Topic 5Information and Ideas
Inferences
Core Idea
Inference questions ask you to identify what logically follows from the information a passage states and implies—nothing more, nothing less.
Understanding
Blank questions follow the passage's logic. The blank should land where the text is already heading, not launch a new idea.
Read the passage, pause, and predict what the next sentence should do. Then choose the completion that fits both the sentence right before the blank and the passage's overall direction.
Trap: a choice can sound true and still fail if it introduces a new topic, reverses the argument, or makes the claim bigger than the evidence.
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