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Measures comprehension, analysis, and reasoning skills and knowledge and the ability to locate, interpret, evaluate, and integrate information and ideas from texts and informational graphics (tables, bar graphs, and line graphs).
Central ideas and details
Central ideas and details
These questions test your ability to summarise a text into its core idea(s).
Strategies:
Summarize in One Sentence: After reading, try summarizing the main idea of the passage in your own words.
Details vs. Big Picture: Avoid confusing specific details with the overall theme.
Worked example
Worked example
The text opens with a clarification that Taylor uses resources from where she lives to dye wool. The text then gives examples of what she uses: this includes Arizona dock roots or clay. The overall text describes how she makes use of her local resources to dye wool. Hence, answer choice C is correct.
A more detailed answer choice justification can be found here.
Inferences
Inferences
These questions test your ability to arrive at logical conclusions based on the evidence and arguments given.
Strategies:
Evidence First: Ensure your answer is directly supported by information in the text.
Avoid Over-Reading: Don’t assume anything not explicitly stated or implied.
Worked example
Worked example
The passage first describes the importance of sleep for humans and animals, which help with healing injuries and encoding information in long-term memory. The text then describes how deep sleep can leave animals vulnerable yet so many animals choose to go into deep sleep. The text does not explain why it is advantageous to sleep for hours at a time. Thus, it must make sense that there must be a benefit to sleeping that outweighs the potential danger of being hunted. Hence, answer choice B is correct.
A more detailed answer choice justification can be found here.
Command of evidence
Command of evidence
These questions test if you can identify relevant data from a collection of data in order to support a viewpoint.
Strategies:
Scan for Keywords: Look for evidence that matches specific words or ideas in the question.
Process of Elimination: Eliminate lines that are unrelated or irrelevant to the question.
Worked example
Worked example
The text introduces a hypothesis made by researchers that suggest a sail-like structure on the backs of dinosaurs help with their underwater agility. The text mentions that another team of researchers have constructed models of the dinosaur with the aim to prove or disprove the hypothesis. In order to directly verify the hypothesis, the model with the sail-like structures should be proven to be more agile than the model without (i.e. faster in turns etc). Hence, answer choice D is correct.
A more detailed answer choice justification can be found here.
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