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Some quickly, I'm going to go through this part in terms of some common problems and difficulties when

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it comes to multiple choice questions strategy.

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Right.

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Of course, simultaneous reading and listening in terms of simultaneous reading and listening.

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This is a big, big issue for a lot of students because when the audio was playing, you have to be

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looking through the answer choices.

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You have to be listening to the answer choices.

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One one activity that indirectly again I said I said the word indirectly.

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One activity that can help you with simultaneous listening and doing listening and doing something else

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at the same time is actually taking notes from a from an audio.

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When you're when you practice taking notes, it forces you to listen and do something else at the same

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time.

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Right now, of course, on the aisles listing exam, you're listening and reading through answer choices.

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But the point I'm making is being able to improve the scale of listening and doing something else at

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the same time.

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Another problem that students have or difficulties, they hear the same words.

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They're testing your ability to recognize synonyms and paraphrasing.

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One reason why so many students get answers wrong is because they pick answer choices because they heard

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that word.

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They said, Oh, yeah, see the word?

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I heard them say this word n choice a and so I'm going to pick that as a answer choice in terms of the

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in terms of that, you can't keep up with the audio or they're speaking too fast.

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This goes to improving your overall listening ability.

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And I talked earlier.

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I'll talk earlier in the class about how to improve your overall ability.

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Managing distractions is a big difficulty for some students in terms of managing distractions.

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These are words that are designed to trick you into selecting the wrong answer choices.

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Sometimes they use contractions such as.

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But however, like, for example, you might hear you might hear a student say something and somebody

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else will say, but.

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And what that means is that the previous thing they said was wrong.

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But students are not able to really manage distractions very well.

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Exact language is a distraction, so self correction is a distraction.

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So you have to get much better at managing distractions.

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She sent me a message in the course, and I will explain to you how to be able to.

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You're not taking notes.

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You don't take notes on the computer test.

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Okay.

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You don't take any notes.

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Yes.

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The Cambridge books are as close as you're going to get to the difficulty level of the real exam.

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All right.

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So those are some difficulties.

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Some other difficulties.

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Some students choose the first answer they heard.

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Most of the time, the first the first thing you heard them say is the wrong answer.

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They do that because then they know a lot of students, especially students that don't have a high level

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of English.

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They often will just pick the first thing they heard, especially when they use an exact word in terms

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of no time to read.

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I explained and talked about this earlier.

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When they give you time to look through the questions before they start the audio.

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Your job is not to look at the questions and the answer choices.

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Your job with that limited time is to identify the keywords and the questions.

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Keywords and questions are always content words, content words, not functional words, not grammatical

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words.

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Keywords and questions are content.

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Words, confident words are nouns.

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Verbs, adverbs.

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Those are content words.

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You have to also make sure that you talked about this already not listening for exact words.

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You're listening for paraphrasing and synonyms.

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Again, if you can't comprehend what they're saying there relates to English level everybody.

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Other problems.

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Long questions, long answer choices.

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I've mentioned this already.

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You have to get better at simultaneous reading through and listening at the same time.

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Very often, all the answer choices are stated.

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This is a difficulty for some students because they'll hear information from all the answer choices.

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And you have to remember you're listening for which answer choice is connected to the keywords and the

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question.

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Question keywords versus what you hear in the audio.

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We went over this already in the in the previous exercises and I showed you how they're using paraphrasing.

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I showed you how they're using synonyms and you have to get better at doing that.

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Also some people struggle with that.

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The choices are given in a different order.

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So for example, in the question you have ABC and the audio, they may say information related to B

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first and then say information related to C and then information related to A.

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So these are all challenges and difficulties that happen that happened during the aisles listening.

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And you have to get better at managing these problems and better at managing these difficulties.

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All right.

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Cale I'm not doing.

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Phil the blank questions right now, my friend.

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This is only multiple choice.

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Myth or I don't quite understand your question because I suggest for listening to follow the tape script

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or not.

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No, no, no, no.

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I mean, yeah, if you're if you're not Mithra, if you're not answering questions and you're just trying

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to learn how listening is structured, how the conversations are structured, and you're trying to learn

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how the short talks or short lectures are structured.

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Then it's perfectly fine.

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Sometimes they have the transcript in front of you and play the audio and read along with what you're

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hearing and discover how conversations are structured and discover how short, short talks or short

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lectures are.

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Structured.

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Structured, that's fine.

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And ask.

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I don't understand your question.

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Eliminating wrong will help to trace the right one.

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Oh.

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Um.

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Yeah.

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I mean, that could help.

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I mean, that could help you in terms of process of elimination.

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You know, we call that PO.

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But that's that's that's something much more that you that you do on the beat than you do on the on

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the aisle.

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But process of elimination does work.

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But that's much more that's something that's much that's something that you really do on the twofold

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beat because you're able to listen first and take notes and then answer the questions and then PO our

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process of elimination works much better.

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Okay, I'm going to go ahead and move forward.

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Please hold your questions.

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All right.

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So coming up next.

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Which is what some of you may have been working waiting on is I'm going to go through some practices.

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On these first.

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On these first two practices.

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I'm going to more hold your hand and walk you through it.

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In terms of I'm going to explain to you the key words that I would underline as as in the questions

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and really break down each individual answer choice.

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And really so the first two, I'm going to walk you through it step by step.

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And then after that, it'll be just more of true practice where I'm not holding your hand and walking

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you through it.