Chapter 1: Reading on the GED Test Questions with Verified Answers
The questions assessing this standard are among the most straightforward reading questions you will see on the GED test . Most of these questions ask
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Chapter 1: Reading on the GED Test Questions with Verified Answers
The questions assessing this standard are among the most straightforward reading questions you will see on the GED test . Most of these questions ask you to read a passage and pull out key elements from it . - CORRECT ANSWER The GED is measuring your ability to comprehened a text ; later it will mesure your ability analyze , interpret , and evaluate texts
The GED Test will assess some or all of these skills with questions relating to this standard - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Comprehend explicit details and main ideas in text
2. Summarize details and ideas in text
3. Male Sentence level inferences about details that support main ideas
4. Infer implies main ideas in paragraphs or whole texts
5. Determine which detail(s) support(s) a main idea
6. Identify a theme , or identify which element(s) in a text support a theme
7. Make evidence based generalizations or hypothesis based on details in text , including clarifications , extensions , or application of main ideas to new situations
8. Draw conclusions or make generalizations that require synthesis of multiple main ideas in text
Comprehend explicit details and main ideas in text - CORRECT ANSWER The FIRST objective of any reading assignment is to understand what is happening in the text . This can the fundamentals of the plot of a novel , the internees effect of an advertisement , or even the key parts of a setting of a play . When the GED test measures your skills in comprehending the explicit details and the main ideas in a text , it will test your ability to read and excerpt and report back precisely what is taking place
How to find the main idea ? - CORRECT ANSWER In order to answer the questions , you must study the detail provided in the text , for they are the items which move you out of the superficial realm of response .
Your best choice in answering all reading comprehension questions is to read carefully and deliberately to determine not only what is being said , but why , and how often . - CORRECT ANSWER It is possible a paragraph can say the word "dance" or its variation several times , but actually be about boxing
Summarize details and ideas in text - CORRECT ANSWER Another important skill in reading comprehension is summarizing the key points in a text . This is a little different from simply identifying the ideas . For example , if you read a how to book on the best ways to caulk a bathtub , you need to be able to summarize the steps , not just identify that the main idea is caulking a bathtub . Summarizing these ideas and details requires you to completely understand the information presented in a text , and have the clarity of thought of succinctly explain it
You must discern what is essential for what is extra . - CORRECT ANSWER The GED test raises the level of difficulty in this questions , because drag and drop questions provide less room for error . You have to make sure to identify all the correct steps NOT JUST ONE . You also have to make sure you carefully separate information that is crucial to the questions from information that is only tangential to the objective .
Make a sentence level inferences about details that support the main idea - CORRECT ANSWER When you make an inference , it means you are reading a little deeper that the words stated in the text . You should consider it "reading between the lines" . For example , if a passage says that "the man had leathery hands , and paint splattered his overalls and tool belt ," one can infer the character had some sort of carpentry job , although it is not explicitly stated in the text . You can make this inference because of the way the man is described ("paint splattered") and what he is wearing ("Over all's and tool belt ") . When you make a sentence level inference about details that support main ideas in a text , you are simply reading a little deeper into the text and drawing the connection between the details and the subject
When being asked to draw a conclusion , which means you cannot just state another fact , you have to reach some kind of new idea , or draw a comparison between two separate pieces of information (the details and the main idea). - CORRECT ANSWER The best way to make sure the inference you are making is supported by the text is to finish this sentence
Infer implied main ideas in paragraphs or whole texts - CORRECT ANSWER As discussed in the last section , inferring an idea is much more difficult than identifying an idea because oftentimes , an inference requires you to make a leap between one piece of information and another . When you are dealing with an implied main idea , you will have to be able to do two things .
1. Identify the subject
2. Identify how the subject could be a statement about something else
In literature , most authors use symbols. They use figurative language like metaphors and similes , and determining the purpose for this kind of writing is an inference skill . However , inferring that the play The Crucible (Set in Salem during the witch hunt) is actually an extended metaphor , or allegory , for the hunt for communists in America spurred on by McCarthysim during the Cold War requires that you have a bit more background knowledge , and the ability to connect parallel ideas - CORRECT ANSWER When you infer the main idea in a paragraph or a whole text , you must employ several factors in your inference : your reading comprehension , your background knowledge , and your common sense
Determine which detail(s) support(s) a main idea - CORRECT ANSWER Many texts have superfluous details added to them in the name of style . It is important for you to discern which details are necessary to the central idea , and which are added for effect . To do this , you will have to determine or infer the main idea , and then distinguish which details lend support to this idea , and which simply embellish it .
Identify a theme , or identify which element(s) in a text support a theme - CORRECT ANSWER There is a small difference between a theme and a subject . A theme is usually some kind of insightful statement about life in literature that pervades the text . For example "Love" is not a theme . "Love" is a subject . "Love drives us to do harmful things," is a theme .
The best way to know if you are identifying a theme instead of a subject is to determine if it is a complete sentence that makes some observation you can apply elsewhere . - CORRECT ANSWER If you are analyzing Shakespeare othello , for example , "Love kills," is a completely acceptable theme . "Jealousy changes a person's character," is also and astute theme ; however "jealousy " and "manipulation" are only subjects . While these portrayals of theme may present themselves on the GED test as possible answers , always try to find the most insightful answer this is slightly more developed than one word or phrase it is an option
Make evidence based generalizations or hypotheses based on details in text , including clarifications , extensions , or applications of main ideas to new situations - CORRECT ANSWER Making a hypothesis is very similar to make an inference , but this skill will require you to specifically support the reasons why you made the inference based on the textual evidence .
Draw conclusions or make generalizations that require synthesis of multiple main ideas in text - CORRECT ANSWER Drawing conclusions from multiple main ideas in a work is a difficult reading skill to master, and it is the hardest skill in this standard . In order to do this , you must make inferences based on several different ideas instead of just one .
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