Map paragraph roles
Identify introduction, background, debate, evidence, criticism and proposal.
What to master
- Main point and primary purpose.
- Passage organization and paragraph function.
- Author attitude and viewpoint relationships.
- Explicit detail and inference.
- Principle application and analogous situations.
BoardQBank strategy
1
Read for structure and viewpoint rather than memorizing isolated details.
2
Write a brief mental label for each paragraph.
3
Predict the answer at an appropriate level of generality.
4
Verify close choices by returning to the relevant lines and context.
Practice focus
- Humanities, social science, natural science and law-related passages.
- Mixed question sets following a single passage.
- Full four-passage sections under timed conditions.