These questions give you a passage, table or chart and five statements. You mark each statement Yes if it follows from the information, No if it does not. The trap is answering from common sense instead of from the data.
The proof rule
Ask: "Does the information guarantee this?" If the statement is probably true but not certain, the answer is No. If the data shows sales rose in two of three months, "sales rose every month" is No, and "sales were higher in March than in January" depends only on those two numbers.
Reading the data
- Read the title, axis labels and units first.
- Notice whether figures are totals, percentages or averages — you cannot add percentages from different groups.
- Check the time period: "in 2024" and "by 2024" are different.
💡 Statements that compare groups are the most common traps. "A grew more than B" may mean more in absolute numbers or as a percentage — check which the data can support.