Wow, I never even considered the assumptions I made for E. I guess I need to add a new rule to my brain. Whenever new information is introduced in an answer, always test assumptions to see if different assumptions can sway the support.

I think so. It's a classic, so you really can't go wrong playing it. It is the poster child for "the real treasure isn't the ending, but the friends you made along the way".

The subtlety in 22 is just too much. I even had the correct expectation. I expected something like "if your endangered and they split you, then now there's two species to worry about". Knowing the answer, I can see why E is exactly like my expectation. But dam, you have to have genius IQ to see that.

I tried your method of only highlighting the first word of the new sentence. I think because of how short it is, it's easier to distinguish from names and short clauses that I might also highlight. I wish I you can highlight one letter. That would be the easiest way to see the breaks imo.

I use a very similar method. I highlight the key sentence in every chunk, and I highlight the last word and the first word between chunks to indicate the passage break. I don't switch color, since it takes too much time.

"Niiice, you wanna play scared guy number one?"

I think I get it. It's like the difference between a persuasive essay vs book report.

How does a caveman even know what he looks like? They didn't have mirrors back then. I call BS on the identification and empathy hypothesis. No mother ever thought, "Oh, I'll help my injured baby because she kind of looks like me". I'm siding with passage B on this one.

If the plot of Awakening is really what the video says it is, then the passage was completely misleading. How do you get "experimented with impressionistic methods to explore unrecorded aspects of the female consciousness" or "embraced impressionistic approach more fully" or "focus on faithfully rendering the workings of the protagonist's mind" from that? Are we even talking about the same novel? After reading the passage I was expecting some sort of master class demonstration of good writing. Instead, I get something that reads like bad fan fiction.

#feedback It was hilarious, because I was thinking the exact thing while reading. Do I need a sociologist to tell me that people influence society and society influences people?

You are not the asshole. Keep it up! The person who wrote this BS is the real asshole.

Same, that's kind of like what I'm doing right now. I am considering adding passage breaks to my list, because I noticed that you are supposed to have a low-res summary for each chunk of passage separated by passage breaks.

I just realized that I've been annotating incorrectly all this time. Instead of trying to give low-res summary for every paragraph. I really should be giving a low-res summary for every "chunk" of passage. Chunks of passage are bits of the passage that are separated by natural passage breaks.

Is it different in the sense that the main point of a spotlight passage would likely be a summary of all paragraphs whereas the main point of a single position passage most likely would just be the restatement of the original position?

How is a single position passage different from spotlight passage? Can't you use the spotlight framework to understand this passage? Let me tell you about this thing (stealing thunder). Here's why it's works (reasons 1,2,3,4).

Good old Mass Effect. If your civilization uses the mass relays, it advances technologically in a predetermined path designed by the Reapers, so that they can easily overpower and harvest technologically advanced civilizations every 50k years to make more Reapers.

I knew what it meant before even reading the passage. Who says gaming doesn't pay off?

Man, you are right that spending more time upfront saves time later on questions. I am blazing through the answers. This should have taken 31 seconds? Did it in 12 ha!

I have question about blind review. I've noticed on many questions in LR and RC such as this one that the answer is obviously X. Do I still need to go through all the other answer choices explaining why each answer is wrong? Or can I just do what you did and say because it's not X.

To be honest, I didn't even notice validate, but I did notice that the question said summary rather than main idea. I thought E wasn't a summary that covers all of the passage, as it only contains content from the last paragraph whereas C covers the content from all of the paragraphs. Is my reasoning valid or did I just get lucky?

People who write like this need to be shot! You know their only goal is to pretend to be smarter than they actually are. They pretend that their degrees in underwater basketweaving deserve an ounce of respect by making simple topics seem more complicated than they are. Their strategy is to go to the grant office to ask for funding and despite their actual projects are the equivalent of catching 3 butterflies, they pretend that their projects are as important as holding up the heavens by using complex jargon to confuse the simple minded. God, I hate these people so much!

Omg, no wonder I'm getting these main point questions wrong. I thought it always has to be a summary of all the paragraphs... Thank you for this clarification!

I see, then I guess I should focus more on mental mapping instead of worrying about speed.

Never mind, forget I asked anything. I realized that I made a common LR error. Just because a person believes A and you know that A leads to B, it doesn't mean the person believes in B.

I have a question about B. Despite the passage never mentioning medical textbook's need to be authenticated by the experts, can't I make the inference from the custom-made drawings that any drawings, even ones in textbooks, need to be authenticated before being used in court? I heard your answer which was "you can't", but why not? I would imagine that any evidence introduced in court should have the proper introduction on whether it is relevant and appropriate. In other passages, I hear "Despite the passage not mentioning X, a reasonable to infer X". Problem I have right now is that I don't know for sure which inferences are reasonable and which aren't. It's like walking through a landmine. Every step I take fills me with worry and dread.

Do you recommend marking the passage on the real test or the practice tests? For example, mark where the internal breaks occur using the highlighter option, or highlight key words or mark the location of the different opinions in different colors.

How do high scorers read? I read really slowly, and it takes me around 3.5 minutes to read a passage. I desperately want to speed up, because I often run into timing issues during the RC sections. For me, I hear the words in my mind as my eyes move across the words, so I basically "hear" the 2.0x speed narration as if I am playing this video on 2x speed. If this is not the optimal way to read, please let me know, so I can practice another technique.