What is your answer to the following? Think carefully before you check the answer with the explanation. Do you think the following is True, False or Not Given. Decide your answer, then check if you are right – good luck!
Passage: Workers are entitled to up to 10 days paid sick leave per year, however, more than 4 continuous days requires a medical certificate.
Question : A full worker needs a doctors note if he is sick for 4 days in a row.
Answer
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Answer and ExplanationExplanation & Paraphrasing:
Full worker – is this information given in the passage? Yes, it is because word “workers” refers to all types of workers.
Need = required
doctors note = medical certificate
in a row = continuous
for 4 days = this does not match. The passage says that someone needs to be sick for MORE THAN 4 days to need a doctors note.
The information in the statement is given in the passage but it does not match the passage because people do not need a sick note for being sick for 4 days – they need a sick note for more than 4 days.
Answer = FALSE
Well done to all students who got the answer right 🙂
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thanks you liz i bought one of them and will see the others will
It’s very complicated question. I understood the issue only when you explained it, Liz.
the worker needs 4 days medical certificate is type of medical check
False.Thank you Liz for your posting.its more helpful.
brain opening mam ..thanks!
False
False
Really a tricky one thanks mam
Hi mam,
shalu here, I have lacking in more vocabularies and writing, reading. Please madam teach me import essay writing vocabularies.I hope u understood my problem
not given 🙁
but I got the trick… 😉
thanks Liz
Very tricky question…………but its worth to know this.
I chose not given because i thought workers were not clarified if they were full or part-timers, secondly, i didn’t notice the
MORE THAN and assumed it to be right.
My test is on the 24th of september, and i feel like both my reading and writing are poor. What tips and advice will you give me so as to improve this short time im left with.
See my videos and tips on this page: https://ieltsliz.com/ielts-reading-lessons-information-and-tips/. For writing task 1, see my tips and model answers: https://ieltsliz.com/ielts-writing-task-1-lessons-and-tips/. There is a similar page for writing task 2. Also think about purchasing my advanced lessons for writing task 2: http://subscriptions.viddler.com/IELTSLizStore. Review my “on the day tips”: https://ieltsliz.com/ielts-exam-tips-on-the-day/
Thank you Liz, i bought one of them and will see the others as well.
Not given
True
thanks, it’s helpful to know how to avoid tricky questions
Good piece of exercise to deal with such type of question, Liz. Thanks.
OMG! very tricky question. But the explanation helped me a lot. Thank u.
4 days
False
False
FALSE
true
False
Wao! I mistakenly picked TRUE. But I have gotten the trick through the explanation. Thanks so much Liz
I’m glad the explanation helped 🙂
it is true
Really,i was thinking it true.
It’s a very tricky question.
Thanks
The question is so tricky ,the statement I mean , but it does not match the meaning of the passage , by instinct . haha
So for me it sounds FALSE
True
OMG, I mad a huge mistake answering TRUE, first I did not know the meaning of “in the row”, secondly I did not pay attention to one important detail ” more than”, anyway I can notice how much I need to improve.
Thank you for your tip Liz, I am really suffering with reading section.
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I’m really glad you are thinking about which points you missed. When you analyse the reason you got a question wrong, you will start improving. IELTS use similar traps so the more awareness you have of how they trick you, the easier it will be 🙂
Not Given
True, Liz.
Not given