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

globe_trotter
Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:02:06 +0000

When I first started prepping for the SATs I used the B211F strategy.
1.read the blurb (B)
2.read the first 2 sentences of the first paragraph (2)
3.read the first sentence of each subsequent paragraph (1…1)
4.read the final sentence in the conclusion/last paragraph (F)

For me it worked well…it’s like a bridge between reading the whole thing and not reading anything at all; essentially smart skimming. It helped increase my confident in critical reading so that now I no longer need to skim at all - I just go straight to the questions.

Just my .02.