Main Idea Question in Reading Comprehension

1. Avoid answer choices that focus in on only one detail or paragraph of the passage, and do not express the main idea as a whole. 2. Avoid answer choices that are overly extreme. Its rare that the main point of a passage is absolute, so choices that state things in absolute terms are almost never correct. 3. Avoid answer choices that distort details of the passage. These are the hardest to spot, but they are almost always there. They often include an extra reversal (saying that two things are similar, when the passage says they are different, like the example below), or include a word that sounds like something from the passage, but isn't actually there (if a whole passage is about "nuclear physics," any answer about "atoms," "science" or "physics" would not be correct).