The Inifinite amount of reading in SCIENCE section!

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<p>For those of you who got 36s and 35s,,
HOW THE HECK did you manage 5-6 passages within 35 minutes?
Esp, for science passages, you have SO much to read!
I tried skimming once but it doesn work because for subjects that I am not familar with at all (ie. physics) I have no idea what they are talking about and end up screwing up the whole section.</p>

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do you have to be an expertise in sciecne or something to be able to skim it and get all right?</p>

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<p>Search the forums for more in-depth info. Basically, the passages aren't crucial to answering the questions. Rather, look mainly at the graphs and skim the passages only if you can't make sense of questions from the graphs themselves.</p>

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<p>I dont ever read the passages, okay that's a lie, but I 'capture them' like Im taking a photo I just look at them for a second try to cram as many of the words and process them in that 1 second so I get a general idea of what is going on then I hit the questions</p>

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<p>What I did was go straight to the questions and use the graphs/visual representations to answer them. If I don't understand what it's asking, I skim the passages to get the gist of the experiments. Move through the questions quickly! Don't freak out too much about specific questions - when/if you have time later, you can go back and ponder it. That's basically the strategy that worked for me...</p>

<p>However, some strategies work for some people and not others. You should test various strategies on your own while taking practice tests.</p>

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<p>I did the same thing as Generic Name and got a 36 on it so I guess it works.
For the second question I don't think you really have to know that much about science, because all of the answers are in the charts and graphs.</p>

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<p>Thank you 4 ur replies...
THe reason why I was worried about the specific knowledge about the science was that i usually freak out and don't understand anything on passages on Physics (i never took a class) ..
this forced me to read all the details in the passage all along n' waste so much time...</p>