Chapter 9
Language Questions
In this chapter, you'll learn how the format of the language questions can help you find the answers more easily.
Sometimes it's easier to figure out what you don't want than what you do. Shopping for a car or a place to live can be like that—you hate the transmission shift or the neighborhood, but couldn't explain exactly why or describe what would make you happier instead.
So it is with the language questions: only in this case, getting rid of what's clearly wrong should, ideally, leave you with what's right. You don't need to know exactly why an answer is wrong—perhaps it just sounds odd—but as long as you can find and eliminate at least a couple of those incorrect choices, you're closer to the right answer.
WHAT KIND OF QUESTIONS ARE ON THE TEST?
Now that we've reviewed the key language use skills that are targeted on the test (see Chapter 8 on this page), let's see how the questions make it easier to find the right answers. The language questions are all drop-down items within a passage. There will be a big gap in a sentence, with the word "Select" in the gap. When you click on it, a menu of four possible answers drops down. Click on an answer from that list and poof!—magically it appears where the gap was. (See this page in Chapter 3 for an illustration of a drop-down question.)