Língua Inglesa: reading comprehension for IT contexts
What to master
Expect reading-based questions: main idea, specific detail, vocabulary in context, reference (what does "it" or "they" point to), inference, and author's purpose or tone. Texts often involve technology, cybersecurity, data privacy, or business communication, so build vocabulary such as breach, compliance, deployment, outage, throughput, stakeholder, and mitigate.
Core concepts
Skim first for structure and topic sentences, then scan for the keywords of the question. Distinguish fact from opinion and cause from consequence. For vocabulary items, use the surrounding sentence rather than your first guess: "address" may mean "deal with", not "speak to". Watch for cohesive devices (however, therefore, moreover, whereas) that signal contrast or conclusion.
Typical traps
Options that are true in the real world but not stated in the passage; options that recycle words from the text while changing the relationship between ideas; extreme quantifiers (always, never, all) that the passage does not support; and near-synonyms with the wrong register or direction ("increase" versus "reduce"). Also beware of questions asking what is NOT mentioned: three options must be verifiable in the text.
Rule of thumb
Paraphrase the answer in your own words before looking at the options, then choose the option closest to your paraphrase. If two options seem right, the correct one is usually the more cautious and text-anchored.
Worked example
Passage: "Although encryption protects data in transit, weak key management can still expose records at rest." Question: what does the author imply? The implication is that encryption alone is insufficient; key management is also required. An option saying encryption is useless contradicts "protects data in transit".