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16 Sep 2021, 17:52
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Hi all,
I'm starting to dig deeper into the reading comprehension sections of the GMAT. (with mostly LSAT materials) and I discovered that I almost always have no trouble with the "author's opinion" or "main passage summary" questions as I have no trouble reading the reasoning structure of the passage, the main points and authors opinion.
But I get detail-oriented questions wrong. I either:
1. find the wrong relevant text
2. didnt fully understand a piece of detail or phrase
3. missed a specific sentence or phrase within the article.
I'm currently putting myself under 3 min reading passage + 1 min for every question. (since I also want to take the LSAT one day) Should I start with a more lenient time? Or should I keep practicing with this time limit and improve my focus on details?
I'm starting to dig deeper into the reading comprehension sections of the GMAT. (with mostly LSAT materials) and I discovered that I almost always have no trouble with the "author's opinion" or "main passage summary" questions as I have no trouble reading the reasoning structure of the passage, the main points and authors opinion.
But I get detail-oriented questions wrong. I either:
1. find the wrong relevant text
2. didnt fully understand a piece of detail or phrase
3. missed a specific sentence or phrase within the article.
I'm currently putting myself under 3 min reading passage + 1 min for every question. (since I also want to take the LSAT one day) Should I start with a more lenient time? Or should I keep practicing with this time limit and improve my focus on details?
17 Sep 2021, 10:16
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Wrote something similar in another post, but try to adopt/work on a method that lets you more easily ABSORB the text instead of simply reading through it.
All the best.
All the best.
19 Sep 2021, 18:03
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Well, regarding 1, you don't find the wrong relevant text, I suspect. You convince yourself the wrong text is relevant (i.e., that the text you're reading does indeed answer the question that is asked). Probably somewhere you misinterpreted exactly what the question was asking, or you 'morphed' a thought that was written in one moment into a thought that would answer the question that was asked (when that's really not what was written in that moment).
3 often follows from 1. If you think you've answered a detail question but you've picked the wrong sentence as the answer, you're not going to keep looking for the right sentence.
Mistakes like number 2 are tricky (and this is why reading comp is one of the hardest question types to teach and improve in a short time frame). It's called... Reading Comp. It's testing how well you comprehend what you read.
Consider that for a moment! Consider the fact that every standardized test you've ever taken tests this skill... *What does that imply?*
It implies that people have different abilities to understand written language...
I never really thought about that until I'd taught these tests for several years! But it's... pretty fascinating, really. To improve on this you really have to dig deep--where are you misreading and misunderstanding? Why does that happen? How does someone who does not misinterpret the language untangle the specific meaning of the sentence?
Sentences are thoughts strung together with logical connections. The number of thoughts and connections **is precisely what makes reading comp hard or easy.**
This sentence is easy to read.
This sentence, because it has an interjecting thought, is somewhat harder to read than the previous sentence.
This finale sentence, because it uses multiple referents (whereas the second sentence only had one, and the first none), and because it has a second thought tacked on here, is even more complicated than either of the previous two, and though you probably get the main point of this sentence, the specifics might take a few more moments to really understand.
In order to improve RC, a student must do a lot of self-analysis on how well they pick a sentence apart. This is not just related to RC questions! In fact, many teachers think reading comp is the most important skill on the entire test. I worked with a student on a word problem the other day and the real 'sticking point' was the meaning of 'each member of the AV club sells 2/3 as many tickets as each member of the chess club.' It's really quite easy to misinterpret what that means (usually something like 'the AV club sold 2/3 as many tickets as the chess club'), but precise interpretation is key to the question.
Here are two videos that I think are good starting places for you. The first is a 'how to review RC and CR' that really gets you thinking about how and why you missed an RC question, why the right answer is right, and the wrong answers are wrong. The second is made for GRE, but it's very applicable. It's about interpreting sentences, and breaking them apart into their simple component thoughts.
How to review RC and CR:
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