Please share your critical reading strategies!

purpleacorn
Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:48:01 +0000

Skim, skim, skim. Think about it this way: a large majority of the SAT questions are line-specific, where they give you the line/paragraph/section they want you to go. If you skim through the article the first time, any important information you might have missed you can always go back and recover from reading the specific lines you need to a second or third time.

A lot of times, a lot of the details are unnecessary. Sometimes, all you’ll need out of a section you’re spending five minutes on might be the tone or one vocab word!