 What is up guys Karma Medic here and today we're going to be covering the verbal reasoning section of the UCanth test. I'm going to go through a bunch of questions on my computer and answer them live on camera so you guys can see my thought process and what it is that I'm taking into account when answering these questions. If you guys don't know who I am my name is Nasser, I'm a second year medical student at Kings College London and I make all kinds of interesting videos about medical school life and medical school here on this channel so feel free to subscribe if you guys want to follow along. I also have an Instagram that you guys seem to really like so feel free to follow me on there if you want to get more day-to-day updates about what I'm up to. I'm actually getting on a flight to Toronto later today to start doing scientific research in Canada but you know what like I'm not going to be able to record in this room when I'm in Canada. I'm going to miss it when I'm making videos over there so I thought I would make another video before I left. So like I said today we're going to be tackling the verbal reasoning questions. If you guys are looking for specific tips for this section then I would direct you to a video that I made last year. I'll put links to it in the description and somewhere here on screen. That video covers all the different tips and tricks that you'll need to tackle and ace this section but for today I'm just going to go through the questions live on camera to show you guys what it is that I'm thinking about and also a big thank you to Medify for partnering with me on this video. Medify is the online UCAT question bank that I've been using for all of my UCAT videos and it's what I would recommend honestly if you guys are looking for a question bank to practice these UCAT questions so if you guys want to check out Medify I'll leave links to their website in the description down below without further ado let's jump straight into answering questions live on camera. So verbal reasoning is split into true false and can't tell and reading comprehension. I'm going to click on this general one here so that I get questions from both sides of the spectrum so I actually get asked this question quite a lot. People are always asking me should I read these questions first and then go to the paragraph or should I go to the paragraph and then go to the questions. I will read the question first and pick out the most important words okay the key words the unique words to that question that will take me to the answer in the paragraph then I will scan the paragraph for those words and try and answer that question while I'm scanning the paragraph to answer that single question I'm obviously going to be reading a lot of other things within that paragraph and those are going to be memory cues for future questions so I'll explain as I go along but basically I'm reading the question first and then I'm going to the paragraph. Communist Party of China is the governing party of the People's Republic of China okay so now I guess the question becomes is the People's Republic of China the same thing as China because it says here the Communist Party is the governing party of the People's Republic of China which is here and it says here the CPC is the sole governing party of China okay so the rest of the paragraph doesn't seem to talk about that in these parties however hold no real power or independence from the CPC which is the Communist Party of China so that's something else we're going to go with true for this one the other eight legal parties of China have staged coups against the ruling government okay quick scan for coups okay I did a quick scan I didn't see anything about coups so I'm going to say can't tell there's no evidence to tell me that it's false there's no evidence tell me that it's true so I'm going to go with can't tell CPC governs on the basis of democratic centralism under all circumstances so that is before I even look at the questions or whatever this is a very extreme statement it's saying under all circumstances it governs in a democratic fashion so it's probably going to be false I don't know I'm going to read the paragraph now but anytime there's a very extreme statement unless it is stated in the paragraph as well as an extreme statement tends to be false but let's see so all it says about this is that it entails democratic and open discussion so we can't tell if it's a democratic centralism under all circumstances it's organized on the basis of democratic centralism but we don't know if it's if it's acting within democratic centralism at all times it just says that it's organized on the basis of it so does it do it on all circumstances I'm going to say can't tell I don't think we can say false either because we don't have any evidence to say that it doesn't act in that circumstance yes I'm going to go with can't tell for the majority of the time the political borough and its standing committee are responsible for most of the party's duties okay let's find that word political borough and standing committee okay here most most duties and responsibilities are vested in the political borough and its standing committee for the majority of the time can we say that that's true for the majority of the time and most duties and responsibilities so this doesn't really talk about time the body meets once a year most duties and responsibilities are vested in political borough or whatever so that is a majority of the responsibility