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Okay, everybody, the first lecture we're going to go over in terms of specific question strategy is

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in is dealing with the fill the blank question.

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So before we get into the passage and I demonstrate for you the application of the strategy, let's

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first look at our strategy, summarize page and look at the strategy for the field, the Blaine question.

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As you can see, it's right over here in this area, right over here on the left hand side.

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And I'll I'll highlight it for you so that you can see where I'm talking about.

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Right.

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So and for the field of Blaine, question number one, it goes in order.

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That's great.

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Because if you know where question number two is, you know, that question number one is found above

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that and question number three is found below that.

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So knowing that the question goes in order is a big, big help in terms of your going quickly through

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this type of question, you want to read through the questions and spot the easiest to do first.

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What I mean by that is look for the language that's going to be easiest to find names, dates, scientific

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words, phrases.

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Some of those are going to be very easy to find or words that don't really have synonyms you want to

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go through.

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And and the reason why you do that is, as we said earlier, the questions go in order.

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So say, for example, if I'm doing question number four, I decided to question number 4/1.

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And it has really easy language to find, like it has a name and a date.

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If I find question number four in paragraph number three, that's a great that's great to know because

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now I know.

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Well, questions three, two and one are in the above paragraphs one and two, and then question five

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is below that.

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Question five and six are below that in question four.

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And that really because I can find that question so quickly, that really helps me then locate where

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the other questions are and be able to answer quickly and move through this question.

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So you want to underline at number three, now underline the keywords in the questions you want to scan

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and find the matching sentence to your first easiest question.

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Now, let me say this before we get to number five.

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You want to make sure that when it comes to after you finish step number four and it comes to being

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ready to answer the question, pay attention to the language that comes before and after the blank line,

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because that's the language that your answer will be connected to.

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All right.

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Pay attention to the language test before and after the blank line, because that's where the answer

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will come from.

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Now, once you find the language in the passage sentence, when you look at the passage sentence and

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you're looking for the answer, what I'm doing is I'm looking in the passage sentence and I'm looking

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for the language that comes before and after the blank line.

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Once you find that language, once you find that language, then you're able to find the answer directly

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and write that answer down.

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A lot of students think they need to understand the whole sentence and find the meaning of the whole

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sentence.

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And and they're not they're not you're not looking for the right thing.

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You're not looking for the answer.

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Right.

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You need you're trying to process the sentence.

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And sometimes that's why you're going slow.

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Just find the matching synonym language it was before, before or after the blank line.

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And there's the answer.

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It's unnecessary to to process the whole sentence and the meaning of the whole sentence.

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So as I am going through this reading passage and demonstrating for you how this strategy is applied,

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you'll, you'll see what I mean and you'll see how this works.

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So let's go ahead and move forward.

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So we're looking at this reading passage.

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And this reading passage is from book number 12.

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It's from book number 12.

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So if you have book number 12, which you should have, I recommend that you always get the books.

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And if you have book number 12 and you want to do it on your own and then compare it to my analysis,

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you should go ahead and stop the tape right here and and do this reading passage from book number 12.

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And then you can come back and check your answers and and also have the analysis so you can be able

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to see what you're doing.

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So let's go ahead and go down to.

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Now, it's not necessary for me to read this reading passage.

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Some people say, well, I want to read the passage first and then answer the questions.

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You're wasting time.

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You're wasting time.

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The questions are going to give you the direction in terms of what you should read and what you should

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be scanning for.

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Otherwise, you're just reading.

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But you're not reading with purpose.

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You're just reading so you can get your own general understanding and you're wasting clock.

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And when in terms of this course, I'm all about efficiency.

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Not wasting that clock, getting through it so you can get a high number.

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Correct.

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All right.

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So now we're dealing with a fill the blank question.

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So first thing we're going to do is we're looking at this question, these questions, and we're saying,

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well, which ones are going to be some of the easiest to do first?

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And really, you know, that this is this is something that's a little bit different with the general

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exam because, you know, these questions are questions 15 through 20.

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And when you're dealing with Section one or Section two from the general reading section is really,

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really easy sometimes because the passages are so easy, they don't have any kind of language that really

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can maybe help you out in terms of, well, which one should I do first?

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So when I'm looking at 15 through 20, none of these really have any language that jumps out at me that

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I would do first.

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So I would probably just start trying to look for number one, number 15/1.

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If we were dealing in section number three, if we're dealing a section number three, you would definitely

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see you would definitely see language in questions that are going to be easiest to find first.

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But let's go ahead and first start looking at what are the what are the key words in the question.

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So we definitely have will help.

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That's important.

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And also places and advertise, right.

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That language is going to be really helpful for that one for that for that question, for number 16,

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something that belongs to your customers.

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And also how they feel about it.

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How they feel.

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For number 16, we're looking at forms of advertising and and we're looking at also at in terms of our

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keyword language, looking at potential customers.

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Scuse me.

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And for number 18, we're dealing with something about useful.

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And also about business.

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This is the language that I'm when I'm pointing when I'm highlighting this language or I'm underlining

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this language, let me explain to you what I'm doing.

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I'm doing two things.

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I'm highlighting language that will help me find the sentence.

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And I'm also highlighting language that points to the answer.

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So we're looking at two things here, language that will help me find the right sentence and language

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that will help me to point towards the answer.

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So in our next one, we're looking at measuring the effects and we're also looking at something that

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it can give you and the end for number 20.

