hi guys it's ASEA and for today's video
I've analyzed some of the prettiest
questions and ayats reading which are
true false not given and here's know not
given
I've taken the official arts practice
tests for the last three years and I've
done all the questions of these types in
order to find any patterns or any tricks
to help you find answers more easily and
it has found some and that's what I'm
going to talk about in this video I will
talk you through some example questions
too so let's get started
what happened out well first of all
almost all tests have them unfortunately
usually true false not given I am the
first passage which is the easiest or
sometimes in the second and yes no not
given and usually in the third passage
which is the most difficult or sometimes
in the second and the next tip is really
easy but it's very powerful and it was
so excited when I discovered that
basically you always need to use all
three answers sometimes you have four
questions in a set sometimes five let's
say you have four so what is going to be
true when is false one is not human and
the last one is one of the three however
if you have five questions it's still
not likely that three of them are going
to be true or three of them are going to
be not given answers are usually evenly
distributed so if the answers to the
first four questions are like that what
do you think the fifth answer should be
my bet is it's not given however as may
change that in the future so I would say
don't change your answer because of this
tape but you use it to help you so
decide what answer you should go for or
to guess the answer if you can't find it
the first thing you need to do is to
locate the correct beat of the text
which contains the answer the good thing
is you'll find answers in the same order
as questions are asked so what I usually
do is I read the first statement and
then I start scanning the text until I
feel that the answer is somewhere here
then it slowed down really the statement
reads a bit of the text in the case the
answer read the second statement
continue scanning the text and so on
it's really helpful when you know that
you don't need to go backwards in the
text to look for your answers you only
need to go forward the
true in probably 95% of cases but
occasionally when you have yes no not
given questions in the passage three at
the very end of it questions may not be
in order but in most tests they are if
you want to know all question types
which come in order and which don't come
in order watch my video it's called
IELTS reading hack other things which
will help utility the answer are names
and dates whenever you see a name of a
theory or a name of a person or a date
highlight it straight away it will help
you to locate the correct bit of the
text also look for synonyms once you
read the statement you know that you're
not going to find exactly same words in
the text they do it on purpose
they always paraphrase so look for this
paraphrasing for example your statement
may say bilingual children and in the
text you will read children who speak
more than two languages or who speak to
you on more languages which is a
definition of being bilingual once
you've located the correct bit of the
passage which contains the answer how do
you decide which answer you should go
for let's have a look at true false not
given questions first what I want to say
is in this type of question the answer
is usually located in a single sentence
I'm going to show you an example I'm not
going to read it please pause the video
read the sentence from the passage read
the statement and decide if it's true
false not given and then resume the
video
okay already here is what I would do
first of all I read the statement in
1987 okay the date highlight hm okay
name highlight have the fastest bus to a
producing machine okay that's what we
are looking for the fastest butter
producing machine that existed at the
time that's important that it existed at
that time there may be another fastest
butter producing machine which existed
later in aisles often the devil is in
detail you really have to check
everything pay attention to words like
at that time usually mostly hardly the
wheel affect the answer is truly not
given false not given so pay attention
to everyone okay you've analyzed the
statement now we start reading the text
what they usually do is they give you
too much information
sentences alone word complex they're
trying to confuse you your goal is to
stay focused and to simply look for the
answer without trying to understand
everything that's going on because it
may not be possible unless your English
is really advanced so we're looking for
relevant bits and irrelevant bits from
1987 onwards okay the date matches
glassmaking that's what we're looking
for developed from traditional mouth
blowing to semi-automatic process do we
care about it no just cross it out after
factory owner HMRC introduced a machine
that's great capable of producing 200
butters per hour somewhere okay we don't
care about how many bottles and where he
produced them more than three times
quicker than any previous production
methods
okay that means that it was the fastest
body producing machine at the time and
so the statement is true let's have a
look at the next example again please
pause the video and decide if the
statement is true false not given and
then resume it
already okay for the statement is it is
more expensive to produce recycled glass
event to manufacture new glass okay so
it's saying that a recycled glass is
more expensive but than new glass let's
have a look at the text as less energy
is needed to motorcycle plus than to
melt down raw materials so raw materials
are needed to produce new glass right
and we know that less energy is needed
to melt our psycho glass this also saves
view and production costs saves costs
means the costs are lower so it's
cheaper to produce recycled glass but
the statement says it's more expensive
there is a direct contradiction and the
answer is false
let me show you one more example and
then we talk about yes no not given
questions ready please pause the video
and decide if the statement is true
