General

Question 1

Types of questions

Answer 1

Reading comprehension
Text completion
Sentence equivalence

Question 2

Reading comprehension that can be tested: 1-4

Answer 2

1. Understand individual word meanings
2. Understand individual sentence meanings
3. Understand paragraph meanings and large bodies of text
4. Distinguish between major and minor parts of a sentnece

Question 3

Reading comprehension
What can be tested: 5-8

Answer 3

5. Summarize a passage
6. Draw conclusions from provided information
7. Reason from incomplete data/missing information
8. Understand the structure of a text and how different parts relate

Question 4

Reading Comprehension
What can be tested 9-13

Answer 4

9. Identify the author’s perspective
10. Identify the author’s assumptions
11. Analyze the text and reach conclusions about it
12. Identify strengths and weaknesses
13. Develop and consider alternative explanations

Question 5

How to understand text

Answer 5

Active reading, asking questions, formulating/evaluating hypotheses, seeing relationships in text

Question 6

Reading comprehension specs

Answer 6

About half the text is reading comprehension. Most questions about a paragraph long, some more than one. One to five questions per passage

Question 7

What are comprehension questions?

Answer 7

Anything from defining a word to deciding if something supports or weakens arguments