Here is the passage we were looking at earlier Let’s tackle another question about this passage: This is an example of a global question, which asks about the passage as a whole. Thus, we need to have read the whole passage actively, and to have found out what the author’s intent was in writing. Fortunately, ...…
Lets try another question to see if we can predict the answer. This question states: The author mentions considerable improvements introduced in the baking and grinding in lines 13-14 in order to ________. Here again for practice we want to read the question and predict the answer without looking at the answer choices. Notice that ...…
Here was our original question: As we answer this particular question, lets outline a simple plan we can use for any sentence completion question: Step 1: Read the sentence looking for context clues. Don’t read the sentence passively absorbing information. Make sure you read actively, looking for things like keywords, structural cues, tone, and punctuation ...…
We have covered the basic strategies for analogies, have done several problems together, and have covered the classic bridges you will need to be familiar with for test day. So let’s review how you can optimize your score. You can think of analogies as a composed of a pyramid. Each level of the pyramid builds ...…
Lets try another question. Here, our stem words are meticulousness and selective. Again, you want to try to establish the relationship between the words without looking at the answer choices. Can we express the relationship between meticulousness and selective? Meticulousness is selective to an extreme degree. This is a classic degree bridge. Someone who is ...…