Reading Comprehension

• Read for the big picture, don't dwell on the details, translate ideas and terms into simpler words, ask "why" for each new idea, create a Passage Structure
• Use PS and keywords in the passage to find:
  Main Idea: What? The point or idea that the author expresses in the passage.
  Attitude: How? The feeling or opinion the author expresses about the main idea.
  Purpose:Why? The author's reason for writing
• Pay attention to soft and extreme wordings: some vs all
• Keywords: must, if, then, like
• Read the passage first, don't look at the question before
• Main idea or title should capture the whole passage, not just one paragraph
  
• Global questions
  - Use MAPs
  - Prephrase an answer
  - Look for a match
• Detail question
  - Use MAPs to locate the detail
  - Paraphrase and scan answer choices for the paraphrasing of the passage language
  - Read the complete idea to provide context
• Inference question
  - Think must be true (and are concretely supported by the passage)
  - Eliminate answers one by one using the passage to invalidate
  - (Don't prephrase)
• Distinguish between the author's voice and others
• Common wrong answer choices - out of scope, too broad, distorted details, extreme.