Information Location questions
Information Location questions test your ability to do two things:
- locate specific information in the passage
- identify the type of information it is.
Let’s look at what we mean by ‘the type of information’. Information Location questions begin with key words such as the ones below:
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This means that you need to find the information in the passage and then identify that it is the type of information specified in the question, for example, a description, an explanation, an example, etc. We will call such words as description, explanation, example, etc. location words for Information Location questions, since they tell us what type of information to look for in the reading passage.
Let’s now look at some examples of Information Location questions.
Example
Look at the four Information Location questions below. The location word is in bold.
Questions 19-22 The reading passage has two paragraphs A and B. Which paragraph contains the following information? 19 an explanation of where migrant labour in America comes from now 20 a definition of migrant workers 21 examples of work that migrant workers do 22 an account of former slave migrant labourers in the U.S. |
Now let's practise answering these Information Location questions.
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