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Guide Strategy True False Not Given Sample Passage The life and work of Marie Curie Marie Curie is probably the most famous woman scientist who has ever lived Born Maria Sklodowska in Poland in she is famous for her work on radioactivity and was twice a winner of the Nobel Prize With her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics and was then sole winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry She was the ?rst woman to win a Nobel Prize From childhood Marie was remarkable for her prodigious memory and at the age of won a gold medal on completion of her secondary education Because her father lost his savings through bad investment she then had to take work as a teacher From her earnings she was able to ?nance her sister Bronia ? s medical studies in Paris on the understanding that Bronia would in turn later help her to get an education In this promise was ful ?lled and Marie went to Paris and began to study at the Sorbonne the University of Paris She often worked far into the night and lived on little more than bread and butter and tea She came ?rst in the examination in the physical sciences in and in was placed second in the examination in mathematical sciences It was not until the spring of that year that she was introduced to Pierre Curie Sample Question Questions ?? Choose TRUE if the statement agrees with the information given in the text choose FALSE if the statement contradicts the information or choose NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this Marie Curie ? s husband was a joint winner of both Marie ? s Nobel Prizes Marie became interested in science when she was a child Marie was able to attend the Sorbonne because of her sister ? s ?nancial contribution As you can see above the students will be given a number of factual statements and asked to look at the text and decide if the statement is true false or not given Common Problems The biggest problem here is the ? not given ? option Most students are not used to answering questions like this and it causes them lots of problems because they are not sure what to look for They also spend too much time making sure that it is ? not given ? and this a ?ects the rest of their test CStudents also fail to understand exactly what each statement means and therefore cannot identify if it is true or false Many focus on keywords instead of understanding what the statement as a whole means Another common mistake is identifying keywords in the statements and then trying to ?nd words that exactly match them in the text You can do this but more often the words will be synonyms and sentence will be paraphrased Finally some students fail to understand exactly what true false and not given actually