Trouble with predicting next paragraph in RC

Bomhillz

There's a common questions type in RC where they ask you to predict the first sentence in the next paragraph (ex. PT7.S3.Q7 and PT1.S1.Q27)

I seem to be having trouble with this question type at a high level. What's the best strategic approach for these? And does anyone have a good resource for drilling this question type. #help

Cant Get Right

I really hate these. In an academic paper, you would have major problems if you were to talk about what the author would have said had she kept writing. Whatever they want though, right? Think of them as inference questions about the author's opinion, but with the additional consideration of the immediate context and flow of the passage. That's about all I could ever figure out.

goingfor99th

Yeah, these are tons of fun. :]

FixedDice

Think of those as MSS questions. What is the passage's overall topic, and does it connect smoothly with an answer choice? Personally, when I tackle those questions and find myself stuck for whatever reason, I imagine myself as the passage's writer. The thing in front of my eyes will be published automatically because I have a proven record of awesomeness. Would the combined result deserve to be in The New York Times (or The Wall Street Journal, or the Scientific American, or the American Historical Review, or the Harvard Law Review... whatever your idea of a fancy publication is) with my name attached to it, good enough so I will not become a laughingstock of the whole planet?

Take that one passage about medical profession from PT1, for instance. The passage is about how profession is a public act that requires character and so forth. "(A), handicraft? What are you talking about?... (D), there's confusion about essential characteristics of medical profession? You just outlined it in the last paragraph, you primitive dimwit!" You get the idea.