Reading Comp Flashcards
Why a flyover?
To get you in the mindset for the questions.
How can one improve creating tentative summary?
Practice
A tentative summary can help you to…
Be able to eliminate a number of choices that are immediately contrary to the summary.
The opening and ending are likely to contain what ideas?
The main ideas of the paragraphs.
What should be done to the main ideas of the paragraph?
They should be tagged.
You should always try and go back to…
Confirm the answer.
How do you implement kitchen logic?
By describing the passage to someone who never read it.
For questions asking about the author’s emotions…
Find words in the passage that are adjectives describing emotions.
Questions about emotions can be answered one way by…
Simply by going through and circling all the adjectives in the passage without looking at anything else most questions can be answered.
Another way to answer questions about emotion is to
Arrange all of the answer choices in the list going from most negative to most positive
By ordering all of the adjectives (descending or ascending) order you can…
Avoid overlooking the right answer
What is one strategy for finding keywords?
Look for keywords in the question or answer choices that are likely to stand out in the passage (and will Enable you to narrow your search)
Once you find a particular of the passage that either has the exact word repeated or a synonym of the keyword you…
You have probably identified the particular part of the passage that will contain the support needed to correctly answer the question (and give you confidence)
A number of questions become easier when you…
…when you place yourself into the mind of the author.
If you take on the opinions that the author has as your own …
Then it becomes easy to answer questions that would be easy for the author to answer.
