LSAT: POWERSCORE Bible Reading
Comprehension. Questions pool with
accurate answers, rated A+
The 4 Passage Sets: - ✔✔-1. Law Related Passage
2. Science Passage
3. Humanities Passage featuring Diversity
4. Random
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LSAT: POWERSCORE Bible Reading
Comprehension. Questions pool with
accurate answers, rated A+
The 4 Passage Sets: - ✔✔-1. Law Related Passage
2. Science Passage
3. Humanities Passage featuring Diversity
4. Random Passage, often Humanities related
When you read what should you focus on? - ✔✔-The Big Picture
How should you read the passages? - ✔✔-You should read them in their entirety and then attack the
questions
How to attack the reading passages? - ✔✔-1. Always read the passage
2. Consider the questions in the order given and return when necessary
3. If you encounter a question too difficult, then skip it
If you wish to do well, then you must? - ✔✔-perform with a positive personality and attitude
Intimidating and big words are accompanied by? - ✔✔-a definiton or context clues
Try to finish the passage in? - ✔✔-3 and a half minutes
What habit should you seek during reading the passages? - ✔✔-trying to figure out what is going to be
next
VIEWSTAMP - ✔✔-1. VIEW- Viewpoint
2. S- Structure of the passage
3. T- Tone of the passage
4. A- Argument of the passage
5- MP- Main Point of the passage
Viewpoint - ✔✔-is the position or approach taken by a person or group
Why are tracking viewpoints important? - ✔✔-Because they help disentangle the mass of info and you
are able to identify the different viewpoints
Tone/ Attitude - ✔✔-is the state of mind or feeling that each group takes to the subject better at hand
How is the tone/ attitude revealed? - ✔✔-through the author's choice of words
Main Point - ✔✔-is the central idea of the passage, or ultimate conclusion, that the author is attempting
to prove
The location of the main point - ✔✔-in most passages is stated in the first paragraph, however, if not
then it will located somewhere else throughout the passage
As you read you must link? - ✔✔-the author's conclusions
All paragraphs throughout the passage must support? - ✔✔-the main point
Passage Structure - ✔✔-the underlying logic of the passage
Passage Structure should be kept? - ✔✔-mentally
Sources of Difficulty: - ✔✔-1. Terminology
2. Writing Style
3. Multiple Viewpoints
4. Difficult Questions/ Answers
5. Order of Presentation
When combating a passage with a challenging writing style? - ✔✔-You must carefully read that
When combating multiple viewpoints you must? - ✔✔-Track them all when reading
The passages are NOT in the order of? - ✔✔-difficulty
When dealing with viewpoints, what is a favorite trick of LSAC? - ✔✔-to take multiple viewpoints on the
same subject but tweak them.
Text Based Questions - ✔✔-Questions that are based on info in the text
Types of Text Based Questions - ✔✔-1. Initial/ Closing Info
2. Dates and Numbers
3. Definitions
4. Examples
5. Difficult Words/ Phrases
6. Enumerations/ Lists
7. Text Questions
Initial/ Closing Information Questions - ✔✔-test makers will often ask you questions about the info in
the very beginning and end to make sure that you have read
Dates and Numbers often provide? - ✔✔-useful markers within the passage such as "before" and "after"
points
Definitions serve two purposes? - ✔✔-1. Clarify the idea
2. to test your understanding of the definition
Examples - ✔✔-explain or underscore the points they are making
Enumerations - ✔✔-allow the author to ex
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