Timed reading comprehension strategies
Lesson 20 of 20 in Union Aptitude Prep. The start plays free here.
- Get information from writing
- Main idea: the key concept
- Details support the main idea
- 51 minutes for 36 questions
- Expect longer passages
- Keep questions in mind
- Adjust your reading speed
- Check every answer choice
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How the lesson starts
You read a passage to get information from it. That is what the reading comprehension test measures.
You have 36 questions in 51 minutes. That's about 85 seconds per question. For pacing, think of roughly four passage blocks of 12–13 minutes.
Then, in the full lesson
- Longer passages
- Read with purpose
- Flexible speed
- Every choice
- 2 questions along the way
A question from this lesson
A dense paragraph addresses the question you need to answer. What should you do?
- Speed up because the paragraph is dense
- Keep exactly the same speed throughout
- Slow down to understand the relevant material
Show the answer
C. Slow down to understand the relevant material. Slow down to understand the relevant material. Adjust your pace to your purpose and the material. A fixed speed ignores both. Speeding up because material is dense does not serve your need to understand it.
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Paid once, no subscription. Ask for a refund within 7 days of buying if you’ve done less than 25% of the class.
- Number series trainer
- Algebra & functions with worked steps
- Reading comprehension sets
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