![]() Other questions may not give you a Line Reference, but may ask about specific names, quotes, or phrases that are easy to spot in the text. Many questions will refer you to a specific set of lines or to a particular paragraph, so you won't need to read the entire passage to answer those questions. Make sure that you understand the question by turning it into a question-that is, back into a sentence that ends with a question mark and begins with Who/What/Why. Instead, they will make statements such as, "The author's primary reason for mentioning the gadfly is to," and then the answer choices will follow. Reading questions are often not in question format. Once you've selected a question, you need to make sure you understand what it's asking. Instead of starting with the general questions and then answering the specific questions, we're going to flip that and do the specific questions first. When you're trying to get through five passages in just over an hour, you don't have time for that. That question structure works great in an English class, when you have plenty of time to read and digest the text on your own. ETS says the order of the questions "is also as natural as possible, with general questions about central ideas, themes, point of view, overall text structure, and the like coming early in the sequence, followed by more localized questions about details, words in context, evidence, and the like." So to sum it up: The general questions come first, followed by the specific questions. ![]() However, doing the questions in order on a Reading passage can set you up for a serious time issue. On a test you take in school, you probably do the questions in order. You get points for answering questions, not for reading the passage, so we're going to go straight to the questions. Notice that the steps of the Basic Approach have you jumping straight from the blurb to the questions. It will also give you a sense of what the passage will be about and can help you make a POOD (personal order of difficulty) decision about when to do the passage. Typically the blurb won't have much more information than that, but it'll be enough to let you know whether the passage is literature, history/social studies, or science. ![]() The blurb gives you the title of the piece, as well as the author and the publication date. You should always begin by reading the blurb (the introductory material above the passage). ![]()
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