Information dense passages:
What do you focus on and why? What don't you focus on? How do you get through them without taking forever?
**If you are answering this after getting a 10 or better on VR, please say so! That will make your answer MORE credible.
Example from Kaplan's Verbal Reasoning Test 3 is placed way down on the screen (scroll scroll scroll) to avoid spoilers. (I don't know how to make text white on this new version of the website yet.):
...No one pretends that actions should be as free as
opinions. On the contrary, even opinions lose their
immunity when the circumstances in which they are
expressed are such as to constitute their expression a
positive instigation to some mischievous act. An opinion
that corn dealers are starvers of the poor, or that private
property is robbery, ought to be unmolested when simply
circulated through the press, but may justly incur
punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob
assembled before the house of a corn dealer, or when
handed about among the same mob in the form of a placard.
Acts, of whatever kind, which without justifiable cause do
harm to others may be, and in the more important cases
absolutely require to be, controlled by the unfavorable
sentiments, and, when needful, by the active interference of
mankind. The liberty of the individual must be thus far
limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other
people. But if he refrains from molesting others in what
concerns them, and merely acts according to his own
inclination and judgment in things which concern
himself...he should be allowed, without molestation, to
carry his opinions into practice at his own cost.... As it
useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be
different opinions, so it is that there should be different
experiments of living; that free scope should be given to
varieties of character, short of injury to others; and that the
worth of different modes of life should be proved
practically, when anyone thinks fit to try them. It is
desirable, in short, that in things which do not primarily
concern others individuality should assert itself. Where not
the person’s own character but the traditions of customs of
other people are the rule of conduct, there is wanting one of
the principal ingredients of human happiness, and quite the
chief ingredient of individual and social progress.
(FYI - This passage consists of one more paragraph of equal length which I didn't include.)
What do you focus on and why? What don't you focus on? How do you get through them without taking forever?
**If you are answering this after getting a 10 or better on VR, please say so! That will make your answer MORE credible.
Example from Kaplan's Verbal Reasoning Test 3 is placed way down on the screen (scroll scroll scroll) to avoid spoilers. (I don't know how to make text white on this new version of the website yet.):
...No one pretends that actions should be as free as
opinions. On the contrary, even opinions lose their
immunity when the circumstances in which they are
expressed are such as to constitute their expression a
positive instigation to some mischievous act. An opinion
that corn dealers are starvers of the poor, or that private
property is robbery, ought to be unmolested when simply
circulated through the press, but may justly incur
punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob
assembled before the house of a corn dealer, or when
handed about among the same mob in the form of a placard.
Acts, of whatever kind, which without justifiable cause do
harm to others may be, and in the more important cases
absolutely require to be, controlled by the unfavorable
sentiments, and, when needful, by the active interference of
mankind. The liberty of the individual must be thus far
limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other
people. But if he refrains from molesting others in what
concerns them, and merely acts according to his own
inclination and judgment in things which concern
himself...he should be allowed, without molestation, to
carry his opinions into practice at his own cost.... As it
useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be
different opinions, so it is that there should be different
experiments of living; that free scope should be given to
varieties of character, short of injury to others; and that the
worth of different modes of life should be proved
practically, when anyone thinks fit to try them. It is
desirable, in short, that in things which do not primarily
concern others individuality should assert itself. Where not
the person’s own character but the traditions of customs of
other people are the rule of conduct, there is wanting one of
the principal ingredients of human happiness, and quite the
chief ingredient of individual and social progress.
(FYI - This passage consists of one more paragraph of equal length which I didn't include.)
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