reading passage tips:
- 60% (approximate number) of the text is purely filler, and can be skipped
- reduce hesitation; be more confident in your choices
- increase reading speed
- patterns/predictability is your friend
- parse multiple paragraphs of text simultaneously
- read as you do questions
- mc: either other answers save for one doesn't line up with the text or don't make any sense; or one answer is extremely obvious/can be deduced with common sense. You can even use your short term memory
- pictures: pay attention to the paragraph required; if it's positive or negative
- cloze: pay attention to the paragraph required; if it's only one word or multiple; if it needs to be found from the paragraph or not
- numeric numbers are easy to spot. if you don't see them, they're not there. I've never encountered a situation where a numeric number in the question is changed to letters, or vice versa