What you have to do for this question is pretty straightforward. It is going to ask you to choose the four statements which are true, and all you have to do is shade the circles in the boxes for the ones that you think are true. This question is worth four marks, and because of that, you should spend about 5 minutes in the exam answering this question. However, my tip would be that if you know you are a pretty fast reader, you're decently a fast reader, I would try and complete this question in, first of all, less than 5 minutes, and in more like 2 to 3 minutes, and second of all, potentially even not give it its own time slot at all, but just try to complete it as you're doing your initial reading of the text in that 15 minutes
of reading time. So, in that 15 minutes of reading time, which you can now make 20 minutes by taking that 5 minutes from question one, you can then give 10 minutes to the first text, 10 minutes to the second text, and in that 10 minutes on the first text, aim to spend just a couple of those answering question one as well. This question is testing your comprehension skills, your basic ability to understand what a text is trying to say, and you can see that here in the mark scheme when it asks when it says that the skill you're being tested on is your ability to identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas. If you're not familiar with what it means by explicit and implicit information, then you need
to have a look at my video on explicit and implicit information to make sure you understand that, cuz that's a really important part being able to do well in this question, but also every English question you're ever going to study. Um, but that's basically it. It just wants to check that you know how to understand what a text is trying to say, and therefore, because you've been able to understand what a text is trying to say, you know which of these statements are correct, and which ones aren't. This question will give you a specific line range that it wants you to draw on for question one. It's really important that you don't go outside of that line range because let's say for example one of the
statements was true, but you don't find that out in your line range, you don't want to tick that box because it's not true for your little chunk of text. One of the easiest things you can therefore do as you start reading is immediately box off the chunk of information for your question. So in the case of the example that I've been working with here, it said to look at lines one to 10. So as I'm in the exam, all I do is that. And that's just a nice easy visual way for me to make sure that I'm looking in the right section of the text for the answers to this question. This question is testing your ability to understand implicit and explicit information. And therefore when it comes to looking for
those true statements, you need to be really careful on checking both of those. To show you what I mean, I'm going to quickly look at a few of these statements and run through the process of looking at whether they're true or false. And this by the way is the strategy I recommend you follow. Just start from A, check if it's true or false, and kind of work on a process of elimination until you've got your four true statements. So starting off with statement A, most people in Britain ride a bike regularly. Well, the text says, "Ask most people who ride a bike regularly in the UK, do you notice what they've done there?" Both statements use most people. But actually the meaning is different. Most people who ride a bike versus most
people in Britain. So this statement is not true. It is false because there is nothing about I don't know why I got the laser pointer out there. Uh there is nothing about most people in Britain riding a bike. There's no information about that. Even if I happen to be an expert in bicycles and know that that is true, I shouldn't tick that box because the text isn't telling me that. And that is what this is testing. Don't bring your general knowledge into it. Just work with the information you've got in the text. Statement B, most UK cyclists are pleased about the number of dangerous incidents on the roads. So, the text says, ask most people who ride a bike regularly in the UK and they'll happily
recount a list of terrifying or alarming incidents caused by the deliberate actions of another road user, usually someone in a motor vehicle. Do you see the trick they're trying to play on you again here? Sneaky AQA checking your understanding. Most UK cyclists are pleased. They'll happily recount. If I just look for the keyword match, please, happy, yep, that's true. I'm going to lose marks because I need to look at the wider phrase. I can't just look for, oh, that uses most and that uses most, it must be true. Oh, that uses pleased, that uses happy, it must be true. No, we have to look at how it's being used in context. And how it's being used in context is that they will happily tell you about all the horrible
things that happen on the road. They are not pleased about the number of horrible things that happen on the road, they're just happy to tell you about it. So, statement B is again false. The writer has never had a dangerous incident while cycling. We're now dealing with uh explicit and implicit information because the text says, my last such incident happened just under a week ago. He explicitly tells us he had an accident just under a week ago. And therefore, we know that the writer has never had a dangerous incident while cycling is going to be false. Similarly for D, the writer lives in Southeast London. If we keep reading, when a driver decided to overtake my bike very closely and at speed on a
narrow residential street near my home in Southeast London. My home in Southeast London. Finally, we have got a true statement. I hope that you found that useful. If you did, make sure you hit like and subscribe and have a look at all my other videos to do with the AQA English language papers to get all the help you need with this and anything else, English literature as well, whatever it is, let me know and I can give you the help with all things English. See you later.