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Success and depends on.

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So if you're doing the test and you're doing it on paper, you can be you can you could really underline

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this language because underlying this language, we really help you be in terms of being able to do

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two things.

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One, language points to the answer and also the language that will help you in terms of locating the

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right sentence.

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So we're first of all, we're looking for is something that will help you to discover.

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Effective places to advertise.

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Effective places to advertise.

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So we can see right here.

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It says, knowing where your customers look.

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This is where knowing where your customers look or knowing where your customers look for advertising.

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So I know that number 15, number 15 is going to be right here.

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It's going to be in this paragraph right here.

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That's the number 15 is going to be it's going to be in that paragraph.

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Now, when I look at this paragraph, I'm looking at something that will help you.

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Language that means the same as something that will help you.

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All right.

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And also, we have places that advertise.

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Places that advertise.

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Help me to know that that was the paragraph we should be looking at.

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But I'm looking at length.

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I'm looking for a language that says will help you.

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Language that means will will help you because that's going to help me in terms of finding the answer.

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Right now.

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I see the language right now.

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This is the language and then answer that is going to point to the right here.

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That's why it pays to.

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That's why it pays to write.

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So that's why it pays to is the synonym language for will help you.

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That's why it pays to is synonym language for will help you.

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So our answer our answer is, of course, going to be right here, research.

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So that's why it pays to do a bit of research is the same thing as saying that is saying it will help

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you.

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Some research will help you.

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Some some research will help you, which is from the question.

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Some research will help you as the same as saying that's why it pays to do a bit of research.

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So it's all about synonym language is all about cinnamon synonym language.

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So I know this is where where I have to look.

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This is where I need to find the sentence that has the language that's going to point towards the answer.

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So we know for number 15.

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We know for number 15 that our answer is going to be research.

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Our answer is research.

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Now 16 right now, I know this question goes in order.

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That means 16 has to come next.

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So 16 says a blank of your customer, something of your customers.

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We'll show you how they feel.

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How they feel.

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Something of your customers will show you how they feel.

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Now, this is and this is in Section two, I believe.

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And, you know, these questions are going to go in order.

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So that means number 16 is most likely going to come from this next paragraph 17 from this next little

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paragraph, 18 from this next little paragraph.

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Because as I say it, sections one and two are going to be really, really easy to do if you know what

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you're doing.

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So we're looking for language that talks about how they feel.

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All right.

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And I'm going through it very quickly looking for language.

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That means feeling all right.

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And I have found it.

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Language that means feeling.

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What they like and what they don't like.

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That's language.

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That means feeling.

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That's the sentence I'm looking for.

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This sentence right here is telling me about how they feel.

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So then I am looking for something that is for my customers or something being done to my customers.

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They blink of your customers, right?

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A blink of your customers.

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And we are we see it.

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I saw it earlier right here.

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Right here.

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We have of your customers is right here.

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We have the language survey of your customers.

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All right.

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So survey is going to be our answer choice.

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All right.

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And so we can see that number 16.

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Was right here.

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And I'm showing you that because just to show you that how things are going in order that this question

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goes in order.

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Right.

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So a survey.

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Survey is our answers.

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A survey of your customers.

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Now, some people may ask me or probably going to ask me and say if they say, what could the answer

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A simple phone.

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It says a simple phone or email survey.

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A simple phone or email.

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That's just a descriptive description of the type of survey.

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The answer is survey.

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It could be it could be a phone survey or email survey, but the answer is a survey.

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So you wouldn't put a phone or simple phone because it's not talking about a phone call, a simple phone

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survey or email survey.

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But the answer, i.e., the core answer is survey.

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And that's all you would put as your answer choice.

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Also because what do the directions say?

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The directions say what?

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The directions say one word only.

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One word only.

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So if you go ahead and put email survey, you know what?

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That's wrong.

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If you put phone survey, that's wrong.

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You can only put one word.

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Let's keep going next.

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We're dealing with something with forms of advertising forms.

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The answer is connected to forms of advertising.

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And we're talking about something that's going to make the potential customers find you.

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All right.

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Make sure your customers know you're there.

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This is talking about finding that means that number 17 is going to be in this paragraph.

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All right.

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So forms of advertising.

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All right, so here are our forms of advertising right here.

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Our forms of advertising are right here.

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Look, print, press, email, blah, blah, blah.

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Those are forms of advertising.

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Those are forms of our advertising.

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Now, let's look at the question again.

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It says a blank forms of advertising will make it more likely that potential customers will find it.

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So something's being done to that.

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Something's being done to the advertising, right?

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Something's being done to the advertising to make it more likely that they'll find you.

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Okay.

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And here's our answer right here.

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Our answer is right here with mix.

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All right.

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There's our answer right there.

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And your chances of being seen as a synonym language for we'll find you.

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But using a mix of these forms of advertising increases your chances of being seen.

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So you see, it's a lot of synonym language.

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It's a lot of synonym language.

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Right.

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But a mix of these things, print, press and so forth and so on.

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Now, one thing that you'll see also here is they have the order differently.

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They have the order differently from the question.

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If you look at the question, the question says a a blank or a mix of forms of advertising.

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When you look at the passage, they give you the advertising, the forms of advertising and then say

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and using a mix of these.

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Right.

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So they reverse the the word order from the question.

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Again, they're doing that to challenge you in terms of your English processing ability.

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All right.

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But you have to be able to recognize that the answer is mix.