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Hi, everyone, Eva here your last l sat tutor.
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Today I want to talk time management on one of
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the else that's most overlooked sections reading comprehension.
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Now I know a lot of people have anxiety about
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reading comprehension, but I want to assure you you don't
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have to be a fast reader to master RC.
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People who usually shovel with RC tend to fall into
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two categories that I see first, you might spend too
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much time reading the passage when you have to cover
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four passages in 35 minutes, there's going to be at
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least one or two passages that are out of your
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ballpark, so to speak, whether it's art, history, philosophy or
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something super science or tech focused.
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Now the L set doesn't want you to try and
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completely understand the terminology or the specific details of these
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subjects. What the test makers are looking for is your
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ability to follow the flow of an argument, even in
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different contacts.
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So when we read, we're gonna push ourselves not to
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fixate on pronunciation or specific terminology or even detailed sentences.
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Think big picture.
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What that might mean is, at the end of every
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paragraph, try and create a phrase that captures the big
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idea in your own words.
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Don't word vomit back at May that tells me that
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you're still stuck in the details.
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Don't highlight.
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Don't word vomit.
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Good phrases are going to be in your own words,
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because that tells me that you're picturing it in your
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own in your own way, and good phrases will link
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together to give you the flow of the argument.
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Let me use a quick, broad example.
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Let's say I have a four paragraph passage.
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Maybe my first paragraph is my background info introducing and
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setting up the topic.
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My second paragraph is my main idea.
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My third paragraph is a critique of my main idea.
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What my opponents have to say, and then my fourth
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paragraph is my response to those objections and maybe further
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implications of my main idea.
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Now that's a little more general than I would normally
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want to see, because I didn't have a specific topic
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in mind in this case.
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But did you notice how I'm not getting stuck on
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any particular terminology or jargon?
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Not even any specific details or sentences and all of
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my phrases linked together Now, this is crucial because later,
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when questions ask you about specific lines or topics the
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argument brought up, the goal isn't to try and picture
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the whole passage.
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When you're trying to choose your answer, we use our
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phrases that we created before a sign post.
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They're supposed to direct us.
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Maybe the specific topic in question came up in Paragraph
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two with my main idea.
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Or if I see a question that tells me online
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52. What did the author mean when they said so?
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And so I'm not going to try and just remember
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that I'm gonna go back toe line 50 to read
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a few lines up in a few lines down for
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context and the answer.
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99% of the time will be there in the answer
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choices. And that's the beautiful thing about reading comprehension on
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the else that it's ultimately a very safe section because
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the correct answers are always in the text.
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In other words, you're correct.
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Answer can always be tied back toe a phrase or
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a sentence or multiple sentences in the argument.
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On the flip side, if whatever answer choice you pick
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can't be tied back to a specific sentence or phrase.
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There's a pretty good chance that's not going to be
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your answer.
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This is where my second category of reading comprehension students
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fall. They're fast raters, big thinkers, but they think too
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big. They start thinking of the whole passage, and they
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stretch the text by saying, Oh, I could see how
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this could be true and that's exactly not what else
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that wants.
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They want you to stick with boring answers.
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What's in the text?
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What can you tie back to a specific phrase or
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sentence those air going to be your correct answers?
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So that's my model for the reading comprehension strategy.
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It's pretty simple.
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First, do a general scan of the passage and create
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original phrases for each of the paragraphs.
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Don't word vomit.
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They should be in your own words and linked together
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to give you the flow of the argument.
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Now, at this point, that means that scan shouldn't take
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ideally, take you more than three minutes, four minutes, max,
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because now you're not over investing in details.
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Second, go for your questions.
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See whether the question itself points you to a specific
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part of the passage.
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If it does do a focused.
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Read first toe Orient yourself because the answer will be
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somewhere in the text.
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Third, make sure whatever answer choice you pick is supported
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in the text.
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In other words, you should be able to defend your
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answer by saying, Oh, Eva, Line 42 or this particular
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sentence in paragraph three.
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This is what proves to me the answer.
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Choice C is going to be right again.
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The strategy.
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Simple. Scan the original passage.
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Use your original phrases a sign post to find your
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evidence in the Focus ST.
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And make sure your answer is always supported.
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The trick is to just practice until we start naturally
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coming up with our phrases naturally seeing the way the
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argument flows and making sure to prove our answer choices
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in our next set of videos, we're going to try
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out that reading comp strategy on a passage from the
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June 2000 and seven.
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All set.
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This sample prep test is free on the Internet, so
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if you haven't practiced with it, go ahead and google
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it. Now.
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If you'd like to follow along on your own, don't
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forget you can do this, and no matter whether I
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get to see when one of my classes or not,
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I wish you the best of luck in getting the
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score you want.