Preparing and interpreting written material
Two of the five subject areas are about written material, and the guide splits the first of them into two separate test tasks with a worked example for each.
Type 1 — notes into a narrative
You are given notes from an incident and four restatements of them, and you choose the one that presents the facts clearly and accurately. The guide's own solution turns on whether a reader can tell who did what: it rejects one choice because it makes it unclear who did the threatening, and another because it makes it seem the wrong person left.
Its example also notes that two lines of its notes appear in none of the four choices and were therefore not relevant to that question. A restatement does not have to carry every note.
Type 2 — putting a paragraph back in order
Four sentences are shown out of sequence and you choose the arrangement that reads as one connected, well-organized paragraph. The order is fixed by the sentences themselves: a topic sentence that refers to nothing earlier, and later sentences carrying a reference, an enumerator or a sequence word that can only follow a particular predecessor.
Understanding and interpreting written material
A separate subject area gives you short reading selections and asks questions about them. The guide is explicit that all the information required is in the selection and that no special knowledge is needed, and its own solution rejects one choice on the ground that nowhere in the passage does it say so.