TELPAS Practice

According to the chart, how many students chose more group study rooms?

Basic Understanding of a Variety of Texts · TELPAS Grades 10–12 reading. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.

Reporting category 2: find the main idea and key details, and follow what happens in stories and informational texts.

Read the chart. Then answer the questions.

Library Survey Results

Bar chart titled What Would Make You Use the School Library More? A note says it is a survey of 200 students at Ridgeview High School and each student chose one answer. Longer hours after school: 74 students. More group study rooms: 58 students. More computers and printers: 46 students. More books to check out: 22 students.
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What Would Make You Use the School Library More?

Survey of 200 students at Ridgeview High School. Each student chose one answer.

Longer hours after school: 74 students

More group study rooms: 58 students

More computers and printers: 46 students

More books to check out: 22 students

The question

Choose the best answer.

According to the chart, how many students chose more group study rooms?

  • 22
  • 46
  • 58Correct answer
  • 74

Why “58” is correct

Reading a bar chart means finding the right bar and reading its value. The bar for "More group study rooms" is labeled 58. Each wrong answer is the value of a different bar, so the student has to match the label carefully.

Why the other answers are wrong

  • 22 — Twenty-two students chose more books to check out.
  • 46 — Forty-six students chose more computers and printers.
  • 74 — Seventy-four students chose longer hours after school.

Practice more of this

More reading practice for Grades 10–12, or see the TELPAS practice test for 10th–12th grade.

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