<p>Do you read the passage and then go to the question, read a paragraph and then answer the relevant questions or do you go from the question to the passage? </p>
<p>What is your approach</p>
<p>I tried everything and finally decided to read the whole passage slowly (takes me about 7-8 minutes) and then answer the questions without wasting time to go back to the passage,except when I answer a ‘‘meaning of a word in the context’’ questions :)</p>
<p>I also asked this a few months ago and got 1 response that says to split the passage up (maybe into 3) and after every 2 paragraphs or so answer the questions you can. I got a 520 in october and now am scoring in the mid 600’s (although I studied vocab)</p>
<p>splitting doesnt work for me because i lose concentration.This is why I prefer to read the whole passage carefully,and then answer the questions !</p>
<p>In most cases I try to read the whole passage. when there are 2 long passages that are not the paired ones I start with the one that has more question in it. </p>
<p>However If I see I am out of time I tries the split, but sometime it is hard in the “infer” questions.</p>
<p>I’d say read the questions first, but quickly so you have enough time to answers. Skip all the questions that ask about the information and go to the questions that ask about what words mean in the sentence. After answering those you should have atleast a little understanding as to what the passage is about. Then you can skim by reading first and last sentences and some others. I wish we had the time to read the entire passages. =</p>
<p>I just read the passage as I would read anything, then consider each question carefully, but not so carefully that I psych myself out. Worked for me. I’ve never paid much attention to all the stuff about reading the questions first, underlining sentences in the passages, etc., but they may help some people. I suppose the real answer is simply that different methods work for everyone, so maybe you should experiment different ways on practice tests?</p>
<p>I skim the questions first for line numbers and make marks next to the passage whenever a line reference occurs, so I can answer the respective questions when I reach those lines in my reading. And then I read the passage and do the questions. I find reading the questions first inefficient, because I’ll have to read the questions later anyway.</p>
<p>~Hope that helps!</p>
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<p>This is the Barron’s 2400 method. I highly recommend it. It brought me from low 700s to high 700s.</p>