These slides cover the skills that you will need to take on two types of SBQ questions found in the O Levels: Inference and Comparison.

2. Focus on SBQ skills
 Inference
 Comparison
 Uses inference skills

3. from infer (v.)
1. To derive by reasoning
2. Conclude or judge from evidence

4. State your inference
Evidence from the source
Explain your evidence

5. from compare (v.)
1. To examine (two or more objects, ideas, people,
etc.) in order to note similarities and differences

6. SEE
the
Common Criterion for Comparison

7. CCC Apples Orange Similar/Diff?
Type of
food
Fruit Fruit Similar
Colour Red or green Orange Different
?!?! NO CCC
?!?!
Smooth Sour Can’t tell?!?!?!

8. From now on,
NEVER EVER EVER EVER DO THIS
Sources B and C are different because they give different reasons for
Trotsky’s mistakes leading to Stalin’s rise to power. In Source B, Stalin was
responsible… However, in Source C, Trotsky was responsible.
In Source B, it says that ‘… … … …’ . In Source C, it says
that ‘… … … ...’ . This tells me that…
Don’t cluster all your evidence at the start!!!

9. DO THIS INSTEAD
Sources B and C are different because they give different reasons for
Trotsky’s mistakes leading to Stalin’s rise to power. In Source B, Stalin was
responsible… However, in Source C, Trotsky was responsible.
Source B says that ‘… … … …’ . This tells me that…
However, Source C says that ‘… … … …’ . This tells me
that…

10. Comparison paragraph structure:
S  State CCC
E  Give evidence from Source B
E  Explain evidence from Source B
E  Give evidence from Source C
E  Explain evidence from Source C

11.  Did you ATQ?
 After you finish, READ YOUR ANSWER AGAIN.
 Does your answer MAKE SENSE? (or are you just
mindlessly churning out a formula hoping that it will get
marks???)
 Do you think ‘the examiner should understand lah’
(then he/she probably DOESN’T and WON’T when
he/she is marking your paper)