<p>I tried a practice test reading the passages in parts, didn't work like I wanted it to. I know there's a difference between expert readers and average readers, but normally should you be able to answer a lot of these questions without looking back at the passage, based on what you comprehended a lone? I'm talking about how it might talk about something in likes 30-32 and then rebuke it in lines 45 or something along those lines. Is underlining key here? I took the test at a bookstore so I couldn't write in it, that could have been a big factor. </p>
<p>Also I leave the Prose Fiction for last and don't have as much time on it and usually do really well on Social sciences and humanities, passages which don't focus as much on the entire story as a whole but rather on facts that happened throughout. Should I do prose first because even if it takes more time, I can do some others really quickly. But basically I read the entire passage quickly to understand it as a whole when I first start? Then slowly read the pertinent parts and incorporate underlining?</p>
<p>What I do, and I have found this to work for me, is start and work from the end to beginning since that's usually scaling my interest level. I save the prose for last because it takes the longest and requires you to actually read the passage. For the rest of them, I go directly to the questions and do the ones where the answer is somewhere in the text. I find the "key words" and look for them in the passage and the search for the answer around it. For the main idea questions, I save them for last and by the time I finished the rest, I usually have a good idea of what the passage is about. Then for the prose, I read/skim it and answer the questions as best I can. If I have time, I will refer back...</p>
<p>I get the feeling that stopping in the middle of a passage is like a car breaking and accelerating constantly. I've tried it and I Got 31 I think in June but I'm still not always certain, and tomorrow I think I'll try reading the entire thing really quickly and seeing what happens from there. I'll underline as much as I can but not too much. I want to keep going and it should take about 2 minutes. I agree with you on prose though, reading the whole thing is really important.</p>
<p>Can I just say that I hate the prose passage... I do the same thing as jckund. I read in my order of interest - which seems to correlate to my score on that passage - if you get my drift. lol. I had a thread that you can look at, Rahoul, that had a few people give their opinions on reading strategies.</p>