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Standardized tests are all about seeing what's actually in front of you and not assuming or interpreting what is there. In English classes, we teach you to interpret the text and bring yourself and your experiences to your reading, but that's not what happens during a standardized test, during which you must exercise your analytical muscles, not your interpretive ones. The same is true of the answers. If you have narrowed your choices down to two answers, ask yourself what is correct about each answer and what is incorrect about each answer. Sometimes it's simply a word that is wrong; other times it's a phrase; still other times, it's a concept. Always refer back to specific areas of the text to help you determine which answer has the wrong information in it.