how do you tackle long reading passages?

Dru2k5
Fri, 06 May 2005 03:08:21 +0000

i do it PrincetonReview style. read the first paragraph and last paragraph. hit up the questions and read five lines before the reference line, and five lines after the reference line. repeat for every question. return and finish the questions that summarize the whole passage. i end up having 10 minutes left to go back and check answers. i get like 90%+ on critical reading doing this. when i’m done with the test…i don’t remember a lick about the passages at all because i just use them to find the answers…don’t even bother understanding them. also before you test make sure you can identify literary terms (simile,metaphor,analogy,personification, litote, blah blah. google literary terms)