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OK, thank you, everybody, for joining me today for this live class.

This live class, as stated in the announcement, is covering the reading section question type of true

false that given.

Also, yes.

No, not given.

And that is what will be specifically covered today.

As you know, we have one live group class per month.

And in that in that live class, I normally cover a specific topic or subject that students might be

struggling with.

And I can say with certainty that the true false not given question is one of those question types that

students really have a problem with.

So my hope today is to go through this in a way that makes it very plain for you in terms of how to

manage this question in a very easy way so that your your answer accuracy rate goes up tremendously.

If you have any questions during this live class, you can ask the question in the chat box.

There won't be any other live microphones in a live class.

I don't do that because I'm recording this live class.

And if the recording has the proper sound quality, it can be uploaded into the Udemy course so somebody

can watch it again later on.

Or somebody has to leave the live class and they want to finish it.

They go watch it later on.

And if I have your background microphones on, it will destroy that possibility.

So let's go ahead and get into the true false negative and question.

So first question I have, why do students have difficulty with the yes, no, not given question?

You can put a response in the chat box to this, if you're if you're a student that's having trouble

with the yes, no, not giving question.

Go ahead and and type in the chat box and explain what you think is your difficulty or your problem

with the question type.

Or if you just have some idea of why students in general have difficulty with a yes, no, not given

question.

I'll give you 30 seconds, 45 seconds to respond.

In the chat box with whatever your difficulty is, whatever your challenge is, because today is the

day.

That you can have your specific challenge or problem addressed in a live session.

So we do have some responses filtering in right now.

Let's have a look at what some people are saying.

Dana, just say it is oh no, and not giving up, very confusing, OK, yet being a that is definitely

part of it.

Also, no one not give a lot of students are confused by knowing not given and being a and part of.

My hope is that after today, you won't be confused anymore.

Murray says they can't understand or find the stunning number paraphrased language.

I'm going to assume the Marieme you're talking about when standing or trying to scan and find a matching

sentence.

That is true.

That can be difficult.

And I am going to address that today also.

Because of the ambiguity and the questions.

There's no real ambiguity in the question.

I'll have to try and think about that in terms of what you mean by it traps in the passage.

No, there are no traps in the passage.

There's trap language or wrong language in the question.

But there's no trap in the passage.

See next one.

And if I mispronounce any of your names today, please forgive me, I'm just going to say Vincent.

Vincent says overthinking or confusing the answer choices overthinking is a big problem.

I agree, Vincent, over thinking is a big problem.

A lot of students tried to be too smart and they think that they have to come up with an answer.

Some statements can be implicitly inferred, making it ambiguous.

No, it's not.

It's not.

That's a problem when you all start inferring or thinking that you need to make an inference, you know,

to try to fill in missing blanks.

That's why you're messing up, right?

That's the problem.

Well, anything else?

So I put a whole paragraph in there, I can't read that right now.

No, I'm not given.

OK, everybody, let's start putting things in the box, please.

The passage contradicts everything in the question.

Yeah, I see that a lot of you have a lot of confusion.

Right.

I see a lot of you have a lot of confusion, please everybody.

If you have a video on, turn your video off.

OK, I'm not going to say I'm going to I'm not going to repeat that if if you keep showing your video

one, I'm going to, I'm going to like, eliminate you from the class and I don't want to do that.

All right, so a lot of you were able to identify some of the difficulty in terms of the yes or no giving

question.

Right, so far for right now, please stop putting things in the box.

Right.

So these are some of the reasons why students have difficulty.

And some of you were able to identify this searching for missing information not given a lot of students

struggle with the option of not given because for most of you and your educational life, you've come

across true and false or yes and no.

You all know that, but very few have come across having to deal with not given.

You're not familiar with what not given me.

And sometimes you are confused.

You know, is something not given in the past or something, not given the question and that you simply

have to understand that is a one way situation you're looking for.

It was not given in the question, not was not given in the, you know, was not given in the past.

It just is not, you know, you're not looking at it both ways.

Another big mistake or making assumptions, making an inference.

Connections that don't exist, trying to apply common sense.

Believe it or not, that's a big problem.

Trying to apply common sense, people thinking that, oh, and this is what we deal with overthinking

sometimes.

Sometimes students try to look at the whole passage sentence and the whole question language, all the

language, and they completely that that's that's there has that is not the strategy, the strategy

that is taught in this course.

And that's where it gets into overthinking.

And that really is because you lack strategy or lack the ability to apply strategy properly.

Thinking that you need to come up with an answer is not about you.

It's about comparing the language right is not about what you think a big problem also deals with.

If you have a lack of English skill and when you have a lack of English skill, a lot of times that

that's what ends up happening with.

That's what ends up causing overeating or overthinking is a lack of English steel because you can't

understand the context.

Now, in terms of dealing with false and not given, you can look at this question and passage here,

and this is a good example of how students will confuse false and gibbon.

So right here, says the question right is break up with the arrow here.

The question is says South America is the only country where the red much variety is located.

Then the passage says Mozza has been located in West Africa and even in more abundance in South Asia.

So is this answer false or is this answer not give it?

Right, with this ad to be false, they're not giving.

And I could tell you right now is what studios are going to give.

I'm going to see.

Here we go.

This is what I'm talking about here.

False.

False.

Not giving.

Not giving.

False.

Not given.

Not giving false.

Do you all see that you see you see the problems, right?

All right.

Please stop.

All right, stop, please.

So I could address this stop, please, like an address.

OK, so.

Fifty percent of you are wrong.

Right.

Do not put.

Who is this dynasty?

