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I'm having difficulty with verbal, I've been practicing for a while and I can't seem to get it above the 8-9 mark. I find that when I read a passage I sometimes get bored with what I'm reading and miss maybe a sentence of detail that turns out to be questioned. For example, I just did a TPRH passage about cacti, and one sentence reads:
"In some cases [the fruit] dries up and the seeds are allowed to scatter, but in many species the ripe berry becomes fleshy and at the same time loses its spines or rises out of its wool covering."
I think while I was reading this passage, I thought to myself, "okay dried fruit can scatter the seeds, or it can stay fleshy" and then I just neglect the part that tells us that it loses its spines if the fruit stays fleshy. I see that I neglect this kind of information frequently which causes me to often get the infer based on details in the passage questions wrong.
Any tips? A lot of the passages really don't interest me, and when the author's tone is more informative as opposed to strongly argumentative, I tend to do poorly as well. If the author doesn't seem to care, I don't really care!
"In some cases [the fruit] dries up and the seeds are allowed to scatter, but in many species the ripe berry becomes fleshy and at the same time loses its spines or rises out of its wool covering."
I think while I was reading this passage, I thought to myself, "okay dried fruit can scatter the seeds, or it can stay fleshy" and then I just neglect the part that tells us that it loses its spines if the fruit stays fleshy. I see that I neglect this kind of information frequently which causes me to often get the infer based on details in the passage questions wrong.
Any tips? A lot of the passages really don't interest me, and when the author's tone is more informative as opposed to strongly argumentative, I tend to do poorly as well. If the author doesn't seem to care, I don't really care!