Reading Comprehension - strategy

[gppa715]

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Those who have taken the Kaplan DAT course...

Did the "mapping" strategy work for you?

For me, I think it just consumes more time & costs more effort it's not really worth it at the end. I usually run out of time while trying to locate that "keyword" in the passage, etc.

What strategy works for you?

Any recommendation where I can get some practices done for RC?

Thanks !

 

[y0ssarian]

My inadvertent strategy involved misreading the info in the Kaplan blue book about the DAT breakdown, so I thought you only got 50 minutes for 50 questions in reading comprehension. It was a pretty cool surprise on test day to get 10 extra minutes 😀

The "search and destroy" thing works reasonable well for me. I hear that some people read all the questions before reading the passage, but personally I liked skimming for the basic idea of the passage (reading a sentence or two in each paragraph) before starting the "search and destroy."

 

[Sweet Luck]

what is the "search and destroy" strategy, can you clarify? Is it just reading the q's and going back to look for the answer, or is there more to it?