English · Exam Skills and Methodology

Detail comprehension — True/False & WH-question answering with justification

Locate the exact evidence before you write True, False, or a short answer.

  • Foreign languages essential
  • Literature and philosophy essential
  • Experimental sciences essential
  • Mathematics essential
  • Engineering essential
  • Management and economics essential

6 minutes

The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.

What the syllabus expects from you

  • Answering True/False statements about a text with textual justification
  • Answering WH-questions (what/how/why) directly from the text, in the student's own words when asked

The method

  1. Locate the exact sentence/paragraph that supports the answer before writing it

The common mistakes

  • Copying a full sentence instead of a concise justified answer
  • Answering from memory instead of from the text

The kind of exercise that comes up at the BAC

  • T/F + WH comprehension block easy

    any BAC reading text → 3-4 T/F + 2-3 WH questions with justification

From the lesson

Read this statement: Amina volunteers on Sundays. Is that true or false? You cannot guess from memory. You have to check one exact detail in the text below.

The vocabulary

  • justify (برر)
  • according to the text (حسب النص)

What is not on the syllabus

  • Vocabulary-only questions (covered in C04/C05)