Details Questions Introduction

Details questions require you to recall or find specific information from the passage to provide the correct answer. Unlike Inference or some Main Idea questions where the main idea is implied, detail questions often have the answer clearly stated in the passage itself. For some students, it is helpful to underline details that seem important while reading the passage so that they can easily find these details later. Other students like to read the questions before reading the passage so that they know which details to focus on while reading. Finally, another strategy involves writing down the type of information that each paragraph contains so that you don't have to remember the details themselves, but can quickly find the paragraph that has the specific information a question requires. In any case, it is important to be able to quickly recall or find specific details so that you do not waste time searching through the entire passage for the needed answer. This module contains several practice questions so that you can test several strategies to see which works best for you.