<p>Ok guys, I have been practicing endlessly for the critical reading and I notice some of my errors and where I go wrong. </p>
<p>Generally, when I read a passage I pick up specific words that jump out to me from the text and there is a parallel choice in one of the 5 answer choices, so I pick it, now I have been trying to condition myself so as to not commit this mistake however, for some reason it is very hard to do so, can someone offer me guidance of where I am going wrong in this. </p>
<p>Okay perhaps the MOST IMPORTANT reason I get questions wrong is because of the content of the passage, if it is science based,I usually get by with 1 or max 2 wrong, if it is a prose and historical, I get 2 to 3 wrong but by far the the source of all my dilemmas stem from art based passages: ranging from architecture to art movements, I normally get 6 to 7 wrong and I don't know what the problem is, analyzing proved to be futile because I saw a dispersion of random errors I would make; my theory is that I am not able to grasp these passages to their fullest extent and so with the premature knowledge, I set forth to answer the question.....wrong, can someone please tell me how to address these types of passages, thank you.</p>
<p>I think your trouble is getting interested in art. If you agree, you should read articles about art online or somewhere. Force yourself to get interested.</p>
<p>I know what you mean. I used to get a lot of questions wrong when the passages were related to womens’ roles in Victorian England. My brain shuts off. When you read through the art-based passages, does your brain shut off? Fight that! Force yourself to concentrate and to understand the bloody passage. Get your brain in the “zone”. You know, the same zone that you’re in when you’re doing math homework automatically and are so concentrated that you’ve lost the ability to hold a conversation with another human being, or that zone you’re in when you’re running away from a serial killer. Same thing.</p>
<p>Analyze the passage mathematically. Cross off answers immediately if you see words from the passage mixed up incoherently; those answers are for suckers. Cross off answers that don’t make sense, and (especially) cross off answers that aren’t supported by the passage, even in the slightest way. Think of your pencil here as a surgeon’s knife cutting off diseased parts.</p>
<p>Thanks for the motivation support, I do feel like my brain just shuts off and I am not able to comprehend to the degree that I am able to with other passages, the art passages anesthetize my brain, I feel the only question I get wrong now are the ones where it says to infer something, usually, I eliminate everything but a sucker answer and the right answers, and I always disproportionately select the wrong one because it looks so appealing, I have to realize that it has to be COMPLETELY supported or else, but sometimes, the passage makes no reference to any of the answers, what do you generally do when this happens.</p>