Conclusion and premises
Identify what the author claims and the evidence offered in support.
What to master
- Conclusion indicators and premise indicators.
- Subsidiary conclusions and background information.
- Necessary and sufficient conditions.
- Contrapositives and invalid reversals.
- Question-stem recognition.
BoardQBank strategy
1
Read the question stem carefully and name the task.
2
Paraphrase the conclusion in plain language.
3
Identify the evidence and describe the gap.
4
Predict the kind of answer needed before evaluating choices.
Practice focus
- Main-conclusion questions.
- Role-of-statement questions.
- Basic assumption questions.
- Conditional inference questions.