Hoofdgedachte van een analyse
What the whole text is claiming, in one sentence — not what its most striking paragraph said.
9 of our 268 B2 reading items — few, but each one is a whole-text question and they come at the end of a long analysis when time is shortest. The correct option covers the text from beginning to end and is usually the longest and least dramatic one on the list. The wrong options are single true findings lifted out of one paragraph, and a reader working from memory of what struck them will pick one of those.
How the exam tests this
About 40 multiple-choice questions over roughly 6–7 texts in 100 minutes, computer-marked. Phrased Wat is de hoofdgedachte van deze analyse? or Wat is het belangrijkste resultaat dat het rapport meldt? At B2 the texts weigh several causes or several positions against each other, and the answer usually says so — that the problem has more than one cause, that neither side is wholly right. An option naming one cause is the shape the paper uses for its distractors, because it is true and incomplete at once.
What is wrong with this sentence?
Nieuwbouw is de enige echte oplossing.
Most candidates write it exactly like this and lose the mark without knowing why.
The rest of this lesson
The rule, the worked examples, the exceptions and what to do in the exam room open with Mastery, together with every other lesson for this exam.
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