Can’t Understand Reading Passages - Common SAT Weakness

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  • Опубліковано 28 лис 2024

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  • @Tutorllini
    @Tutorllini 3 місяці тому +42

    WE ARE SO BACK (my comprehension of UA-cam comments has tripled after watching this)

    • @SetteleTutoring
      @SetteleTutoring  3 місяці тому +5

      gotta look out for those Strong Words!

    • @jskakksks2880
      @jskakksks2880 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@SetteleTutoringhi sir I have an exam on Oct 5 I'm studying for a month I scored a 510 then 520 and I can't increase beyond that. I should atleast be able to get a 720. Could you please tell me how should I study and what to do?

    • @SetteleTutoring
      @SetteleTutoring  2 місяці тому +3

      @@jskakksks2880 Hi, thanks for watching! This might be hard to hear, but my honest opinion is that you should adjust your expectations. It’s pretty much impossible to improve 200 points in 1 week. Your goal should be to get into the 600s, which is possible if you target the right topics. Take a look at your practice test results, and I would bet that you’re getting placed in the Easy second module because you’re making too many mistakes in the first module. The Easy Module limits your score to at most a 620 or so. To play it safe, you need to limit yourself to 5 wrong in the first module to get placed in the hard module. That can be done if you are close to perfect on the grammar, transitions, and outlines. You also need to move quick enough that you’re not running out of time on the vocabulary and passages. That’s going to be hard if you have a weak vocabulary and can’t understand the passages, but if you’re looking for Strong Words and Trap Answers, you can still do pretty well. All the strategies are covered here if you haven’t seen this series yet:
      ua-cam.com/play/PLlvPF6rDVN_tZC7TZtEwOUuYWQ9ZfJKeF.html

  • @Garbgalaxy
    @Garbgalaxy 3 місяці тому +13

    Settele tutoring you are the goat and I tell all my friends about your channel I love you

  • @bestcetleeoku5172
    @bestcetleeoku5172 18 днів тому +1

    no bs wow man , straight gold . I saw a lot of my mistakes

    • @SetteleTutoring
      @SetteleTutoring  15 днів тому

      “No BS” is a great compliment! That’s what I’m going for!

  • @mickeyminaj2709
    @mickeyminaj2709 3 місяці тому +11

    THANK YOU SO MUCH
    THIS IS LITERALLY MY BIGGEST PROBLEM NGL

  • @nme4546
    @nme4546 3 місяці тому +2

    Can you make a vid about August SAT, what to do during these last few weeks, how to study, what to focus on for RW and Math etc? Thank you so muchhh

    • @SetteleTutoring
      @SetteleTutoring  3 місяці тому +2

      yes, I’ll try to do that in the next day or so!

  • @CalculusIsFun1
    @CalculusIsFun1 Місяць тому +4

    My problem was always the names. Those annoyingly hard to say names. My internal voice would get caught on them, and then I’d completely lose my focus on the entire passage. I was conditioned to excessively scrutinize names/remember names like this because of how my school teachers did English tests.

    • @SetteleTutoring
      @SetteleTutoring  Місяць тому +2

      Haha just watch more of my videos. You will see that I completely skip over anything that takes me any thought to pronounce. If you go by the way I read, half the SAT is passages about people named “Whatever”.

    • @lasfd6606
      @lasfd6606 Місяць тому +1

      facts broooooo

  • @AnneFisher-ok3oy
    @AnneFisher-ok3oy 3 місяці тому +3

    Which types of questions do you mean in this video? the main idea or inference or purpose ones? graphs/charts? I thought it's a good idea to make our own answer choice for the vocab and the transition words questions?

    • @AnneFisher-ok3oy
      @AnneFisher-ok3oy 3 місяці тому

      before reading the answer choices (for vocab/transition words)

    • @SetteleTutoring
      @SetteleTutoring  3 місяці тому

      I mostly mean any type of passage question. Vocab and Transitions sometimes are hard to understand too, but working through those answer choices would be a bit different. Dumb Summaries work a bit differently for those types, since we’re usually focused on just one word/blank. With the Reading passages, the choices are usually long too, so we have more filtering to do to find the right Strong Words that connect back to the passage.

  • @AnneFisher-ok3oy
    @AnneFisher-ok3oy 3 місяці тому +3

    great video - it would be cool to see an example from a test question about how to do these strategies

    • @SetteleTutoring
      @SetteleTutoring  3 місяці тому +2

      I have literally HUNDREDS of examples. Go to my channel homepage. