 All right, it looks like just about everybody's here, so we're gonna get started. So, yeah, I wanna start off by checking the answers from the sentence completion questions that I left you for homework. That was the set number seven. I wanna try out some of the harder sentence completion questions. So if you can send me your answers in the chat, we'll start with those. So I can take a look and see how you did. And then I'll get the screen sharing going and we'll start with those. We're also gonna check the literature comprehension too, and then we're gonna go into a couple of other kinds of questions today, in particular the note taking questions and some of the supporting claims questions. And we'll also take a look at some blue book stuff because we definitely gotta make sure that that is installed and set up on everyone's computers and ready to go because if you need a device from the test center, then you have to book your test basically in like the next week. And if you're gonna bring your own device, you do still have more time, but you're gonna need blue book set up to like do all this stuff. So definitely wanna make sure we have that going today. And I wanted to talk a little bit about a practice test that we're gonna do later on as well. So yeah, we got things to do. So let's get to doing the things. I got Zafiya's, I got Camila's, I got Sedana's. Get asked to send me his first one. Love to see it. All right, let's go over here. Thank you, Muhammad, got your answers too. Love to see it. Let's go. All right, so I'm taking a look at what you've got. Got a couple of disagreements here and there, interesting. But let's start out with these first ones here. So again, a lot of times when we do sentence completion, we're gonna see that they're asking us to sort of finish the paragraph. Although I have seen a couple where it's in the middle, most of the time we're looking at the end. And so generally we're gonna try to sort of wrap it up really cleanly, try to look for a logical conclusion to not just this sentence, but like the whole paragraph, you know? So, and that's also kind of insinuated by the way the question is phrased, completes the text, right? It's not just this sentence. I mean, it's more attached to this sentence than anything else, but at the same time we do have to think about how it relates to the rest of the passage here. But again, we're gonna just try to read what we need. So take a look at this first one, right? Which choice most logically completes the text? I'm gonna start here, right? I just wanna start with like my, you know, my last sentence, since that's what I'm gonna complete here. And it says the system was influential in shaping the development of the European continent. Anytime I see something like this, I'm just gonna make sure that I go back and figure out what this system is referring to. And a lot of times that information is in the first sentence. So I wanna go back to the first sentence and take a quick look. So I see feudalism was an important economic and social system in medieval Europe. Now, if you know anything about feudalism, you could probably tap into that, start thinking about what would be appropriate here. But if you don't know anything about it, you might wanna glance through here and just take a look. So I'm gonna focus on that word system, right? And also, you know, the development, because this is what's in the last line here. So just looking for the word system, I see it's a system of hierarchy. Okay, that's cool. And we have nobles with both in power, development of castles and walls. Okay, and the development of an agricultural system. All right, so again, I'm just quickly scanning for those key words, so I don't have to really read the whole thing. All right, so thinking about those things that talked about it mentioned agriculture, it also mentioned sort of the division of classes. And so I wanna look for an answer that does those things, right? I don't really see anything about, you know, just going through the example, like I didn't see any references of like culture superstitions and stuff. So I'm not gonna bother with that answer. Growth of a powerful and influential noble class, that seems like that could be a good answer. Again, new technologies and inventions. I didn't see anything about that and establishing the foundations of democracy, citizens like to participate. Again, I didn't see anything about that. So just going by what I quickly scanned, right? I quickly looked at what the, you know, what this said, it said feudalism, important economic and social system. So I'm thinking economic and social. And I see here, you know, we have the powerful noble class, social landscape, development mentioned, you know, urban development, but also agricultural stuff. And so I think that might be also true here, but I didn't see that brought up in any other answers. I'm leaning towards B, looking at all of your answers, I think B is also correct. So let's take a look. Seems like it is. Good, okay. So again, I'm just trying to match things up, right? Seeing that it says powerful and influential noble class and that that was, you know, mentioned kind of important here, the system of hierarchy. We have this, you know, nobles gaining wealth and power, right? It's gonna be a good match. The other things are just not present in the text. All right, looking at number two, let's see what you've got. Looks like everybody's pretty much, there's a lot of difference here. All right, so these are longer ones. And again, this is how they make it more difficult. When you have these kinds of hard questions on a hard module, they typically make them more difficult by having, you know, just more to do, more text. And having more text is a way to make it harder, right? Because now you have to process more things. So let's take a look at what we've got. Invention of the computer has been a game changer. Something about, all right, so something about the computer has been a game changer, right? And so again, the first sentence is telling me that it's revolutionized our world. So the focus here is on how the computer has revolutionized things, right? It has changed the way we do things, okay? So I can imagine a bunch of different ways that it did things, but I'm not gonna bother reading those right now. I'm gonna look at answers that might be good at talking about those transformations or the things that have changed, right? So A says ways that are both magical and mysterious. All right, well, this is pretty good, although I don't know about like magical. Magical seems like that could be an odd phrase to choose. But okay, it does sort of summarize some of the things that I saw in the other parts here, like automating tasks, I mentioned that right here and I see that productivity. Okay, so this could be a good answer. Denying us access, that's definitely wrong. Automating many tasks, leaving us with tedious manual labor. Okay, so this goes into sort of like a negative territory and something you wanna make sure you do is match the tone. This seems very positive. Calling it a game changer is a positive thing, right? And so it seems like it's giving a very positive slant. I'm not gonna go with something like denying access or leaving us with tedious manual labor, preventing us from, like this is getting negative and so is this. So already I'm leaning towards A or maybe D here, power to accomplish simple types of these, reach out and connect with others in our immediate area, revolutionizing, okay. So now if I was between A and D, as I see some of you are, what would be, I wanna hear some different arguments from different people, right? Like what do you think could be a good reason to choose A? Cause I've seen some people choosing A. I would like to hear some opinions. Why do you think A could be a good choice? All right, so Jenna wrote me in the chat, you got a positive tone. Definitely has the positive tone. I would agree with that. I think that's a good reason we can eliminate B and C is the negative tone. So I think you can say that A has a positive tone. Any other ideas? What else do you think is good about this answer? Several people marked A, so I'm kinda curious what you think. I think because of, like it's a continuation of the sentence, we see a game changer. So it's like the sentence is supposed to have something that changes and transforming is a good expression. Okay, that's a fair point. I think the way it continues, it does make sense. I've noticed that they're all kind of grammatically phrased similarly like with this ING verb. So I think that they all do work, but you're right that there's maybe some nicer things about this in a way, like about the way it's using transforming, game changer, I could see that, all right? So there's some good word links. It's also good to think about what we try to do with this closing sentence in this case, especially with the way it starts. In short, I think that's important to look at too, in short, you know? And that's one reason I maybe don't love A as much. Like it is the longest answer, which does kinda go against the idea of being in short. Camille pointed out, it states how it is a game changer. I agree, I also think though that the D1 does that too, like giving us the power to accomplish something else with these, reach out and connect with others, like this is also telling us how it's changed things. What I wanna look for then is there anything in the answers that doesn't work? And if I could find something in one of the answers that doesn't work, that would help me choose the right answer. I think that your D says immediate area, and that is not mentioning the text. Okay, I think that's a good point, right? We wanna make sure we really check all the ideas in these answers to validate them. So I think there's a good point that Sanjana makes also, this is a bigger list of benefits, it covers more things. That's a good point as well about this connecting with others in our immediate area, and we might realize that that's actually not totally true, right? I mean, it doesn't talk about it, but at the same time we know like, computers can go far beyond your immediate area. So there might be something a little out of place here, and I think that's a good observation you just made. I think that overall, if I have to choose between the two, I'm probably gonna lean towards A just because it does touch on all the points that were made. It matches a lot of the terminology, like productivity and efficiency, productive and efficient, right? Automation is in here, I see it recapping or summarizing all of those main points, right? And while I'm not a huge fan of this, the magical and mysterious part, it does say like ways that were previously unimaginable. So I could see some aspect of that there, like it's almost seems magical, right? You couldn't imagine it, couldn't understand it, it could seem magical. I think that would be your best choice, generally speaking. So I think A is the best answer. I can see why D is tempting, but I do think that this detail wasn't in the text and therefore it is questionable. While everything is here, everything in here is somewhere in the text. So that makes it a good summary. All right, good. I just wanted to kind of get you thinking about your reasoning. I want you to think about why you're choosing your answers and sometimes we have to take a minute and really test an answer and break it down into smaller pieces to verify if it's actually a good answer or not. So, good job. All right, let's see what we got for three. Looks like most people agree here with D. So let me see. All right, so again, I'm looking here. Many of the principles in this text during this period have been adopted by modern artists, comma, something else. And again, this period I just want to make sure, or this time, I want to make sure I know what I'm talking about. It's this movement of the century. Okay, cool. So we're looking for something related to modern artists here. And let's see what we got. So we have, though, I like to look sometimes at the very first word, right? Though, however, okay, who refused? Interesting, so that connects to the artists. Inspiring the works, right? Sometimes doing this is good because I'm probably not gonna wrap up a paragraph with some sort of contrast because it's like I'm bringing up an alternative point all of the sudden and it doesn't totally make sense to do that. Like I would probably just, like why would I introduce this idea of it being adopted by modern artists only to contradict myself? You know, I would put this in the middle of a paragraph and then maybe explain it more. So that automatically makes me think A and B are not the best choices. Who refused to continue or shape the influence of the design industry? Okay, so that, wait, all right. So despite the continued relevancy of this, this seems a little weird. Also, this one also has a contrast here towards the end, which I'm not a big fan of because it seems to contradict itself in this case. Continued relevancy of its principles. Like, okay, they refuse to continue to shape the influence. Yeah, this one kind of goes back and forth on itself. I don't like it. Inspiring the works of many contemporary creatives continue to shape the world today, despite that it was not universally accepted. Okay, that seems like a good explanation to me. It does have this little contrast here, but it's fair because it's showing that these people were like embracing this, right? So, and it's a separate time. We're comparing the past to contemporary modern artists, which I think is a good answer. So, let's see if that's right. Yeah, I think D was good. Again, sentence structure is important. I'm gonna lean away from answers that are just these like contradictions because I don't wanna finish on a contradiction. You know, looking at four, let's see. Looks like we got some C's, we got some A's. Interesting, okay. So, all right. It's influence has been profound. War and Peace is what we're talking about. It's a classic novel. Okay, so again, impact of war and its consequences on the people of Russia. I like to read that first sentence in the paragraph. Gives me a clear idea of what we're talking about. Okay, so war and consequences on the people of Russia. Influence has been profound. So I wanna think about something that's related to influence and something that also touches on this idea of like the consequences of war. A does seem to be doing that right away. Inspiring generations of readers to think more deeply about the consequences of war and the power of peace. Hey, that's the title of the book. That sounds like a pretty good answer. Okay, again, although it makes me lean away from this answer, the most effective, I don't know about this. I mean, it's talking about the impact of war like its consequences. Like, I don't think it's gonna be like, hey, you know, war sucks, but it could be okay. Yeah, that doesn't seem right. Embrace the power of love and understanding that surpasses any barriers. Okay, if I see an answer like this, I gotta quickly check for barriers. Like, it says politics or religion. Is there any reference to that here? And I don't see anything like that. Like, I'm quickly looking and I just don't see any barriers. This is way too extreme. Flames of chaos and destruction. Like, whoa, okay, take it easy. Yeah, I think A is your best answer. Okay. So let's see what the last one's got. All right, so Eli, what he's kind of doing, he'll lay down some of the building blocks that. Okay, building blocks that. So we're looking at what was built after that, right? And I might wanna go back then a little bit because, you know, all right, it talks about this massive impact on the economy. So it says here, many plantations were able to expand their operations. And okay, and also simultaneously fueling industrialization with that money. So, okay, so there's something to me about, like, this being an important machine that would build the next industrial economy. So because of the fact that this first sentence is also focusing on the economy, I'm assuming that we're gonna stick with that idea here. And so right away when I see global politics, I'm like, I'm not inclined. I don't like that answer. Unfortunately, in global temperatures. Okay, I think that global warming being attached to the cotton gin is a bit too far. Propel the country and, okay, yeah, again, same thing here, like space exploration from the cotton gin slow down. Like, the texts talked about it transitioning us to industrialization. I don't think that's, these are good answers. Would eventually lead to America becoming one of the world's most influential economic powers. Okay, so see the fact that I see this from matching with this first sentence tells me this is probably a good answer. And it is. So with these, I feel like you wanna do a lot of a process of elimination here. Really look at like, okay, if it focused on the economy, I'm gonna wanna wrap it up with that. We like to come full circle. And the first sentence and the last sentence usually have some connection. So I'm not gonna change into politics or, and I'm not gonna jump so far forward as to talk about like global warming or space exploration because that's a leap too far. I mean, this is, it told us in the previous sentence here that it, you know, we went from like more agriculture to industrialization. That's, you know, we're not gonna go all the way to space. So D, good stuff. Any questions about any of these? All right, if not, send me your literature comprehension answers. I got one set, Sophia sent hers to me already. But yeah, go ahead and send those to me. We're gonna see how you handle these. Here is Muhammad, thank you. All right, Harold and Birda sent me the first ones, good. Let's start looking at the use. All right, so we got some poetry here. I don't know, again, if you've seen this poem before, good for you, if not, then that might be a little confusing. A lot of times the poetry questions are main idea questions. So when we deal with this kind of poetry stuff, like we wanna think about, you know, how we can decipher things. I talked about it last week, how we wanna just try to simplify the language, make it easy to understand for yourself. All right, don't overthink it, right? Simplify things a little bit. So, all right, so this first part is describing some sort of statue or something. Like it's saying, okay, there's two legs of stone in the desert, and then there's like something else next to it with a frown, so it must, and a wrinkled lip, so like a face, right? And on the pedestal, these words appear. So this is probably really important, right? Like there's a pedestal that says something. My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look at my words, you mighty and despair. Okay, so if this guy clearly has a big opinion of himself, cause he's like, hey, look at my stuff and be afraid of me, I'm awesome. And then nothing besides remains. That's the main idea right there, like that's it. And I think a lot of times you'll find it in the second half of a poem because the poetry does have structure. Poetry does tend to like wrap it up with some sort of key lesson or like key idea towards the end. And I feel like it's kind of like the conclusion of an essay or the conclusion of a book, like you want to finish on a strong point. So I see this quote of like Ozymandias being like, yeah, look at all my stuff. And then the irony of like nothing besides remains. So I want to look for an answer that sums up that idea and not to do with travel. It's not about the desert. Man's creations and aspirations will disappear in time. If you said that one, I think that's the best answer. Absolutely. And preserving the legacy doesn't make sense cause that's what this guy tried to do and it didn't work out. C is correct. Yep. Man's creations and aspirations will disappear in time. Facts. Okay, good stuff. I think everybody got that. All right, now the next one. We got another one here. Okay, so similarly, I have this sort of structure and I mentioned this last week when we looked at the Shakespearean sonnet, notice the connectors. Like when I see and I know we're still building the same idea, right? And then when I see like a butt or something like that, I know we're probably transitioning to where this sort of like final lesson or main idea is. Okay, so it keeps saying, oh, melancholy and these other O's are gonna be like things that the person is saying to the concept of melancholy, the concept of sadness, right? So I, you know, he says, hear my plea, your grasp on me must cease to be. You gotta, like I gotta stop being depressed basically. I will not accept it and I wish I could flee but I know I must find the key to set my soul free. Okay, so it seems like it's his own problem. Your hold on me, I must release. Like I've gotta get over something to get away from this sadness. I have to make some action. So exploring the relationship, I mean, it's more complex than that. I think that that's kind of true but I don't know about that one. I mean, it's accurate but it's, I think there's a bigger point to it. I like how he acts as a prison. You can't just get yourself out of prison unless you're on prison break. So I don't think that's true. One must allow themselves to be released from sadness. That does sound like what he said because he says, your hold on me, I must release. So he seems to make this point that like there's something he has to do. And so I think C is looking pretty good. He didn't say what it was. So I don't think I can answer D either. I'm leaning towards C and it is correct. Let's go. Sir, one question. Would you say that B is the second most likely answer? B is for? I think there's some truth to that. I mean, at the same time, I guess this prison concept would mean that I feel trapped or that I feel unable to like go out and do things which I didn't quite see any evidence of that specifically. Like I would say I was leaning a little bit more towards A because of the fact that it is an accurate answer, but it's also kind of general. And I want something more specific. And so I could see some of this like prison support here, definitely in these lines. It's captured me. I find the key like set myself free. I could definitely see some logic behind the prison metaphor. I feel like I would wanna see more of that metaphor though, not just in a couple of lines because these same lines also support the C idea and so does this whole conclusion, you know? So there's definitely some support for B, but I think the main idea comes down to this idea that you have to get over it. Like you have to do something to actually get happiness. It's more about your overcoming the problem the way I see it. And so that first half of the poem is really him like thinking about it and analyzing it. And then he gets to this kind of like the turn in the poem is when he starts thinking about what he has to do. And I think that that supports the C answer pretty well. All right, looking at C or sorry, three, the third letter in the alphabet is C. My brain slipped. Let's see what you got. I'm getting some C's and getting some B's, interesting. Very interesting. All right, so what is true of the speaker of the passage? Now, again, read what we need. I'm gonna stick to this right here, the speaker because this is in quotes. This is probably all I really care about for now. So facts, teach them facts. Okay, so nothing else will be of any service. This guy is like all about the facts. Just stick to facts. Okay, so the speaker clearly likes facts. All right, so passionate about education. I mean, sure, but I don't know. I think there's more to it than that. No patience for nuance seems like a possible answer. Personal discovery is the bedrock of learning. I don't know about that. He's talking about teaching facts, like memorization, I guess, like drilling the same ideas, develop critical thinking. Also, I don't think that's accurate either. Just from this, right? Like he seems to be insisting that you need to teach the facts, you need to teach like simple things that they can remember. And I don't think that like nuance is something that is not so complex. You can't just have facts with nuance, right? Because there's like nuance is something that is, right? There's different sides. There's different situations. There's context. I think B is a good answer here. I don't really see anything about personal discovery or critical thinking in the idea of facts. And while I do see some passion, I mean, I don't know. Just seems like he's passionate for facts. That's for sure. So yeah, I'm gonna go with B here. Yeah. No patience for nuance. And I think that's really proven right here. Nothing else will be of any service to them. That's like the best line to support that idea. Again, I didn't have to read the second half here, but you know, you can also see the way it's kind of explained, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim. Like it's kind of making fun of his idea by saying it with this exaggeration. So I think that also is a clue. Number four. We seem to be more or less close to unanimous here. All right. True of the narrator. All right, so the narrator, I wanna, all right, this is a first person narration. So I'm gonna focus on the eyes. All right, Heathcliff had been absent for a month. Is there the back of a man? All right, I advanced. It was only a stranger. Only viewed him for a moment. He had time to look at his features. And then, okay, something seemed familiar. Numpin', all right. Could've gone, all right, but there's something that he didn't like. He didn't wanna look at the guy. And frame was large. Okay, so let's see. Now, this is attitude towards Heathcliff, right? It seems to me that there's, like this person that he's talking about is not Heathcliff. So we gotta be careful about what data we choose here. Like, this guy has been gone and he sees someone that seems like Heathcliff, so he gets closer, sees that it's a stranger, right? So there's some interest in this person, right? Like, he sees this guy who's been gone for a month and now he sees someone there and he's like, ooh, maybe that's him. Like, gosh, check it out, see what's going on. So there's some kind of interest in this person. And then the person that he does meet is somebody kind of different. So like, I don't get a lot of information about Heathcliff here. I don't think I have enough information to say that he's intimidated or attracted by, like to be attracted by someone, like you really like that person, you would have to get to know that person, I think a little bit, or you see like really nice physical features that would make you more attracted, but I don't really see enough evidence to support that, I don't think. Which you know more about Heathcliff. I mean, C seems like it could just be the best answer, right? Like, just want to know more. All right, like, who is this guy? Ooh, says, hey, let's see why it says intimidated. Let's take a look. Oops, I think I lost somebody here. All right, so maybe I was leaning more towards this because of the lack of information. Let's see where there could be some intimidation. All right, so his countenance, I'm gonna go back to this part here where he meets Mr. Heathcliff. And he says, ah, okay, here it was, I missed this. When I first beheld him. So there was, all right, so now he's comparing to the real guy. So this is what I should have focused on here. I kind of like misread a little bit of this. Gotta be careful on that. Says he, this part here then, it was the made me dread rather than desire to look upon him. So that is why you would say he's intimidated by it. Okay, so at first I saw this guy who's not Heathcliff and made some bad assumptions. This is where he does talk about the real person. He makes that comparison now. So I think that that would be our best answer is A. And that threw me off for a second. I do see logic behind C, right? But then I guess there's more specific data about him for A. So, all right. We'll see the last one. Someone wrote on the group that he was trying to reenter the. Yeah, I think it was going to be last. I let her back in just a second ago. Thanks for letting me know by the way, because I don't always have WhatsApp. I turn off all my notifications during class so it doesn't interrupt me. So yeah, good looking out. All right, the Nellie. Here's the above passage, take place. Okay, interesting. All right, okay. So right away they swung to her anchor. That just tells me right away we're dealing with a boat, probably. So it's going to be somewhere where something related to a boat. The flood had made, it was calm, being bound to the river. All right, so see which of the Thames. Okay, stretch before us. All right, so there's, we got something on a river, right? I know the river Thames is in England. And swung to her anchor was at rest. So I understand the ship is not moving, right? And being bound down the river, wait for the turn of the tide, I'm leaning towards this idea then that it is like on the river, but it is at rest, it's not moving right now. So it could be resting just outside of London. Where the Thames meets the ocean though, the sea, it does seem to touch on the idea of the sea reach of the Thames, which could be that, could be that B one. He's rested on the low shores. It was dark above. All right, I'm looking to see what you guys all have. So I saw some D, some C, some B, I think we're all over the place on this one. This is probably the hardest one I've looked at. So the swung to her anchor and being bound down the river like suggests to me that it is indeed not moving. So there is support for this idea of it being a ship resting just outside of London. And I can probably, but the London part's a little questionable because I know that Thames runs through the city, but I don't know if like, it's just outside the city. I'm not sure about that. Where it meets the ocean is what I'm leaning towards right now because it does have this couple of things about the sea. And that's kind of the best thing I think I can figure out. The sea and the sky were welded together. So like they're looking out at the sea and the sky, the way they're meeting each other. So it's got to be on your way out of the river. So I think that's going to be right. Did anybody else see any other evidence or anything that like supported their answer? I'm kind of curious what you focused on in this one. Feel free to share. I didn't see the London part in the paragraph. So I chose B. Okay. Yeah. So, and I'm looking just to see if there's anything else that kind of like hints at the city that would make me want to say that too. Turn to the tide. Random river. Ooh, at the same time though, there's something about this here that makes me think about it. So yeah, now I'm spending a lot of time on this. And at this point, I probably should just mark it and move on to be totally honest with you. And it's important to keep that in mind. We want to try to keep our responses to one minute. If you're answering other questions faster, you might want to mark this for review and then come back if you have more time. Don't sit here and stare at this like I'm doing now. This is a good example of what not to do. Like if you are stuck on a question, I've definitely spent a minute thinking about this. I would want to mark this for review and come back and maybe eliminate an answer too, but I want to make sure I keep moving through the tests and not sit here and spend five minutes on this. And we'll talk about how to do that in just a second. So there is a little like something about this that makes me think it could be near the city because it does say here the greatest town on earth. And there's something like, ooh, that right there is like a key piece of evidence. Maybe that is London, the greatest town on earth, right? And also this idea that the sales of the barges drifting up with the tide, like the tide would be rising as you're closer to the shore kind of like, and cause that's where you would notice that effect. And so maybe these ships are sitting on the like docks and they're moving. And while they're close to the sea, I mean, so is London. So I'm wondering if maybe sea is the best answer because we've got support for resting, right? We got that for sure. And we've got potential for London based on the greatest town comment. And while I do have some support for B, I think that might also be like the same thing as sea in a way. Like it might be, I mean, where it meets the ocean, they call it the sea, maybe the ocean is like a trick here. So I would be between B and C here and I would probably pick one and move on at this point. It's telling me C. And I think that that does make some sense. If I look at that last line, the greatest town on earth, I kind of should have looked at that first. I think that does provide some support for London. And the fact that the ship is resting does make sense because you wouldn't probably put your anchor down here to be fair. You wouldn't go sit at the middle of the place where the river meets the ocean, just drop anchor right there because that's where a lot of traffic is moving. So I don't know if that would be a smart idea. So I think, yeah, I guess I would go C. So if you got C, good job. If you weren't sure, that's okay too. That's a hard question. So again, keep in mind some of the things that we wanna do here. We wanna try to eliminate answers. We wanna try to simplify the language. We wanna look for little pieces of evidence that match with the answers that we have. And we also wanna make sure we don't waste too much time because we have a lot of things to do. Sophia, you got a question? Yeah, I actually have a question. Over the question, is it better if you really don't know the answer, if you come back to it, is it better to just mark the one that is like probably the closest one or just guess or just leave it blank? I would say that if you're between two choices, if you've eliminated a couple of other options that you don't like, you should probably guess between one of the ones that you think it could be. At the same time, if you really feel like you're not confident with those eliminations also, think about that too. Do you really feel like I can definitely say this one is not the answer? Because it can also be easy to kill an answer that could have been the right one if you're not processing it well. But generally, yeah, I wanna try to eliminate some answers. The barge thing didn't make much sense to me. I didn't really see enough evidence for that. I don't know what a cruising y'all is, but it's not a barge. And they talk about barges here, so I don't know why I wouldn't use that terminology here. I could probably say it's not a barge. So I'm probably gonna get rid of D. Right? Banks of the river in London, I don't really know about being on the banks. I don't think you would be on the banks in the city because then the river meets the city with docks and piers and things. I don't know if that makes sense. So I would probably have killed A and D and stuck with B or C and then come back here and taken a coin flip. It's a 50-50. Good. I see the options again, please. Sure. Let me show this with you one more time. So yeah, just looking at these four, again, I could try to use process of elimination. I would probably have killed D for sure because again, if it calls the boat this and then it uses the word barges, that implies that this is not a barge. They could have used the same term and they didn't. So I don't think so. And so I would probably get rid of D. I don't like, between A, B and C, it is kind of tricky. I can see support for London from the greatest town on earth and I can kind of see some of this stuff. At the same time, I wonder if maybe like, they're not there. Maybe they're just looking at where that is. At this point, I'm kind of stuck between three possible choices but I could definitely say D doesn't make sense. So, and I know it's not navigating because they're anchored. They said it was bound down and swung to her anchor. You know, so I can say for sure that this is not true. And so I'm not, I don't, you know, I can't quite eliminate these three because I see some evidence for all three but I did see more I guess for this one at the end of the day. Like I could support the resting part and I could support the London part pretty clearly by taking that last line. All right, and speaking of how to do that, when we actually use Blue Book, let's get into Blue Book for a second. If you got your Blue Book installed and set up, I'd like you to open it up and follow along but I'm gonna share my screen with you for a second here and we're gonna take a look at some tricks that you can use. And I just wanted to go over these things real quick again because I think it's really important and we're gonna do, I'm gonna ask you to do a practice test this weekend as homework as opposed to having like more of our usual exercises. And for that, you know, I think it would be good to take a look at how we wanna use this. So first of all, when we are logged in, this is what you're gonna see. Again, if you've already taken a test of digital SAT, maybe you took the March one, you should see information in here. You will see upcoming tests five days before test day once you have successfully registered. Those don't panic if you sign up and then you don't see anything here, it's okay. Now, there are two things you can do for practice. You can do a full length practice test which is what I'm gonna ask you to do for the weekend but there's also a quick preview where you can play around and do a few things. So, just wanna show you a little bit of my process and what I think you should do with this, okay? So as soon as I get into this, you're gonna get this little instructions on your first questions, you can really just close that because you know what you're doing. Now, one of the first things I want to do here is adjust my zoom if necessary, okay? You'll notice that I'm zooming in and out on the text here. I wanna be able to see all the answers and I wanna make sure it's, now it remembers your settings throughout the whole test. Obviously, this would be way too much. This is too not, like not enough. This is just right, you know? So I wanna put this somewhere where I can definitely make sure I can see all the text and see all the answers. I don't wanna be in a situation like this where I have to like go up and down to read the answers because it takes time, right? I gotta go in here and like move my mouse and scroll. Like I don't wanna waste time doing that. I wanna make sure I can see everything. The other thing is like when you start zooming in a lot, you know, you might miss something. You might not be even looking at D, right? You might just forget about the word D and the next thing, you know, that's the right answer. So you can do that on your mouse by holding control on your keyboard and rolling the wheel back and forth, okay? That's the easy way to do it. If you have a touchpad, you can do the same thing with the two finger slide. But this is like the easy way to do it and you are allowed to use a mouse on the test and I do recommend you use a mouse on the test. So just holding the control key or command, I think if you're in a Mac and just doing this. That's the easy way to zoom. That works for a lot of apps, right? So I would definitely recommend you do that first to get situated. Next thing you wanna do is click this. Make sure you just click this right away, okay? That's how you eliminate the options and you wanna make sure that you have that open at all times because it's gonna remember those eliminations, right? So