Literacy Test
Student
survival guide

Reading
Comprehension
and Multiple
Choice
Questions

Reading Comprehension
Strategies
On the Literacy Test, there are several short reading passages. You will have to read the passages and answer multiple choice and short answer questions based on what you have read.
Strategies to help understand a text:
Read and re-read: Go through the text slowly and re-read difficult sections. Do not spend too much time on re-reading, but make sure you have read the whole section thoroughly.
Highlighting: As you read, use a highlighter or pen to mark key points of information. As you read, ask yourself what the main ideas are and highlight them. Making connections: As you read, connect what you are reading to what you already know or what you have experienced that relates to the text.
Contextual clues: Use the ideas around a word
(context) to figure out what a unknown word could mean.

Multiple Choice Strategies
On the Literacy Test, you will have to answer multiple choice questions for reading comprehension and for grammar. Strategies to determine the best answer:
Read question carefully and think of the answer before looking at the choices. Look for the key words in the question.
Process of elimination - you should be able to narrow it down to two choices.
Scanning and re-reading text: Scan (look over) the text for key words from the question and re-read the section that the question is referring to. Scan for similarities between the answers.
(Be careful of tricky wording)
Trick answers/questions:
a) All of the above (each answer must be obviously correct)
b) None of the above (each answer must be obviously incorrect)
c) Watch for questions with “not” in them.

practice

Reading
Comprehension
and Multiple
Choice
Questions

Read the selection below and answer the questions