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Okay.

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In this lecture, I'm going to be taking you through a sample of the of the of the computer based tests

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for listening.

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So when you're doing the computer based tests, you're going to see a screen that looks like this right

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now.

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And I'm just going to ask you to confirm your details with your name and your date of birth and your

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candidate number.

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Make sure everything is correct and then you click on my details are correct.

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And then they ask you to put on your headphones and make sure you can.

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You can hear everything.

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Make sure you do that.

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So please change the volume using the bar in the top right corner.

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Right.

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Make sure that you can hear things now over here.

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You can turn the volume up or down.

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I'm going to turn the volume all the way up.

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And then once you can once you can make sure that you can hear things.

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OC Then you want to go ahead and move forward.

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If you can't hear things.

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Okay, then please talk to the Invigilators and let them know, hey, I'm having a hair phone problem.

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I'm only hearing in one ear.

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Can you give me another set?

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Next, you move to the next screen and they're going to tell you in terms of how how long.

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The basic instructions, the same basic instructions that you get for the paper based test.

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Right.

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And then after that, you're ready to begin, right?

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And so they'll let you know it's time to begin after they read through the instructions and you press

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start the test.

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Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and and listen and answer the questions.

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And then I'll go back.

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And when I go back, I'll go ahead.

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When I go back, I'll go go through the explanation of the answers.

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But first, I'm going to kind of explain some things to you in terms of where things are.

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On the on the on the screen here.

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Right.

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So at the top, you see you have a clock right there.

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You have the sound.

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And here we have the different parts in terms of now you can highlight texts like this.

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Right.

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For us, we're looking for a shape.

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Then we're looking for how old?

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Right.

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Then I'm looking for these keywords, something you don't to set up.

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Now you can do this, but you have to be very good.

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Right.

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The seats are covered.

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In what kind of material?

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So you can highlight along the way.

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348831.

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Oh.

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Hello.

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I'm calling about your advertisement in the local paper.

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Oh, well, there were two ads, actually.

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Was it the one for second hand furniture?

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That's right, yes.

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Last Thursday.

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Oh, yes.

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Some of it's already gone, I'm afraid.

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But what exactly were you interested in?

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Mainly the dining room furniture, especially the table.

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Has that gone yet?

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Not yet.

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Oh, good.

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Can you tell me a bit about it?

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Well, it's round.

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I'm not sure of the exact measurements, but it's medium sized.

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It seats about six.

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And how old is it?

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Hmm.

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Let's see.

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Ten years.

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No, it must be 12 by now.

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And the advertisement said you were asking £25 for that.

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That's right.

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And do you still have the dining chairs?

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Yes, it's a set of four chairs.

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There were two more, but over the years, a couple of disappeared.

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What are they like?

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Quite nice.

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They've got upholstered seats, you know, they're covered in material to make them more comfortable

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to sit on.

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That's green.

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But you could change it, of course, if you wanted something different.

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What sort of condition are they in?

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I'd say reasonable.

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They've had a bit of wear and we're asking £20 for those.

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Right.

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And the other thing I wanted to ask about was the desk.

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Can you tell me roughly how long the top is?

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So I know if it'll fit in my room?

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Let's see.

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It's 75 centimetres high.

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I know.

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And the lengths one metre 20 and it's 40 centimetres deep.

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It's got three drawers, the top one's got a log so you can keep your valuables there.

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And you were asking £50 for that?

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Yes, it's a bit more because it's in good condition.

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But if you want to take the other things too, I could let you have it for 40.

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Okay.

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All right.

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So as you can see, that's what you have to be able to do.

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Now, one thing you'll notice is I'm able to go from box to box by pressing tab.

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Right.

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Or I could just move the cursor and go from box to box.

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I like pressing the tab.

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Key tab.

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I like pressing the tab key because I think pressing the tab key is a little bit faster.

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Now, in terms of the answers, the first one we have is round.

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We know what's round because we know we're looking for a shape.

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And the person mentioned the the shape when she said, can you tell me about it?

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And he said, well, it's round.

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I know I'm listening for some type of shape.

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And after that, he said a few more things in terms of the exact measurements and medium size.

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But he gave no other no other answer regarding shape.

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Then he moved down to the age.

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Now, here is again, you know, you know, as I've told you before, whenever you're dealing with a

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number, right?

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Whenever you're dealing with a number, you have to be able to manage and handle them giving more than

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one number.

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They're going to do that.

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So at first they said it's ten years.

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Then he said no correction.

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Right.

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They like they like to do that, give a correction.

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And then he said it must be 12 by now.

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Then we move down to the set of or how many?

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And they literally said it's a set of four chairs.

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Now again, here comes another trap answer, because what they love to do is a lot of times they'll

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give the answer choice and then they'll give you some more information about the chairs.

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That has nothing to do with the answer.

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Right after they gave you the answer choice, they said there were two more.

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But over the years, a couple of have disappeared.

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Right.

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So you don't put six as an answer.

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You don't put six as an answer.

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All right.

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So there's there's a timer on here.

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There's one minute left.

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So this is going to stop.

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So I'm going to I'm going to load up another screen very quickly.

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So let's keep going from where we left off before.

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And.

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Sorry about the pause there for a second.

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And so when we're looking at this and we're right now on where they're talking about the dining chairs,

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and they said set off and they said that there were a set of four chairs.

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Right.

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A set of four chairs is what they said.

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And so next we're moving forward and looking at what the seats are covered in.

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So the answer there is green.

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Now, some of you may have made the mistake of putting the answer as being comfortable.

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Right.

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But the seats can't be covered in comfortable.

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That can't be the answer choice that cover it in something.

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They're covered in a type of material.

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Right.

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So they.

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So we're listening for what they say.

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And what they said was, you know, they're covered in material to make them more comfortable to sit

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on.

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Green.

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That's green, right?

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So when they use the word that, what is that?

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The word that it's a reference pronoun is referring to what the material so the answer is going to be

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green so you would type in green as the answer choice next.

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The person said, Well, what condition are they in?

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That lets us know.

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Well, now we're moved on to the next question.

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And the person said, I'd say, reasonable.

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Right.

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So here what they're doing is they're testing.

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Does this person know how to type the word reasonable correctly?

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It's really a spelling test here because they said it very, very directly.

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Right, he said.

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I'd say they're reasonable.

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That's that's the type of condition.

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Then finally it says length.

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We know we're dealing with a number.

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We know we're dealing with the number.

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What do you know about numbers?

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And I've told you about numbers.

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They're going to play around.

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So we're listening for length.

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So first, they say is 75 centimetres high.

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We know that's not our answer.

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Then they say the length is one metre 21.20.

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Right.

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Then they go on and say something else is 40 centimeters, but we're listening for length.

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But they're going to try to confuse you by giving you multiple numbers.

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That's why it's important to recognize the key words before that you're listening to.

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So really, if you were doing the test, you would kind of highlight I'm listening for length, right?

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And what I'm listening for is the length.

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I'm listening for.

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What kind of condition are they in?

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So you can highlight things.

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And then finally they talk about the top drawer.

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And the person literally said, the top drawer has a lock.

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Right.

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It's all you have to do is type the word log.

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Okay.

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And, you know, you have to make sure you kind of check your spelling as you go, because remember,

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at the end, they're only going to give you 2 minutes at the end.