I am trying to understand how to tackle reading comprehension blind review and practice drills for radical improvement. I do understand how the memory method is supposed to work as a process but I need to prioritize or do something. I find myself alternating with speed reading and not fully connecting referential phrasing dots to meet the 3 (mostly ends up being 4 1/2 minted still) then getting a poor understanding of the passage overall. Or reading for clarity as J.Y. does in explanation videos, trying to mimic real-time imagination strategies , then killing more time. Both resulting in about 10 to 13 minutes per passage. Which one do I prioritize? Should I focus on better reading then time will automatically fall in line with confidence? Or am I missing the point altogether? #help Pleaseee. Thank you in advance.
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TIME: (Passages - 3:51)
BLIND REVIEW
1. shift - gender relations
Structure: change/shift in history | context
Transition: examples or support as to how this was produced in historical study/impact
2. impact today
Structure: impact
Transition: good/bad?
3. obscurity of gender
Structure: APOV/MP
B
1. A's laws
Stucture: context
Transition: impact
2. successful
Structure: more contextual details
Transition: relevance today?
3. momentum in art
Structure: more details
1. question - OPA cost benefit
2. morality factors
3. impractical - detection ratio
4. reconsider both
TIME: (Passage - 3:19)
BLIND REVIEW
1. question | OPA - penalty over profit
Structure: rhetorical question | OPA explanation
Transition A POV disagree
2. earnings over morality
Structure: OPA contd.
Transition: discrepancy/issue with OPA
3. consequence - detection ratio
Structure: discrepancy/issue
Transition: APOV/solution
4. alternate needed
Structure: APOV
1. FTP importance: Negro Units
2. diversity from debate
3. MP - impact
TIME: (Passage - 3:47)
BLIND REVIEW
1. FTP Negro Units
Structure: context/intro to key episode in history
Transition: more details into why important/impact at the time
2. diversity of production
Structure: details on what characterized the episode from its foundation to characteristics
Transition: APOV on why important in context of FTP broadly
3. impact
Structure: impact
TIME: 11 mins 17 secs (Passage - 3:53)
1. N.E. theory
Structure: intro/context to approach | theory defined
Transition: APOV. good?
2. A not B (not sufficient)
Structure: MP
TIME: 8 mins 05 secs (Passage - 3:39)
1. MP
Structure: context/MP
Transition: details regarding development
2. religious to political transition
Structure: premise/support
Transition: examples of political messages
3. foundation solidified
Structure: support/premise
TIME: 7 mins 43 secs
1. legal issue/question
Structure: question/issue introduced
Transition: what makes the opposition think patents are hindering basic research? reasoning
2. hindrance/threat
Structure: issue explained further/OPA
Transition: is fear unfounded? APOV
3. unfounded fear
Structure: MP
TIME: 7 mins 55 secs (Passage: 3:48)
1. quote
Structure: intro
Transition: who's saying this and why?
2. source
Structure: context/background info
Transition: why criticism of supposed legend? is criticism appropriate?
3. controversy
Structure: context/background info
Transition: did S. achieve later praise likewise?
4. S.'s representative styles, #1
Structure: APOV
Transition: #2 style
5. no tone
Structure: premise
Transition: #3?
6. 12-tone
Structure: PREMISE
Transition: MP
7. why deserving praise
Structure: MP
#12 I think the support from D comes from the third paragraph where the author says "two beliefs underlie this shift..."
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me too please
1. P's hypo & resistance
Structure: context
Transition: why did they resist? OPA?
2. OPA | discrepancy
Structure: OPA| discrepancy
Transition: how did P. go about challenging? what evidence?
3. P's challenge | rebuttal
Structure: new view/OPA rebuttal
Transition: P's response
4. nuclear reaction expl.
Structure: reason for long-held resistance
1. deeper representation of self
Structure: Context/MP
Transition: "theme throughout career" flesh out how career works signify this theme, delve into previous emblematic works
2. eg. S.M.
Structure: support/premise
Transition: other works as examples
3. eg. Manhattan
Structure: Premise/support
Transition: other example
4. less artististic > more ...
Structure: support/premise
1. N.Z. decline
Structure: phen/shift - source/consequences of change
Transition: impact/potential solution
2. potential solution - model strategies
Structure: potential solution/APOV
Transition: feasible? method? what exactly are their strategies?
3. division
Structure: discrepancy/crux of issue
Transition: how does potential solution resolve?
4. CGR
Structure: method/MP
I struggled between A and B, why is A wrong? and why is B right?
I would think A to be wrong because it focuses the blame on historians, which came from nowhere because the stimulus didn't mention; or even "some great scientists" we don't know about any scientist but Newton
I would think B is also wrong because it says "review by other scientists": i guess I thought other scientist reviewing never came up but when i think more, I guess it can reasonably assumed that if it is published, it will be reviewed by other scientists which is what would cause the advancement of chemistry but an assumption no less
#help
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Hi Guys,
So you know how J.Y. and other tutors stress the importance of doing preptests in a way that mimics the test conditions for the day of the actual test. In my case, I have to travel (actually board a plane) to take the test at a testing site that I have never been to. Has anyone had to do the same? How does one prepare for that in the sense of reducing test day anxiety, etc.?
