<p>I'm having trouble with the reading. I mean I read some strats and it says to skim the comprehension, but I just can't do that. Like when you skim it, do you skip words or what? How do you skim the main idea? I need some tips!</p>
<p>you don't. read it all, it's easier.</p>
<p>how do you know what not to read then</p>
<p>you read everything, but look for key ideas. </p>
<p>Like bob and billy went fishing in the the rain and bob was afraid of rain so he decided to jump in a lake but then realized he couldn't swin so he died.</p>
<p>This is very condensed. But there are a few major key ideas here like Bob and billy went fishing -> Bob died. Then minor key ideas -> Bob was afraid of rain, bob couldn't swim. Then the middle action.</p>
<p>Ok, this was a horrible example but my point is that on the SAT you have to learn to read everything, but without troubling yourself over the text -too much- just make sure you get the key ideas and you understand why you went from point A to B. That's if your a slow-reader, if your an average-fast reader, just read the whole text and answer the questions dammit!</p>
<p>Take it from someone who does good on verbal sections, you don't need to read the passage. Well, if the passage is one of those short one paragraph chunks, read it. For long passages, answer the specific questions that refer back to specified parts of the passage (i.e. if it says in Lines 30 - 40, the author most appears...) then read the entire paragraph the lines 30-40 are contained in. These types of questions will never require any knowledge of the text outside of that paragraph. There are typically several of these types of questions in the passage, when you finish all of them, you will have gathered enough about the passage to answer the "general" questions accurately (i.e. the author's intent of the passage was to...).</p>
<p>From someone who does GOOD on verbal sections... wow. (Just messin The.End :P)</p>
<p>Personally I read the sections quickly one paragraph at a time. I answer any qestions that pertain to something in that paragraph, then move to the next paragraph and repeat. Save the general passage questions for last once you have read everything and they are quite easy.</p>
<p>To actually answer the question, skimming is reading very quickly and only retaining the "meat" of the passage.</p>
<p>Ah. I always forget that damn good/well thing. Oh well, that's SAT Writing material anyway :P.</p>
<p>btw I had a perfect Verbal if it makes a difference, now if someone would teach me how to do the math (670) :(</p>
<p>Math? Just practice man, perfect math is hands down the easiest of the three.</p>
<p>are you a pro reader</p>