Hello, you caught me in the middle of me caring for my beautiful succulent garden,
just give it a little bit of water every 7 to 10 days. Okay let's get to GMAT Tuesdays.
Welcome, thanks for joining me for another GMAT Tuesdays.We are diving
into the official guide to the gmat and working through reading comprehension
questions and we're on question number three in a previous video we went
through the passage and attack the passage as a refresher of what the
passage is all about I wrote down the main idea structure and tone here so the
main idea is the passage about two ideas or two theories of schooling the
structure first paragraph is the introduction second paragraph is about
the theory a or idea a paragraph number three is about the critics of theory a
and then introduces introduces excuse me theory be which talks about the
confusion effect and the fourth paragraph is all about serie b and then
the tone it's balanced ish and then basically the author is sort of unbiased
here generally just presenting the two theories not arguing for one or the
other okay so like I said we're in question number three which is a
detailed question and you might ask Kevin how do you know it's a detailed
question that is an excellent question um so in the passage we're in this book
there's newer ones but you'll find this question and the new ones as well
according to the explanation so anytime I see that phrasing according to the
passage according to the explanation I know I'm dealing with a detail question
I'll continue reading according to one explanation of the confusion effect of
fish that swims in a school of a greater advantage for survival if it does
something so um now that I know I'm dealing with a detail question I know
what my process should be or my approach to this question so we've already
attacked the we can rephrase the question they're
asking about the confusion effect and they want to know what sort of advantage
the confusion effect gives a school of fish or what there'd be says the
advantage is i would do some research in the passage so i know from the structure
that i wrote down then probably be focused on the fourth paragraph that's
where there's two sort of benefits that are described of the confusion effect
then i would anticipate the answer and then finally eliminate any wrong answers
remember we want to work on eliminating wrong answers first instead of just
trying to find the right answer I find it easier to eliminate wrong answers
because there's more of them and it helps narrow in on what is right about
the right answer and it gets you thinking about how something is wrong
sometimes there's only one small thing in an answer choice that's wrong and you
need to find that one small thing to in order to eliminate it and that helps you
to really confirm the right answer if you can't find anything wrong with it
then you know you found the right answer so there are common wrong answers in
detail questions one is an inference where the answer choice synthesizes
information from two different places in the passage another one is distortion
where it takes information from the passage and twists it and then finally
any time you've seen answer choices that just adds new information even if it's
on the same topic that's going to be wrong there has to be something in the
passage that says what the answer choice is saying if you don't find that then
it's going to be wrong answer okay let's take a look at our answer choices so
answer choice a says that it so remember we're talking about theory be and assign
about being visible at 200 meters this is a perfect example of a distortion
answer choice because this description is a theory a knot theory beep so they
want to make sure that you are searching the right part of the passage you're not
just finding information that's in the passage you have to know what the
question is asking so I know I'm game for theory be information that was
theory a answer choice B talks about the fish being in the front of the group or
in the breeder of the group there's nothing in the passage that talks about
the placement of the fish in the schooling group so I know this is new
information and wrong answer choice C talks about whether it's a small group
or a large group again the passage doesn't go into the size of the
schooling group if you look at the fourth paragraph there's nothing about
how big the school is in terms of it helping to protect them from predators
so this is new information again and wrong answer choice D it talks about how
the fish are all similar they're all similar in appearance which is discussed
in LA and 34 um so this is definitely in the passage so this is our right answer
finally answer choice e the top really short answer just as medium sized
basically again this is there's no information about the size of the fish
or the size of the group discussed in the passage so this is new information
and we can consider it wrong all right that is it if you have any questions
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