but it doesn't mean that it's for the majority of the time so I'm going to go with can't tell the chairman of the central military commission is the commander in chief the people's liberation army all right let's find people's liberation army I don't recall that anywhere I like I can't tell from this paragraph and there's no information to tell me otherwise so I'm going to go with can't tell feel like I've chosen one too many can't tell us for this but let's see okay cool so four out of five I got one of them incorrect so let's see what went on there for the majority of the time oh really let's see the highest body tbc is national congress okay oh I didn't even see the sentence I was in a completely different place so yeah that's like that's one of the disadvantages I would say about reading the question first and then skimming through the paragraph to find the information for example here political borough in the standing committee is talked about here which is where I read about it and where I got my information from but it's also talked about just up here the highest body of the thing is blah blah had I read the entire thing to begin with and sort of tried to remember what was going on maybe I would have realized that but I think that's probably going to be a waste of time and so I'll happily take the loss of one point out of five points on this question and move on with my life it's better that I get four correct and then five right instead of waste a ton of time on this question and maybe get five out of five right but then not have enough time for questions down the line oh my gosh this is what we would call a long boy this is a lot of reading let's see what we can do which of the following statements is false these are the ones that take the longest time because you have to individually evaluate every single one of the answers Tokyo became the capital of Japan in 1943 what am I going to skim for 1943 and that's like pretty much it that will that's the most unique part of this sentence here Tokyo capital and Japan are not the most unique aspects of this they're probably going to be talked about in many different places in this paragraph but the word 1943 is likely to be unique and only come up once so that's what I'm going to quickly scan for and I find it right here so let's read the sentence that's involved in Tokyo administers 23 wards blah blah city cover city emerged and became the metropolitan pre-factor in 1943 does metropolitan pre-factor mean um the capital I don't know so which of the following is false could be this one so let's move on and value some others the official name of Tokyo is actually Tokyo Metropolis so Tokyo officially Tokyo Metropolis is the capital of Japan okay so now I know that this one is true and I now also know that this one is false the capital of Japan is Tokyo Metropolis whereas in 1943 Tokyo became merged and became the metropolitan pre-factor so now I know for sure the number one is false number two is true so now I don't need to evaluate number three and four and I encourage you guys to do this as well it's asking for the one false statement once you found the false statement choose that statement have confidence and believe in yourself and move on with your life because you are going to be so stressed for time tackling these questions once you know you have the right answer just believe in yourself have confidence in yourself click it and move on so yeah next question the Tokyo metropolitan government covers the whole of the metropolitan prefecture is responsible for finding the upkeep overseas 23 special wards governs 30 municipalities so there what I've done is just quickly scan through the answers so that I can gain a little bit of an idea what kinds of things I'm going to be looking for in the paragraph and now I'm going to check them one by one so whole metropolitan prefecture metropolis is one of the seven Tokyo metropolitan air governments that's what I'm looking for Tokyo Metropolitan Tokyo Metropolitan let's see a couple of these so overseas the 23 special wards 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 I don't see 23 there Tokyo Metropolitan government administers the 23 special wards of Tokyo okay so it could be governs 30 municipalities as well also ministers 39 municipalities that's false okay so at this point I'm not a million percent sure of my answer but I have spent quite a lot of time answering this one question and you shouldn't spend a lot of time answering any one question because all questions are worth the same number of marks so I'm going to go with what I think is correct what is like almost in my mind correct and I'm going to move on with my life you choose the question and you move on which of the following statements is false based on the passage there are more than 37.8 million people living in the metropolitan thing so the population is over 9 million total population exceeding 13 million prefectures for the world's most populous metropolitan areas upwards of 37.8 people 37.8 million so there are more than 37.8 million people living in the metropolitan prefecture the prefectures part of the world's most populous metropolitan area I don't know if we can know that for sure the city has the second highest number of Fortune 500 countries the city has the second highest number of Fortune 500 companies in any city in the world okay let's find Fortune 500 really quick I don't see Fortune 500 anywhere oh here city hosts 51 of the Fortune 500 companies the