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We roughly describe a variety of recent results concerning superconvergence and extrapolation for the finite element method for second-order elliptic problems in \(\mathbb{R}^N\), \(N\geq 2\). The results are based on some new local pointwise estimates. An outline of the paper is as follows. Section 1 contains preliminaries. In Section 2 we discuss the local pointwise error estimates which are valid for a large variety of finite element spaces on irregular quasi-uniform grids. In Section 3 we present some consequences of these estimates which are weak error expansions in the form of inequalities. Sections 4, 5 and 6 contain some consequences of these error expansion inequalities. In particular in Section 4, conditions are given under which the \(L_\infty\) error on an element is dominated by the interpolation error on that element. Section 5 contains a new approach to Richardson extrapolation and Section 6 contains some new superconvergence results. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0884.00048].