reading comp practice sets?

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  LSATisland Free Trial Inactive Sage

  February 2014 1878 karma

  I devoted one of my days prepping to doing only RC. I used RC from tests I had taken. Even if I remembered the topic, I didn't recall the amount of detail to answer the questions. So I felt it was still worthwhile drilling.
• Masterson Alum Member

  February 2014 edited February 2014 15 karma

  What really helped me with the RC was training my brain to understand context that is written in a language which is almost alien. Okay.. Yes I know it is English, but even JY in the some the videos says that they the RC sections are very "poorly written."
  
  What did I do to train my brain for the RC? Well as an English Major, I was required to take poetry and medieval reading/writing classes, so when I had to write an essay I had to really read poems slowly and carefully to be able to make an argument. Reading stuff like Milton's Lycidas, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/lycidas/, really helped because if I zipped though it I did not understand a thing.. only when I paused, reflected, and used my imagination to play out the poem is when it started to make sense. For me it was good practice to use those poems, but I would use them only as a supplement to the reading comp sections in practice tests.
  
  Hope this helps...
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  LSATPuppy Alum Member

  February 2014 82 karma

  Just tried to read Milton's poem really slowly and still have no idea what the heck he's saying. Something about him trying to pluck berries and hairy mantles?
• jrkovals Alum Member

  February 2014 edited February 2014 183 karma

  thanks guys. @ masterson, I'll check out that poem.
• Masterson Alum Member

  February 2014 15 karma

  @LSATPuppy - http://www.shmoop.com/lycidas/