Hey guys, is it just me, or is Topscore reading, really easy? I just took a practice test, and the questions were so...direct. Should I expect this on test day..i hope i hope, or is the actual dat more difficult?
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Hey Dr.Babyface
I scored 25's on TOPSCORE, got 20 on the real thing, its alot harder than Topscore but not so hard you can't do good. I had to read most of my articles as they weren't direct answers you could just find. They would change the words around, I think they do that so you can't use the quick search method, i just finished right on time. I highly suggest you to read articles on the comp screen. I did research this past summer so I had to read alot of abstracts on the computer, that itself is the only reason why I got a 20 I think, because when you have to read so many abstracts it gets boring, but you get better at absorbing stuff. Hope that helps, gluck!
I scored 25's on TOPSCORE, got 20 on the real thing, its alot harder than Topscore but not so hard you can't do good. I had to read most of my articles as they weren't direct answers you could just find. They would change the words around, I think they do that so you can't use the quick search method, i just finished right on time. I highly suggest you to read articles on the comp screen. I did research this past summer so I had to read alot of abstracts on the computer, that itself is the only reason why I got a 20 I think, because when you have to read so many abstracts it gets boring, but you get better at absorbing stuff. Hope that helps, gluck!
I got 20-23 on TS and Kaplan Reading but ended up with 27 on the real deal. The questions were harder on the real thing but the passages were easier to understand and the paragraphs were shorter. I recall some questions asking for the author's tone but the answers were so obvious that you wouldn't even need to read the passage. For example...what is the author's tone. The choices were detached, pessimistic, cynical or hopeful. The answer was hopeful since the other choices were too extreme. I don't think ADA wants to offend anyone with negative tones.
I agree with miravyn. I scored better on the real thing than on my practice. The passages were easier to read than the practice passages I've done; most of the paragraphs were fairly short. The real questions required a bit more thought than topscore's questions. The "author's tone"-type questions weren't very bad, since usually only one answer made sense.
