00:07:36,580 --> 00:07:39,820 Our next one deals with, just to remind you I'm sorry what I said. 114 00:07:39,820 --> 00:07:41,110 Next one, I wasn't clear. 115 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:42,920 I'm doing number 18. 116 00:07:42,940 --> 00:07:48,670 How long must employees have worked without a break before being entitled? 117 00:07:48,910 --> 00:07:54,550 How long must employees have worked without a break before being entitled to so working without a break. 118 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,670 Again, remember, they love to use synonym language. 119 00:07:58,210 --> 00:07:59,920 So what I'm looking at are passage. 120 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:01,720 I'm looking for synonym language. 121 00:08:01,750 --> 00:08:04,000 Now you may know, well, he's going backwards. 122 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,160 He's one from 19 up to 15. 123 00:08:06,670 --> 00:08:12,640 Actually, sometimes I like scanning in that direction and the opposite direction of the passage. 124 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,280 Instead of going, scanning down. 125 00:08:15,490 --> 00:08:24,040 I like to scan up sometimes because when I'm scanning up, I'm looking for keyword language. 126 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:25,270 I'm not reading. 127 00:08:26,020 --> 00:08:27,190 Right, I'm not reading. 128 00:08:27,310 --> 00:08:31,690 So that's why when you understand skimming and scanning, you understand there are different ways to 129 00:08:31,690 --> 00:08:34,270 do it and it doesn't involve reading. 130 00:08:34,630 --> 00:08:38,590 So when I'm scanning up, I'm looking for people that work. 131 00:08:38,740 --> 00:08:41,860 I'm looking for a language that means the same thing as. 132 00:08:44,700 --> 00:08:46,800 Same thing as working without a break. 133 00:08:47,250 --> 00:08:56,760 So when I'm scanning up, I see right here it talks about right here it talks about after five years. 134 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:05,370 Five years of continuous service. 135 00:09:07,870 --> 00:09:09,760 Right, five years of continuous service. 136 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:16,450 So it says after five years of a continuous, continuous service, employees are entitled to 6.5 weeks 137 00:09:16,450 --> 00:09:18,130 of long service leave. 138 00:09:18,610 --> 00:09:18,830 Right. 139 00:09:18,970 --> 00:09:21,610 But after five years of continuous service. 140 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:27,700 So our answer for that next question is going to be five years. 141 00:09:31,180 --> 00:09:31,780 Right. 142 00:09:32,470 --> 00:09:37,060 Because it says how long, how long, how long? 143 00:09:37,090 --> 00:09:40,630 So our answer for the number 18. 144 00:09:40,660 --> 00:09:41,770 How long? 145 00:09:42,010 --> 00:09:44,890 Well, you got to work five years, right? 146 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:46,570 You got to work five years. 147 00:09:47,230 --> 00:09:48,260 That's our answer. 148 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:50,170 Five years. 149 00:09:52,570 --> 00:09:54,450 You got five long years. 150 00:09:54,460 --> 00:09:55,030 Wow. 151 00:09:57,390 --> 00:09:59,940 Five years for a good long vacation. 152 00:10:00,180 --> 00:10:00,990 It's too bad. 153 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:02,910 All right. 154 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:07,560 Number 17. 155 00:10:08,010 --> 00:10:09,960 Two alternative time periods. 156 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:11,970 Two time periods. 157 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:13,410 Weeks, years. 158 00:10:13,410 --> 00:10:15,060 Months, days. 159 00:10:17,510 --> 00:10:18,470 Two time periods. 160 00:10:18,500 --> 00:10:19,910 There it is right there. 161 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:25,160 Nine weeks at full pay, 18 weeks and half pay. 162 00:10:25,820 --> 00:10:26,240 All right. 163 00:10:26,270 --> 00:10:29,090 We're talking about two time periods. 164 00:10:29,930 --> 00:10:33,320 Do you see any other sentences that have two time periods? 