if I get in here and I don't know what some of these words are but I'm like, okay, a librarian noted that the spoken word don't lose their blank nature when printed has the same pleasant musical quality. Okay, so it's gotta be something related to musical quality because they don't lose that. It has the same quality. So I can say, well, scholarly has nothing to do with music. Personal also doesn't make any sense. Maybe I'm not sure what jarring means but I know melodic seems right so I'm gonna click it and mark it. Be careful with your marks, okay? Make sure you click and check. Like because I think on the new SAT it's easy to slip up and make mistakes. Like you can easily, if you have a touchscreen or like you're on a tablet, you can easily finger the wrong answer and have a problem. I think that also like, you know, even when you're clicking, right? Like you could, you know, they're not that far apart. You might accidentally click the wrong one and click next and not realize it. Like when you did the old test you had to fill in a bubble on a piece of paper. It was more deliberate. You knew you were filling in the bubble B or C and here you're clicking quickly. So I think it could be a little easier to make that mistake. Just be careful, you know? Then you go next. So let's say I was in a similar situation to what I was in before where I'm like, you know, man, I'm not sure. I've been staring at this question for a while. Singularity impelled a closer scrutiny. It's the function like, you know, a student in a first plan himself introduced the same way. I don't think it introduces a setting. I mean, elaborates on the previous description, sets up a character description. So does it elaborate or does it set up? I don't know. I'm confused. Maybe here is where I'm gonna go ahead and mark something for review, right? And when I do that, I'm gonna be able to come back and check this very quickly because it will be here down at the bottom, right? You'll see that item two has the little flag on it. And when I get to the end, it's gonna take me to a review page, right? So that's what the review page looks like. I'm gonna get sent back here, right? And I can quickly click on any one of these and go back. But I can also just do that down here. I can just go like this, right? If I want to, which is good when you're doing review. But having that little red flag there is gonna help you to remember to review that and come back and double check these instead of sitting there and staring at it, waiting for divine intervention to give you the answer. Just move on. Sometimes honestly, coming back makes it easier. Like sometimes you just get stuck in a particular line of thought. And when you come back, you see it fresh. You see it like new. And that makes it easier for you to kind of like find the answer sometimes. So don't be afraid to do this. Mark it, you don't lose any points. They're not gonna punish you. You go to the review page, you come back and you check that out, right? Main purpose of the text, okay. Posture can influence commission. But don't overstate this phenomenon, okay. Found no difference in the group's performance. Sounds like they're trying to say here that some research is not that important, right? There's actually like some of the previous ideas are wrong. Maybe critique the methods and results reported in preview. Okay, why caution is needed is probably a better choice, right? Go with that one, sure. So you keep going through these and you'll work with that. Now, you'll notice that this little part does not use the timer. The timer will be active on the practice test, but on this little demo, it's not. So you don't have to worry about that here. There is an option to hide or show the timer. I'm personally a fan of keeping it visible. Don't let it stress you out. If you hide the timer, fun fact, when you're down to five minutes, it turns red. And you can't hide it. So why hide it if it's gonna appear anyway and be scarier? You're probably just better off leaving it open, get used to it. So you go through, you mark your answers and do your things here and whatever. Maybe I mark this one for review too because I'm not sure about this one. And then when I get to the end, I'm gonna see that I've answered everything except, oh, I forgot to answer number two and I did mark it for review. Let's go back there. All right, I'm gonna say it sets up the character description. Go back to seven, because I see that that's marked for review. Double check. Let me see, he's from Dying Land. The following is that, oh, I don't need any punctuation at all. Okay, that's the right answer. All right. And it's, oh, by the way, if I'm here, I don't want to keep doing this. You don't keep clicking next. Notice how there's like a delay. Like that slows you down. And if you go back to number four to review and then you want to go to the end, don't click next 23 times, okay? Just go back to review pitch. And then you click next. And then that module is over and you would get another module. Now, this is just the demo. It's gonna, I think, send me straight to math. And with regards to math, you do have this calculator function here. I am sure you will see a little bit more of that in your math classes, but this is beyond my pay grade, to be perfectly honest. Although I have heard some good things. Some people leave comments on the videos and say that they like the calculator. You can move it around at least, which is nice. The same zoom in and zoom out rules apply here. I would probably want to zoom out more in math. You notice how when I started this, it was here, right? I couldn't see anything. Zoom out a little bit. Now I can see all the answers. Sophia? Yeah. Could you show the calculator again? Because I thought that we were going to graphically the equations ourselves. So you, yeah, you're allowed to bring your own calculator for everything first of all. So you can do that. They have this thing in here, which from what I've heard, some people like it for the graphs and stuff. There's a lot of stuff in here. So, and I'll be honest, I don't understand everything here. I'm not the math guy, so I'm going to avoid giving too much in the way of opinions or advice. Is anyone going to teach you something? Yeah, I've mentioned that. We're going to make sure we go over some of this stuff. But you know, play around with it yourselves too. That's why they have this practice area because there's no timer. So you can sit here and just play around for 20 minutes if you want. And I would recommend you do that. Like get in this app and spend some time with it. Okay? You want to be comfortable with this thing. And you want to be comfortable with it on your device so that you know how it works. I have another question. Sorry. Tell me. No, don't apologize. I like questions. Well, I think that in the old ACT, but I'm not 100% sure, feel free to correct me. They gave students like a blank piece of paper in like the math section or I'm not 100% sure. Are they going to give us like a piece of paper or does everything need to be in that calculator? So the answer is yes to both. They did use to give you paper and they still do. You are still allowed to get some scratch paper for math questions on the new test. I'm paranoid so I would still tell you to bring your own just in case. Couple blank sheets of bond paper would not hurt you, but they're supposed to provide that for you. And so if you do prefer to do some things by hand or you like writing things out, you're all good. That's still allowed. There's also a little reference sheet with convenient formulas. So now you don't have to memorize like the formula for the volume of a sphere anymore. That's pretty nice. I appreciate that they give you some of this basic stuff in case. Like that actually helped me when I did the practice. I was like, yes, because I don't remember any of this from my school. So I was able to get a few things right. So yeah, that's kind of nice. They could do a little cheat sheet. And that's basically it. Other function that I would like to point out that I don't recommend you do, but it is an option. You'll notice there's an option for an unscheduled break. You can ask for an unscheduled break on this. You can request the proctor in the test room and they will come over and they will make sure that you are, that no question has been left visible because if you left this open, someone else could look and see that you marked your answer. So they will make sure that there's no answer marked or it's like the next question. And your clock does continue to run. So unscheduled break does not give you free bathroom time. But if it's super, super urgent and you gotta go, I guess you can. So it's nice that they have that option now. Another question, Sophia? Yeah, sorry, for instance. No, you're good, just tell me. Well, does that calculator is the exact same one that we're going to have in the exam? Like does anything of this change in the exam? No, this is the whole thing. So that's why they're giving you all these tools in here so that you can get practice with it. So the format's the same, just the question. Yep, and in fact, talking to a lot of people, I've been getting a lot of feedback from people who took the test in March. People who left comments on the channel, people who took the test with us in our previous group. A lot of people found that like, yeah, there's a lot of very similar questions with just different numbers. You might see a question just like this with the same exact line, but just different numbers. And it makes sense that that's kind of how math is. Like, you know, you could only test certain kinds of questions so many different ways, right? The same concept applies, but you have different numbers. So really getting into these practices is good for you. Like I know that what we are doing in our class and the material we're using is very, very similar, but I also think it's important for you to spend some time in here and see what they're sending you as well. Like this is your biggest source of official content. My content is similar, but unofficial. This is official. So get in here and spend some time in here. Like if you wanna get better, you wanna spend some time in this thing. And that's why I want us to do a practice test this weekend so we can kind of see how we're developing on this overall. And what else we need to work on more. That's gonna help me also personalize things for the last few classes. So definitely make sure you get this set up, get in here, get comfortable using it, you know, because I think that that's gonna make it easier for you to do the test, you know, effectively. And if you're going on test day and you've only opened up Blue Book a couple of times, you're gonna have a bad time. Any other questions on this right here? Yeah, I have a question. Sure. Do you think that poor practice tests are enough to prepare for the SAT? Because I've heard from friends that when they did the paper SAT, they have sold, I don't know, like 20 practice tests. Is it for enough? I don't think it's enough. I'll be honest. I don't mean to be negative, but I don't think it's enough. And unfortunately, that is the situation we're in. But, you know, that's why we're trying to make more stuff for you and find ways to use the practice creatively. It's true. Like when I mean, look, when we would teach these classes before for the paper SAT, we had dozens of past exams that had been liberated over time, like that they weren't using anymore. From like 2016, 17, 2018, we had book publishers. You had Kaplan practice tests. You had Pearson practice tests. You know, there's other ones whose names I'm forgetting, McGraw Hill, like there are so many different book publishers that put up practice tests that while they weren't official, they were designed in collaboration with College Board. They're pretty good, you know? We don't have any of that right now. Those book publishers are looking at this probably making those books for next year because they know they sell the majority of them to Americans. So Americans are gonna get to do this digital next year with a lot more material. Unfortunately we're stuck. But on the bright side, you know, you have these four practices and you also have some more content actually that is hidden and I'll show you where to get that. This is interesting as well. I've been following some Reddit posts about the non-adaptive practice test. I'm gonna switch my screen share so you can see this here. And we should take a look at these probably at some point. But so you have four official practice tests in Blue Book, in the app, but they also have non-adaptive SAT practice tests on this link. And obviously because it's non-adaptive, you know, you're not gonna get a hard module if you do well on the first part, it's a piece of paper, right? But there are questions in these that do not appear in Blue Book. And some people have estimated that it's about 30% of the available material. So there's actually like, there are four practice tests officially in Blue Book, but there's also these four practice tests that have unique questions. So there is more stuff if you use these for practice. So I would encourage you to check these out and do