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Skill 1 : OVERVIEW ITEMS

MAIN IDEA/TOPIC, MAIN PURPOSE, ORGANIZATION OF IDEAS, TONE, PREVIOUS/FOLLOWING

PARAGRAPH QUESTIONS)

No Type Sample How to answer Tips

1. Main idea/topic

(ask you what the a

paragraph/passage is

generally about)

1. What is the topic of

the passage?

2. What is the subject of

the passage?

3. What is the main idea

of the passage?

4. What is the author's

main point in the

passage?

The answer to this

type of questions

can generally be

determined by

looking at the first

sentence of each

paragraph.

Dont answer

the initial

overview

question about

a passage until

you have

answered the

other questions.

The process of

answering the

detail questionsmay give you a

clearer idea of

the main

idea/topic,

purpose,

organization of

idea and the

tone of the

passage.

2.

Organization of idea

(ask you to determinehow the ideas in one

paragraph relate to the

ideas in another

paragraph)

1.

How is the information

in the passageorganized?

2. How is the information

in the second

paragraph related to

the information in the

first paragraph?

3. Main purpose

(ask whyan author

wrote a passage)

1. The authors purpose

in writing is to

2. What is the authors

main purpose in the

passage?3. The main point of this

passage is to

4. Why did the author

write the passage?

4. Tone

(ask you to determine

the authors feelings

about the topic by the

language that uses)

1. What tone does the

author take in writing

this passage?

2.

The tone of this

passage could best be

described as

5.

Previous or following

paragraphs

(asks you to

demonstrate that you

understand that good

writing contains

transitions from one

paragraph to the next)

1.

What topic would thefollowing/preceding

paragraph most likely

deal with?

2. The paragraph

before/after the

passage most probably

discusses

Previous/

preceding:

looking at the first

sentence of the

passages

Following/after:

looking at the last

sentence of the

passages


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Skill 2 : INFERENCE, PURPOSE, DETAILS, NEGATIVE AND LINE ITEMS


1. Inference

(ask you to find the

implicit, inferred, orimplied meaning of a

passage to understand

ideas that have not be

directly stated by the

author)

1. Which of the following

can be inferred from

the passage?2. It can be inferred from

the passage that

3. The author implies that


does the passage

imply?

1. Choose a key

wordin the

question.2. Scan the

passage for the

key word (or a

related idea).

3. Carefully read

the sentence

that contains

the key word.

4. Look for an

answer that

could be true,according to

that sentence.

The answers to

these

questions arenot directly

provided in the

passage (you

must read

between the

lines)

You must make

conclusions

based

indirectly on

information inthe passage.

2. Purpose Items

(ask why the author of a

passage mentions some

piece of information, or

includes a quotefrom a person or a

study, or uses some

particular word or

phrase)

1. Why does the author

mention _____?

2. The author refers to

_____ to indicate that

3.

The author quotes ____in order to show

4. The phrase _____ in

line ____ is mentioned

to illustrate the effect

of

3. Details

(ask about explicit facts

and details given in the

passage)

1. According to the

passage

2. It is stated in the

passage

3. The passage indicates

that4. The author mentions

that

4. Negative


which of the four

choices is not given in

the passage. These

questions contain the

words NOT, EXCEPT, or

LEAST)

1. According to the

passage, all of the

following are true

EXCEPT


is NOT mentioned in

the passage?


is the LEAST likely

Negative

questions

often take

more time

than other

questions.

You may want

to guess and

come back tothese

questions if

you have time.

5. Line


where in the passage a

piece of information is

found)

1. Where in the passage...

?

Choose the answer

that contains the

line numbers of a

restatement of the

question.


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Skill 3 : VOCABULARY ITEMS


1. Word parts

(asked to determine

the meaning of a longword by studying the

word parts)

1. What is the

meaning of

2.

Which of thefollowing is

closest in

meaning to

3. The phrase ___ in

the first sentence

is closest in

meaning to

4. The word ___ in

paragraph 1 is

closest in

meaning to

1. Find the word in

the passage.

2.

Read thesentence that

contains the word

carefully.

3. Look for context

clues to help you

understand the

meaning.

4. Choose the

answer that the

context indicates.

Read the sentence in

which the word appears.

If you were familiar withthe word and guessed at

the answer, make sure

that the word that you

chose fits with the word

as it is used in the

sentence.

If you were unfamiliar

with the word, see if

context clues in the

sentence or in the

sentences before or afterhelp you guess the

meaning.

2. Word meaning

(asked to determine

the meaning of a

word, a word that you

are not expected to

know or a word that

you see often in

everyday English)

Skill 4 : REFERENCE ITEMS

No Type Sample How to answer

1. Reference Items(ask you

to find the noun (called

the referent) that a

pronoun or other word

refers to)

The pronoun ....... in line X

refers to which o f the

following?

1. Find the pronoun in the

passage.

2. Look for nouns that come

before the pronoun.

3.

Read the part of the passagebefore the pronoun carefully.

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