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True/False/Not Given questions

True/False/Not Given questions ask you to decide if specific information is: true according to the information in the passage false according to the information in the passage or not mentioned in the passage

Example

Questions 15-18 Do the following statements agree with the information given in the passage? Write: TRUE if the statement agrees with the information FALSE if the statement contradicts the information NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

Look at the instructions for True/False/Not Given questions and pay close attention to the key words in these instructions.

The key words in these instructions are:

TRUE	agrees with =	the statement gives the same information as is in the passage
FALSE	contradicts contradicts = disagrees with =	the statement gives different or opposite information as is in the passage
NOT GIVEN	no information =	the information in the statement is not mentioned in the passage

Candidates usually find NOT GIVEN questions the hardest because the information in these questions is often very similar or related to details in the passage. However, similar to and related to do not mean the same and different (opposite). In other words, you should decide that a True/False/Not Given question is not given if:

• the question presents information that is not mentioned in the passage

• the question presents information that is mentioned in the passage but is not clearly the same as or not clearly opposite to the information in the passage.

Now let’s practise doing some True/False/Not Given questions.