The barangay clinic opened on Saturdays last year. Farm families come in from the uplands, where the trip takes half a day. Saturday visits are now double any weekday's. What can you conclude?

Mango growers in the town bag each fruit while it is small. Bagged fruit reaches the market unmarked. Unbagged fruit sells for a third less. What do these details together suggest?

The school moved its flag ceremony from 6:00 to 6:40. Pupils used to arrive as it ended. Late slips have fallen from thirty a week to four. The jeepney route did not change. What follows?

A fishpond owner drained one pond in May. The next harvest from it was the largest in four years. Neighboring ponds, never drained, yielded as before. What can a reader conclude?

The town library began lending books in Filipino two years ago. Borrowing by pupils has tripled. The English collection is unchanged in size and still on the same shelves. What follows?

Bamboo cut at the end of the rainy season holds little starch. Bamboo cut late in the dry season is full of it, and the beetles that feed on starch riddle it within a year. Why do builders time the cutting?

A sari-sari store began selling shampoo in sachets. Bottles stayed on the shelf at the old price. Sachet sales are steady all week; bottles sell only on the 15th and the 30th. What explains the pattern?

Two schools sit a kilometer apart. One planted acacias along its fence in 2016. Its classrooms now read three degrees cooler at noon. Both use the same roofing and face the same way. What follows?

The palengke opens at four. Fish sellers come at four, vegetable sellers at five, dry goods sellers at seven. Eatery cooks buy fish at four. Home cooks buy vegetables at five. Store owners buy dry goods at seven. What can you conclude?

A barangay put lids on its rubbish bins in March. Stray dogs used to tip them nightly. Complaints about scattered rubbish have stopped, though the number of strays is unchanged. What follows?

Rice dried on a concrete pavement loses moisture evenly. Rice dried on bare soil picks up grit that mills reject. Millers pay more for pavement-dried grain. Why do farmers queue for pavement space?

A barangay found larvae in 40 of its water containers in 2019 and in 5 of them last year. In 2020 it began emptying standing water every week. Rainfall over the period did not change. What can a reader conclude?

A weaver's patterns use only three plant dyes. All three come from shrubs that grow within an hour's walk. Her mother and grandmother used the same three. What do these details together suggest?

The footbridge was closed for repair in June. Shops on the far bank reported their worst month in years. The bridge reopened in July and their sales returned. What follows?

A cooperative lends at 2 percent a month. A lender in the next street charges 20 percent. Most farmers still borrow from the street lender, who pays out the same day. Why?

Corals near the reef edge stayed pale for months after the hot spell. Corals in the shaded channel kept their color. Water temperature in the channel ran two degrees lower. What follows?

A school served free breakfast from January. Absences fell by a third. Attendance in the neighboring school, with no breakfast, stayed flat over the same months. What can a reader conclude?

A passage says a town's well ran dry in April and that a new pump was installed in May. To conclude the pump caused the well to refill, a reader would need more than these two details.

A conclusion is sound as long as one sentence in the passage can be pointed to, even if the other details work against it.

Tricycle drivers refused the new terminal at first. It sits 200 meters off the highway. Six months on, all of them use it, and passenger numbers per driver have risen. What follows?