True / False / Not Given

The passage says it, the passage fights it, or the passage never says. Learn to tell the three apart.

You answer with: TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN
Typical group: 4–7 questions
Answer order: Follows the passage

The instructions, word for word as the test writes them

Do the following statements agree with the information given in the passage?

Write:

TRUE — if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE — if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN — if there is no information on this

What this task is

The passage clearly says the statement = TRUE.

The ideas in the statement and the passage fight = FALSE.

You cannot find the information in the passage = NOT GIVEN.

That is the whole task, checked against facts, not opinions. One discipline decides everything: "the passage implies the opposite" is not FALSE. Only "the passage states the opposite" is. A statement can be likely, sensible, even true in the real world. If the passage does not settle it, it is NOT GIVEN.

The traps

These are built in on purpose. Know them by name and half the danger is gone.

The reasonable guess

The statement sounds supported because nearby sentences gesture at it. If no sentence settles it either way, it is NOT GIVEN, however plausible it feels. This is the classic trap, and it is built in deliberately.

All, always, proved

"All" against "most". "Always" against "often". "Proved" against "suggested". A statement that overstates a hedged claim is FALSE. One that adds something the passage never touches is NOT GIVEN.

Familiar words, different claim

The statement recycles the passage's vocabulary around a claim the passage never makes. Recognising words is not the same as finding the statement.

What to do next time

Demand evidence for every answer. TRUE needs a sentence that says it. FALSE needs a sentence that contradicts it. No sentence, NOT GIVEN. Never answer from what you know about the world.
Statements follow passage order. Search forward from the last answer's location, not from the top.
Expect a mix. Real groups balance the three verdicts and never run to four of the same. Six TRUEs in a row means reread something.

Now meet it under a clock. Start a free mock. Every true / false / not given question you get wrong comes back with the sentence that proves the answer, and the reason the trap was tempting.