LSAT Reading Comprehension Question Types Video Summary
- 00:12 – The nature of the questions will be familiar from the arguments section.
- 00:30 – Information needed to answer the questions will always be found in the passage.
- 00:44 – Questions range from specific to general.
- 01:02 – Dual passage questions are slightly different but broadly similar.
- 01:25 – Single passage question types.
- 01:43 – Dual passage question types.
- 02:00 – Recap.
“Macro” questions test general themes about the essay (we’ve reviewed them already in the 5 Steps section). “Micro” questions involve minor details or expanding upon them.
Macro Questions
Micro Questions
- Detail of the Passage: Direct Information
- Definition of a Term: Meaning
- Support for a Premise: Strengthen, weaken, analogy
- Function of a Passage Part: Method of Reasoning
Inferential Questions
LSAT Reading Comprehension Strategy Video Summary
- 00:05 – Instead of doing the questions in the given order, you should work from easy to hard.
- 00:10 – The Reading Comprehension questions fall into 3 major categories.
- 00:20 – You should start with the global questions.
- 00:40 – Global questions include main idea, primary purpose, passage organization, what would make the best title, and what best describes the author’s tone/opinion type questions.
- 01:00 – Second, do local, detail-oriented questions.
- 01:17 – Finally, do general, inferential questions such as, “What would the author be most likely to agree with?”
- We’ll be covering Micro questions in the next few lessons. These relate to certain narrow elements of the passage. The first is Detail of the Passage.
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