Here is the typical example of a question for true false not given.
Passage:
The Majority of people who graduated university found it difficult to get a job
Question:
After finishing their tertiary education, all people had difficulties to find employment.
Now the first step that you need to take is to look more closely at the statement. Don't try to find or understand your answer until you have analyst the statement more. So the first thing we are going to do is look at some vocabulary in the statement. At the statement of question, Tertiary education means university education and employment means work or a job. In the passage, the people who graduated university. Graduated means that they have finished the university. We have a lot of similarity between the statement and the passage.
Now many student can see that a lot of the information is matching. And immedietly they decide the answer is true. But you need to be more careful with that. It is not about matching keywords. It is about matching all of the meaning. So here we are going to take a look the word "all" At the statement of question. All means 100% to the people. So after finishing their university education, 100% of the people had difficulties to find work. That's the actual meaning of the statement. But in the passage, the majority doesn't everyone. It means most of them. So we have a miss match. It doesn't match. And remember that the false means it is opposite information. The majority means not all people. So the answer to this question is False. The information in the statement doesn't match. It is opposite information in the passage.
Let's have a look at another. Here is the next question.
Passage:
The charity raises money to pay for education and the daily needs of poor people.
Question:
The charity spends more of the money raised on schooling for poor people than on their daily requirements.
So again we gonna spend a little bit of time looking at the statement. We have got "The charity spends more of the money raised on schooling". Schooling means education. Then on "daily (everyday) requirements". "Requirements" mean needs. Again in the statement, we have a lot of similar or a lot of matching information. What do you thing? True, false or not given? well, we need to look more deply the statement. Remember if the answer is true, it means that the information mathces. If the answer is false, it means that this is opposite information.
We should prepare the opposite information to make sure that we can decide if it's true or false. If we look at the passage, we got information about education and we have information about daily needs. But it doesn't say which one the charity spend most of the many on. Which one is more and which one is less. So that means eventhough we have a lot of matching information, we do not find any matching information and we do not find any opposite information. In fact, the comparison between "the many on schooling" and "daily requirement" isn't there. So the answer for this question is Not Given.
Lets have a look at one more. Here is the last practice question.
Passage:
Just over 400 million acres of land is being used for agricalture in America.
Question:
At present, in America, about 400 million acres of land is allocated for agriculture.
At the statement, we got "at present" as a time phrase. It means "right now" or "at this moment" or "curently". Allocated means "it is given to be useful". The differences between the passage and the statement is "a time phrase" and the word "about". Do you think it is true? false? or not given? well let's have a look further. Firstly the time phrase. In the passage there is no a time phrase. However, is it another way to know what we are talking about the present or not? yes, there is and that's grammar. Your grammar will tell you what time period we are talking about it is a present or a past. The word "is being used" in the passage is present continuous. So you can see, it is not about just matching words. It is about matching meaning. And the meaning can't be hidden in the grammar. So you have to pay attention to everything in the statement and in the passage. The word "about 400 million acres" have the same meaning with "just over 400 million acres". So the answer is true.
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