Nathan’s Class

Logical Reasoning

Test 131, Section 1, Q3 — Iceberg lilies

Test 130, Section 1, Q3 — Planning Department

Test 130, Section 4, Q3 — Music

Test 6, Section 3, Q13 — Trade

Reading Comprehension

Test 131, Passage 3 — Isamu Noguchi

Logical Reasoning

Test 131, Section 3, Q15 — Certain threats

Test 130, Section 4, Q19 — Griley

Test 6, Section 3, Q24 — Automobile

Test 6, Section 2, Q25 — Agriculture

Highlights

As we tackled Logical Reasoning questions today, we learned why we do not read the question first. If we are hunting for specific keywords instead of digesting and scrutinizing the argument holistically, we may confuse ourselves and fall for bad answer choices. Additionally, Nathan discussed why we don’t always need to read every single word of wrong answer choices if we make good anticipations and know what we are looking for. This isn’t a shortcut or a trick—learning to read and anticipate well helps us to gain accuracy and speed in the long run!

Nathan also discussed some useful strategies for effectively reading RC passages and explained why we do not need to diagram to understand passages well and identify correct answer choices with confidence.