1 00:00:01,410 --> 00:00:01,950 All right. 2 00:00:01,950 --> 00:00:03,990 So let's move on to the next one. 3 00:00:05,820 --> 00:00:08,040 Multiple choice questions. 4 00:00:08,040 --> 00:00:09,060 Go and order. 5 00:00:09,450 --> 00:00:11,430 You locate the keywords and the questions. 6 00:00:11,430 --> 00:00:13,740 You start with the easiest to locate first. 7 00:00:15,230 --> 00:00:18,630 You locate the first match in the passage. 8 00:00:18,780 --> 00:00:24,180 Keep in mind, a multiple choice question can be a combination of two sentences in the passage. 9 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:26,190 That is a possibility. 10 00:00:27,210 --> 00:00:27,840 All right. 11 00:00:28,980 --> 00:00:30,750 So here we have the questions. 12 00:00:30,750 --> 00:00:32,670 We have the passage to the left. 13 00:00:33,030 --> 00:00:36,030 You have 7 minutes and 30 seconds. 14 00:08:18,710 --> 00:08:18,990 Okay. 15 00:08:19,300 --> 00:08:21,640 I'm going to go ahead and go over the answer choices. 16 00:08:28,250 --> 00:08:30,470 Number 28. 17 00:08:31,580 --> 00:08:37,310 Number 28 is B, number 29 is RD. 18 00:08:39,230 --> 00:08:49,040 Number 30 is B, number 31 is C and number 32 is C. 19 00:08:51,930 --> 00:09:03,810 28 is B, 29 is the 30 is B, 31 is C and 32 is C. 20 00:09:17,300 --> 00:09:18,370 You can probably. 21 00:09:18,470 --> 00:09:19,910 I'm answering somebody this question. 22 00:09:19,910 --> 00:09:24,500 Somebody asked me, can general reading passages be used as practice with zero for the academic? 23 00:09:25,970 --> 00:09:33,770 You probably have heard me say, if you have not heard me say this, I say it many, many times that. 24 00:09:37,150 --> 00:09:46,630 I've said this many times that especially reading Passage three for the general exam is at the exact 25 00:09:46,630 --> 00:09:51,220 same difficulty level as the academic exam. 26 00:09:53,020 --> 00:09:56,740 Also, you know, the general exam. 27 00:09:56,740 --> 00:10:01,870 Sometimes if you win something, for example, sometimes when I have somebody who's new to the exam, 28 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,860 like they're brand new to the exam. 29 00:10:06,190 --> 00:10:14,800 If I have somebody like that very often, I'll start them working on applying strategy with a general 30 00:10:15,010 --> 00:10:17,170 reading passage like we're doing. 31 00:10:17,470 --> 00:10:23,740 Yes, no, not giving questions because they're is more about understanding how to apply the strategy 32 00:10:24,610 --> 00:10:26,250 more than anything else. 33 00:10:26,260 --> 00:10:30,490 And so I'm trying to just simplify how much we're reading to teach strategy. 34 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:34,660 So I've done that different times for different reasons. 35 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,310 Number 30. 36 00:10:44,530 --> 00:10:46,300 Number 30 is right here. 37 00:10:49,810 --> 00:10:49,970 Yeah. 38 00:10:50,020 --> 00:10:51,820 Somebody already asked for number 30. 39 00:10:52,330 --> 00:10:53,800 So one moment, please. 40 00:10:54,220 --> 00:10:55,330 Number 30. 41 00:10:56,770 --> 00:10:59,600 See, Florence is a good drug detector. 42 00:10:59,620 --> 00:11:02,620 Florence is a good drug detector because. 43 00:11:03,970 --> 00:11:11,950 So it turns out that it's not Florence's nos that makes her makes her a top drug dog. 44 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:13,760 Right. 45 00:11:13,870 --> 00:11:19,910 So a top drug dog is a dog is finding drugs, a top drug dog, a dog design. 46 00:11:19,940 --> 00:11:21,190 So it's not the nos. 47 00:11:21,190 --> 00:11:26,200 So when they say it's not the nos, and then they say, but her. 48 00:11:26,230 --> 00:11:33,940 Now they're telling you the answer, but her unswerving concentration. 49 00:11:35,180 --> 00:11:35,500 Right. 50 00:11:35,500 --> 00:11:38,020 So what does unswerving concentration mean? 51 00:11:38,020 --> 00:11:44,680 Because they tell you directly, that's the reason why it is a paraphrasing of is not easily distracted. 52 00:11:45,370 --> 00:11:54,190 Answering questions is about especially multiple choice questions is about your ability to be able to 53 00:11:54,190 --> 00:11:56,770 recognize paraphrase language. 