Lesson: Reading Comprehension Basic - 02t03

A Crucial Reminder

In our daily lives we read either to learn something or to pleasantly pass the time. Needless to say, neither of these goals has much to do with your task in a Reading Comp section! Which is to say that the Reading Comprehension portion of the test requires a different kind of reading, a more meticulous, focused approach that's so different from reading in the general sense that here we won't even call it "reading" at all - we'll call it "attacking." Learning to attack passages, questions, and choices is the goal of your CAT Reading Comp training.

What does "attacking" a Reading Comp passage mean to you? Think about this for a few seconds, and then click Continue to see what at CAT we designate as the major elements of the "attack" mentality.

Now think about what's involved in attacking the questions. Then click Continue.

In answering the questions, "attack" means

• recognizing and learning to deal with the common question types
• recognizing common wrong answer types and gaining the confidence to eliminate them quickly
• pre-phrasing answers whenever possible

These are the crucial elements of any successful Reading Comprehension approach, and we'll be touching on all of them in the course of this module.

Let's get started.

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