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Section Strategy - ANSWER The most effective and efficient order approach the
section:
choose your passage # of questions and degree of difficulty
Read the passage strategically
Identify the Question Type
Research the Relevant Text
Make a Prediction
Evaluate the Answer Choices
Approach - ANSWER • Identify the topic
• Scope
• Purpose
• Main idea
Question Types - ANSWER • Global
• Detail
• Inference
• Logic Function
• Logic Reasoning
Global Questions - ANSWER • Identify the question type: "Main idea",
"Purpose", "Organization"
• Task: Think big picture, Review T/S/P/MI, Consult you roadmap
• You should be able to predict an answer to most Global questions
, • Do global questions first
• Global questions are usually the first and next to last questions
Detail Questions - ANSWER • Identify the question type: "According to the
author", "The passage states", "the author mentions"
• Task: Research the relevant text
Inference Questions - ANSWER • Identify the question type: "the author
implies", "the passage suggests", "likely to agree"
• Task: Read between the lines, Perhaps combine statements, Identify what must
follow from the passage
• Inference means "must be true". It's a statement that must be true if everything in
the stimulus is true.
• Inference questions require you to paraphrase the relevant text or make a
deduction
• Common wrong answer choices; 180, faulty use of detail, extreme, out of scope
• Answer inference questions after you've already picked up points with Global and
Detail questions
• The correct answer to an inference question doesn't require any information that
isn't included in the stimulus
• Valid inferences aren't necessarily mind-blowing
• Beware of extreme wording in inference answer choices
• The correct answer doesn't have to take the entire stimulus into account
Logical Function Questions - ANSWER • Identify the question type: "the
author...primarily in order to", "primary purpose of the first passage", "best describes
the function of"
• Task: Looks at the context of the detail or paragraph and ask why the author put
it there
• Common wrong answer choices; 180, distortion, faulty use of detail
DETAILED ANSWERS|LATEST
Section Strategy - ANSWER The most effective and efficient order approach the
section:
choose your passage # of questions and degree of difficulty
Read the passage strategically
Identify the Question Type
Research the Relevant Text
Make a Prediction
Evaluate the Answer Choices
Approach - ANSWER • Identify the topic
• Scope
• Purpose
• Main idea
Question Types - ANSWER • Global
• Detail
• Inference
• Logic Function
• Logic Reasoning
Global Questions - ANSWER • Identify the question type: "Main idea",
"Purpose", "Organization"
• Task: Think big picture, Review T/S/P/MI, Consult you roadmap
• You should be able to predict an answer to most Global questions
, • Do global questions first
• Global questions are usually the first and next to last questions
Detail Questions - ANSWER • Identify the question type: "According to the
author", "The passage states", "the author mentions"
• Task: Research the relevant text
Inference Questions - ANSWER • Identify the question type: "the author
implies", "the passage suggests", "likely to agree"
• Task: Read between the lines, Perhaps combine statements, Identify what must
follow from the passage
• Inference means "must be true". It's a statement that must be true if everything in
the stimulus is true.
• Inference questions require you to paraphrase the relevant text or make a
deduction
• Common wrong answer choices; 180, faulty use of detail, extreme, out of scope
• Answer inference questions after you've already picked up points with Global and
Detail questions
• The correct answer to an inference question doesn't require any information that
isn't included in the stimulus
• Valid inferences aren't necessarily mind-blowing
• Beware of extreme wording in inference answer choices
• The correct answer doesn't have to take the entire stimulus into account
Logical Function Questions - ANSWER • Identify the question type: "the
author...primarily in order to", "primary purpose of the first passage", "best describes
the function of"
• Task: Looks at the context of the detail or paragraph and ask why the author put
it there
• Common wrong answer choices; 180, distortion, faulty use of detail
