Reading questions: passage approach, stem types and elimination

By the end you’ll be able to

• Use the headnote and a first read focused on claims, shifts and purpose to map a passage before answering
• Recognise the recurring stem types (primary purpose, function of a sentence or paragraph, “most likely in order to”, tone or attitude, relationship between parts) and the evidence each requires
• Eliminate wrong options that are too extreme, too broad or narrow, true but irrelevant, or that reverse the writer’s position