FIll in a Table Questions
TOEFL - Prep
Fill in a Table Questions
This type of question requires you to complete a partially completed table based on information in the passage.
Your job is to complete the table by clicking on correct answer choices and dragging them to their correct locations in the table. This measures your ability to conceptualize and organize major ideas and other important information from across the passage and then to place them in appropriate categories.
Mental Framework
The able reader will create a mental framework to organize and remember major ideas and other important information. Doing so requires the ability to understand rhetorical functions such as cause-effect relationships, compare-contrast relationships, arguments, and the like.
Major Ideas and Important Information
When building your mental framework, keep in mind that the major ideas in the passage are the ones you would include if you were making a fairly high-level outline of the passage. The correct answer choices are usually ideas that would be included in a slightly more detailed outline. Minor details and examples are generally not included in such an outline because they are used only to support the more important, higher-level themes.
Passage Organization
Passages used with Fill in a Table questions have more than one focus of development in that they include more than one point of view or perspective.
Typical passages have the following types of organization: compare/contrast, problem/solution, cause/effect, alternative arguments (such as theories, hypotheses), and the like.
Correct and Incorrect Answers
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02
03
They are more likely to be abstract concepts based on passage information or paraphrases of passage information.
Generally, these answers will not match specific phrases in the passage.
Correct answers represent major ideas and important supporting information in the passage.
03
02
01
+ info
Table Rules
Some answer choices will not be used. An answer choice can be used only once in the table. If an answer choice applies to more than one answer category, or to no category in a table, a row or column labeled “both” or “neither” will be available in the table for placement of that answer choice.
Tables can have two or three columns/rows containing bullets representing four to five correct answer choices. There will always be more answer choices than there are correct answers.
Scoring
To earn points, you must select correct answer choices and organize the choices correctly in the table. You may receive partial credit, depending on how many correct answers you choose. You can earn up to 2 points for tables with four correct answers and up to 3 points for tables with five correct answers. The number of points a particular table item is worth is indicated in the Directions.
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FIll in a Table Questions
TOEFL - Prep
Fill in a Table Questions
This type of question requires you to complete a partially completed table based on information in the passage.
Your job is to complete the table by clicking on correct answer choices and dragging them to their correct locations in the table. This measures your ability to conceptualize and organize major ideas and other important information from across the passage and then to place them in appropriate categories.
Mental Framework
The able reader will create a mental framework to organize and remember major ideas and other important information. Doing so requires the ability to understand rhetorical functions such as cause-effect relationships, compare-contrast relationships, arguments, and the like.
Major Ideas and Important Information
When building your mental framework, keep in mind that the major ideas in the passage are the ones you would include if you were making a fairly high-level outline of the passage. The correct answer choices are usually ideas that would be included in a slightly more detailed outline. Minor details and examples are generally not included in such an outline because they are used only to support the more important, higher-level themes.
Passage Organization
Passages used with Fill in a Table questions have more than one focus of development in that they include more than one point of view or perspective.
Typical passages have the following types of organization: compare/contrast, problem/solution, cause/effect, alternative arguments (such as theories, hypotheses), and the like.
Correct and Incorrect Answers
01
02
03
They are more likely to be abstract concepts based on passage information or paraphrases of passage information.
Generally, these answers will not match specific phrases in the passage.
Correct answers represent major ideas and important supporting information in the passage.
03
02
01
+ info
Table Rules
Some answer choices will not be used. An answer choice can be used only once in the table. If an answer choice applies to more than one answer category, or to no category in a table, a row or column labeled “both” or “neither” will be available in the table for placement of that answer choice.
Tables can have two or three columns/rows containing bullets representing four to five correct answer choices. There will always be more answer choices than there are correct answers.
Scoring
To earn points, you must select correct answer choices and organize the choices correctly in the table. You may receive partial credit, depending on how many correct answers you choose. You can earn up to 2 points for tables with four correct answers and up to 3 points for tables with five correct answers. The number of points a particular table item is worth is indicated in the Directions.
Read
Answer
Thanks!