Inference — SSAT Upper practice questions

The SSAT Upper Reading Comprehension section asks inference questions about both fiction and nonfiction, with stems such as which statement can most reasonably be inferred, or what the author implies. A good inference stays close to the text: if a character keeps checking the clock and skips lunch, it is fair to infer that she is worried about time, but not that she dislikes her job.

Among the answer choices, the wrong ones usually go too far beyond the evidence, contradict a detail, or simply repeat something stated directly.