54 00:11:57,730 --> 00:12:04,270 Again, let this be a lesson for you if you're having trouble answering questions, for example, a 55 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:07,420 multiple choice questions in section three of the listening test. 56 00:12:08,620 --> 00:12:11,050 The listen test is the same for academic in general. 57 00:12:11,410 --> 00:12:15,310 When you're doing multiple choice questions, it's the same thing. 58 00:12:15,940 --> 00:12:23,080 So instead of you reading the information, they are speaking the information, they're speaking the 59 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:23,680 information. 60 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:26,770 Instead of reading the information, they're speaking the information. 61 00:12:27,190 --> 00:12:33,130 So on the listening test, you would hear them say, you know, it's not her nose to make her the top 62 00:12:33,130 --> 00:12:35,500 dog, but her unswerving concentration. 63 00:12:35,740 --> 00:12:42,850 You're supposed to be able to first hear the key words, make her a top draw, make her a top drug dog, 64 00:12:43,510 --> 00:12:45,700 because that matches the question language. 65 00:12:45,700 --> 00:12:48,670 And then right after that, they say the answer choice. 66 00:12:48,790 --> 00:12:51,700 And then you have to be able to pick the fair paraphrase. 67 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:53,770 You do that in the reading. 68 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:55,420 You do that on the listening exam. 69 00:12:55,420 --> 00:12:58,570 It's the same process, right? 70 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:00,280 It's the same process. 71 00:13:00,460 --> 00:13:04,060 31 Dogs like Florence may help scientists. 72 00:13:04,060 --> 00:13:05,620 How do they help scientists? 73 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:07,660 Florence can help. 74 00:13:08,020 --> 00:13:09,160 Florence can help. 75 00:13:10,230 --> 00:13:11,060 Neurobiologist. 76 00:13:11,070 --> 00:13:12,340 Neurobiologist is a scientist. 77 00:13:12,340 --> 00:13:13,900 So now we know we're in the answer choice. 78 00:13:13,900 --> 00:13:16,600 What can she help with, right? 79 00:13:16,630 --> 00:13:17,470 What can she help with? 80 00:13:17,470 --> 00:13:18,190 They're going to help. 81 00:13:18,190 --> 00:13:22,090 Help neurons, neurobiologists, to understand both. 82 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:25,180 Both what they call attention processing. 83 00:13:26,260 --> 00:13:29,390 Attention processing, right. 84 00:13:29,410 --> 00:13:35,500 Determine how what a person pays attention to and for how long they pay attention and problems such 85 00:13:35,500 --> 00:13:36,700 as attention deficit. 86 00:13:36,700 --> 00:13:39,700 So it's all about she's helping with people being able to pay attention. 87 00:13:42,190 --> 00:13:43,930 Attention, attention, attention, attention. 88 00:13:43,930 --> 00:13:50,230 31 is see, because it's not about how they can use both sides of their brain. 89 00:13:51,430 --> 00:13:52,270 That's not what it's about. 90 00:13:52,270 --> 00:14:01,090 It says is that it says Florence can help scientists understand both what they call attention processing. 91 00:14:03,010 --> 00:14:03,610 Right. 92 00:14:03,940 --> 00:14:09,730 And and this afterwards, after attention processing, they're defining it. 93 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:15,940 The brain mechanism that determines what a person pays attention to, she's helping them with attention 94 00:14:15,940 --> 00:14:16,870 issues. 95 00:14:18,130 --> 00:14:18,850 Right. 96 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:21,970 It's not about she's not helping them with understanding the brain. 97 00:14:22,870 --> 00:14:24,430 That's not what it says. 98 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,640 31 in 1993. 99 00:14:30,730 --> 00:14:32,890 The Australian Customs. 100 00:14:36,940 --> 00:14:43,240 Well, it says right here in this first sentence, it says Australian Customs. 101 00:14:44,180 --> 00:14:44,420 Right. 102 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:46,510 That's why that's like a starting point. 103 00:14:46,930 --> 00:14:48,460 That's a starting point. 104 00:14:48,970 --> 00:14:52,240 And then after that, we see in but in 1993. 105 00:14:53,770 --> 00:14:57,310 And then that's why what I said earlier, it could be more than one sentence. 