CR passage reading TIPS

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<p>These are some tips that helped me:</p>

<p>1) DO read the WHOLE passage, and concentrate as hard as you can while reading it. 85 lines is as long as they get, I'm sure everyone has read longer. If you concentrate hard on the passage, the questions will also make more sense.</p>

<p>2) When I read the passage I don't take notes (too much time) and instead underline any thesis ideas, lists of things, anything else I deem worthy. That way, you may remember these key words when reading questions and save yourself time of rereading the entire passage again.</p>

<p>3) In paragraph comparison questions, read paragraph 1 first. Answer all the questions to do with 1 only. Then read 2. Then decide if the two passages agree or disagree fundamentally. Then answer the questions of comparison.</p>

<p>4) Usually, if you "understand" the general idea of a passage, you will have an easier time with the questions. For instance, if a passage is about how ducks are intelligent animals, all your answers to the "broad" questions should follow along that line. The tone in this case is likely appreciative, etc.</p>

<p>5) Instead of trying to find the right answer, approach the question with the thought that every choice is wrong. Talk to yourself, give yourself a compelling reason why each is wrong. When you hit a choice that you give a very weak reason for, pick it.</p>

<p>6) DO NOT bring your own opinions into the reading. EVER. DO NOT, DO NOT. You have no mind of your own. You do everything the passage tells you.</p>

<p>7) Sometimes the questions help you understand the passage. So if you really have no clue what the pasasge is talking about, skim the questions and see what you can glean from there.</p>

<p>8) Extreme answers are hardly right answers. However, if a passage has clear irony, exaggeration, understatement, or whatnot, go for the more "extreme" answer.</p>

<p>9) Finally, if will not be taking the text next week, do some hefty reading. Read everything, the classics--Shakespeare helps--Harper's Weekly, with lots of long passages. Read to understand, you don't need to analyze anything. Soon, you will find at least your reading speed increases, if not your ability to fully comprehend passages.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>thank you for the tips. I'll take it next week so I find it very useful.</p>

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<p>ditto above</p>

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<p>"6) DO NOT bring your own opinions into the reading. EVER. DO NOT, DO NOT. You have no mind of your own. You do everything the passage tells you."</p>

<p>I'll second that. Great tips !</p>

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<p>i'd like to stress your number 5 tip</p>

<p>that method was a glorious revolution to my old ways
-you'll get faster and high accuracy. and that critical brain ticks with more efficiency</p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>Yes, Tip 5 is the most important. </p>

<p>However, I do the passage reference questions as I read, which seems to help. I read up to where they reference, then look at the question and go through EACH answer choice and cross off the answers I know to be wrong.</p>

<p>By doing the passage reference questions as I go along and reason out the answers within them, I can understand the passage better and realize what they are looking at as to the meaning of the passage. </p>

<p>Do you guys think this is a good strategy?</p>

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<p>Tip 3 works really well. I did it on a 25 question section of CR and got only 3 wrong. (good by my standards)</p>

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<p>bump....Great tips , everyone should read these</p>