Pre-Professional Skills Test: Reading (0710)

II. Critical and Inferential Comprehension

Critical and inferential comprehension content measures the ability to evaluate a reading selection and its messages.

1. Evaluation
   1. Determine whether evidence strengthens, weakens, or is relevant to the arguments in a reading selection
   2. Determine the role that an idea, reference, or piece of information plays in an author's discussion or argument
   3. Determine whether information presented in a reading selection is presented as fact or opinion
   4. Identify the relationship among ideas presented in a reading selection

2. Inferential Reasoning
   1. Draw inferences and implications from the directly stated content of a reading selection
   2. Determine the logical assumptions upon which an argument or conclusion is based
   3. Determine the author's attitude toward material discussed in a reading selection

3. Generalization
   1. Recognize or predict ideas or situations that are extensions of or similar to what has been presented in a reading selection
   2. Draw conclusions from material presented in a reading selection
   3. Apply ideas presented in a reading selection to other situations