Rephrase/predict strategy

This strategy focuses on coming up with your own answer

to reading questions BEFORE you look at the answer
choices. There are 2 parts:
Rephrase:
1. Read the question, but cover the answer choices.
2. If possible, rephrase the question into a how, what or
why question.
Predict:
1. Review the relevant parts of the passage and predict the
answer to the question IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
2. Uncover the answer choices; cross out choices that
dont match your prediction, and select the choice that
best matches your prediction.
Words in context:
These problems measure your understanding of the
meaning and use of words and phrases in the context of
passages.
Context in the passage is crucial to answering these
questions. Context can take the form of the surrounding
words, ideas, and circumstances.
There are 2 types of words in context questions:
Interpreting words and phrases in context: Ask you to
what a word or phrase means as used in the passage.
Analyzing words rhetorically: Ask you to consider how the
authors choice of words and phrases shape meaning,
tone and style.
Command of evidence:
These questions are designed to see whether you
understand how authors make use of evidence to develop
and support their claims and points.

In college, in the work force, and in life in general, you will

see evidence to create or defend and argument or evaluate
someones else argument.
Three types of evidence questions:
1. Determine the best evidence: Ask you what textual
evidence provides the best support for a claim or point,
or which evidence best supports your answer to a
preceding question.
2. Interpret data presented in graphics: Evaluate your
understanding of the graphic and it relates to the
passage.
TIP: Review the graphic piece by piece. For example, ask
what is the title, what do the axes represent, what
information does the key provide?
3. How an argument uses (or doesnt use) evidence: Ask
you to consider how an author uses or doesnt use
specific evidence like facts, figures, or quotations, to
develop claims.