that. There's these, there's four different ones. They're in PDF forms and you can download these anytime you want from this link, which I'll conveniently throw into the WhatsApp group for you guys. Mohamed, I see your hands up. Tell me what's- Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, I was gonna ask if Han Academy, if it had any practice tests for the just like SAT. Yes. Khan Academy is building on the same ones that are in Blue Book. So if you go on Khan Academy, you can get more feedback about the questions from the Blue Book exams. So like more explanations as to why this answer is correct basically, so that could be helpful for you, definitely. If you wanna review your work, you can go to Khan Academy and kind of get a better sense of why your answers were right or wrong, but they are the same questions. So it's nothing new, nothing different, but at least you get more explanations. Sophia. Hey, thank you. I don't know if you called my name first. Just now, yeah, I saw your hand up. Well, yeah. I went to California recently and I came back with a giant book that's like almost available from SAT Premium from the Princeton Academy. That's like the 2023 version. And there's a practice test there. I haven't done it, but I've been through the English questions because that's like the most understandable questions. So please, because I'm not really good at math, but I could share like pictures of that practice test to the website. Yeah, yeah, that would be awesome. We'd appreciate that. My word of, so go ahead, continue. Sorry, I'm not 100% sure. It's like, well, at least from what I've heard, the Princeton Review is like a very trustworthy source. And you know, well, it's not an official source, you know, that related exactly to the SAT, but they do prep as well. And you know, there's like many sort of advice and things there, but I was wondering if there's any other book or any other research that we could use. Yeah, so, yeah, Princeton Review is good. Like I've used their stuff before, I like it. Kaplan is another brand, McGraw Hill. There's a few different editorials, like book publishing companies that make SAT prep material. You know, the only thing I would just say as a word of caution is, you know, using those older materials or materials for the previous version of the SAT. Just keep in mind that the structure in English, especially is really different. I think a lot of that material can be very helpful for you in math. And I would also say the writing part of the old test is kind of similar. You could get some good practice for like, you know, certain types of questions, they're like grammar questions, punctuation questions, they're very similar, you know, with the reading part, I would be more careful just because it's so different, you know, you're doing 10 or 11 questions based on one passage, as opposed to one question, one paragraph, one paragraph, one question. And that means that some questions can be answered because of other questions. Like there are many times where I've been doing the old SAT format and I'm like, oh, the main idea, I got it. Oh, okay, well then that means that this is the right answer for number six. Oh, and if number six is C, well then number seven has to be D. And you can't do that anymore. So you do want to be a little careful. I would recommend still going through the text and I would still recommend using it for extra material, like go ahead, but just keep in mind that like you want to try practicing the specific kinds of questions that we're dealing with here. Like there are kinds of questions that are on the old SAT that just don't appear anymore, especially like ones related to evidence because they used to ask you like, in these lines, what's going on? Which lines provide evidence for the previous question or they would give you specific lines and ask you about like the purpose of a whole paragraph or something. So there are some types of questions that don't appear anymore. And so, be careful just, I wouldn't want you spending a ton of time on things that you're not gonna need later if that makes sense. So any who, when I get to the end of this, if I go all the way to the end here and I were to just say, it would give me my corrections and stuff. And so again, just with Blue Book, I don't want to make sure that we're all like, getting comfortable with this, that we're all using it. I think it's important to make sure that we are getting familiar with this so that you have time to sort of see how it works, what you can do. And that's more or less what I wanted to say about that. Any questions about this thing? If not, I think we'll move on. Has anybody had any like technical problems, difficulty installing or anything like that? All right, cool. So yeah, that is what I wanna do for homework for next week is practice test one in here in Blue Book. And so we can kind of see how we're developing on this test. And so that'll be for next week, we'll check out some of our responses on the next class Monday. So with that, it's been about an hour. Let's take a little break. We'll take our 10 minutes and we're gonna come back and talk about some new types of questions. All right, so I will see you in 10 minutes. Back in action here. Yeah, oops, I just leaked my scores. It's okay, I don't mind. All right, so yeah, let's get back into it. Oh, I see you sent down another question too. Less than 10 mistakes in the first module, the second module will be a difficult one, is that true? I have not been able to confirm a specific number of questions to get the hard module or not get the hard module. They say that it also depends on the difficulty of the questions you miss. So there may be some truth to what you're saying, but I also think it could vary from test to test. Like if I get, if I miss a lot of like hard questions, but I get everything else right, I'm probably gonna get a more difficult module, but one that's like, still more like the medium questions. If I miss a lot of easy questions and some hard questions, then it might kind of be the same, you know? I think you might need more than like, or less than 10 mistakes. I think it could even be a lower number than that from what I've seen playing around with it. I would probably say it's probably close to like six or seven. You definitely do want to get that hard module because it does seem that the questions on the hard module hurt you less when you get them wrong. And I was experimenting with that in a recent video, like if you have, you know, just like one mistake in the second module, it took away 20 points. But if you have one mistake on like an easy question, the first module took away 30. So the hard questions are gonna hurt you less and you're gonna have a higher base because you got that hard module. So it seems like that's the way to go. But I don't know that there's a specific set number. And I imagine that could change a little bit from test to test. I, you know, it's hard to say at this point right now, but from my experimentation in the practice tests, I, you know, I intentionally tanked a couple, intentionally kind of went in the middle, intentionally missed just a few. And I haven't, I mean, I haven't run enough experiments to be able to give you a hard number, but to me, it seems like you need probably get about 80% of the questions correct. So that would leave you with about, you know, maybe six mistakes or seven mistakes on the, on the like first part to get the hard second part. What's your question, Sophia? So would you say that it's better to get like more easier questions than a fewer difficult questions? As far as like mistakes on the first part. Right. Yeah, at the same time, it seems like the points are different depending on the questions from what I can tell. So it makes me think that like obviously easy questions, they expect you to get those right, you know? So missing those could hurt your score more. And so I definitely think you want to try to get, you know, as much as you can, if you're gonna make mistakes, at least you're making mistakes on hard questions. So that would, you know, probably hurt your score less and make it more likely that you get the hard module from what I can tell. If you're missing a lot of easy questions, they're gonna think, all right, they need easier stuff then because if they're missing the easy ones, right? And the thing is what's easier hard is what they think it is. It's what College Board says. And we don't exactly know what they classify yet as easy or difficult questions, but it does seem to me that there is a correlation with the type of questions. So from what I can tell things like punctuation, things like, you know, even the literature stuff, they seem to consider that easy. And I gathered that based on what I see more on an easy module. When I got an easy module, I saw more literature, for example. So that inclined me to think, okay, they must consider literature easier, which I can see the logic for that. For an American audience, you know, for an international audience, it's a whole different story. Punctuation to them seems to be relatively easy. I saw a large number of those, but it did go down a little bit on my hard module. Supporting claims questions, which we're gonna talk about today seem very difficult, and they seem to show up much more on the hard modules. They also seem to consider the data graph questions more difficult. The other one I saw a lot of was like harder sentence completion questions. So, and vocabulary is consistent throughout. So I think that's kind of like in the middle. So, you know, what's easier or hard for you obviously is different for every individual person, but we wanna try to like, you know, nail the ones that we know are gonna appear the most, for sure. And that's why I try to focus more on some of these things like vocabulary and grammar and punctuation, because that shows up a lot. But then in the second module, you're gonna see more of these supporting claims, more of the complex sentence completion ones. So, that's why we're starting to look at those too. So, let's talk about that a little bit. We're gonna look at two types of questions today kind of quickly. The first one quickly anyway. We'll spend more time on supporting claims. And then we'll get into our, you know, our note taking questions for now. So let me share my screen. All right, so again, when we talk about questions, we always wanna make sure we can identify questions. These are the easiest ones to identify because all you gotta do is see if there's notes, if there's bullet points on the left. It's note taking questions, okay? This is a new kind of question on the digital SAT. So, this is something you will never see on the old practice material. Just keep that in mind. This is completely unique to the digital SAT. It's really the only brand new kind of question that I could see. Everything else is some variant of older questions, but this one is exclusive to the digital SAT. But fortunately, I think it's super easy. And I think College Board agrees because I've seen two, typically at the end of the first module, and I don't really see these appearing again a lot on the hard modules. So I'm getting the impression that they're not that difficult. And I think College Board understands that as well. So let's take a look at one of these and see how we can handle it. It's really straightforward. What I want you to do with these is scan the question for keywords and then look at the answer that best matches that. And then just check the notes to make sure the answer is correct, okay? So I'm gonna take a look at an example. Really this is not that difficult. The question here, just take a look at what the question says. It's always phrased something like this. So there's a hypothetical student who is in class or researching a topic or whatever. Like they're doing student things. And then they take some notes and they give you like six or seven bullet points. It seems like six is the default number, although I saw seven on one. These can get longer in some cases, but generally it's like this, right? Like what you're seeing on the screen here. And the answer choices here are on the right and again, a little bit longer, but they're using data from the notes. Now, all we really wanna do is look at what it says here in the question. Emphasize the effort. That is the key word, okay? The effort required to achieve the moon landing. So I wanna focus on a response that is focused on effort. And so what I want you to do right now is just take a look at these responses. Tell me which ones do not focus on the effort. Which ones can we eliminate right away? The B. The B? Did you say- Oh wait, no. C. All right, why C? Because there was no efforts. Like in A, it was very expensive and it took a very long time. Okay. And thousands of people. In B, there was a lot of money included and time. Okay, so you- I see there was nothing like an effort twice. What does C focus on instead? Just on the achievement, I think. Yeah, I mean it kinda looks at like the person, the politics, right? But not really the effort involved. I mean it does at the end throw in, albeit at a high cost, but that doesn't really like say anything. So yeah, C, and really I can see this