Fact/Detail Questions
These questions are meant to test your basic comprehension abilities as they ask you direct facts or details about the passage you’ve just read. 3 to 6 of the questions you receive on each passage will be detail or fact questions. These questions most often come in the form of who, whom, what, and relate to people, places, times, reasons, methods, etc. Example: What does the author say about… When did x happen … According to paragraph 3, why did y happen?
How to deal:
1. Indentify the key idea or ideas of question. If the question is: According to the author, the early works of Shakespeare, recognize that the key idea of the question is “early works of Shakespeare”
2. Scan the paragraphs for the key idea. Scanning a passage means looking over the passage quickly (as opposed to actively reading the passage) to quickly locate certain words, in this case, “early works” and Shakespeare.
3. Once you’ve found the key ideas in you passage, read closely and carefully. You don’t want to pick the wrong answer because you misread your passage!
4. Check the available answers for paraphrasing of the original idea.
5. Do not make inferences for these questions. These are fact and details questions, there is no need to infer in this instances, so if you cannot find it in the passage, do not select that option.
Watch out for these wrong answers that try to trick you:
* Answer contains information not in the passage
* Answer refers to an idea unrelated to the question
* Answer contains the correct idea, but has reversed the positive/negative state. Ex Passage: Shakespeare’s early works are considered his best. Wrong answer: Shakespeare’s early works are not considered his best.
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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