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The Reading Comprehension Method

1. The document provides a step-by-step method for reading comprehension. It involves skimming headings and titles to understand text structure, determining question types, answering detail questions by finding keywords, answering topic questions by identifying the text type and subject, and answering inference questions by finding what is wrong with answer choices. 2. Common tricks in incorrect answer choices are incorrect paraphrasing of the text, using similar but wrong details like dates or locations, being topic-related but providing unsupported information, repeating words from the text, and making extreme inferences not supported by the text. Determining what makes an answer choice wrong is often easier than proving one is completely right.

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The Reading Comprehension Method

1. The document provides a step-by-step method for reading comprehension. It involves skimming headings and titles to understand text structure, determining question types, answering detail questions by finding keywords, answering topic questions by identifying the text type and subject, and answering inference questions by finding what is wrong with answer choices. 2. Common tricks in incorrect answer choices are incorrect paraphrasing of the text, using similar but wrong details like dates or locations, being topic-related but providing unsupported information, repeating words from the text, and making extreme inferences not supported by the text. Determining what makes an answer choice wrong is often easier than proving one is completely right.

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THE READING

COMPREHENSION
METHODby: Ms. RMA
1. SKIM HEADINGS AND TITLES.

Use Headings and Titles to


determine Text Structure and Topic.

For Double Texts: Identify the


Relationship between the two Texts.
At the top of each page above the text box, there may be
a sentence which will include a word describing the type of
Text below—this is called the Heading.

If there is no word describing the type of text, you will have


to look at the Titles and Structure of the Text to help you
identify what kind of text it is.
EXAMPLE:
There may also be a Title inside the box, near
the top, above the main part of the text.
In memos, letters, or faxes, also look at
Names (and their Job Title), Dates, and the
Subject of the Text which may be in the first
and last sentences of the Text.
DOUBLE TEXTS

For Questions about Double


Texts, you will want to understand
the relationship — or connection —
between the two Texts.
2. DETERMINE THE TYPE
OF EACH QUESTION.

Decide which Questions you will answer first.


Beware of “NOT” Questions — these have 3
“Correct” Answers and 1 “Wrong” Answer.
When deciding which Question to answer first,
find the Question with the easiest, clearest Key
Words in the Answer Choices. These are Key
Words that should have few or no possible
synonyms, have numbers, dates or names, or
have strongly negative or positive Adjectives or
Verbs.
When the word “NOT” is in CAPITAL LETTERS, it usually
means that three of the Answer Choices are true
details that you can find in the Text — these are the
wrong answers! The one Answer Choice that cannot be
found in the text is the correct Answer Choice for this
type of NOT Question. However, some questions have
the word “not” in them, but the word is in lowercase
letters.
3. ANSWER DETAIL
QUESTIONS.

Find all locations in the text where the keywords


of an Answer Choice and Question are
mentioned.
Detail Questions can be the easiest
questions to answer. These ask you to find
specific information given in the text and
usually begin with words such as who, what,
which, when, where, and how.
4. ANSWER TOPIC QUESTIONS.

Focus on finding Action Verbs in the first 1-2


sentences and the last 1-2 sentences of the
text.
If the Text is an Advertisement, the topic of
the text may be in the middle of the text.
Topic Questions are a little more
difficult. These ask you to identify the
type of Text — for example, is it an
advertisement, notice, news release,
memo?—and its Topic or Subject.
5. ANSWER PURPOSE QUESTIONS.

Scan for Action Verbs from the Answer Choices.

Purpose Questions ask you to find the reason someone


says, wants, or did. These usually begin with the word
“Why…”.
6. ANSWER INFERENCE QUESTIONS.

Find all locations in the Text where the


keywords of an Answer Choice and Question
are mentioned.
Look for what is wrong in Answer Choices. Don’t
try to prove an Answer Choice is correct.
The most important thing to remember with
Inference Questions is that it is usually easier to
find what is wrong with an Answer Choice than to
prove that an Answer Choice is correct.
The correct Answer Choice for Inference
Questions usually “hides” the correct answer with
synonyms.
READING COMPREHENSION
TRICKS
1. Incorrect Paraphrase. These wrong Answer Choices will often
use words and ideas from the Text but change them slightly,
making them incorrect.
2. Similar Type of Information. When dates, times or locations
are given, look for similar types of information—there are usually
three pieces of information of the same type.
3. Topic-Related. These wrong Answer Choices use words related to the topic of the
Text, but give information that the Text does not provide. Students are often tricked by
these kinds of Answer Choices because they use their knowledge, not information from
the Text.
4. Word Repetition. Like other sections of the TOEIC, many wrong Answer Choices will
repeat words or phrases from the Text but not be correct answers.
5. Wrong Detail. These wrong Answers will use true details from the Text to answer
Questions related to a different piece of information; thus, making them incorrect
answers
6. Extreme Inference. Many wrong answers will use strong Adverbs (“never”, “always”,
“too”), Helping Verbs (“must”, “cannot”, “need to”), or very strong Adjectives (“happy”,
“broken”, “tall”)—you should think of these kinds of words as “Extreme Words”. Extreme
Words will often make Answer Choices wrong, even though every other word in the
Answer Choice could be correct.
THANK YOU!

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