<p>I bought both of this books and Im trying to take silverturtles approach to the critical reading section but these books seem to have lots of questions without line references and basically I cant really take his approach very well.</p>
<p>For example, questions such as: </p>
<p>" In treaty cuncils before 1870, most Indians did not ask for their own interpreters because: "
" According to Passage 2, when the gold and silver ran out, the miners switched to: "
" According to the passage, Elizabeth Bennet presently: "
" The author of Passage 2 believes that the defining even in history of the West was: " </p>
<p>Anybody else notice this? Im leaving this questions for the end but to answer them you dont really have to read the whole passage because most of the times the answer lies in a sentence only and the questions are mostly organized in order so if the question:</p>
<p>" According to Passage 2, when the gold and silver ran out, the miners switched to: "</p>
<p>was the first question in the section the answer would most likely be in the first paragraph and notice it DOESNT have line references at all.</p>
<p>I hope im expressing myself lucidly as I find the critical reading sections in college board practice tests to be much easier because most questions have line references which makes it a lot easier to follow in a more systematic approach.</p>
<p>I cant really order the blue book because it would take too long to arrive for the test im taking in october, so what do you guys reccommend?</p>
<p>No third-party book will have as accurate questions or practice tests as the CollegeBoard book. If the Official Study Guide repeatedly features questions with line references and pointers, then you can rest assured, there will be such questions on the main paper too.</p>
<p>As someone who’s taken the test, I can say that my question paper did have quite a few line reference questions.</p>
<p>Also, a good strategy is to answer all the line reference and localized questions first, in order and just leave the general questions for the end. Once you answer all the line reference questions (in order), you will basically have a lucid gist of the chapter and the questions will have cemented a few details for you in your mind.</p>
<p>Now, with the info you’ve gathered from the line reference questions, their answers and having read at least those sentences once, try to answer the general questions.</p>
<p>The problem is that these questions that i posted arent exactly general as the answer lies usually in just a sentence and not the whole passage, and i dont know if i should do them at the end or do them along considering they have no line references but arent exactly " general questions" such as tone questions, etc.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t recommend NOT reading the whole passage. The thing is, even if there is a specific line reference, or passage reference… reading a whole passage will never harm your understanding of the text, but not reading some parts might detract from your comprehension. Also, NOT reading the whole passage will affect your answering of the general questions, EXCEPT questions etc.</p>
<p>Read all the question stems first. Whenever a line reference, passage reference, quotation is mentioned, underline* that portion of the text. Now, read the whole passage, but just skim through the non-underlined portions. Concentrate more on the underlined parts.</p>
<p>And as soon as you encounter an underlined portion, answer the question(s) linked to it. This will ensure that by the time you reach the end, you will have a thorough understanding of the text as you have already pondered over it via several questions.</p>
<p>Now, after reading the whole passage and answering the specific questions, answer the general (tone, purpose etc.) questions.</p>
<p>I used this strategy. It worked wonders for me and increased my score by around 100 points. I ended up getting 770 on the main test.</p>