highest number of any city in the world city has the second highest number so that's false so it says the city hosts 51 Fortune 500 companies which is the highest number of any city in the world here it says that the city has the second highest number of Fortune 500 companies so that one statement is false. Also in these questions I find it easiest to quickly look at the answer responses that have numbers or dates or things like that because those are quick and easy to find within the paragraph where something like this Tokyo's home to the Tokyo broadcasting system is just words and there's a lot of words here so it's going to be more difficult to find those ones first so generally I gravitate towards the number related answers when I'm quickly trying to scan through the paragraph for those words so yeah you don't have to do these in order obviously a true or false b true or false you can choose whatever order you want so choose the ones that you know you're going to be able to find the fastest so yeah you can go for b with that one it can be inferred from the passage that okay so this is an important concept inferring means that you're going to make an assumption in order to reach this conclusion it's not going to be specifically stated in the paragraph it's not going to be specifically denied it's something that you can infer so that's something to keep in mind it's you need to make an assumption in order to reach this conclusion so tourists generally have a positive experience in Tokyo Tokyo ranked first in blah blah and forth and blah blah the city is considered an alpha plus world city it was ranked first in best overall experience category trip advisor blah blah helps his nightlife shopping local products actually and cleans the streets I'm going to go with this one you know there's a lot of positive things here that I think a tourist would be interested in helpfulness of locals that's a very touristy thing nightlife shopping transportation whatever so yeah I'm going to be with I'm going to go with this then I'm going to quickly read these cost of living is low generally from this paragraph you get the vibe that cost of living is definitely not low Tokyo is not very safe I haven't seen anything about that it's common for people to emigrate I also haven't seen anything about that even though there might be but I'm pretty sure this one is right and I'm just going to have confidence myself and I'm going to move on the overall aim of this passage is likely ooh these questions are good so whenever you're answering this question make sure that you don't answer the question based on just one of the paragraphs it's saying the overall aim of the passage so you need to take into account everything that's being said in these uh three paragraphs what do we think the aim of this passage is to explain the historical importance of Tokyo so that's good for this part over here for the first paragraph the second paragraph kind of yeah explain some history but not the third paragraph to describe the governance structure of Tokyo yes in the first paragraph and then maybe the second and then the half of the second paragraph to promote to Tokyo to promote Tokyo as a tourist destination towards the end of the third paragraph or the third paragraph itself I would say does serve that purpose is this in focus boy you better be folk so promote Tokyo's tourist destination yeah maybe to give an overview of Tokyo it's key attributes and its governance so this to me I think might be better because it this is more holistic of what the entire three paragraphs are talking about because it talks about the governance it talks about different parts of Tokyo and it gives an overview about like tourism and stuff like that I'm gonna go with this one I think this is the more this is the most generalized one all right let's see what I got let's go cheeky five out of five all right dope we're doing good we are doing good next question next question next question which of the following phrases is not explicitly used in the passage to describe journal of the plague year all right this should be good authentic history imaginative fiction historic normal narrative nonfiction so quickly read through this novel as a kind of one man below the great play authentic history so which one is not used to get authentic history imaginative fiction this will be a historic novel so really cheeky all right very first question I'm obviously going to start from the top and scan my way down and it was literally the last couple of sentences in very cheeky you can't fashion so yeah make sure you guys do things quickly practice quickly skimming quickly gathering information and quickly making decisions as well decisions that you know are right which are the following claims supported by the passage a journal is not a novel as is a work of nonfiction um does it say that anywhere it was initially read as a work of nonfiction but by the blah blah the fictional status was accepted so this is going to be no a journal the plague year is based on only one source the journal of henry foe uh first of all it's the account of one man's experiences okay is based on only one source the journal of henry foe is an account of one man's experiences so I'm not even going to read the third one I'm not even going to read the fourth one even though the third one has a number and it can be quickly deemed to or false let me read that quick for it's more detailed than some non-fictional counseling we're playing 19 in 1665 