Find the main claim
Identify what the author is trying to establish rather than what is merely reported.
What to master
- Main and subsidiary conclusions.
- Premises, background and counterevidence.
- Assumption gaps.
- Causal, comparative and conditional reasoning.
- Validity of the inferential link.
BoardQBank strategy
1
Ask, “What is the author trying to prove?”
2
Label the evidence that is offered in support.
3
Describe the gap in neutral language before reading choices.
4
Match each answer to the exact logical task in the question stem.
Practice focus
- Method-of-reasoning questions.
- Necessary-assumption and sufficient-assumption questions.
- Flaw questions involving common inferential errors.