<p>Hey CCers. How are you doing.</p>
<p>I'm continusouly asking you guys questions about my "problem".. I hope anyone can actually help me out..</p>
<p>So I'm having trouble in differentiating assumption and conclusion.</p>
<p>Whenever I tackle long-passages, I basically get most of "main theme" questions right. Meaning that, I have at least subtle understanding of the passage.</p>
<p>The main problem is, I always get wrong when I meet the inference questions or detail questions..</p>
<p>I know every single word counts. As you know, SAT test makers sometimes paraphrase certain sentences in order to trick us (hate them). Although the sentence is "paraphrased", the main theme that lies behind the sentence is same as the theme of the original sentence.</p>
<p>Ok, I get it. But whenever I think I made a logical conclusion and picked an answer that seemed like paraphrased from the original sentence, it's wrong.. Stupid explanation only says "this sentence is not supported by the passage"</p>
<p>Whenever I eliminate an answer choice that seems like "not supported" by the passage, the answer choice is actually the paraphrased one.</p>
<p>How should I study then? Anyone had a same problem as I did but somehow found a solution????</p>
<p>Help me out :( I need help desperately...</p>
<p>Let’s take the sentence:</p>
<p>All of Joe’s possessions are blue. </p>
<p>From this, wouldn’t it be logical to assume that Joe’s favorite color is blue? Most people would assume that. However, on the SAT, this would be an incorrect assumption because there is no supporting evidence in the passage. Joe could have gotten everything from a friend who liked to collect blue objects. Joe could only own blueberries. There are many different explanations for an occurrence like this. </p>
<p>This is the mindset you have to be in when tackling inference or implication questions. All of these types of questions will have answers that are still directly supported in their entirety by the passage. They might just be a little more difficult to find. If you find an answer choice that you think is right, look at every word of it. If there is but a single thing in that answer that is either not supported or contradicted by the passage, than it is wrong. </p>
<p>In Critical Reading, 99% right = 100% wrong. It’s not really about reading beyond the passage here, it’s more of finding what the passage is saying, and look for the answer choice that most closely mirrors the passage. There’s no surefire ‘trick’ to this like locating similarly phrased sentences or identical words because you have to look at the meaning of the whole answer.</p>
<p>thanks alot WedgeDawg that truly helped me alot.</p>
<p>So the only problem of mine is that “I cannot really think that critical when I read passages and answer questions”</p>
<p>I’m an international student. Thus, some of lines do not come directly into my head, so I have to sometimes translate sentences to understand them. I have just no enough time to be so ‘picky’…</p>
<p>I guess I need to practice more on these types of questions… Urgh… giving me a headache…</p>