# The Right Age to Start School: answers and explanations

Testmigo Practice Test 2, Reading Passage 3

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## Answer key

| Q | Answer | Proof |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 27 | D | Starting younger also made teenage pregnancy more likely |
| 28 | C | The effect was identified mainly among girls |
| 29 | A | the youngest were even less likely to go on to university |
| 30 | D | while age at the time of the test had a much larger one |
| 31 | B | which makes August-born children the youngest in their class |
| 32 | NO | The research suggests that it matters a great deal |
| 33 | YES | extra time does not merely hand children an early lead that soon fades |
| 34 | YES | is an artefact of measuring children at different ages |
| 35 | NOT GIVEN | the later starters generally showed greater comprehension |
| 36 | NO | None of this means that parents should simply decide for themselves |
| 37 | B | preceded by a year of pre-primary education that has been compulsory since 2015 |
| 38 | D | by the age of eleven the difference had gone |
| 39 | E | Boys, White children and those from families of higher socio-economic status were the most likely to wait |
| 40 | G | the admission authority makes the final decision and may refuse |

## Why these answers are right

**27. D.** The fifth paragraph reports the Norwegian study by Black, Devereux and Salvanes, which found that starting younger made teenage pregnancy more likely. Becoming parents in their teens is a paraphrase of teenage pregnancy, so the answer is D.

**28. C.** In the fourth paragraph the Danish study by Dee and Sievertsen found that a one-year delay reduced inattention and hyperactivity, and the effect was identified mainly among girls. Chiefly in one sex matches mainly among girls, so the answer is C.

**29. A.** The second paragraph gives Bedard and Dhuey's result that, in Canada and the United States, the youngest in each cohort were even less likely to go on to university. Higher education paraphrases university, so A is correct.

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