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Free-text questions (also called "best answer" questions) make up approximately half of the Verbal Reasoning subtest. Unlike True/False/Can't Tell questions, where you evaluate a single statement, free-text questions ask you to select the best answer from four options. These questions test a broader range of reading comprehension skills, including identifying main ideas, making inferences, understanding author intent, and drawing conclusions.
Each free-text question presents:
You must select the single best answer. There is always one clearly correct answer, though distractors are designed to be plausible.
What they ask: What is the main point, purpose, or argument of the passage (or a section of it)?
Typical question stems:
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