Practice activity 4.5
Question type: multiple choice: testing understanding of the writer's viewpoint
These questions test your ability to recognise specific points in a passage or to distinguish between what the passage says and what it does not say. In other words, you demonstrate your reading comprehension by indicating what, according to the passage, is correct.
These questions might also test your ability to identify the main idea of a section of a passage or an overall understanding of the entire reading passage.
One type of question that is used to test your understanding of the writer's viewpoint is multiple choice. This question type can also be used to test other skills. It is important to understand how to answer questions of this type. Note that these questions usually follow the order of the text. This saves you time searching all over the text.
Multiple-choice questions offer a choice of answers. Often they are similar, but only one will be correct beyond a doubt. Some options are there to distract.
What do you need to do?
- Step 1 Quickly survey the text - look at the title, and any other clues, read the first and
last paragraph, look at the overall organisation of the text, read the first line
of every paragraph.
- Step 2 Identify key words in the question. Take special note of qualifying words such as definitely or always.
- Step 3 Locate the part of the text the question refers to by scanning the appropriate part.
- Step 4 Identify a similarly expressed idea in the text that exactly matches one of the options given.
- Step 5 Check the other options in order to be completely sure that they do not also
express the idea.
Optional: transfer your answers now to the answer sheet. Check spelling and grammatical accuracy as you go.
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