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Whole passage questions

Whole passage questions

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Whole passage questions

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- [Voiceover] Some verbal questions will test your ability to grasp the big picture of a passage or they'll ask you about the whole passage at once in terms of its content or maybe its organization. So in this video I'll talk about how to deal with, what I call, whole passage questions. So these whole passage questions are often signified by certain wording, which is pretty easy to spot. You might see terms like primary purpose of the author or overall organization of the passage. So obviously reading the entire passage is a pretty good way to understand this big picture, then however; somebody might read a passage and still not undertand or remember its big picture so later in this video, talk about a couple of techniques to refresh or get a better handle on the big picture. So, let's take a look at a whole passage here. This is the one I showed in the previous video. So, go ahead and read it and I will show you a question that deals with the whole passage. So the passage as a whole…

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