How do you take on passages?

RahoulVA
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:15:46 +0000

For short ones, you always want to read the entire thing and then answer. But for long ones, do you do the same thing? Read it really quickly to get the basic idea, and then when you answer the questions, read slowly up to that line reference.

For double passages, do you skim Passage 1 and then read that closely and answer all passage 1 questions, and then repeat for passage 2? Then something I should consider, with the questions pertaining to both passages, try and cross out the answer choices that give wrong descriptions to passage 1(ie one answe choice is passage 1 is critical and passage 2 is laudatory, and you read passage 1 and know that passage 1 wasn’t critical, so you cross that off).