165 00:10:38,690 --> 00:10:39,320 Nope. 166 00:10:40,370 --> 00:10:41,000 All right. 167 00:10:42,410 --> 00:10:43,760 Two time periods. 168 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,550 Something you can do at nine weeks and 18 weeks. 169 00:10:49,140 --> 00:10:49,800 Nine weeks. 170 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:50,760 18 weeks. 171 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:51,080 Right. 172 00:10:51,090 --> 00:10:52,230 That lets me know. 173 00:10:52,470 --> 00:10:54,860 That's our sentence right there. 174 00:10:54,870 --> 00:10:56,790 Nine weeks or 18 weeks. 175 00:10:57,870 --> 00:10:58,260 All right. 176 00:10:58,260 --> 00:11:06,020 And I'll do like I did in the other videos, and I should write the numbers next to them. 177 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:08,460 Sure, you all would like that. 178 00:11:09,270 --> 00:11:13,860 That's where number 19 is password. 179 00:11:13,860 --> 00:11:16,350 Number 18 is. 180 00:11:18,390 --> 00:11:21,390 That's where number 17 is. 181 00:11:23,470 --> 00:11:24,120 Okay. 182 00:11:25,170 --> 00:11:27,390 And says, what kind of leave? 183 00:11:27,390 --> 00:11:29,220 So what type of leave? 184 00:11:29,700 --> 00:11:34,950 So in that sentence where it talks about two alternative periods, what kind of leave do we see here? 185 00:11:35,460 --> 00:11:40,500 In addition to the normal paternity leave, maternity leave provisions, women who have completed 12 186 00:11:40,500 --> 00:11:44,520 months of continuous service can access nine weeks of maternity leave. 187 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:48,930 That can be taken either as nine weeks full pay or 18 weeks at half pay. 188 00:11:49,410 --> 00:11:54,510 So the only kind of leave we're talking about here is maternity leave. 189 00:11:54,860 --> 00:11:55,200 Right. 190 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:57,140 That's the only type of leave. 191 00:11:57,540 --> 00:11:57,900 Right. 192 00:11:57,900 --> 00:11:58,890 Kind of leave. 193 00:11:58,890 --> 00:12:00,240 Name of a leave. 194 00:12:00,780 --> 00:12:02,610 Type of leave is maternity. 195 00:12:03,210 --> 00:12:03,750 All right. 196 00:12:05,690 --> 00:12:07,370 Type of leave is maternity. 197 00:12:14,850 --> 00:12:15,120 All right. 198 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:18,360 So number 17 would be maternity. 199 00:12:24,650 --> 00:12:25,490 And. 200 00:12:28,910 --> 00:12:31,100 Then our next one is dealing with 201 00:12:35,270 --> 00:12:36,630 looking after a relative. 202 00:12:36,690 --> 00:12:36,890 Right. 203 00:12:36,890 --> 00:12:41,000 How much time off each year is an employee able to take to look after a relative? 204 00:12:41,150 --> 00:12:45,830 Look after mean look after me if somebody is sick. 205 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:53,830 Right. 206 00:12:53,860 --> 00:12:56,380 So here's talking about somebody being sick right here. 207 00:13:01,070 --> 00:13:09,500 And so staff are entitled to three weeks when went for three weeks and I'm sick or carer's leave the 208 00:13:09,500 --> 00:13:10,610 care for somebody. 209 00:13:10,910 --> 00:13:12,320 Again, the synonym language. 210 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:13,040 Everybody. 211 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:14,710 The synonym language. 212 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:15,920 A relative who's sick. 213 00:13:15,950 --> 00:13:16,810 Carer's leave. 214 00:13:16,820 --> 00:13:18,260 That's our synonym language. 215 00:13:18,290 --> 00:13:19,790 How long can you do that? 216 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:22,160 You can do that for three weeks. 217 00:13:22,580 --> 00:13:24,740 No more than three weeks after that. 218 00:13:24,740 --> 00:13:31,930 You have to go back to work, which sucks, but that's the way it is. 219 00:13:31,940 --> 00:13:32,960 Three weeks. 220 00:13:35,130 --> 00:13:36,520 You have three weeks. 221 00:13:41,810 --> 00:13:51,650 And which employees may choose not to work regular hours, not working regular hours, which employees 222 00:13:51,650 --> 00:13:52,700 can choose. 223 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:53,660 All right. 