During the assessment:
Read the questions first before the text. This helps you know what to look for.
Highlight or underline key words in both the question and the text (names, places, dates, feelings).
Don’t try to understand every word. Focus on:
Cognates (words that look similar in English and Spanish, like animal, familia, inteligente)
Repetition of ideas (this may give you implicit information)
Context clues to guess unknown words