Self-study
hey so I am starting to get better on LR however I am doing very poorly on RC. I have accommodations and am trying to understand what I am reading but I do not know what to look for. After looking back I got 9 questions wrong that I was between two answers and the other answer was right.
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Since you have accomodation on the test, try to pause at the end of your reading and check if you know 1) what is the purpose of the passage? 2) How many view points 3) What the author's viewpoint (if the author is present) 4) how each viewpoints are supported or criticized. If you don't know that 4 things then you can try to annotate the passages (ie, highlight viewpoint, underline examples, take notes on scratch paper etc) when you read the passage. Annotating the passages will slow you down for a moment but can improve your accuracy in a long run.
With RC, I find it really helpful to highlight tone adjectives that suggest how an author may feel or think about a subject. Understanding the author's perspective is crucial in RC. In passages where we do not get much about the author, it helps to highlight things like "So-and-so asserts that" or "Critics of X theory claim" or anything like that. I think keeping track of the different perspectives was a challenge for me, but RC started to feel more manageable when I noted down the different perspectives, whether that be highlighting or in a low-res summary. Hope this helps!