Pacing while reading
Keeping Track
Keeping Track
- Check clock regularly
- At specific points (not every few seconds)
- After the passage
- After question 7
- After final question
- Answer every question
- Almost every question is equally important
- except last question
- First 2-4 passages - try every question
- Final Passage : Fast questions first
- Vocabulary questions first
- Skip questions that take too long
- Always mark an answer
- Vocabulary in Context
- Choose the synonym for a word or phrase
- 2 - 5 per passage
- Very high frequency
- Mostly about vocabulary
- Can sometimes infer meaning by the context
- Detail
- Ask about one piece of information
- 2-4 per passage
- High Frequency
- Find the fact
- often about one sentence or phrase
- Sometimes more than one answer
- Except
- Choose the information that is not in the context
- It often uses the word 'except' but sometimes it uses 'not'.
- 1-2 per passage
- Medium Frequency
- Answer by process of elimination
- Should be done at last (especially for last passage)
- Inference
- Ask you to figure something out from the text
- Similar to detail question
- 1-2 per passage
- Medium Frequency
- Purpose
- Why something is in the text
- 1-2 per passage
- Medium Frequency
- How it relates to big picture
- word
- sentence
- example/idea
- paragraph
- Sample question :- "Why does author mention "------- " in the first paragraph?"
- Reference
- Ask what a word or phrase refer to.(often a pronoun - it, they, that, etc.)
- Its not about meaning of word. Its about what it refers to in context
- 0-1 per passage
- Low Frequency
- Find the logical replacement
- Paraphrase
- Choose the restatement of the sentence
- 0 -1 per passage
- Medium Frequency
- Wrong answer choices seems almost correct sometimes, but they lose information.
- loose information(becomes to general)
- switch roles and relationships
- use tempting vocabulary
- Insert Text
- Place a new sentence in the passage
- 1 per passage
- Medium Frequency
- Best way to answer them :- use connecting word/phrases.
- Pronouns(they, their, he, she, etc.)
- Transition words(Although, But, etc.)
- Time words(After, Before, Finally, etc)
- Topic words
- Summary
- Ask about passage at a whole
- Choose 3 most important ideas
- 1 per passage
- Medium Frequency
- Unless you get a categorize question
- They are 2 points question (so twice important)
- Need to see the structure of the passage
- Don't choose the less important details
- Category
- Last type of question like Summary question
- Match details with larger topics
- 0-1 per passage
- Low Frequency
- They are 3 or 4 points question (depends on complexity)
- Need to see the structure of the passage
- Find each detail and match it to topic
