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one of the biggest problems students

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face when they decide to take the

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cambridge exams

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is knowing just where to start

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especially with the use of english paper

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so in order to help you organize your

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studies and your preparation in this

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video i'm going to

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tell you all the grammar that you need

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to study

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in order to get the best score possible

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okay

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let's do this

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now this is my fourth video in the

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series on

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how to pass the cambridge exams so

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and we're looking at the b2 first the c1

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advanced and the c2 proficiency

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specifically but i recommend you check

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out my previous videos and also

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subscribe so you don't miss

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future videos which are coming soon

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so what grammar do you need to study to

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pass the

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exams well all of it basically

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okay thank you for joining me and i'll

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see you again for another video

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okay i'm joking well i'm half joking

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because it's true you really do need

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basically all the grammar you need to

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know all the grammar

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but hopefully you've been studying

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english for

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a long time now so you will be prepared

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most of the basic grammar you will know

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the basic verb tenses

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so in this video we're going to be

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looking at

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specific grammar that you need for each

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part of the exam of the use of english

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in particular now i'm not going to teach

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you the grammar in this video

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that would be a very long video but i'm

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just going to give you the grammar that

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you need to

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study yourself so as i said we're

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covering b2

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first c1 advanced and c2 proficiency so

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that

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the different levels there but really

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it's the same grammar concept that you

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need to study so in the first for

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example you have to study the

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conditionals

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but maybe the more basic conditionals

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the second maybe the third conditionals

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but with the proficiency it will be

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difficult mixed conditionals alternative

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to if

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etc just be a different level of grammar

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but the same basic

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grammar concept okay let's start by

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looking at

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part one now part one

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of the exam is the multiple choice

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questions really this is focusing on

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vocabulary more than grammar but having

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said that you will need to

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study some grammar to be prepared for

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this part

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for example

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collocations to identify the correct

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word in the multiple choice of four

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often the correct answer will be a

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collocation with another word

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in the text a couple of examples you can

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see here is like

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raise awareness so maybe the word you're

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looking for

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is raise or maybe it's awareness under

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illusion so under no illusion is often

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the expression

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or sometimes just adjectives with

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prepositions so

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afraid of interested in

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etc there are many of those also in part

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one

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phrasal verbs again i can't teach you

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all the phrasal verbs in this video

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go off and and revise those and and

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learn as many as possible

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and also linking words so some examples

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as you can see there

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in spite of so spite may be the missing

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word

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contrary so contrary to popular opinion

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for example

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however unless so these are the types of

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grammar areas that you need to study to

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be prepared for

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part one of the the exam let's look at

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part two now

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part two is a gap fill exercise so

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you'll see

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a text with eight gaps which you need to

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complete

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and the good news about this part is

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that you know all the words

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they're they're easy words that you know

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the bad news is very difficult to find

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those words sometimes from from

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thin air from nothing so the type of

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grammar you need to study for this part

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is

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prepositions for example again

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collocations and phrasal verbs so which

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prepositions go with which

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adjectives and which verbs articles are

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very important

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so v a and conjunctions and linking

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words

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for example but and because although

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even though etc so these are all words

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you should know

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pronouns some simple pronouns he she

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they we some more complicated pronouns

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perhaps but

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these will be pronouns you know also

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modal verbs

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and auxiliary verbs including the verb

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to be as an auxiliary it's very common

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to see the verb to be

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as an auxiliary in this part of the exam

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so

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it could be in part of a continuous form

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or passive form you may see have or has

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in the present perfect all grammar you

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know but

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you need to refresh okay let's go on to

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part three now

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so part three is word transformation so

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you have

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um eight words along the side of text

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and you need to change those words

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into different words but using the same

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the same root so it's basically

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transforming the same word

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so you need to study suffixes and

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prefixes

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to be able to transform verbs into nouns

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for example

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or nouns into adjectives adjectives into

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adverbs verbs into adjectives

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and positives into negatives so how to

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form the negative what prefix do you

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need to form a negative

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so again this should be grammar that you

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know but it will be useful

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revising it just to to freshen it up for

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you before the exam

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okay let's go on to the difficult part

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four now

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so part four is where you're really

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going to need all all your old grammar

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that you've studied in the past so dig

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out your old notes and exercise books

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because they're going to be very useful

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now

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you have to also realize that in this

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part there will be

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some idiomatic expressions and fixed

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expressions and phrasal verbs and things

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like that which you can't really

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study for you need to just be prepared

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for those in general by

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exposing yourself to as much english as

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possible you can't learn everything

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just by studying with a few weeks or

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months before the exam

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having said that let's look at the

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grammar you need for part four

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a big one is the conditionals there will

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usually be at least one

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question where you need to use

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conditionals

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another very common area of grammar in

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this part is the

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reported speech passives sentence may be

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written

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inactive and you need to change it to

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the passive or vice versa

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maybe written in passive you need to

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change it into the active

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inversion especially for the advanced

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and proficiency

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and phrasal verbs there will always be

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at least one question containing phrasal

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verbs

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remember in this part of the exam you

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get two points so

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write something always even if you don't

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know what the phrasal verb is you may

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get

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one point for using the correct

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structure in the sentence so don't worry

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if you don't panic if you don't know

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which phrasal verb they're asking for

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um just write something because you may

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get one point

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okay i hope you found this video useful

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as always if you have any questions

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or any tips for other students please

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put them in the comments

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and i'll see you in the next video take

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care bye