106 00:14:58,060 --> 00:15:04,210 But in 1993, fed up with poor success rate of finding good dogs this way. 107 00:15:04,540 --> 00:15:12,520 John van der Loo, senior instructor with the Director Dog Unit, joined forces with Keith, then a 108 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:16,060 doctoral student, and set up a breeding program. 109 00:15:16,060 --> 00:15:20,350 So it says here the guy was fed up. 110 00:15:20,740 --> 00:15:21,220 Right. 111 00:15:21,220 --> 00:15:27,400 He well, he was tired of the dogs having a really poor success rate. 112 00:15:28,330 --> 00:15:33,310 And so as a result, he changed and set up a breeding program. 113 00:15:33,610 --> 00:15:37,210 He was tired of their failures and decided to set up a new program. 114 00:15:37,900 --> 00:15:40,330 What answer choice does that fit? 115 00:15:40,830 --> 00:15:41,200 Right. 116 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:42,740 It's a paraphrase of choice. 117 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:49,430 See, again, that's what you're doing is a paraphrase of choice. 118 00:15:49,450 --> 00:15:53,230 See, you have to be able to find the paraphrase. 119 00:15:57,090 --> 00:15:58,200 29. 120 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:00,690 Most dogs are not good. 121 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:04,310 Most dogs are not good at finding drugs. 122 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:06,330 Not good at finding drugs. 123 00:16:07,530 --> 00:16:09,970 It says ordinary dogs. 124 00:16:09,990 --> 00:16:13,950 Most dogs have a 0.1%. 125 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:17,160 That's bad, 0.1%. 126 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:24,120 Not good chance of making it in drug detection and drug detection. 127 00:16:35,590 --> 00:16:38,620 And so you're asking what answer did you put for 29? 128 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:52,750 See where the drugs are usually well hidden. 129 00:16:53,950 --> 00:16:55,150 I'm not sure. 130 00:16:56,170 --> 00:16:57,750 I'm not sure what you're talking about. 131 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,600 But when they talk about ordinary dogs having a 0.1 chance. 132 00:17:02,230 --> 00:17:02,530 Right. 133 00:17:02,660 --> 00:17:07,900 The you're talking about they don't they don't really have the ability to do it. 134 00:17:10,210 --> 00:17:11,320 If you look at look at this. 135 00:17:11,350 --> 00:17:12,850 Look at these two sentences together. 136 00:17:12,850 --> 00:17:15,040 Like I told you, sometimes it can be two sentences. 137 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:22,840 Florence is one of a truly new breed genetics, the product of what is perhaps the only project in the 138 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:25,600 world dedicated to breeding genetics. 139 00:17:25,750 --> 00:17:33,700 Dogs solely detect different drugs, breed it to to breed bred, bred to detect drugs. 140 00:17:34,060 --> 00:17:36,760 Again, we're talking about genetic qualities. 141 00:17:37,750 --> 00:17:44,860 Ordinary dogs have a 0.1% not good chance of making it in drug detection or finding drugs. 142 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:49,510 They don't have they don't have the qualities. 143 00:17:51,070 --> 00:17:51,880 All right. 144 00:17:52,150 --> 00:17:55,720 So I'm happy that you understand. 145 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:56,410 All right. 146 00:17:56,410 --> 00:17:59,320 So that's going to wrap it up for today. 147 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:04,180 Thank you very much for joining me. 148 00:18:04,930 --> 00:18:14,020 I hope that you have a deeper understanding, a deeper understanding of how to do reading passages and 149 00:18:14,020 --> 00:18:17,860 you understand more about the strategy of doing reading passages. 150 00:18:20,500 --> 00:18:28,000 Please make sure that as when you finish the course at some point in the course, please make sure that 151 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,340 you rate and review the course. 152 00:18:31,690 --> 00:18:37,540 That's very helpful, and I hope that you will be kind enough to rate and review the course. 153 00:18:40,060 --> 00:18:41,260 The ratings are what? 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