<p>How do you solve them quickly and correctly? I'm speaking in a general term, like when you are taking the test, how do you eliminate the wrong ones and choose the right one</p>
<p>You don’t. It takes at least a quick skim to understand the tone of the literature. However, usually there are at least two crackpot answers that make no sense and can be easily eliminated. After that, I usually read 2-3 paragraphs or less of the literature before making my best guess. It shouldn’t take much more than that. The endings and beginnings are usually best for me to pick up the tone of the piece.</p>
<p>As for inferences, it takes even less. I read the indicated lines, then decide which answer fits best.</p>
<p>Yeah… Sorry I don’t get it. </p>
<p>bump…</p>
<p>This is what I do: (All the scores I list are from practice tests but I do keep strict time records for 90% of all tests I’ve taken unless I’m studying each individual section carefully to learn from my mistakes)</p>
<p>Before I begin each passage, I look at the questions and box the lines that they are going to be asking about. Then I quickly decide if question is asking for purpose, inference, description, or tone because that’s what they usually ask. The majority is purpose btw, though it could it be purpose for different things. </p>
<p>Then I begin to read the passage. As I read the lines that is between the box, I look back at the question and see what the question is asking. THen I quickly write down my answer/explanation to the side. For those, I have no idea what to write about on the side while reading, I put a question mark and continue on.</p>
<p>I then continue on and do the same thing over and over again. For the questions that ask for the definition that is closest to the meaning of a particular word, I circle and ignore it until I get to the question in my actual solving. </p>
<p>When I finished the passage, I skip the purpose of the passage and tone questions for the very end after I have a solid idea about what the passage is about. </p>
<p>I read the question, look at my notes I quickly wrote to the side of the passage regarding that question, and see what best fits. </p>
<p>This works most of the time. For those, I don’t get, I usually have a few more minutes to answer the question. </p>
<p>I score between a 650-740 range. Whenever I get 600s, that means I made at least 5 stupid mistakes. I made such mistakes because I didn’t read as much as I should have done to get a better context, misunderstood the question, misunderstood a particular multiple choice and ignorantly ignored it, or misunderstood the context. </p>
<p>My best were a 740, two 720s, and a 700. in which I was able to take out most of those stupid mistakes except for the ones where I misunderstood the context of a given line reference. This is a huge jump considering that when I first started, my lowest was 590 and had consistently been in the 600-630 range.</p>
<p>Josh05, I just want to say, your method is brilliant and I will try it out tomorrow. Thank you so much <33</p>
<p>Try it a few times. If it doesn’t work out at first, don’t be discouraged because sometimes it takes time getting used to new things especially under pressure.
4-6 times will be a good reference to see if this method works. If not, there are a few other methods I know that are pretty commonly used.</p>