Negative Factual Information

Identify information that is incorrect or not mentioned in the passage. Negative Factual information questions are very similar to Factual Information questions except that they are asking the test taker to do the opposite thing. Instead of choosing the one answer that is correct, they must select the answer that is incorrect. They are often more difficult to answer than Factual Information questions. Three of the four options will be correct, but one will contain information that is incorrectly stated or was not included in the passage. They are easy to recognize because the question will always contain the words “EXCEPT” or “NOT”. Such questions may be written the following ways: ❖ According to paragraph 1, which of the following is NOT true of/about X ? ❖ According to paragraph 1, all of the following are true about X EXCEPT … ❖ All of the following are mentioned in paragraph 1 about X EXCEPT …