Passage Reference: Anyway, once the condition has been triggered, often by constant snacking as you mentioned

Common Mistake: Students may write snacking or constant snacking. This breaks the word limit or does not match the diagram wording exactly. This is a word limit trap.

Paraphrasing: Transcript: 'constant snacking' = Diagram: 'eating snacks'

Tips: For flow charts, listen carefully to the very beginning where causes are explained.

Key Vocabulary:

• triggered = started
• snacking = eating small amounts

Question Focus: Effect on behaviour after the condition worsens

Correct Answer: loses control

Passage Reference: Over a period of time, the sufferer loses control of their food intake.

Why this is correct: The second box shows what happens next to the sufferer. You hear that the sufferer loses control of their food intake, which matches the diagram exactly.

Common Mistake: Students sometimes write loss of control, but the diagram needs a verb phrase. This is a grammar fit trap.

Paraphrasing: Transcript: 'loses control of their food intake' = Diagram: 'loses control'

Tips: Do not change word form. Copy the exact verb phrase you hear.

Key Vocabulary:

• sufferer = person with the problem
• intake = amount eaten

Question Focus: Emotional effect following overeating

Correct Answer: embarrassed

Passage Reference: Apart from the physical discomfort that overeating often causes, the sufferer begins to feel embarrassed by their behaviour.

Why this is correct: This stage of the diagram shows how the person feels. The speaker clearly says the sufferer begins to feel embarrassed by their behaviour.

Common Mistake: Some students write embarrassment or ashamed. These are not the exact words from the recording. This is a synonym trap.

Paraphrasing: Transcript: 'feel embarrassed' = Diagram: 'embarrassed'

Tips: When the speaker talks about feelings, listen for adjectives like happy, guilty, or embarrassed.

Key Vocabulary:

• discomfort = physical pain
• behaviour = actions

Question Focus: Action taken to compensate for overeating

Correct Answer: extreme diets

Passage Reference: In an attempt to lose weight, compulsive eaters will try extreme diets, skipping meals, or going without any food at all for a day or more.

Why this is correct: The diagram shows the action the sufferer takes next. The speaker explains that compulsive eaters try extreme diets to lose weight.

Common Mistake: Students may write skipping meals or no food, which are also mentioned but do not match this box. This is a distractor trap.

Paraphrasing: Transcript: 'try extreme diets' = Diagram: 'extreme diets'

Tips: When several examples are listed, choose the one that best fits the diagram step.

Key Vocabulary:

• compensate = make up for
• drastic = extreme

Question Focus: Return to the start of the vicious cycle

Correct Answer: eating again

Passage Reference: And of course, the person has to start eating again at some point.

Why this is correct: This final box shows how the cycle repeats. You hear that the person has to start eating again, which leads back to binge eating.

Common Mistake: Some students write binge eating again, but the speaker first says eating again. This is a sequence trap.

Paraphrasing: Transcript: 'start eating again' = Diagram: 'eating again'

Tips: Listen for signpost phrases like 'in other words' that explain the cycle.

Key Vocabulary:

• vicious circle = repeating cycle
• relapse = return to the problem

General Tips:

• Flow chart questions follow the order of the recording - use the previous answer to predict the next one.
• Copy the exact words you hear. Do not change the form or use synonyms.
• Always check the word limit. More than two words is automatically wrong.
• Listen for cause-and-effect language to understand the process.
• When the speaker corrects or explains something again, the later information is usually the answer.