495~425 | - They can infer the central idea and purpose of a written text, and they can make inferences about details.
- They can read for meaning. They can understand factual information, even when it is paraphrased.
- They can connect information across an entire text, and they can make connections between two related texts.
- They 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.
- They can understand rule-based grammatical structures. They can also understand difficult, complex, and uncommon grammatical constructions
| - 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 | - They can infer the central idea and purpose of a written text, and they can make inferences about details.
- They can read for meaning. They can understand factual information, even when it is paraphrased.
- They can connect information across a small area within a text, even when the vocabulary and grammar of the text are difficult.
- They can understand medium-level vocabulary. They can sometimes understand difficult vocabulary in context, unusual meanings of common words, and idiomatic usage.
- They can understand rule-based grammatical structures. They can also understand difficult, complex, and uncommon grammatical constructions.
| - They do not connect information across a wide area within a text.
- They 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 | - They can make simple inferences based on a limited amount of text.
- They 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.
- They can sometimes connect information within one or two sentences.
- They can understand easy vocabulary, and they can sometimes understand medium-level vocabulary.
- They 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.
| - They do not understand inferences that require paraphrase or connecting information.
- They 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.
- They usually do not connect information beyond two sentences.
- They 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.
- They do not understand more-difficult, complex, or uncommon grammatical constructions.
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220~5 | - They 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.
- They can understand easy vocabulary and common phrases.
- They can understand the most-common, rule-based grammatical structures when not very much reading is necessary.
- Test takers who score below 120 may have some of the same strengths as test takers who score around 150, but their performance is likely to be less consistent.Test takers who score around 150 typically have the strengths described in the box above.
| - They cannot make inferences about information in written texts.
- They do not understand paraphrased factual information. They rely on matching words and phrases in the text to answer questions.
- They are often unable to connect information even within a single sentence.
- They understand only a limited range of vocabulary.
- They 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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