The Fact That Was Never in the Notes

These questions give you a short list of bullet-point notes and ask you to build or pick one sentence that uses them well. The trap answer usually reads smoothly and sounds smart, but it sneaks in one noun or phrase that no bullet actually said. That single import is enough to sink the whole sentence, because the question is testing whether you stayed inside the given facts, not whether you wrote something plausible.

The fix is mechanical. Take the choice you like and check it word by word against the bullets. Every concrete noun or number needs a bullet behind it. If a word has no bullet, it got imported from outside, whether from general knowledge, a reasonable guess, or something you remember reading elsewhere. It does not matter if that detail is true. The bullets are the whole permitted world for this sentence, so anything not in them is off limits, no exceptions for accuracy or plausibility.

This skill sits right next to picking the correct connector between two sentences, and both live in the last stretch of a module for a reason: both ask you to work only with what is actually on the page rather than what you'd naturally assume. Connector questions test whether you read the logical relationship correctly; this one tests whether you read the factual content correctly. Together they punish outside assumptions and reward sentence-by-sentence, word-by-word checking.