224 00:13:53,660 --> 00:13:57,350 So here we're talking about employees. 225 00:13:58,820 --> 00:13:59,130 Right. 226 00:13:59,150 --> 00:14:03,550 Employees are indoor staff and outdoor staff. 227 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:05,180 There's employees right there. 228 00:14:06,260 --> 00:14:13,520 Now, when you sent this to us, talking about which employees may choose not to work regular hours. 229 00:14:18,630 --> 00:14:18,990 All right. 230 00:14:18,990 --> 00:14:22,890 Indoor staff are able to access the benefit of flexi time. 231 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:25,500 We're actually got another this one's tough, everybody. 232 00:14:26,700 --> 00:14:27,570 This is tough. 233 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:31,290 But you've got to know that flexi time means not regular hours. 234 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,230 Flexi time means not regular hours. 235 00:14:35,700 --> 00:14:37,590 That's our synonym language right there. 236 00:14:37,830 --> 00:14:40,470 Flexi time, not regular hours. 237 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:49,500 So this is our sentence right there for for that one. 238 00:14:50,370 --> 00:14:59,190 And there's our number 16 and there's our number 17, I'm sorry, 15. 239 00:14:59,580 --> 00:15:03,790 And so our answer is indoor staff, right? 240 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:04,890 We see that, right? 241 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:10,870 Indoor staff is our answer. 242 00:15:17,580 --> 00:15:18,780 Indoor staff. 243 00:15:21,230 --> 00:15:28,430 And number 20, what kind of people what kind of professional people can employees see? 244 00:15:31,740 --> 00:15:34,080 Here's 19 or 20 has to be in here. 245 00:15:34,230 --> 00:15:37,590 So all I'm looking for are the name of professional people. 246 00:15:38,910 --> 00:15:39,810 Here it is right here. 247 00:15:40,050 --> 00:15:43,530 The EAP provides registered psychologists. 248 00:15:44,010 --> 00:15:45,420 What kind of people? 249 00:15:46,380 --> 00:15:49,200 These are the only specific group of people that I see. 250 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:51,420 That has to be our answer. 251 00:15:52,230 --> 00:15:52,560 Right. 252 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:57,650 Also, we see that the EAP provides it provides it. 253 00:15:57,660 --> 00:16:00,420 So what kind of people do they provide? 254 00:16:01,710 --> 00:16:07,290 They provide registered psychologists, registered psychologists. 255 00:16:07,710 --> 00:16:13,620 And so that's where number 20 is right here. 256 00:16:15,450 --> 00:16:17,130 And our answer is right here. 257 00:16:22,090 --> 00:16:23,650 Registered psychologists. 258 00:16:27,070 --> 00:16:27,550 Right. 259 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:33,670 And actually, you would put some people might say, well, if you put psychologists. 260 00:16:33,670 --> 00:16:34,450 Is that okay? 261 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:34,930 Yeah. 262 00:16:39,910 --> 00:16:43,450 But because it says like a right to words, I'm going to write the full two words. 263 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:53,710 Look everybody. 264 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:55,330 So 265 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:03,910 that will do it in terms of wrapping up our. 266 00:17:05,350 --> 00:17:07,480 A review of the short answer question. 267 00:17:08,020 --> 00:17:08,590 All right. 268 00:17:08,830 --> 00:17:12,700 I hope that you have enjoyed this video. 269 00:17:13,300 --> 00:17:19,600 I hope that you now have a clear understanding of how to quickly run through that short answer question. 270 00:17:20,140 --> 00:17:26,290 As always, it's a pleasure teaching you, and I hope that you keep working hard. 271 00:17:26,290 --> 00:17:33,310 And I hope that you continue to choose us as your provider for your exam preparation. 272 00:17:33,340 --> 00:17:38,170 So thanks a lot and have a fabulous day and I'll talk to you soon in the next video. 273 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:38,710 Goodbye.