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364578829There are three different kinds of nonfiction passages...
364578830social science, humanities and natural science...
364578831There is one prose fiction passage...
364578832usually an excerpt from a book...
364578833Use the four step method when reading a passage....
3645788341. underline lead words in the questions...
3645788352. skim the passage looking for those same lead words that were in the questions...
364578836There are 40 questions...
36457883710 on each page...
3645788381. Read the introductory paragraph and have an overall understanding of what the selection is about...
3645788392. Specific questions find lead/key/details word from questions in the passage...
3645788403. Find the lead/key/details words in the passage...
3645788414. Underline new-unusual vocabulary and know what it means in context...
3645788425. Inference questions...
3645788436. Big picture questions...
364578844Mindset- know where the passage is going...
364578845what is the passage about?...
364578846make a road map using the ABCs of reading...
364578847Abbriveiate margin - notes...
3645788482-3 words about the passage...
364578849Kaplan review...
364578850Locate key-lead words in the question...
364578851preread skim the passage underline lead words...
364578852consider the question stem understand the questions...
364578853refer to the passage and locate lead-key words in the question and the passage...

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