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Hello and good afternoon and thank you for joining me for this live listening Isles class.

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As I mentioned in the announcement, this live class is only going to cover how to do a multiple choice

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question.

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The reason why I have a specific focus on the multiple choice question is because I get a lot of students,

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a lot of students that ask me about doing this particular kind of question.

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If you were with me last month and you were in the live class, you know that the focus of the live

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class last month was I was listening, but it was focused on doing the fill the blank question and we

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only focused on the field, the blank question.

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Now, if you miss that class, the recording is uploaded in the listening section of the course in the

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live, live listening class recording section, and you can find it there.

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So I put the rules for the class in the chat box.

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If you're just joining us.

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Please make sure you review those rules so you understand how to be a good student in the class.

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Thank you for joining.

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Let's go ahead and get started.

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Right.

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So as you know, there are four basic parts to the listening section.

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I'm just going over this a very, very quickly because believe it or not, I have a lot of students

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that are absolutely, absolutely brand new to doing the eye exam.

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So in the listening, there are four parts and.

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The listening section gets progressively more difficult.

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What I mean by that is part number one is really, really easy.

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Part number one is at the level of a basic English level student.

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In the end, part number two is probably lower intermediate.

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Part number three is upper and intermediate and part number four is advanced level in terms of the listening.

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So really on the exam they progress through through all the levels of English.

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Part number one is the conversation part.

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Number two is a short talk.

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Part three is a conversation.

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And part four is also a short talk, but is more of an academic kind of lecture.

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And that's the that's the longest part in terms of in terms of the listening section.

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I did see one question in the class, I think, by somebody named Bruce who raised his hand.

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Bruce, if you have a question, as it says in the rules, just ask a question in the chat box and make

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sure your question is related to the classroom topic.

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However, before you put your question in the chat box, make sure you read the rules, because I may

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have already answered your question.

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Now some students.

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Want to know how to improve their overall English.

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I get a lot of students that when they start the course, they you know, they say, I want to get a

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score of 7.5.

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I want to get a score of eight.

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And if you read the reviews in the course, you'll see that a lot of my students get scores of 7.5,

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eight, 8.5 all the time.

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Now, there is a direct correlation between getting a score of eight or 8.5 or even nine and your level

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of English.

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So it's not enough that you just take this course.

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You have to always you have to always be working on improving your overall English.

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So in terms of listening, listen to a lot of short lectures, listen to TED talks, listen to podcasts,

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listen to English talk radio.

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Just make sure that if you really are serious about preparing for this exam and doing well on the listening

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section.

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That you are listening to English.

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You'll notice that I did not say music.

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Also, I did not say movies and TV.

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Yes, those are great.

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And yes, they are in English.

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But one of the problems with television or with a movie is that it's audio and is visual.

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And very often people get more distracted by the visual thing that's going on than concentrating on

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the audio.

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When you listen to a short talk, a short lecture or podcast, you're only focusing on your listening.

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You're only focusing on improving your recognition of the language, you know, through a through a

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listening medium.

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So that's what I have to say in terms of improving your overall English.

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Now there are different variations of a multiple choice question.

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And so I'm going to go through those variations very quickly.

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Of course, you have the standard multiple choice question.

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A standard question.

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You have the question and you have three answer choices.

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That's a standard multiple choice question.

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Then you might have a multiple choice question where they ask you to pick from a list.

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It might be pick two things from the list, like it says for this question right here.

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Which two groups of people is the display primarily intended for?

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So sometimes they might ask you to pick three from a list and they might have five or six choices and

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ask you to pick three from a list.

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What three things did the person say?

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So that also is a variation or a type of question that you might have to do.

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Now you also have the type of multiple choice question where we're coming from the box.

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And what I mean by that is they give you like here they give you eight answer choices in the box A through

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And the questions are going to go in order.

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They're going to talk about the eldest child, the eldest child first.

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in connection to one of these answer choices.

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The trick here is that they're not going to say these words exactly.

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They're going to say a synonym of one of those words or a paraphrase of one of those words.

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And you have to be able to recognize the paraphrase or recognize a synonym.

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But this is also another type of multiple choice question.

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Here's the one with with the in terms of choosing the answers in the box.

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I want to make a difference between these two.

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The difference between these two is that with this first one, you can see that the answer choices are

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all single words.

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When they have this question in section three, you see that the answer choices are much longer.

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So when, when they're increasing the difficulty from section one to 2 to 2 to 3 to 4, when they're

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increasing the difficulty, they are making the answer choices longer, they're making the questions

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But the strategy doesn't change.

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The tactic doesn't change.

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And this is another type of multiple choice question.

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Here we have the the single categories in the questions, national news, editorial, human interest

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And then you have the categories up here, which are which are full sentences.

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So this is a variation on the multiple choice question in the box.

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This is another type of variation.

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But it's all multiple choice.

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And all multiple choice questions follow the same strategy or same tactics which deal with recognizing

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synonyms and paraphrasing.

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Very here it is now, which is the opposite of this one.

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phrases here.

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Sometimes you might have it where it looks like this.

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Where they ask you a question.

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They're asking you a question.

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And then you have to hear or listen for which to subjects did they wish to subjects did they did they

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say, like I said, which two subjects did Martina like best before going to university?

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You're going to hear if you were doing this when you would hear all the subjects.

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But you have to be able to focus on the key words like best before going to university, and only two

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of those answer choices that they say is going to be in connection with that key word language and the

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question.

