<p>Hi,
In narrative passages, sometimes I can understand the main idea of the passages. However, I always got wrong in answering inference questions. How do you deal with these passage - your reading method and ways to infer ???
Thank in advance !!!</p>
<p>read the questions first -- and then read the text with the questions in mind.</p>
<p>^ I respectfully disagree with this advice. By the time i read all the questions and go to the article, i've forgotten what the questions ask, wasting valuable time. This method maybe works for some, but definatly not for everyone. </p>
<p>As for the narrative passages, the "inference" questions don't really make you infer all that much. The correct answer is usually just paraphrasing a sentence in the article. Just make sure you can find which sentence. Most of the time, the ordering of the questions will tell you where to look, but sometimes not.</p>