The Reading Comprehension Test

The Reading Test - 20 Questions

Questions are multiple choice in format and appear as both discrete (stand-alone) questions and as parts of sets of questions built around a common passage or passages. Four broad knowledge and skill categories are assessed:

• Information and Ideas
  (reading closely, determining central ideas and themes, summarizing, understanding relationships)
• Rhetoric
  (analyzing word choice rhetorically, analyzing text structure, analyzing point of view, analyzing purpose, analyzing arguments)
• Synthesis
  (analyzing multiple texts)
• Vocabulary