Critical Reading Passages

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<p>Whether I am taking the PSAT's or practicing one of these SAT books, theres always ONE or TWO passages where, when I read it, I begin to day dream and start thinking about something else. The ONE or TWO passages that do not make any sense to my head and I am forced to just guess on the questions. Heres a small portion of one passage from the blue book:</p>

<p>"This idea is certainly not new. Rousseau's "noble savages" wandered, pure of heart, through a pristine world. Since native people were simply assumed to be incomprehensible, they were sedlom comprehended. Their societies were simply, beheld, often through cloudy glasses, and rarely probed by the tools of logic and deductive analysis automatically reserved for cultures prejudged to be "civilized." And on these occasions when Europeans did attempt to formulate an encompassing theory, it was not, ordinarily, on a human-being-to-human-being basis, but rather through an ancestor-descendant model..." </p>

<p>And it gets even more confusing later on. How is one suppose to read this passage that as if it was written in another language, under a certain amount of time. Why must collegeboard make passages uninteresting and hard to understand? I got like 4 out of 12 right on this part. </p>

<p>Anyways, WHAT CAN I DO TO OVERCOME THE PASSAGES?</p>

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<p>I remember that passage and the same frustration. Soon, I overcame it with mental power. I told myself that that my future depends on this passage (even though it didn't) just to get my attention. Soon enough I didn't need to pretend things like that. I just realized this is how it is, this is how it will always be and this is what I have to tackle if I want to succeed. After much practice you will get used to the prose, just force yourself through it now, and soon you will develop a rhythm for this unnecessarily intellectual rhetoric.</p>

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<p>Just break it down into several passages. There's no point in reading it all at once if you don't understand it. Answer the questions as you go, and break it down into 3 parts or so.</p>

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<p>lol thats what always happens to me and i dont even realize im day dreamin until mins later haha. anywho, some1 told me to try to read one or 2 paras at atime, and then answer questions, mayb you can try that</p>