Do do not, as I said very clearly, do not put any links or anything like that in my course.

Do not do that.

All right.

Don't.

I'll repeat it again before I address the question.

That Chabot's has four questions, only not for you putting links in there anything else.

Or cross communication in a chat box.

If I see it again, whoever does it, I'm putting you out the class period.

All right.

So in terms of false and not giving the correct answer here is not give it.

Right is not given.

When you look at the question, right, Red Monitor is the only country or South America is the only

country where red montre variety is located.

When you look at the question here, when you look at this question here, what is the language?

And this is what helps.

What is the language that will determine if something is true or false or not given in the question?

I'm not talking about the key words, the key words will be South America and Red Market.

Those will be the key words to scan for the right, the right sentence.

What is the language in the question?

What is the language in the question?

I'm not answering I'm not asking for an explanation of the answer.

Right, that's not what I'm asking for.

Yeah, thank you, Sharif.

Right.

The language in the question that determines if something is going to be true or false or not given

is the only country, the only country.

Right.

Is it the only country where you find read much?

Is that the only country?

Now.

When you look at the passage centres.

Do you see anything?

Do you see anything that says it's the only country?

Right.

You can't confirm that.

The passage doesn't contradict that.

It doesn't confirm it.

It is missing that part is missing.

We don't know if it's the only country.

Right.

We don't know that.

No, it's not because South America is missing.

Right.

Or it could be because that also but also the answer is not give it right.

The answer, not give it.

Also, somebody can make the argument in terms of South America's missing also.

We don't know.

Right.

We don't know.

So, right, a lot of students mess up, and I'm not sure why somebody would choose false.

I'm not clear about that.

I don't know.

I can't.

I can't tell you why.

I can't tell you what the answer is.

Not well, because it's not.

It's not contradicted.

Right for this, for this answer to be false, it would have to say red matcha is found in West Africa.

Right.

That's the only way.

This answer can be false.

Is it this is red matches found in the West Africa or red matches also found itself in South Asia?

That's the only way the answer can be false.

It has to be a contradiction, right?

So that's that's something that you all need to be clear to stop overthinking it and just apply the

strategy has given.

So something I want to mention very quickly in terms of just not given versus true or false, not given.

These are slightly different.

In terms of meaning, there is no difference in strategy, right?

There is no difference in strategy at all.

You have if something is just not given, you're dealing with the opinion, view or belief of the writer.

You were trying to verify if the writers believe statement or opinion is something that is, is, you

know, is yes, yes, you can agree with it.

No, no, the pastor doesn't agree with it or the pastor doesn't give any information about.

So yes, no, not given dealing with opinions.

If you're dealing with true false not given here, you deal with factual information about the top and

you really are asking yourself, are is this fact true, false or not given in the passage?

Now, this might be helpful when you're thinking about it.

This might be helpful when you're thinking about it in terms of scanning.

There is something of a question is yes, no, not given your standing for the author's opinions, views

or beliefs.

If an answer is true or false or not given, then you're standing for statements that are factual in

nature and understanding that difference can, can, can help.

Maybe in that respect, but in terms of strategy, there is no difference in strategy.

There is no difference in application of the strategy.

And that's why very often you'll see me treated the same in terms of saying yes or not given.

And Nabila.

Your response wouldn't still be ambiguous as much as a superset of Rib Monster, that's what's called

overthinking the Billa.

That's that's a day you are giving a perfect example of overthinking.

I don't need you to be this smart.

Right.

Just this is the language comparison, beer is the language comparison.

OK.

The bill is on here talking about super classes.

That's not you're overthinking it.

OK.

You're overthinking it.

All right.

So that's a difference when yes, no, not given true false, not given a slight difference and only

meaningful if we're talking about something in terms of scanning.

Some helpful points to remember for, yes, no doubt given question.

The question is go in order.

After number one, you'll find number two, after number two, you'll find number three, after number

three, you'll find number four.

So forth and so on.

Were they not given question?

Sometimes you'll have you'll find a sentence that has that has relevant information to the question.

Sometimes they'll be just a complete absence of any information on the on on the not giving question.

There's going to be one of each type in the set, there's going to be at least one true, at least one

false, at least one not given.

So if you have five questions, there's going to be at least one of each.

We talked about this already, don't overread.

And when I'm talking about overread here, I'm not really talking about overthinking.

I'm talking about students who decide, well, I'm just going to read the whole paragraph.

And I'm just going to read the whole paragraph and digest all this information, they come up with what

I think is the answer, and that is why you end up getting those answers wrong.

Most of the time is overeating, taking into information too much information instead of doing a language

comparison meaning dangerous beer.

Be aware of language that changes meaning such as, you know, every all, some most always, often

a few occasionally.

Being aware of the twist language in the question, this is probably the most important thing that I'm

going to end up discussing today or helping you to be able to identify today is the what I call the

twist language.

And what I mean by this there is there's always language in the question.

There's always language in the question that a test designer is going to use to twist it towards true

twist it towards false or twisted towards that given.

If you're able to identify what that language is, it makes the answering process to be so much easier.

And then the final thing I'll talk about in terms of a helpful point to remember is question and answer

creation.

Understand that a question can come out of two sentences.

And what I mean by that is that sometimes and this is something they're doing a lot more now than they

used to do in the past, where they may take one or two words from one sentence and then they might

take, you know, two or three words from the next sentence.

And then they use that information to combine into one question.

And so, you know, when you're trying to find an answer, you might find the question language in one

sentence and then find the answer language in the next sentence.

So you want to be aware of that as a as a possibility.