<p>hopefully we can all learn from each other… oh, and please post how effective your certain technique is, like appx how many wrongs you get in a single prac test.</p>
<p>mine: read psg at regular to above average reading speed. read question, and go back to psg on ones that i’m not 100% sure about, and hopefully don’t have to. repeat for all.</p>
<p>This technique is somewhat effective. I usually get around 7 wrongs in a single prac test (meaning 3 rc sections)</p>
<p>read passage as quick as possible. look at questions and look back on text if I need to. It has proven to be incredibly effective for me, but if you lose comprehension at fast reading speeds it can turn out to be incredibly ineffective</p>
<p>ya i tried reading very fast too, but i haven’t found it too effective. like i have to refer back to the passage wayy too often, which takes away the time</p>
<p>I’ve found it doesn’t work for most people because they lose too much comprehension, but I don’t and I found it works perfectly.</p>
<p>well how do ya do it? like do you just skim over it (natural fast reader)… or do you like just skip all the details, go for the gist…</p>
<p>I read all of it just in really really fast mode. I don’t skim.</p>
<p>hmm I’m not very good at RC in english, since its my 2nd language, and i got like a freaking 77% on my grade 11 english RC final… so like how do you read? do ur mind read out each word as you read the psg? or do you read like 3 words at a time?</p>
<p>i appreciate any help. thx</p>
<p>anyone else? bump</p>
<p>I read it at normal pace. You should have enough time to read the passage, and it should only take you about 3-5 minutes at the most. I underline and circle words that describe the author’s feelings about the subject to get the “gist” of the mood. I concentrate on the first paragraph really closely, and i concentrate on the first and last sentences of the pasage. On some hard passages, and in the two compare/contrast ones, I write a four word summary of each paragraph along the margin to help me concentrate. I go to the questions and answer the line references/vocab first… then i do the main idea ones… then i go back and answer the ones i skipped</p>
<p>for some reason though, i can’t seem to get out of the 730ish range (from the top curve of the bluebook, sorta in the 630-730). however this has improved since the stupid princeton review course, when i got a 580 on their diagnostic test.</p>
<p>opps i meant 680-730 range</p>
<p>I underline words and sentences that seem to be suggesting or inferring something. It’s sometimes easy to guess where a question might refer back to in a passage, so I make sure to take note of any sentence or passage that seems suspicious. (“suspicious” sounds really funny :))</p>
<p>On the sections that have two passages, i always read the first one, answer all questions pertaining to that passage and then read the second one and do the same thing for the the 2nd passage passage. Then I answer the questions that relate the two passages.</p>