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Here’s one for you. You get a vague inference question. By following the preceding strategies, you answer the question yourself, and then you use your own answer to cross off the three way-wrong answer choices and go with the remaining fourth answer. You don’t really trust this fourth answer, but it has to be right, because the other three are so far off. And it is.

Next question. “Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?” Wait, what? You’re supposed to be done with this! Nope. This question has a second part, where you select evidence from the passage. Each answer choice refers to a sentence in the passage, and you pick the sentence that supports your answer to the previous question. It looks like this:

Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

(A) Lines 32–34 (“The student … whole Dummies book.”)

(B) Lines 43–45 (“On exam day … amazingly well.”)

(C) Lines 68–74 (“Several schools … scholarships.”)

(D) Lines 79–82 (“There was enough … a Jeep.”)

Each passage has two best-evidence questions, for a total of ten in the Reading Test. Don’t worry. There’s a strategy for these.

1 Using the answer choices, mark those sentences in the passage.This is an about-face from the previous strategy of covering the answer choices, but for the second part of the two-part question, it’s okay. Go through the passage and mark the four sentences that the answer choices refer to. This way, you can find them easily while you’re focusing on the actual question. You don’t have to distract yourself by looking for that dang sentence. Since each passage has two best-evidence questions, you don’t want to get the sentences you marked for the first one mixed with the sentences you marked for the second one. Mark the sentences one way for the first round, say with [brackets], and another way for the second round, such as underline.

2 Reread the correct answer to the previous question.With 52 Reading questions, your thoughts start to get slippery. Make sure you’re clear on which bit of inference that you’re looking to support.

3 Cross off the wrong sentences.See? This strategy is similar. With that previous answer in mind, go to the passage and cross off the sentences that don’t support it. Again, you’ll have three that are way off and one that is so-so, and that’s what you go with.

Here's an alternate approach: Some students like to work these two-part questions in tandem. They mark the sentences in the passage, then they use these sentence answers from the second question to find the answer to the first question. This is also an effective strategy, so try it out and see what you think.