In this next module, I'm going to walk you through answering two parter type questions. Two partners are high order type question. There's even higher levels than that require a second or third order levels of decision making. Basically, the complex thoughts are required to have you take a set of facts or information and assimilate a conclusion and then use that conclusion to derive the answer choices. Don't rush through these questions. Take your time.

And don't skip ahead. These questions are more complicated to solve, but oftentimes, you'll be surprised actually how easy they are. I've worked with students in the past who have been somewhat overwhelmed with the stem which is generally more volumous in terms of words, and distractors and foils, and tend to get discouraged and frustrated and blow through these questions haphazardly guessing and miss out on a few points that really are the difference between the grade that they wanted in the grade they actually received. Make sure to read the stem very carefully. This is this is critical. You need to work through the question and decide what facts are relevant and valid in which facts are just thrown in as distractors or red herrings, you need to address the conclusion first, this is the key if you get the conclusion wrong, you're not going to come up with a correct answer from the choices given.

Apply the rules that I've shared in previous lectures and modules and how to eliminate the obvious incorrect choices. This is a combination of wording. And also, if you've watched the inside the mind module, you'll have a pretty good idea what I'm talking about based on how your instructor presents materials that are factual, how they communicate, and their own interests and desires. to ponder questions, the first thing is to deconstruct the stem. Just really take your time and read each sentence of the stem and see what the instructor is trying to tell you. You'll have a pretty good idea of the answer when you read through the stem of the question, even if you haven't looked at the answer choices, yet.

Make sure that you understand what is being asked. Oftentimes students will blow through the stem, pick an answer choice, but hadn't they hadn't really answered the question that was being asked to make sure to look for key modifiers such as, except, or not, or none. Oftentimes, when you read through a volume of STEM, you get excited about knowing the answer, and you miss district critical modifier that completely changes the answer and you end up getting the question wrong. Make sure to tease out the relevant facts and ignore the foils, or distractors just cross them out. If it's a written test, take your pencil and line them out to ignore them. One strategy for students that have a little bit of hard time solving these type of questions is circle the relevant facts or maybe just make a few notes on the side of the question about a few items that you think are imperative in arriving at the correct conclusion and the correct answer.

You need to arrive at the correct conclusion. This is the critical first step. Don't skip This don't second guess this or try to solve the question without coming up with the appropriate intermediary step. Apply the rules eliminate any obvious, non correct choices immediately and look for clues. Make sure to answer what is being asked. I'm reiterating this several times.

But all too common I see students on critical exams or standardized tests who perform poorly. And when we go back and review the data, they've missed four or five questions, because they missed the modifier and didn't answer the question being asked. elimination is the key This is there's no way around this. You can bend the statistics to your favor by eliminating a group of answers from four to three or from four to two. You've significantly increased your odds to better than 5050 about getting a question right. So take your time Don't.

Don't immediately blow through the answer choices. If you don't know what More often than not, you will be able to eliminate at least one, oftentimes two, and get it down to a 5050 choice. At that point, you're going to rely on intuition and some of the other techniques I've taught in other modules to answer those questions. So the two parter, obviously, the stem is at the central part of all this. There's relevant data that you need to assimilate. And then there's the foils are the distractors, just get rid of those quickly.

And more often than not, you will come up with a correct choice. Three partners are similar methodology. They're just more complicated and tend to confuse students, and oftentimes they confuse exam writers, when they're trying to put together the choices. Basically, the information presented allows you to come to a conclusion or an answer, and then there'll be an additional question that is far removed from that, that draws on the knowledge of that and I'll give an example of that in the ancillary materials, the same process applies to three partners, you're going to read the stem, come up with the conclusion. The third order question relies on other facts about that conclusion to give you the correct answers. So these are difficult.

Fortunately, they're not all that common, with the exception of really high or classes, law school med school type stuff. So you won't see these a whole lot, but you can successfully answer them. I've seen students who've taken practice practice exams about a topic they knew nothing about. And were able to answer a fair number of the three partners correctly just by applying the techniques that I've been teaching throughout this course. So that ends this module. If you have any specific questions or concerns, just post it in the student forum area there and I will see you on the next session.