<p>I am having difficulties with the Critical Reading Section.
How do you guys do reading section?</p>
<p>-Do you read the whole passage first then answer, or go directly to the question and then go back to the passage?</p>
<p>-Will the SAT ever ask us to asnwer the question that does not actually say in the reading?
Like do we ever have to overthink to get the right answer?</p>
<p>-Also, for the questions that gives you the lines to read like (lines 5-7"I..here."), do you read only that part in the passage or look at the passage as a whole and analyze to choose the best answer to the question?</p>
<p>I read the whole passage and then go to the questions, but I’m a very fast reader and I could see how someone could run out of time if they read through the passage first and then went back to answer the questions. In terms of looking at “lines 5-7” - sometimes I just look at the selected lines, and sometimes I read through the whole paragraph… it’s a case by case basis, I would say.</p>
Read, then answer, so I don’t miss any key points.</p>
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No prior knowledge of a passage’s content is required. Thus, all answers can be found, either directly or indirectly, in the words.
Depends on what you mean by ‘overthink.’ Some answers are not explictly written in the text; sometimes you have to find that which is implied.</p>
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When I get to these questions, I would have already read the entire passage. Thus, I go back and reread quickly the lines to answer the question. Usually the answer should be within or close to the block of lines.</p>
<p>-Will the SAT ever ask us to asnwer the question that does not actually say in the reading?
Like do we ever have to overthink to get the right answer?</p>
<p>I read what it says to read first and then read the whole passage, if necessary.</p>
<p>All the answers are connecting what the TEXT says to what the QUESTION is asking for. There is never going to be any need to overthink anything. It is connecting the text to the question which can actually be a little tricky sometimes.</p>