very clearly, I think, from the very beginning. Like the fact this starts out with Neil Armstrong should automatically tell me this is probably the wrong answer. Any other ones you would eliminate here? I think like, well, apart from the C, they all like express a different type of effort. I guess it's more like what exactly kind of area or type of effort we want to illustrate. I wanted to say B first because I didn't really read C or D. That was my mistake. But also because like money, it is an effort, especially like over the years, et cetera, but it doesn't necessarily, it's that very explicit as in like the effort we know, know or identify as. I think it's more explicit in the first one and the last one. Okay, so, so Jonas hit me up in the chat with an argument for D. I think that makes some sense what you're saying here that it explains what the project is rather than the effort given. And the first half of D does say the Apollo program was the name of the moon landing project. Like it's telling me about the project, but it's not telling me anything about the effort. And so right away, the fact that it contains irrelevant information is a reason I should get rid of it. I saw Mohamed's hand up too. Were you gonna say something similar? Yeah, I was gonna say to eliminate D. Yeah, so C gives me some irrelevant information. Like it tells me who and when and like the politics, way off topic. D tells me something about the program's name, cool, but like that's not what it asked for. So that's also wrong. So I also wanna make sure I have, I discard anything that's like off topic. Even if part of the answer includes it, but the other part goes off topic, there's probably a better answer. So I think we're leaning between A and B. Seems like we're all kind of like on that track. So let's again analyze these answers and take a look at what we can say in their defense. Like I wanna think like a lawyer almost, right? Like how would I defend this answer being the right one or this one being the right one? A or B, okay? So taking a look at A, it says it required highly advanced computers which took thousands of people to design and build and were very expensive. Okay, so there's definitely a mention of effort because it talks about the computers and being complex. I think there's some truth to that. And there's also in B, we have the employment of people, right? As I figure out saying in the chat B as well you're leaning towards that. Let's break it down, right? We've got the number of people that were employed on the project, which I think right there would indicate a lot of effort, right? I mean, half a million people, like that's crazy. Investment of over $150 billion in today's dollars. I mean, that's an effort. Hey, it takes money to do things. I mean, if I asked you to pay $150 billion, you'd have to get to work. So you got a lot of work to do. So I'm not feeling like that's a bad idea, right? We got the number of people, we got a large investment. That's an effort, a financial effort, a people effort over an eight year span. So it also touches on the time effort as well. Like this wasn't just something they did over the weekend. This took eight years to develop. Like it's a pretty big deal. So at this point, I see like B has three pretty good pieces of evidence, whereas A focuses specifically on one thing. And while I see effort involved in that one thing, it focuses on one aspect, which is the computers. So I'm not sure about that one. So Jenna's also saying it's better to eliminate A. I think there's another good thing to look at here. So again, think back to my strategy, what I recommended here. We wanna choose the answer the best matches and then check the notes to make sure the answer is accurate. So if I was stuck between A and B, what I'm gonna do is take a look at A and see what I see in the notes, right? And look at the notes, right? I wanna look for where it talks about the computers. It says today's mobile phones have hundreds of times more power than the computers on the Apollo spacecraft. Does it actually tell me anything about designing and building those computers? No. It doesn't, right? So feels kind of good, but then when you hold it up against the notes, it's like, I don't know, I'm not liking it. I mean, you could say that's implied by the fact that they employed 500,000 people or, we don't know, did it really take thousands of people to design those computers? Like, we didn't get that information in here. What if it only took hundreds? What if it only was like five people that were just really smart? I'm like, I don't know. So I have to be careful. Like I wanna make sure that I validate the answer against the notes so I can quickly eliminate C and D and then if I'm stuck between A and B, I'm gonna test the other two, right? And so if I look at B and do the same test, I mean, at this point, I can eliminate A and I would just mark B, but I would say the Apollo program employed nearly half a million people, check approximately 500,000. Required investment over 150 billion in today's dollars, check 160. Eight year span took eight years to complete. So three notes are used here and they're all correctly cited in this answer. And all of those things are related to effort. That's a good answer. Any questions? All right, I'm gonna send a few your way. Let's see how we handle them. I'm just gonna try a few. Just a handful, I don't have a ton of these to be honest yet because they take a lot of make surprisingly in kind of a pain. And also, it's just like, you know, not that hard. I don't feel like we need to spend too much time on these. So I'm gonna drop this in your, in a day group. I'll send it to everyone in here too. All right, so you should all have that file. That's the note taking questions for two seven. So there's just four questions in here actually. All right, one, two, three, four. Yep, so we're gonna do the same process and I want you to try to do these on your own first and then we'll check them out together. So just give yourselves five minutes, okay? Try to answer these questions. The, you know, again, these should only take you about a minute to resolve. So I feel like five minutes is a pretty good amount. Try to do that same strategy that we just employed, right? Focus on the keywords, figure out exactly which answer best, you know, stays on that same idea. And then you can verify that answer with the notes in the text. You know, I intentionally made these a little bit longer and a little bit like, you know, more developed I think than some of the ones you see on the SAT but I wanted to make sure that we have some tough practice so that the rest of the stuff seems easier. So I am starting the timer now. And if you do finish earlier, feel free to just send me your answers in the chat already because I like to see how fast you're resolving these two. All right, it's five minutes is up. Show me what you got. I got Nicholas's answers. I got some Jonathan's answers. Harold's sending me his, got Mohamas, thank you, sir. If you're still working, I think you're probably reading too much. That's probably the problem here. So we wanna be able to filter a little bit more and really again, focus on the answers. Let the answers guide you to the notes. If you can do it the other way around, you're gonna read a whole bunch of notes that you don't need and it's gonna slow you down. So make sure you're reading the question, picking out those key words and then focusing on the answers so that you can kind of like just zero in on the notes you need, right? All right, can you just send me a couple? Sorry, that's why we practice these though. If you're still not done, it's all good, but I want you to emphasize that point. We gotta just read what we need and the answer is gonna guide us on these questions, okay? So, all right, I'm getting a few different responses. If you haven't finished them all, that's all right, we're gonna take a look at them together. So, because I wanna get through and get to the supporting claims questions today. All right, so, first thing right here. As soon as I'm gonna ignore this, I don't care. What does it say? Australia's role in Southeast Asian immigration, okay? So, let's just go through and quickly eliminate some options. Immigrants from Southeast Asia have many options as to where they wanna go. This is wrong. You know how I know? The first half of this hasn't talked about this. Australia's role. Like, we should have that front and center that should be involved right from the beginning or at least in the first half of it where the first sentence, like, I shouldn't be just, you know, giving me this long introduction. This is very vague. No, it's not the answer. That's gonna be no-no. Okay, immigrants often face language, barriers, cultural differences. Okay, see, this doesn't talk about Southeast immigration. This is just immigration stuff. Like, this is just general information about immigration. And again, it's not focusing on Australia. It's coming off with like a big intro. I don't like either of these two choices. Immigrants, okay, so here we go. Like, right away, I see this and I'm automatically like, ooh, I wanna read this one because this one starts off with immigrants in Australia. Like, that's exactly what I'm looking for. I can tell that these two answers are not right because they're not including the two key ideas which is Australia's role in Southeast Asian immigration. So we got immigrants in Australia. That's something I can work with. They're well-received, but may choose to move to the United States because they're more job opportunities even though these may be exploitative. Okay, this just changed from Australia to the United States and focused on the United States. Like, that's not focusing on immigration in Australia. Like, it has no connection anymore. So now I don't like this answer. And so my inclination at this point is to say D. Now, can we confirm D? We sure can. Okay, it starts off with Australian. Like, it leads off with Australia. So automatically, I like this choice starting with the main idea that I'm looking for. Like, if I'm trying to emphasize Australia's role, I should start with Australia. It's just simple logic, you know? Openness towards immigrants and their customs, cool. In addition to programs that make it easier for them to settle, cool. Become a top destination for Southeast Asian. Okay, and there, we got the connection to the other part of the question, the Southeast Asian immigration. So I'm really confident that it's D. Knowing this, I'm just gonna take a quick chance like and test it real fast, right? Openness towards their customs. So I'm just gonna scan around and look for something about Australia. Okay, so here's Australia. It says they have assistance with training programs, housing assistance, make it easier for immigrants to integrate, so that confirms this part great. All right, what else is Australia? Others like Australia are more accepting of cultural differences, perfect. This is literally all I need to read, guys. This is it. Like, if you're reading all this stuff about US companies, you're wasting your time. Because, like, I'm trying to emphasize Australia's role. So I don't really need to focus on what the United States is doing here. And, you know, while there might be some mentions of the country, if it's just some little extra thing at the end, it's probably not that big of a deal. So I'm gonna focus on just what I need. And by reading through these questions, I could very quickly eliminate A and B. I stopped and looked at C, didn't like it because of the way it changed to the US. So I settle on D, take a quick look to confirm. And just by looking for the word Australia, I'm able to pick out these things. And I also see, like, okay, there's this one too, which says primary destinations include Australia. So this is good too. But that's it. I didn't have to read half of this. Not even half. That's the key to going faster here. So, if you got D for the first one, good stuff. Let's take a look at the next one. Student wants to emphasize the role of folk, religion, and African art. Okay, again, I'm gonna look for those terms early on and often, right? African sculptures depicting kings and chiefs, significant events like, okay, this is wrong. This isn't right. I know it's not. Because it's not talking about folk religion yet. And I feel like that's not enough. I need to be focused on that quickly. African art is heavily influenced by folk religion. Oh, that sounds like a good answer. Let me keep reading this one. With masks and sculptures, with deities or ancestors. Okay, cool. There's also music for religious. Okay, another example of art. This has to be the right answer. Like, this has to be it, right? I'll just, for the sake of illustration, if I was doing the test right now, I would probably just mark B and move on to be totally honest with you, because this is not that complex. But, for learning purposes. Let's just look at some of these other options real fast. Okay, masks are an essential part of religion. Okay, so the mask could be a form of art, focusing on the religion. That sounds interesting. Okay, all of this is about the masks. So, that's kind of an interesting way to take it. I feel