Ben’s Class

Lesson

What is Reading Comprehension?

Reading Comprehension

Test F, Passage 4 — Richard Jackson*

Bonus: Logical Reasoning

Test 121, Section 1, Q7 — Calculators**

Test 108, Section 2, Q18 — Grass**

Test 104, Section 4, Q18 — Publishers**

*Ben will record a new storytime segment and explanations for all questions.

**Student request

Highlights

Take small bites and chew your food well when tackling Reading Comprehension passages. The LSAT is full of needlessly convoluted syntax, so we need to give ourselves time to understand what we’re reading. Our first job is to establish what the subject of the sentence is. Only when we comprehend who we’re talking about can we begin to understand what they’re doing and why. We should build in pauses as we’re reading to allow ourselves to rephrase complicated ideas in common sense English. That’s what we did today as we read through a Reading Comprehension passage together. By doing that work on the front end, the correct answers to the questions were easy to identify on the back end.