normal account of one man's thing in 1665 um I don't see any comparisons to other books written in that time so I'm just going to go with b which of the following can be inferred from the information in the passage the full publisher on the page when he was in his 60s was written in the years just prior to the book's publication in 1722 so 1722 and he was five in 1665 so he was born in 1660 so that would make him 40 62 when it was published so he published when he was in his 60s yes that's true he was 62 all right next I don't want to read any of the other ones which is the following is not true the journal of the year according to the passage it's based on a personal account of events at 1665 not true this is true the detail in the account gives an impression of being accurate and real I'd say so eyewitness account events at the time yeah I'd say so oh that says is not true so that's false okay it considers a variety of perspectives and experiences no it's only one man's experience and we know that because we answered this already in the second question I think of this section contains journal entries subdivided into four sections one for each reason let me see if I can quickly just rule that out to be sure of my answer the book is told chronologically without sections or chapter headings the book is told somewhat chronologically though without sections or chapter headings and here says divided into four sections one for each reason so this is the false one which means this might be true oh it does have multiple different experiences though okay fine oh almost got that wrong okay which is the following according to passage is true the photo lived in London in 1722 we have no idea the photo several historical novels um I don't remember the photo only wrote fiction also don't remember the frozen did not publish journal the plague year under his own name I mean he did publish it under the initials so isn't that kind of his own name that's cheeky are his initials his name who knows all right I'm gonna go to this one let's see how we do all right cheeky four out of five check that let me just close a blank everything's going yellow all right that should fix this issue that's where we got wrong um journal the plague is based on only one source I should have corrected that after I realized this was wrong in question four my bad so very often actually you'll answer a question that will make you realize for certain that something the answer previously is either right or wrong because they will be mutually exclusive or contradict each other which in this case I definitely should have gone back and changed it I just got distracted and moved on keep that in mind you can answer one question and know that that's true for certain which will help you know whether a previous question was true or false all right next question so United States to teach karate that's what I've taken out of this um let's see no said you're super got sent to Brazil so this is false you did not get sent to the United States kicks and elbow strikes of the head are allowed in kyo kushin sparring so kushin is my main elements there's three kicks and elbows kicks and elbows head and neck however it kicks to the knee kicks to the head knee strikes punch the other one kicks in and are permitted okay so kicks elbow strikes to the head are allowed however kicks to the head are permitted what about elbow strikes to the head hand and elbow strikes to the head are prohibited so this statement is false it's saying elbow and kicks are allowed however kicks are allowed but elbow is not so that makes this the total sum of the statement false Masu Tatsu Oyama is still practicing today so I guess I don't know if we can say that this specific person Oyama is practicing still we it says it's still practiced in a limited number of dojos but I don't think we know if this guy specifically is practicing today we can't tell there's nothing to say that he is and there's nothing to say that he isn't so I'm going to go with can't tell sparring is referred to as kihon all right let's try and find that real quick kihon basics kata and kumite three main elements technique forms and sparring these are sometimes referred to as the three k's so sparring is kumite so this is false all right okay that was a good one let's see all right nice nice really quick four out of four these are the kinds of questions that you really hope to get in your in your exams because you can just quickly go through them quickly eliminate them although it looked like there was a lot of complicated words and foreign phrases and names and everything like that if you just ignore all of those outside factors and just focus on the words quickly skim through the paragraphs to find the information you need you can answer these questions really really quickly all right guys and I think that is it for me I'm going to cut this video here I have a flight to catch in a couple of hours to toronto so I'm going to need to cut it off here if you guys enjoyed this video make sure you do leave a like on it and subscribe to my channel to see more yuka and medical school related content from me I'm definitely going to be updating you about my time as a researcher and while I'm on holiday this summer in toronto and then in Greece so definitely follow me on instagram and subscribe to my channel if you guys want to be kept up to date with that anyways guys it's been an absolute pleasure I hope you guys enjoyed and I will see you in the next one peace