Craft and StructureVery hardTwo texts on a rise in reading scores
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Our new phonics scheme has raised reading scores by 12 points in a single year.
Text 2
The school also cut its class sizes that year. Similar schools that kept their old reading schemes but made the same cut in class sizes saw rises of about 11 points.
Based on the texts, Text 2 most strongly suggests that ____
- A. the smaller classes, rather than the phonics scheme, may account for most of the rise.Correct
- B. the phonics scheme lowered reading scores.
- C. reading scores did not rise.
- D. the similar schools used the same phonics scheme.
Answer: A. the smaller classes, rather than the phonics scheme, may account for most of the rise.
The same cut without the scheme gave almost the same rise.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the phonics scheme lowered reading scores.
- Text 2 does not say the scheme harmed scores.
- C. reading scores did not rise.
- Both texts report a rise.
- D. the similar schools used the same phonics scheme.
- They kept their old schemes.
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