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Reading Comprehension might feel impossible to improve at. Either you read well, or you don't, right?

While a lot of students find it tough to get better at LSAT Reading Comprehension, don't let that stop you. There are ways to get better at RC.

The video above gives you an Introduction To Reading Comprehension. For more RC tips, check out the Memory Method for Reading Comprehension.

Material Covered In The Video

Active reading

• New, unfamiliar, boring subject matter and vocabulary
  • Familiarity with subject matter matters
  • Be well read
• Focus, Focus, Focus!
• Ask questions
• Piece information together as you read
• Use your imagination
• Anticipate the direction of the passage

How they lose you

• You fall asleep
• Referential phrasing
• Modifiers/embedded clauses
• Push back/connect the dots

Things they care about

• Main point/conclusion
  • Factually accurate?
  • Correct emphasis?
• Author’s attitude or tone
• Facts, details
  • Can you clearly recall the facts with accuracy?
  • Can you push out inferences from these facts and details?
• Passage structure
  • Relationship between the paragraphs
    • The flow of concepts/ideas
• Different arguments, different view points
  • Clearly distinguish

Miscellany

• So many words!
• Humanities, Law, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
• Last passage packed w/questions – 7 or 8
• Practice skipping questions for time
• Focus spending time upfront on the passage
  • Wrong answers are time sinks

The video was an excerpt from our online LSAT course. If you liked the video, you'll like the course. If you want to give it a test run first, you can sign up for our free trial.