like there's some value in this one. Music was integral to traditional life for entertainment. Now, this is wrong, because it just starts off with music and entertainment. It says it's also for spiritual purposes, but that's not, man, no. So, this one's wrong. All right, again, if I wanna keep score, I can say this is all focused on masks. That's one thing. This one is talking about masks, sculptures, and also talking about music and textiles. It covers all the different forms of art. So, that's gotta be the best answer. Can I just quickly confirm that? They talk about some sculptures, music, textiles. I mean, they talk about all these things, that's cool. They mention the stuff about the masks here too, which is good. So, there's a spiritual component to the art. That makes sense. Yeah, I feel like this, and I mentioned some of the symbolic meanings related to fertility, which is often associated with religious stuff, protection against evil spirits with the textiles. So, yeah, there's all this stuff can match up. B is the best answer. Simple as that. But again, notice how I'm just looking at the first part of these responses so that I can decide whether or not I wanna continue to consider this answer. I'm not gonna sit here and waste my time reading all this and testing all this. It's not focusing enough on the role of folk religion in African art. It's not connecting those two ideas enough. Third one. Let's see what we got. All right. Okay, use of cavalry. All right, so again, doing the same thing. Okay, Napoleonic Wars is some of the most famous cavalry battles. Cool, all right, that's cavalry. Let's see. Battle of Austerlitz, Italian campaign, battle of Guadalupe, defining moments in the wars. Okay, but I mean like, you didn't really focus on what the cavalry did. You just told me about some more like battles. Maybe Napoleon's legacy is one tactical brilliance. Okay, now this is wrong. Doesn't talk about cavalry enough. Napoleon's military strategy would live heavily on the use of cavalry. Okay, we have another contender. Utilize the mobility of his cavalry units. Okay, cool. This led to many victories. And also effective use. Okay, so this one has to be the right answer because look at how much it's emphasizing cavalry. Can I compare the notes and see what I find? Yeah. Let's see. Nothing about cavalry, cavalry, cavalry. I'm looking for cavalry words. Okay, here he used lighter forces to advance faster than enemies expected. Cavalry, combination of a cavalry and artillery. Cool, okay. Tactical genius, yeah, sure. Like there's some things about cavalry in here about them being faster. Mobility of the units, okay. Disciplined army, he mentioned that too. All right, yeah, it's gotta be C. Definitely, 100%. So like at first you're not reading the notes? No, no, don't wanna start with the notes. I'm looking strictly at the questions and the answers. I'll go to the notes when I know what I need to do. Yeah, so that's why it took me a lot of time. Yeah, that's the, I think the common mistake with these is go in here first, you're on the left side, you're like, oh, I gotta read all these notes. And then I'm gonna see which answer best does the notes. But the thing is like start with the question, right? Start here, identify the keyword. For me, it's the role of cavalry. And then I'm gonna look at the answer choices to see if any of them are mostly focused on that. And then from there, I can go to the notes. So just seeing right away the A options started by talking about Napoleonic Wars and cavalry battles. Good, that's probably a possible choice. I may wanna consider this one. This one here is talking about Napoleon's legacy and all this other stuff. And sure, it mentions cavalry, but not until the third line. That's not gonna be the right answer. So I'm gonna ignore all this. And I'm gonna ignore all this too, because it does the same thing. So I end up with just A or C. And as I analyze them more, I can see like C focuses on cavalry more. So then from there, all I wanna do is just quickly double check the notes to make sure that the information in there is not incorrect. Because if this had bad information, then maybe this would be the right answer. Make sense? Yep. Yep, cool. I feel like that's the winning strategy for the note-taking stuff. Like I've kind of tried doing it in a couple of different ways to play with it. And when I was starting here, I found myself going back and forth a lot. You know, kind of like testing each answer and it was like slowing me down. And then I started just saying, look, look at this, look at this. And if it's not bringing up this idea quickly, it's probably not right. And then there was usually a couple of answers that seemed like they could work, but one of them either goes off topic or it has incorrect information or it has something that's not from the notes. So in this case, this one goes kind of off topic. And actually, if we really wanna disprove A, the battle of Waterloo was where he was defeated. So that's not exactly a good example of his cavalry use. Like if that's where he lost, I probably shouldn't be bringing that up in the cavalry discussion now. So I could also really find good reasons to eliminate this one. But my point is like, if we just focus on what the question is asking for, it's pretty easy to get the right answer and then just confirm it. All right, and then let's see what the last one is here. All right, so environmental effects of the Industrial Revolution, cool. Okay, so again, same principle here. Create a new job opportunities. Nope, this isn't it. Steam engine and railways greatly improved connectivity, but require fossil fuels. Eh, I mean, I don't know. It's kind of in the second half, but I feel like it should be in the first half. I don't really trust B here. I'm not liking it that much. Could be, but I don't know. Cities were more polluted thanks to the transition from agriculture to industry. Okay, all right, that could be something here. Got better over time as knowledge of sanitation was gained and cleaner process were developed. Okay, that's kind of, I mean, that stays on topic. I don't know that that's broad enough because it's just focused on cities. Like, I'm not sure I love that. If it was like the impact on cities, I would love to see, but I don't love it. The Environmental Revolution in Britain or Industrial Revolution in Britain brought with it a significant environmental cost. Okay, so right here I like this answer. Like, this kind of be the right answer. And then it explains it, okay, increase use of coal, increase in pollution from new manufacturing. It can be said that today's global warming began here. Okay, so there's a lot of impact statements here. So I wanna just verify these real quick. I'm gonna look for some key words. Increase use of coal. It says here, yeah, increase use of coal, good. Okay, new manufacturing processes, stuff like about manufacturing. I think that's, I mean, that's implied, right? Revolutionized transportation manufacturing required fossil fuels to function. So there you go. And then today's global warming began here, marks the beginning of human exploitation of previously captured carbon. Like, yep, that just works. That's gotta be it. Yeah, cool. So again, I'm really just able to focus in on what the answer is talking about, right? And I see here like, okay, this is not a bad answer, but it is very focused on one aspect. And this one's got like three different things to talk about. And that's using more notes. So while I can argue that, okay, this is all true about the cities, that's one point. That's not three. Three beats one every time. So that's how we get there. Any questions? Yes, Sophia. No questions. That's the opposite of questions. I like it. A bit, eh, cool. Okay, so that's what, that's what's up with those. As you do that practice test, you're gonna see a couple of these as well. And I've deliberately chosen like, you know, some examples today that won't be seen on those tests. So you can practice those a bit more. But honestly, this is the way to do it. Just zero in on what the question is asking for, focus on that, and then start scanning the question and responses to choose the ones that focus on it the most from the very beginning. And that should help you really eliminate a lot of other answers. And then you can just check the notes. And again, when I check the notes, you notice I don't just start from the top and go down. What I do is like pick specific words. So I looked for coal. Like, all right, I wanna confirm coal and other resources. I look around and see, oh, there's coal. Increase use of coal. So I get the answer quickly. Same deal here. When I talk about, you know, global warming, I see that there's like, okay, beginning of human exploitation previously captured carbon. That's, I know carbon emissions have to do with global warming. Okay, global's there. The guy can look at keywords to help me find things faster. All right, so, lastly we're gonna talk about a little bit here are these supporting claims questions. And we are getting close to the end of the class. So I'm probably gonna leave one of these as homework for you today, just so you can do some practice with those as well. You're gonna see these on the practice test also. I think these are difficult questions. So I want us to take a good look at how these work. And we're gonna talk a little bit about, you know, what you should do with them. So let's go there. So again, identifying questions is important. We gotta be able to know what kind of question we're working with so that we can use the best strategy. You're gonna see things like this. What evidence would best support the claim or which choice best supports or what evidence would best illustrate the claim? There's always something about support or illustrate and claim something along these lines. And so we can qualify all of these as supporting claims questions, okay? So the way I recommend you approach these questions. First of all, these are ones where you would want to take a little more time to make sure you understand them very clearly. These are good ones to like, when you get these, go ahead and if you need to take an extra 30 seconds or something do it, okay? Or flag these for review and come back if you're not totally sure. The most important thing obviously is to understand the claim. If you don't understand the claim, then you can't support the claim. Like that's the simplest thing I can say. If you can focus on the claim and understand it clearly, you will have a good time. Make sure that you kind of find the best answer that would conclude it well. Usually this is also like a sentence completion question. Like it's at the very end of the paragraph. So you're gonna sum up the main idea of this. And then read the answers carefully. A lot of times just part of the answer is correct and that's how they get you. You start reading, you see part of the answer go, oh, this must be it. Then you mark it and move on and you get screwed by like one part of it. So make sure you take your time and read your answers. Here's a good example. Oh, but yeah, my last piece of advice before I get to the example. Don't sweat the vocabulary. A lot of times these are scientific. They tend to be scientific texts. You don't need to know all the scientific words, okay? They could mean anything. It doesn't matter. All you gotta understand is their relationship to the claim. So I'll show you a good example of this. This is a good example of a supporting claims question. So my question here is which finding of true would best support the researcher's claims? So what I do is I look and I see this. I see the support and I go, ooh, we're supporting claims. Now I gotta find the word claim. That's what I wanna do. I wanna look for that word claim or something similar to it, like some maybe hypothesis claim, you know, believe, I don't know, but some word that'll help me find the idea that they have. And I see here that that's the claim. So now I'm gonna read this part. So they claim that inducing fermentation of black beans using lactic acid bacteria improves the digestibility of the beans and makes them more nutritious. So they're saying that when you do this thing, the beans become more nutritious. All right, using this technique called fermentation. You don't need to know what fermentation is. You don't need to know what lactic acid bacteria is. All you need to know is that when you do that, black beans become more nutritious according to these people. So I wanna support that claim. Now, I need a little more information here because I don't know what that fermentation could do to help. I understand that they're saying fermentation makes it easier to digest these beans, but why? What would be the motive or the mechanism behind that? And I'm not gonna be able to answer this without that detail. So I look up a little bit further. I'm trying to figure out the how this works. I gotta go back and read more. But at least I understand the claim, right? I get the claim first. So it says they're difficult to digest because of their high levels of soluble fiber and compounds like raffinose. Again, I don't know what raffinose is. I don't care. All I know is that it makes it