<p>For some odd reason, I always miss around 4-5 passage based questions. They are almost never the hard ones, usually the level 2/3 material. Is there a specific approach to them? I'm aiming for a 770+ and usually always miss 1 or 2 in the vocab, so there's nothing to be done for that.</p>
<p>Since no one has commented I will offer my two bits of advice.</p>
<p>Here is my problem, perhaps it is yours. Whenever I look at the question, I am not as open minded as I should be. For instance</p>
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<p>Question question blah blah line 52-85 blah blah question medium question blah
A)Stupid answer
B)Looks ok, if I dont find anything, will chooose this
C)Looks really good
D) Stupid answer
E)BEST answer</p>
<p>Basically, I get so caught up on the “looks really good answer” that I completely have this mental set that it can be NOTHING else.
To circumvent this, I usually ask myself something along the lines of “Why CAN’T it be this one” and “Which one is supported most closely by the passage and NOT by my personal beliefs”</p>
<p>^ Basically be a “Devils Advocate”</p>
<p>It’s great to counter careless mistakes.</p>
<p>I do that. You have to do that for level 4/5 questions. But I somehow always miss 1 on a section, and it angers me like nothing else. I’m pretty sure there’s an alternative strategy with the easy/medium questions. For the hard questions you have to be ruthless, as they tend to be more “ambiguous” and “analytical”. The easy/medium questions are more “conceptual” and “direct”. What should I do differently with them to avoid carelessly missing them?</p>
<p>Every single answer is in the text; you just have to look for the answers.</p>