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But when they say that key word language in the question, in the audio, they're going to paraphrase

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Now in terms of the multiple choice question, there are really three different difficulty levels with

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the standard question.

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And so if you are if you see a multiple choice question, the standard multiple choice question in section

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one, you'll look like this where they have one, one word or one or two word answer choices.

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Those are really, really easy.

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And you want to try to be perfect on those.

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Then when you move on to section two, you might get the question is going to be a little bit longer.

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Some of the answer choices will be a little bit longer in terms of when it gets to Section two.

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And then when it gets to section three, you can see you have much longer questions.

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You have much longer answer choices.

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So I point this out to say some students think that there's a different strategy when it comes to Section

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three or a different strategy when it comes to Section four.

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When you're comparing it to sections one and two, the strategy is not different.

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The level of vocabulary is increased.

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The length of the question is increased, the length of the answer choice is increased.

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That's what they're doing.

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And the reason why they're doing that is because that's how they make a decision between different levels

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of English.

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That's how they make a decision.

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That's how they that's how they weed you out.

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Because a student that's at a basic level of English is going to have a really difficult time with a

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question like number 21 here.

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Even a student is at an intermediate level of English.

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They may struggle somewhat with this question.

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And the reason why they struggle is they have difficulty recognizing the keywords and the questions.

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They have a lot of difficulty being able to choose which of the answer choices is a paraphrase of what

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And students at lower level, lower lower levels of English are much more likely to pick an answer choice

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because they heard them say a word.

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And so this is how they separate you.

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The purpose of having four sections in the listening part is to separate you.

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Students that are able to do great on section four are probably two students that are between the 7.5

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and nine students that can do okay in section three.

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They're probably between the six and 7.5 and students that can only do well on section sections one

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and two are those students that are getting scores of 5.5 and less.

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So I want you to be clear about how they break down the listening section in terms of in terms of English

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level.

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And that's why I said in the very beginning.

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In addition to learning what I teach you in this course, you have to improve your overall English.

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You must you have to do that.

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So, you know, wherever you are, whatever country you're in, you know, if you're in Egypt, stops

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listening to Arabic.

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If you're in India, stop listening to Hindi.

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If you're in where?

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Wherever you're located.

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If you're in Brazil, stop listening to Portuguese.

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If you're in Ghana, stop listening to Twi.

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I can go on and on telling you what not to listen to.

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What I want you to listen to is English all the time as much as possible.

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I'm going to look and see if there are any questions before I move on to the next section.

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All right, S.K..

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It is difficult to read multiple choice questions in one minute.

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When question is options are too long.

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As I am going to talk about this from a strategy standpoint when they give you and I'm assuming the

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only time there's one minute is really when you're talking about Section four, if it's in Section three,

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it's actually less than one minute in terms of the time they give you to listen to listen to to read

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through the questions for a multiple choice question.

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But to to to answer you directly ask when they give you time to look through the questions or they give

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you that 45 seconds in the very beginning to look at questions, 21 to 27, you're supposed to use that

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time to find the key words in the question.

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Not the answer choices.

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You're supposed to be finding the keywords and the question that is the critical information, the critical

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keywords that you need to find.

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And 40 to 45 seconds is enough time for you to find the keywords and the question.

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So why?

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Why do I.

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Why do I say focus on the keywords and the question when you have that time?

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Because when you hear that language.

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that is when they say the answer choice.

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Now, this is the this is the trick when it comes to the listening section.

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You have to be able to simultaneously.

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Listen to the audio and be reading through the answer choices simultaneously.

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The reason why some of you mess up is because you're focused on just listening.

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You're focused on just listening and you're not doing both at the same time.

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So there is enough time to do to do what I what I suggest that you do.

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Mitra I did talk about improving your your listening skill.

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I told you in the very beginning you want to, to only listen to audio listening that that improves

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your listening skill.

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Something else that improves your listening skills.

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Taking the time to read the listening transcripts.

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Really sometimes just take the listening transcript, play the audio and read along with what they're

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saying in the audio.

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You want to be you want to be really comfortable with how the patterns of the listening work and the

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work, how they work.

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And you have to be able to sometimes just look at the transcript of what they say and become more familiar

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with how it works.

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You improve your vocabulary by studying synonyms lists.

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That's in section 25 of the course.

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And rhythm sometimes name rhythm while.

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In terms of synchronizing your listening and writing answers simultaneously, that that is a skill that

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gets better with practice.

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There's really no trick to it, but you just have to get it gets better with practicing.

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Sunder.

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I'm going to answer your question, even though because some people may not understand it in terms of

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the reason why they give you 10 minutes on the paper exam and only give you 2 minutes on the computer

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exam is in terms of listening and transferring answers is because on the on the paper exam, people

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may write their answers down on the test booklet.

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And then they have the trains.

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They have to transfer all of their all of their answers to the answer sheet.

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That's why they're given 10 minutes on the computer.

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The computer automatically does it for you.

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So they're only giving you 2 minutes to look through your answers.

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People doing the paper tests have to literally transfer.

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Some people transfer all their answers.

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No mistakes.

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In Part four, don't weigh more than part number one.

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Each question is worth one point.

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Right answer this.

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Already in the beginning, the test gets more progressively difficult.

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Part one is four basic level.

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Part four is for advanced level English.

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Okay.

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All right.

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So somebody asked me about keywords and I'm talking about that later on.

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Okay.

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So everybody, please hold your questions and I'm going to move on to the next section because if I

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don't if I don't move on, I'm not going to finish.

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And I'm telling you, you want me to finish?

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So please just hold your question.