This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.

In this episode you will learn:

- An inference is an educated guess based on textual clues combined with your background knowledge.

- A valid inference for the ParaPro exam must be directly supported by evidence in the passage; it cannot be a leap in logic.

- Beware of common exam traps, such as answer choices that are possible but not textually supported, or those that merely restate a fact.

- Inference questions often use keywords like "suggests," "implies," or ask what conclusion can be drawn.

- A key classroom application is modeling "think-alouds" to teach students how to connect text clues with their own knowledge to make inferences.

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