#help #help Can the fact that the second sentence is an illustration of the principle lead one to conclude that it lends some support to the principle or vice versa like AC A suggests?
1. M.G. hypo | flawed
Structure: intro/MP
Transition: details on flaws
2. consensus agenda
Structure: support/premise
Transition: Flaw #2
3. views representative?
Structure: support/premise
1. stealing thunder strategy
Structure: intro to idea/practice
Transition: importance?
2. effective
Structure: MP - premise
Transition: but...
3. "spin" - pro/drawback
premise
1. why not perfume?
Structure: rhet. question/phen
Transition: explanation?
2. parallels - art
Structure: context/deepens paradox
Transition: explanation?
3. contd. - perfumers
Structure: contd. context
Transition: explanation
4. profit interests - answer
Structure: MP/possible explanation
TOTAL TIME: 8 mins 04 secs (Passage - 3:45)
1. Complex balance
2. analogy - language
3. continuous - relaxing
BLIND REVIEW
1. complex-organized balance
Structure: MP
Transition: support...examples in music
2. analogy - language
Structure: support for idea of complexity being essential
Transition: more support
3. continuous = relax!
Structure: support for coherence being essential
Cookie Cutter - to persuade, hypothesis - support?
1. natural selection S.C.
2. discrepancy
3. eg. random neutral mutations
4. eg. dinosaurs
Passage - 3:50 = 7 mins 54 secs
BLIND REVIEW
1. OPA - natural selection
Structure: OPA / context
Transition: A POV wrong
2. discrepancy
Structure: MP
Transition: Support? Examples in nature?
3. neutral adaptations
Structure: support - part 1 of MP
Transition: implications
4. nonconforming eg. - dinosaurs
Structure: support - part 2 of MP
1. "grand theories"
Structure: Intro/context
Transition: why quotations around it? not as encompassing as it seems?
2. potential not achieved
Structure: discrepancy
Transition: solution?
3. appeal
Structure: why popular
Transition: solution
4. potential solution
Structure: MP
So I am have a simple/lazy issue. How do you guys set up your rules and game board. Do you do it like J.Y. says "next to the questions? Or other wise. Becasue we talk about having extra space below for drawing game boards but then it will not be next to each question. Also, if I write lawgic rules and original game boards below the rules on the first page, then after the first question I am constantly flipping back-and forth which makes me lazily try to just remember rules in my head to save time and that means I am not checking off/blocking rules as I make inferences on each question (sometimes missing a rule and spending more time eventually on questions). I started writing my rules on the back page instead with most of the questions and flipping back-and-forth only to translate rules and do the first question. What have you been doing? Or is this inevitable?
1. lack of definition
2. ROMA
BLIND REVIEW
1. lack of definition
Structure: context/background info
Transition: issue? why is this the state of affairs?
2. problematic - ROMA
Structure: discrepancy.issue with traditional approach or definition for these concepts | MP
1. "nature protection"
2. bias
BLIND REVIEW
1. P.L. rhetoric
Structure: context
Transition: APOV/MP
2. incentive
Structure: MP/APOV
1. phen
2. coping
TIME Total - 10 mins 33 secs (Passage - 4:21)
BLIND REVIEW
1. P.L. Phenomenon
Structure: context/background info on issue
Transition: future research/implications
2. control
Structure: potential solution
Transition: MP
AC D "this is a cookie cutter but not the cookie from which this argument is cut" LOL , I hope this gets out of my head for the next flaw question I see
I just am stuck between C & D.. I think both of them answer why the author thinks the question is imprecise? What am I missing? #help
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I have been looking at this question for a while and A, B, C appeared correct at first. I narrowed it down to C because it seemed like he was mocking and taunting the opposing view as to suggest their report ludicrous, an appeal to emotion. I ruled out A and B because although true, that did not seem like the main method of reasoning he was using. Now that I know B is in fact the correct answer, I have eliminated A & C on the grounds that they are referring to context parts and the major premise "could not imagine any senator..." seems to imply Answer choice B more closely ...What do you guys think?
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1. steele confirmation?
2. how?
3. virus transmission
4. signature | OPA
TIME (Passage - 3:19)
BLIND REVIEW
1. Steele's immune mechanism
Structure: context/MP
Transition: more details about the mechanism steele claims to help support L's theory
2. R-DNA mutation
Structure: OPA Premise
Transition: how does this mutation figure into L's hypo?
3. virus transmission hypo
Structure: OPA support
Transition: plausible? APOV
4. patterns evidence | opposition
Structure: OPA conclusion/opposition
Very difficult for me to see a cookie cutter structure here