false or not given
let's have a look at the statement
together nowadays okay that means at the
present moment that's important
most glass not just glass not all glass
but most glass more than 50 percent okay
that's important it is produced by large
international manufacturers so
manufacturers should be large and
international let's have a look at the
text more than glass plants if they're
more than it means it's happening at the
present moment or nowadays right so
that's correct
glass plants yes that's what we need a
capable of making millions of glass
containers a day in many different
colors and then they talk about colors
we don't care about colors at all so
just cross it out so what we know is
glass plants or glass manufacturers
right
capable of making a lot of glass but do
they produce most glass we don't know
are they international we have no idea
we haven't read anything about that at
all it means the answer is not given
in general teepees if you can't find an
answer to a certain question market not
given usually you can't find it because
it's not given don't waste too much time
on any single question just market not
given and move on now let's have a look
at yes no not given questions those are
usually given in the third passage where
the text is the most difficult and it
will be harder to find answers in true
false not given questions we deal with
facts we need to say if the statement is
true or its false in yes no not given
questions we deal with opinions of the
writer and we need to say if the
statement matches claims of the writer
or his opinion yes it matches oh no it
doesn't match or not given the
information is not provided we simply
can't say if it's yes or if it's no
there is another difference in true
false not given questions the answer is
usually in a single sentence here you
have to read several sentences usually
two sentences in order to find your
answer be prepared for that and let me
show you the first example now we have
the first example to expose the video
and decide if the answer is yes no or
not given
ready let's have a look at the statement
attitudes towards bilingualism not facts
but attitudes or opinions have changed
okay in recent years not some long time
ago but in recent years okay let's have
a look at the text we see in the past
bilingual children were considered to be
at a disadvantage okay so the attitude
was bad over the past few decades
however technological advances have
allowed researchers to look more deeply
at we're not interested in that and how
bilingualism interacts with and so on or
we are really not interested in water
searches looked at right that's not what
the question is about so cross it out
okay identifying several clear benefits
so what we have is in the past
disadvantage over the past few decades
clean your benefits so is it fair to say
attitudes have changed in recent years
yes
so the answer is yes in this type of
question it's very likely that you're
not going to know all the words
sentences alone try to analyze a
sentence structure to understand what
this bit of text is talking about and
then determine if it's relevant or it's
irrelevant and you don't care about it
all together quite often but the answer
depends on simple words which you know
and as long as you can stay focused and
you simply understand how different
words are related to each other you can
still find the answer even if you can't
understand everything the next example
is ready please pause the video now
ready let's have a look at the statement
bilingual people consistently
consistently means always regularly
named images faster okay and we read the
text and we know that knowing more than
one language it means being bilingual
can cause speakers to name pictures more
slowly okay so there is a direct
contradiction the statement says
bilingual people name pictures faster
and Texas bilingual people name pictures
loss slowly so the answer is no what I
want to say is yes no not given and
true/false not your questions are quite
similar pay attention to what type of
question you're answering because if you
mark it as false instead of know it will
be an incorrect answer ready for one
more question I'm going to give you some
extra tips after okay pause the video
now
if we have a look at the statement
bilingual people are better okay they're
better and guessing correctly what who
what's up that's what we're looking for
and we read this long bit of text it's
almost a paragraph but all we know is
that bilingual people guess words in
several languages but we don't know if
they are better or if they're worse but
we know that the correct beat of the
text because it's about guessing words
so the answer is not given and it often
happens to me that I keep on looking for
the answer and it can't find it and then
because it's not given so don't waste
too much time if you can't find an
answer probably it's not given another
tip is when you're answering questions
don't rely on your common knowledge use
only information you can read sometimes
it's really hard to decide between tree
not diamond or no doubt given you
shouldn't really hesitate between true
and false or yes and no if you ever do
try rereading it you probably miss
something but when you're hesitating
between
yes not given for example then it's more
difficult and I can't tell you how to
answer it because it really depends on
the question but from analyzing my
answers I've noticed that I usually get
into trouble if I start overthinking go
for the first answer once you've found
it just go for it and once you start
thinking oh and if I dig deeper maybe
there is a hidden meaning here and if I
look from that end oh that's really too
much just go for the first most obvious
answer I think you have enough examples
for today
how many questions could you answer
correctly tell me in comments also tell
me what types of reading questions do
you find most difficult and I try to
make videos about them thank you for
watching me today don't forget to watch
the video about questions which come in
order and
which don't come an order and good luck
with your preparation and exam
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