Complete The Passage

Question 1

Complete the passage questions are easy to identify because..?

Answer 1

They end with a blank space

Question 2

What does a correct answer choice to a complete the passage question do?

Answer 2

Does the best job of logically completing the passage

Question 3

What are some clues we can look to in understanding what the answer that fills the blank SHOULD do?

Answer 3

Look at the words around/before the blank to see what function the blank should be performing (strengthening, etc.)

Question 4

What is one to rephrase complete the passage stimuli into something easier to analyze?

Answer 4

Pose the last sentence (with the blank) as a question, like “why …. “ then read the answer choices and see if they answer that questions

Question 5

Converting to question picture

Answer 5

Question 6

How to rephrase complete the passage stimulus last sentence when it ends before the blank with something other than a connecting word (connecting word like because, since)?

Answer 6

Rephrase the last sentence (the one containing the blank) to begin with “what”

Question 7

Overall 5 Step Strategy for answering Complete the Passage questions:

Answer 7

1. Read stem and ID what it’s asking you to do (easy in complete the passage questions cause there’s a blank and stem comes before stimulus)
2. Read and fully understand passage
3. Turn final sentence with blank space into a question using either “why” or “what”
4. Eliminate incorrect answers
5. Plug your correct answer back into the blank, re-read passage with that answer, and ensure it makes sense

Question 8

T/F: A complete the passage answer choice that fits only with the last sentence (with the blank), but not with the logic of the full passage can be correct?

Answer 8

false

Question 9

incorrect answer choice type 1: be careful not to choose answer choices that head in subtly different directions from the passage

Answer 9

these will be incorrect answer choices

Question 10

incorrect answer choice type 2:

Answer 10

answer that states something that is plausible or inferable given what the passage says but is not the logical completion of the passage

Question 11

incorrect answer choice type 3:

Answer 11

a choice that addresses a material issue that is not, however, the issue that is the focus of the passage

Question 12

incorrect answer choice type 4:

Answer 12

a choice that explains something discussed in the passage but does not complete the passage