not correct. You may have an opinion as to whether HTML is or is not easy to learn but remember that you need to stick with what is presented in the passage and not rely on what you know from other sources, so you need to eliminate option D from consideration. You may or may not be familiar with computer programming. If you are not, you might have gotten a little bit nervous to see a passage about programming and an answer choice that mentions recursion—a concept that you might have never heard of. But notice that you should be able to figure out the correct answer to this question without knowing what recursion is. All you need to do is to observe what the passage says about which languages do or do not support recursion—you don’t need to be able to define the word to answer the question correctly. It is important that you do not lose confidence when you see a passage or a question that contains concepts that you are not familiar with. This is to be expected. Remember, this is not a test of subject matter but rather a reading test. You will be able to answer the questions correctly using your reading skills even if you are not familiar with the subject matter. So do not worry if the topic or the details of the passage are new to you. Stay calm and focus on the question.
TYPE THREE: VOCABULARY You will probably see some questions on the PRAXIS that ask you about the meaning of a word. The most important thing to know about these questions is that they will always ask you about the meaning of a word in the context in which it is used, not about the meaning of that word in general. The reason that this difference is important is that many words have more than one meaning, and you need to focus on how the word is used in the passage, not on how it might be used in other contexts. Think about this sentence: “He vacationed at the cape.” In that sentence, a cape is a place along the coastline. It has nothing to do with the piece of clothing that is also called a cape. Some test takers are tempted to save time by answering the vocabulary questions without checking how the word is used in the passage. Do not be tempted to do this. Be sure to check how the word is used in the passage.
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