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So, im seeing people saying that they are struggling with the RC section. And as you can tel from the title, I cant even spell the word comprehension correctly.
I havent taken my DAT yet, but on all my practices (topscores, qvaults) I have scored over 20 on all of them.
I can also honestly say that I hate reading, (not that I hate it, but would rather be chilling than reading), I never have finished an entire book for ANY of my classes.
Basically my approach is this.
Most questions they ask you are NOT usually theme based, or requiring you ANY thinking whatsoever. Read the first question. If it is a theme based question, or anything that causes you to infer something, SKIP IT!
Go to the next question, and most likely it will just be something you can find in the passage. Read until you find this question.
While reading, note what each passage is about. Whether you want to jot it down or remember in your head. I know for osme of my passages I would read the first sentence of the paragraph, if I know what the paragraph is going to be about and oyu know your question wont be in there, go to the next paragraph.
For example, I was reading a topscore or qvault that was on bacteria, respiratory system and some other stuff. Each paragraph was on a different bacteria. Catch these trends. If paragraph 1 is Klebsiella, second is pneumonia, third is x, 4th is y, 5th is z, and I ask you about bacteria X, you know exactly where it is already. These patterns save you a lot of time. Catch them.
Also make notes of ANY statistics that you see. On practices they like simply asking "What percent of this blah blah" and this way if you do see one of these questions, you can simply refer back to where you saw it.
Once you find the answer to your question, go on to the next one. If you believe it was something that you read about, then go back and find it. If its something that you have never heard of, continue reading until you find it. Keep doing this until you finish the passage.
Eventually you will have finished the passage and answered around 5-8 of the questions know generally where everything is in the passage, and should be able to relatively easily navigate yourself through the passage.
Another tip, is to save any theme based questions to the end unless you can answer them right away. Usually the "Authors opinion on blah blah" unless you remember reading somewhere something abotu it, skip them till the end when you have the best feeling for the overall article.
Also, I am a below average reader and not once have I ran out of time on the 4-5 practices I have taken. (when I was in highschool, i was in special ed english for the first 2 years, funny b/c then I was in honors englih the last 2).
Lemme know if this helps at all 🙂
I havent taken my DAT yet, but on all my practices (topscores, qvaults) I have scored over 20 on all of them.
I can also honestly say that I hate reading, (not that I hate it, but would rather be chilling than reading), I never have finished an entire book for ANY of my classes.
Basically my approach is this.
Most questions they ask you are NOT usually theme based, or requiring you ANY thinking whatsoever. Read the first question. If it is a theme based question, or anything that causes you to infer something, SKIP IT!
Go to the next question, and most likely it will just be something you can find in the passage. Read until you find this question.
While reading, note what each passage is about. Whether you want to jot it down or remember in your head. I know for osme of my passages I would read the first sentence of the paragraph, if I know what the paragraph is going to be about and oyu know your question wont be in there, go to the next paragraph.
For example, I was reading a topscore or qvault that was on bacteria, respiratory system and some other stuff. Each paragraph was on a different bacteria. Catch these trends. If paragraph 1 is Klebsiella, second is pneumonia, third is x, 4th is y, 5th is z, and I ask you about bacteria X, you know exactly where it is already. These patterns save you a lot of time. Catch them.
Also make notes of ANY statistics that you see. On practices they like simply asking "What percent of this blah blah" and this way if you do see one of these questions, you can simply refer back to where you saw it.
Once you find the answer to your question, go on to the next one. If you believe it was something that you read about, then go back and find it. If its something that you have never heard of, continue reading until you find it. Keep doing this until you finish the passage.
Eventually you will have finished the passage and answered around 5-8 of the questions know generally where everything is in the passage, and should be able to relatively easily navigate yourself through the passage.
Another tip, is to save any theme based questions to the end unless you can answer them right away. Usually the "Authors opinion on blah blah" unless you remember reading somewhere something abotu it, skip them till the end when you have the best feeling for the overall article.
Also, I am a below average reader and not once have I ran out of time on the 4-5 practices I have taken. (when I was in highschool, i was in special ed english for the first 2 years, funny b/c then I was in honors englih the last 2).
Lemme know if this helps at all 🙂
