| 495 ~ 425 |
- Test takers who score around 450 typically have the following strengths :
- ㆍThey can infer the central idea and purpose of a written text, and they can make inferences about details.
- ㆍThey can read for meaning. They can understand factual information, even when it is paraphrased.
- ㆍThey can connect information across an entire text, and they can make connections between two related texts.
- ㆍThey can understand a broad range of vocabulary, unusual meanings of common words, and idiomatic usage. They can also make distinctions between the meanings of closely related words.
- ㆍThey can understand rule-based grammatical structures. They can also understand difficult, complex, and uncommon grammatical constructions.
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- Test takers who score around 450 typically have weaknesses only when the information tested is particularly dense or involves difficult vocabulary.
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| 420 ~ 325 |
- Test takers who score around 350 typically have the following strengths :
- ㆍThey can infer the central idea and purpose of a written text, and they can make inferences about details.
- ㆍThey can read for meaning. They can understand factual information, even when it is paraphrased.
- ㆍThey can connect information across a small area within a text, even when the vocabulary and grammar of the text are difficult.
- ㆍThey can understand medium-level vocabulary. They can sometimes understand difficult vocabulary in context, unusual meanings of common words, and idiomatic usage.
- ㆍThey can understand rule-based grammatical structures. They can also understand difficult, complex, and uncommon grammatical constructions.
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- Test takers who score around 350 typically have the following weaknesses:
- ㆍThey do not connect information across a wide area within a text.
- ㆍThey do not consistently understand difficult vocabulary, unusual meanings of common words, or idiomatic usage. They usually cannot make distinctions between the meanings of closely related words.
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| 320 ~ 225 |
- Test takers who score around 250 typically have the following strengths :
- ㆍThey can make simple inferences based on a limited amount of text.
- ㆍThey can locate the correct answer to a factual question when the language of the text matches the information that is required. They can sometimes answer a factual question when the answer is a simple paraphrase of the information in the text.
- ㆍThey can sometimes connect information within one or two sentences.
- ㆍThey can understand easy vocabulary, and they can sometimes understand medium-level vocabulary.
- ㆍThey can understand common, rule- based grammatical structures. They can make correct grammatical choices, even when other features of language, such as difficult vocabulary or the need to connect information, are present.
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- Test takers who score around 250 typically have the following weaknesses :
- ㆍThey do not understand inferences that require paraphrase or connecting information.
- ㆍThey have a very limited ability to understand factual information expressed as a paraphrase using difficult vocabulary. They often depend on finding words and phrases in the text that match the same words and phrases in the question.
- ㆍThey usually do not connect information beyond two sentences.
- ㆍThey do not understand difficult vocabulary, unusual meanings of common words, or idiomatic usage. They usually cannot make distinctions between the meanings of closely related words.
- ㆍThey do not understand more difficult, complex, or uncommon grammatical constructions.
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| 220 ~ 5 |
- Test takers who score around 150 typically have the following strengths :
- ㆍThey can locate the correct answer to a factual question when not very much reading is necessary and when the language of the text matches the information that is required.
- ㆍThey can understand easy vocabulary and common phrases.
- ㆍThey can understand the most-common, rule-based grammatical structures when not very much reading is necessary.
- ※ Test takers who score below 150 may have some of the same strengths as test takers who score around 150, but their performance is likely to be less consistent.
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- Test takers who score around 150 typically have the following weaknesses :
- ㆍThey cannot make inferences about information in written texts.
- ㆍThey do not understand paraphrased factual information. They rely on matching words and phrases in the text to answer questions.
- ㆍThey are often unable to connect information even within a single sentence.
- ㆍThey understand only a limited range of vocabulary.
- ㆍThey do not understand even easy grammatical constructions when other language features, such as difficult vocabulary or the need to connect information, are also required.
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