difficult to digest something. So hypothetically, if the black beans with fermentation have less raffinose or less fiber, that would be a good thing, right? It says they also contain anti-nutrients like tannins and trypsin inhibitors, right? Which interfere. So again, if those are reduced, that would also be a good thing, right? Those are bad. So all these things, raffinose, soluble fiber, tannins, trypsin inhibitors, all these things make it hard to digest stuff. If I can find an answer that shows that there are less of those things, I'm good. That's all I'm looking for, less of those things. Tell me which answer you like. I'm getting some B's and I'm getting some C's. Interesting, all right, we're gonna have to compare. This is good. If we're getting down to these options, that's a good start. We can immediately rule out D because that shows an increase in these bad things and we can rule out A because that would not support their claims. Like if we find out that these bad things are less common than we thought, then that means that these guys' hypothesis is not helping. So A and D are definitely wrong. So it feels like everybody's sending me B's and C's. Let's just take a look at B and C then. So B says a study of black bean consumers that demonstrates better health outcomes for participants that ate fermented beans. Now, there's an issue with this. And I want you to tell me what that issue might be. I would agree that this does support their claim, by the way, but there might be an issue. Any ideas on what the issues might be? It doesn't necessarily mean that the fermented beans are the reason. Okay, very good. This is, now this is tapping into your understanding of science just a little bit, but that's one good reason why I would avoid B. How do I know that they did, like can I control everything else that people eat in the study? Can I really control everything else to say, okay, definitely it was the black beans that were fermented. It's a bit of a stretch. There's also another thing that I think you should consider, which is that it's not really referencing the specific mechanisms in the text. Like the text is talking about how the black beans have all these bad things in it. So shouldn't I pick an answer that maybe references the text more explicitly? I feel like I should. You know, to provide the best support. And again, better health outcomes is also a little bit of a vague term. Like, I mean, I don't know. It doesn't get specific enough to the text. That's the general reason, but I also, I think what you said is absolutely correct. Like, and you don't know that that's why the beans are better. Like you don't know for sure. You got to study the beans, man. You got to study like the science. We got to look for these stupid things like anti-nutrients, rathenotes, and then we can maybe make a determination. And so C says samples of fermented black beans that show a reduction in the bad things we don't want compared to unfermented black beans. And that would be good. I'm comparing the beans, just the beans. We're just saying that the beans are more nutritious and easier to digest. We can't necessarily speak to how they affect a whole person, but we can say, okay, I fermented these beans. They're easier to digest. Look, they got less of these bad things. They should be easier to digest. Meanwhile, I have these unfermented beans with all sorts of bad stuff in them. So I should pick C here. That would be my best choice. And that's the reason why. Like, so I will agree that B does support the claims, but it's not the best support of the claims. I would rather have exact scientific evidence of like studying two different groups, comparing a control group to an experimental group, and then I could say, okay, for sure, my experiment had an impact. It's hard to do that when you study people who may be eating 20 million other things, you know? Or maybe what if like, some people get up and exercise in the morning and some people don't? Like, I don't know. There's other variables. And that's a good scientific principle. I'm gonna leave you with this thought today. Whenever you deal with these scientific supporting claims texts, like, scientists want to isolate one variable. When they perform an experiment, right? And we all should have learned this in school with the scientific method. You have one variable and then you have a controlled group. And that's how you make a scientific comparison. So knowing that, C is a good answer because C is doing exactly that. It's taking one group of beans and another group of beans. It's changing one thing and then seeing how the results were. And so that is hard scientific evidence. B, there's a lot of variables. It might be useful, but it's also really hard to control. It's very hard to control people's behavior for a diet study, you know? And again, it's also just not as connected to the text here. So I'm definitely gonna lean towards C. Any questions? All right. Yeah, I have a question. Sure, tell me. Yeah, can you, I don't know, like give us a range of the time required for each question for like the different kinds of questions? Yeah, we could get kind of like a general estimate for those, sure. Yeah, I might be able to make a little like table for you or something. Yeah. I mean, I do think my general rule is try to keep yourself to one minute per question, right? And when you're doing the test, what you can do is look at the time left, look at the number of questions left and see which number is bigger, right? If you have 22 questions left and you have 23 minutes on the clock, you're doing good, you know? If you have, you know, 15 questions left and you've only got 10 minutes, you better move faster. And I think that's a good way to approach it. Like, there's, you know, there's variety also. There's easy versions of these questions and there's hard versions of these questions. So it's hard to say for certain, like definitely just use 45 seconds for this kind of question. I mean, that can be a general idea, but what you wanna try to do is move as quickly as you can without making mistakes and get that time accumulated, you know, as you go. Cause you're gonna start the modules usually with a lot of vocabulary, which you can answer pretty fast. So that's gonna buy you some minutes and then you can keep working and just keep track of that difference. Like if I look at the bottom of the screen says, okay, you're on five out of 27, I go, okay, I got 23 questions, right? I look up and I see 25 minutes. I know I'm good. That's a good test. Sophia? Yeah. Do you know if admissions officers will have any kind of per se, like consideration to the people that are taking the online SAT compared to the ones that are taking the normal SAT? Like what they have, I don't know. Maybe if you got a 1500 in the virtual SAT, they will consider that more or more value than the normal SAT? Or is it just the same one? That's a good question. So here's the thing. I wish I could give you a better answer, but here's the truth, okay? On one hand, College Board says that the tests are equal, like there should not be preference for one or the other, okay? So that would suggest that universities should also treat them the same way. The only problem with that that I have, and I'm gonna talk to people more. I'm gonna go to a big conference in July and talk to like dozens of admission officers about this very topic and ask them these same questions because I wanna get to the bottom of this too. But we always have to remember that universities can do their own thing. So they may see, like we don't, and we're also just collecting data now. Like what if they see that, oh, everybody who took the digital SAT got like a big increase on their scores. And then it's like, should I treat them the same? Like we don't know how they're gonna react because we don't have all the data yet. I think that they're gonna probably treat them all equally for the most part. I don't think they're gonna discriminate against one or the other because that's the guidance they've been given and I don't think there's enough data even by the time you're applying later this year for them to have that kind of judgment. So simple answer, it's probably gonna be the same. They're gonna treat them the same. More complex answer, it may depend on the data and what some universities see in that data. But that is something I'm gonna continue to investigate myself. Nicolas, I saw your hand up. Yeah, I'm about to work things out right now. Do we only do the English part or the math section? I would like you to do both. Do English and math because I'm gonna have Ed take a look at those as well with you guys when you come back next week. So yeah, you are on the practice test in Blue Book, you do have to like go through and do them all together like completely as far as I can tell. So set aside some time to try to work on the whole thing. I'd recommend maybe just over the weekend or something when you have some time or one of these nights this week. But yeah, we wanna see how you're developing. We wanna see kind of what your scores are at and just see how much we can improve as well as we go through this. I've liked the results from our last class that we did. We got everybody's results back this week and it's all been pretty positive. I like what I see. We had some 1400 plus results, a lot of stuff in the 12s and the 13s. Yeah, there's a mix. It always depends on you. Yeah. Yeah. What about the topics that we haven't seen yet? So that's okay. Understand like there's gonna be stuff that we haven't covered yet and that's totally normal. Hopefully we'll see improvement on those things but it's also helpful for me to sort of see, confirm some of my theories on which parts I think are more difficult and I'm prioritizing some of the parts that I think we need to see first. Starting with vocabulary because we know there's more vocabulary, grammar, punctuation because there's more grammar, punctuation. The stuff about note-taking I think is important to see early because it's new. You're not gonna have a lot of material for that. Good to see it now. Supporting claims, same deal. That's complicated. So same deal with math. Obviously there's gonna be stuff we haven't taught, stuff we haven't practiced. That's okay. Don't worry about it. The idea of a practice test is just to practice and get familiar with the test. And that's the more important reason for me. More than your score, I don't care that much about your score on a practice test to be totally honest. I care more about you getting practice and you need that practice. And especially with regards to like Blue Book and using it effectively, we need that practice. If you're not getting in Blue Book and doing those practice reps, then when you sit down for the real test, it's gonna be harder. So more than anything, it's about getting those repetitions and getting that practice in. And so it's important to do that regularly. So don't sweat. Don't stress. Do the best you can. Try to answer everything. And we'll take a quick look at your results next week. I would love it if you could do it before Monday so that you can send me those results though so I could take a quick look at them before we start our class just to have an idea of where we are. Okay? So that'll be it for today. Okay. And yeah, feel free to let me know if you need anything. Thank y'all very much. See you next week. Thank you. Thank you so much. See you. You're welcome. Take care. Thank you. Don't forget about the link, the video link. Yes, yes. I have a sticky note on the monitor right in my face. I'm gonna make sure I send it up. So don't worry. Okay, thank you. Bye. Welcome. See you. For all you guys still sticking around and watching just I saw a couple questions here. The previous classes, you can find those on the channel if you just go to the channel with page. I'm also gonna make a playlist of all of these when I'm done. But it's all on the channel and the live streams. You can just go like look on the channel and see the recent publications and you'll see that I've been publishing one of these every week. And Jet, if you wanna get in on this stuff, if you wanna get in on the Zoom call, we do charge for these classes and these people that are in here are paying customers in here with the exception of the guys that won my contest. So if you wanna get involved, hit me up at prepwithscore.com and let me know if you're interested in joining the class and we can work that out. But I'm still putting out the material here for everybody to use because I want you to have that practice. I want you to get the best score you can right now because I know it's hard this year. So that's why we're doing it this way. But yeah, I also know that my streaming has been a little awkward lately with the internet. I'm not sure why. So I apologize for that. I've been working on that. I'm not sure why OBS has given me issues lately. It seemed like it was more stable today and only dropped 2% of the frames. So that's progress. But I was getting a bunch of error messages here. So if you were sticking around and you were having some unannoying connection issues, I beg your forgiveness, but I appreciate you hanging out anyway. So that'll be all for this week.