Chapter Overview

Before you can use information, you need to understand what it means. When you understand something, you comprehend it. On the GED Social Studies Test, you will need to comprehend reading passages, forms, quotations, graphs, charts, maps, and cartoons.

In this chapter you will sharpen the following comprehension skills:

• summarizing the main idea
• restating information
• identifying implications

Twenty percent of the questions on the GED Social Studies Test will require you to demonstrate good comprehension skills.