Tip #3 Inference Questions

.These questions test your  ability to  
a) Do Detective work – locatable as clues
b) Make assumptions based on information
c) Search for evidence but not expecting direct answers 

These questions are typically worded in these ways
What does the author suggest...
What does the author/passage infer about....
What does the author imply.....

Strategies:

As you are eliminating choices, take out:
a)Answers that contradict
b)Answers that are not mentioned
c) Then look for clues. If no clues take the choice out

The thing is that if there are no clues the answer cannot be correct . Often, if you have already read it,  you can deduct the easier wrong answers on the spot but the remaining contenders need you to search for clues back in the text.

—Have a hypothesis when you get down to the last contenders
•Which do you suspect are wrong?
•Which do you suspect are right?
•Work at the weakest links:
1.Seems to contradict what you know
2.ones most easily locatable,
3.ones that seem wrong by common sense