READING · TECHNIQUE GUIDE
Multiple Choice
Prove choices from passage evidence and eliminate unsupported options.
What to look for
- The exact scope of the question
- Direct passage evidence
- Extreme or partly-true distractors
Decision process
- Restate what the question is asking
- Locate the relevant passage area
- Eliminate contradictions and unsupported additions
- Choose only what the text supports
Common traps
- Answering from general knowledge
- Selecting an option because it repeats passage words
- Ignoring qualifiers such as mainly, most likely or according to
Apply it
Evidence first, option second: make each surviving choice prove itself from the passage.
Now try it on your own sentence.
Analyze a sentence →Paste text into the Grammar Analyzer and map the structure before deciding what is wrong.