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Hi there.

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And in this video, we're going to be going through a reading comprehension where we're showing you

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how to use the computer based test to answer the reading questions.

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And this one, we're going to be using a reading passage for from the from the general exam.

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The strategies that we use for the different question types between the academic and the general exam

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are exactly, exactly the same.

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They're the exact same strategies.

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It's just that the general exam sometimes has the general exam.

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You're going to find passages that are easier than on the academic academic exam.

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And that's natural because the academic exam is for university purposes and the general exam is normally

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for immigration or work reasons.

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So in this one here, we're looking at what's basically a matching question.

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And with a matching question, we see right over here, we have where we have to set up what we're doing

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in terms of the matching we have the first one we have to choose.

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Does it belong to A, B or C and whatever the answer choice is that you want, you just click in the

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box and if you don't like it, you can click on another one.

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All right.

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So again, when we're doing a matching question, they give us the names that we need to look for and

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find to be able to.

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And then once once we find that name, then we have to be able to match up which of these sentences

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belong to that particular name, or here we have political units.

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So the first thing I'm going to do is go ahead and.

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And go ahead and highlight the information that this really stands out to me.

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So they were the metal workers were highly skilled.

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There was no investigation of structures.

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Habitation continued after the decline

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and different residential areas and and different different characteristics.

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So I just highlight those things and make it easy for me to be able to see.

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All right.

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So they will go through and read and try to to match up information.

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But it's a very straightforward question.

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And basically, all the if you want additional strategy videos on the general reading, there's a whole

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section that's only for general reading where I go over in great, great detail about strategy and tactics

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and things like that here in these this series of videos that you're going to find in this section for

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the computer based test.

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I'm really just kind of showing you how we're applying strategy on with the computer, on the computer,

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and also showing you the different tools that you have available on the computer that you don't have

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on the on the paper based test simply because of the differences of a computer and using a pen and paper.

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So here.

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Right.

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So I'm looking for this 1/1.

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Here.

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I see.

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Ta da.

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Here's the first one to chit.

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And a lot of right now, I want to check and see if I see a name more than once.

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And here I see it again.

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Right.

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And so I'm going to read their first.

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Right.

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I'm going to read their first for that, Weir says.

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And then also.

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Read this sentence as well.

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Here.

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We have their name again.

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Okay.

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So we're going to read those two sentences where we see the name, the first name for a.

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And normally when you're going to when you see when you see a name mentioned twice, there's a lot.

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There are a lot of times that one of these four choices is going to apply to them two times.

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It doesn't mean that it's a guarantee it's going to happen that way.

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But there's a really good chance that it will.

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So at Tigit and Yulara, I believe in modern Mauritania, a new chiefdom developed.

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Actually here we have to start to see.

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Do children develop in a deteriorating environment where arable land and pastoral to animals were at

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a premium?

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A four tier settlement hierarchy has been discovered, so I can see which one this belongs to.

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A four tier hierarchy has been developed that is, towns and other settlements at four levels of importance

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based on size, function and type of building.

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So we can see for this first one, they had four.

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They had a four tier settlement and four levels of importance in terms of their settlements.

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So that clearly applies to number four.

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So number four would be a and the next one, the evolution of the -- where society remains unclear,

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obscured by the poor condition of settlement sites.

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Competing hypotheses include long term development in the area of rapid evolution or immigration from

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elsewhere.

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Evidence points to the importance of mixed farming, crops and animals blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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Unfortunately, none of the region's many tomb lie have been excavated.

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All right.

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None of the regions.

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So we know which one this belongs to, right?

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None of the regions tomb lie have been excavated.

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All right.

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None of the reasons to lie have been excavated.

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All right, now we have this word tomb lie.

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We don't know what it is, but they have a star there, and so we can scroll down.

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That means they're going to tell us a tomb lie.

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It's a small burial mound.

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They give us a definition down here which is actually really helpful to the question.

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They gave us a definitive stone burial mound so we know which one this belongs to.

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Also, unfortunately, none of the region's many tomb lie have been excavated.

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So that belongs to right here.

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No investigation of certain structures.

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Certain structures are the tomb lie has taken place.

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No investigation is the same thing as saying nothing has been excavated.

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So there's been no investigation.

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So that one is also a right.

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And now we need to find Jin Gedo and Ebo Ojukwu.

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To.

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Doo doo, bum, bum, bum, bum is in Gino.

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Right there.

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So let's.

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With a with a matching question.

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With this type of matching question, you might have to read a couple of sentences to kind of figure

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out which of the answer choices belongs to the name, which is different than when they have a person,

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like when they have A, B, and C, if they had persons like John Smith, Mary Williams and Kevin Richards,

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if they had names there, you really will be looking for what that person said.

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So you will be looking for quotation marks to see what that person actually said and then matching up

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one, two and three and four to match what he said.

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But so it's more clear.

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But when they just are saying, well, what what did they say about this about this political unit,

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you might have to read a little bit to figure out what they're saying about this political unit.

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I know I have to read this sentence.

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Also, the next sentence, because it says here, so here also refers to Gen Geno.

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And then we have the next one starting with in addition additionally, which means it still refers to

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Gen Gino and then we have this one right here means that this sentence also refers to Gen Gino.

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So I need to look at all this information, I need to look at all this information to be able to decide

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what do they have to say about Gen Gino?

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OC All right, so you can read along also.

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So I'm going to read it.

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I'm going to read it out loud now on the exam, of course, you can't read out loud.

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You're going to have big time complaints if the people around you hear you're reading out loud.

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But I'm just doing that just so you can hear my pronunciation of certain words that you might not be

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familiar with in terms of how they are pronounced.

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Undoubtedly, the middle Niger is best excavated site is that of Gen Gino here trade with adjoining

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regions and commodities such as copper, iron and sandstone.

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Is it evidenced by 8500

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still nothing about habitation declining or metal workers being highly skilled?

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Additionally, by 8880 800 local craft specialization and a regional hierarchy centered on Gen Gino

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point to an urban status for the site, however.

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All right.

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So whenever I see like words like however or but that usually stands out to me.

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That usually stands out to me because they're about to give me some type of contradicting information,

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right?

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However, Gen Gino is only one of many impressive settlements now known from the Middle Niger.

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The occupation of such sites continued through the time of Ghana's successor states and the empire of

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Mali and the Songhai.

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So we can see this one actually belongs to habitation continuing afterwards.

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Right.

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Habitation continued afterwards because it tells us there it says it continued.

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The occupation of the sites continued with Ghana, Mali and the Songhai.

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Okay.

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And then finally we have our last one, and that is dealing with the Igbo.

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Here it is right here.

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Okay.

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And I'm going to read this sentence also.

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Everything from here to here.

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See what it says.

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All right.

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There richest ac Nigerian societies during the late first millennium add their richness and artistic

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expertise have been well demonstrated at the site of Ebo Ugochukwu.

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Here, an elaborate burial and a storehouse of regalia have been excavated, both hiding superb brass

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castings and thousands of glass beads.

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So we know which one this belongs to because it says what?

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Superb brass castings.

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Right?

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Superb brass castings.

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That's the same as saying metal, because brass is a type of metal.

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Metal workers were highly skilled because it was superb, superb, superb.

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So that means this first one belongs to see.

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Right.

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So I hope you see a little bit more about how we are applying strategy in the context of the computer

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based test and how you're able to highlight information to be able to read better or see things much

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better.

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So I hope this was helpful.

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Thanks a lot and I'll talk to you in the next video.