In Critical Reading: Should You Read the Passage or Not?

languagefreak
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:11:07 +0000

I read the passage first and I got an 800. I love reading and read a lot, but I think a lot of the thematic elements and overall context can be lost by just searching for question answers. My friend, who is very smart, did that and got a 610. I then showed her how I handled the section (reading the passage first, then re-referencing certain sections according to what the question warrants), and she got a 730.