GOAL: 8 mins per passage

--gives 3 minutes for review

​35 minutes

4 passages
10 questions each

40 questions

Test Basics

-natural sciences, social sciences, humanities
-follows a basic "essay" format

​nonfiction

-literary narrative
-usually first

fiction

Types of Passages

-main idea is found in 1st paragraph
-each body paragraph has a topic sentence

​nonfiction

-focuses on a memory, character or single instance

-not usually in chronological order

fiction

The passages....

STRATEGY 1: POD
(personal order of difficulty)

-follow a more predictable pattern
-usually easier

STRATEGY: JIST

nonfiction

-usually hard to answer due to the structure or format


SAVE FOR LAST!!!

fiction

Choose your HARD!!

Within the nonfiction

the more interesting the topic, the better you will do on the passage....

So do the passages in order of your interests :)

​STEP 1: CHOOSE YOUR ORDER

requires the WHOLE passage

JIST-Read 1st/last paragraph
1st/last sentence of each
body paragraph

DO LATER

-gives a specific location to find the answer
(line or paragraaph #)

put a ⭐️ or ⭕️ the #

DO NOW

code the questions...

LATER questions:

look for key words within the question that will be EASY To locate within the passage!! Circle these words.

Main purpose=main idea (1st/last paragraphs)

Practice!