Paraphrasing Questions
These questions are about taking what you’ve just read, and figuring out a new way to say it. These questions will provide you with a highlighted passage in the text and ask you which of the follow options best paraphrase the highlighted words. Remember, what’s important here is keeping the meaning the same, not structure. Watch out from wrong answers that leave out important information, or add information that was not covered. There will be no more then 1 question of this type per reading passage.
How to deal:
1. Locate the most important words within the highlighted passage and focus on them.
2. Watch for answers with synonyms, change of tense, or change in sentence structure yet still contain the key ideas of the highlighted passage.
3. Try rephrases the highlighted passage in your own words, the comparing your notes to the presented options.
4. Test your answer by reading it into the passage; check to ensure the same information is still being conveyed.
Watch out for:
* Answers that have added or subtracted key points of information from the highlighted passage.
* Answers that use similar words but change the meaning. Ex: the highlighted passage specifically mentions a Tsunami, but one of the answers merely mentioned ‘waves’. A tsunami is not simply a regular wave, it significantly larger and causes much more destruction!
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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