Coherence Questions
These questions, also called ‘insert the text’ provide you with sample sentences that can be inserted into your reading passage at various points. Your job is to find where the given sentence fits in with the passage. You’ll easily recognize these questions as the passage will be marked with black squares showing you where the sentences may be inserted. There will be no more then 1 question of this type per reading passage.
How to deal:
1. Be familiar with paragraph structure. Recognize what types of sentences belong in which area of paragraph, for example, if you’re given a description sentence, you’ll know it belong near the beginning of the paragraph somewhere after the opening sentence.
2. Find the overall sequence of ideas in the passage. What are the key ideas of your given sentence? Do they match some existing key ideas already in the paragraph?
3. Look for matching vocabulary. This can be another clue as to wear to put the new sentence.
4. Compare the Rhetoric structure of the given sentence and the existing passages. If the given sentence is a description of the physical characteristics of a specific bird, look for the sentence that names, or provides an example of a unique bird.
5. Ask yourself if the sentences can be separated to narrow your choices. Ex: An example of such a bird is the peacock. [black square] The peacock’s tail features have an eye pattern on them which serve as a defense mechanism, frightening away potential predators. Since the second sentence is a direct explanation of the first, they should not be separated. You would be able to rule this option out as a potential place to insert your new sentence.
6. Put the given sentence in the remaining options and reread them. Which makes the most logical sense?
Watch out for:
* Assume that because two sentences share the same vocabulary, they must belong together. As mentioned above, they can be used as clues, but do not necessarily indicate a correct answer.
* Inserting the answer next to the correct sentence, but on the wrong side. Remember the square indicates exactly where the new sentence will be inserted, so pay close attention.
Types of questions you can except.
1) Fact/Detail Questions
2) Not/Except Questions
3) Referent Questions
4) Vocabulary Questions
5) Inference Questions
6) Rhetorical Structure Questions
7) Coherence Questions
8) Paraphrasing Questions
9) Table Completion Questions
10) Prose Summary Questions
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