Reading for information GCSE questions
Cover the answers and try these Reading for information checks first. The full quiz in the app includes hints.
How to use these
Write your answer, then check. If you miss one, open the Reading for information lesson before you retry.
Practice questions
Cover the answers and have a go first. Worked solutions are underneath.
Explicit information is
On a “list four things from lines 1–4” question you should
Scanning is
Which is implicit rather than explicit?
Common mistakes
- Writing “Maya is scared of the other passengers” on a Q1 list invents a feeling the extract does not state. There is one sleeping man, not a threatening crowd.
- Adding knowledge from real life (“all night buses are dangerous”) is not reading the text. The marker can only credit what this extract supports.
- If the question says “weather”, do not analyse the man’s peas. That is a different scan.
- “The bus was empty” feels true because nobody gets on. The extract still has two people inside. Read the whole of the given lines.
Answers and working
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