Reading Flashcards
Your reasoning skills should apply to:
Determine main ideas
-Locate and determine significant details
- Make comparisons
-understand cause-and-effect relationships
- Determine the meaning of context dependent words, phrases, and sentences.
- Draw generalizations
- Analize the authors voice or method
How do you map questions?
Underline keywords
Star reference questions
What is the 6 step approach to the reading sections?
- Preview. Map questions.
- Read for a few minutes only.
- Select questions by their apparent difficulty.
- Read what you need from the question. (5-10 lines)
- Predict the answer
- Process of elimination
What should you practice reading beforehand?
Fiction and non-fiction
News articles
Intellectual magazines
Scholarly articles
How to read:
To intelligently skim through a text, you can follow these steps:
- Preview the text: Quickly read the title, headings, subheadings, and any highlighted or bolded text. This will give you an overview of the main topics covered in the text.
- Read the introductory and concluding paragraphs: These sections often provide a summary or main points of the text. Skim these paragraphs to get a sense of the overall argument or message.
- Focus on topic sentences: Topic sentences are usually found at the beginning of paragraphs and provide a summary or main idea of the content in that paragraph. Skim through the topic sentences to understand the main points without delving into the details.
- Look for keywords and phrases: Scan the text to identify keywords, phrases, or words in bold or italics. These are often significant in conveying key concepts or ideas. Paying attention to them can give you a deeper understanding without reading the entire text.
- Use visual aids: Graphs, charts, tables, or illustrations can offer a visual representation of information and may be quicker to interpret than dense paragraphs. Look for visual aids and extract the main points they are conveying.
- Utilize the conclusion or summary section: If the text includes a conclusion or summary section, read it to grasp the main points. This will help you understand the most crucial information without diving into all the details.
- Skim individual paragraphs: Instead of reading every word, focus on the first and last sentence of each paragraph. This will often provide a summary of the main idea or argument in that paragraph.
- Practice active reading: Skimming involves being actively engaged with the text. Ask yourself questions while skimming and look for answers as you skim through the content. This will help you retain more information.
Remember, skimming is a technique to quickly gather the main ideas without extensive reading. If you find a section that requires in-depth understanding or piques your interest, it’s always beneficial to slow down and read that part more thoroughly.
Cause-effect transitions
Because
Since
So
Conclusive transitions
Consequently
In other words
That is
Therefore
Thus
Contradicting part transitions
Although
But
Even though
However
Nevertheless
On the other hand
Rather
Yet
What to underline:
Transitions
Modifiers
Topic sentences
Key terms
Comparison passage strategy
Read one passage at a time, answering questions as you go.
Note similarities and differences.
Pay attention to headers
Find the golden thread
Main idea question strategies
Reread the first and last sentence of each paragraph.
Summarize.
Eliminate answer choices that have a bad spot, are vague, or narrow-minded.
Trap answer choices:
Too extreme.
Contradictory.
Unmentioned.
Irrelevant.
Rotten spot.
What to read for:
- Main idea
- Timeline
- Relationships
- Tone
- Key terms
Line-referenced questions
The answer is always in the line referenced.
Read the lines above and below the line referenced
