ACCUPLACER READING
COMPREHENSION ACTUAL PAPER
SOLVED QUESTIONS
◉ What is the main idea?
Answer: The most important point the author is making
◉ What is a supporting detail?
Answer: Information that explains or supports the main idea
◉ How do you find the main idea?
Answer: Ask what the passage is mostly about
◉ Where can the main idea appear?
Answer: Anywhere in the passage
◉ What is a topic?
Answer: The general subject of a passage
◉ What is the difference between topic and main idea?
Answer: Topic is the subject; main idea is what the author says
about it
,◉ What is a central idea?
Answer: The main point developed throughout a passage
◉ What should a correct main-idea answer cover?
Answer: The passage as a whole
◉ What is usually wrong with a main-idea answer that's too
specific?
Answer: It focuses on only one detail
◉ What is an explicit detail?
Answer: Information directly stated in the passage
◉ What does 'according to the passage' usually require?
Answer: An answer directly supported by the text
◉ What should you do with a detail question?
Answer: Locate the relevant part of the passage
◉ Should you answer passage questions using outside
knowledge?
Answer: No; use the passage
, ◉ What is textual evidence?
Answer: Information from the passage supporting an answer
◉ What should every reading answer be based on?
Answer: Evidence from the text
◉ What is an inference?
Answer: A conclusion based on evidence that is not directly stated
◉ How do you make an inference?
Answer: Combine passage clues with logical reasoning
◉ Should an inference be supported by the passage?
Answer: Yes
◉ What does 'the passage suggests' usually ask for?
Answer: An inference
◉ What does 'it can reasonably be inferred' mean?
Answer: Choose the conclusion best supported by the text
◉ What is the safest inference?
Answer: The one requiring the fewest unsupported assumptions
COMPREHENSION ACTUAL PAPER
SOLVED QUESTIONS
◉ What is the main idea?
Answer: The most important point the author is making
◉ What is a supporting detail?
Answer: Information that explains or supports the main idea
◉ How do you find the main idea?
Answer: Ask what the passage is mostly about
◉ Where can the main idea appear?
Answer: Anywhere in the passage
◉ What is a topic?
Answer: The general subject of a passage
◉ What is the difference between topic and main idea?
Answer: Topic is the subject; main idea is what the author says
about it
,◉ What is a central idea?
Answer: The main point developed throughout a passage
◉ What should a correct main-idea answer cover?
Answer: The passage as a whole
◉ What is usually wrong with a main-idea answer that's too
specific?
Answer: It focuses on only one detail
◉ What is an explicit detail?
Answer: Information directly stated in the passage
◉ What does 'according to the passage' usually require?
Answer: An answer directly supported by the text
◉ What should you do with a detail question?
Answer: Locate the relevant part of the passage
◉ Should you answer passage questions using outside
knowledge?
Answer: No; use the passage
, ◉ What is textual evidence?
Answer: Information from the passage supporting an answer
◉ What should every reading answer be based on?
Answer: Evidence from the text
◉ What is an inference?
Answer: A conclusion based on evidence that is not directly stated
◉ How do you make an inference?
Answer: Combine passage clues with logical reasoning
◉ Should an inference be supported by the passage?
Answer: Yes
◉ What does 'the passage suggests' usually ask for?
Answer: An inference
◉ What does 'it can reasonably be inferred' mean?
Answer: Choose the conclusion best supported by the text
◉ What is the safest inference?
Answer: The one requiring the fewest unsupported assumptions
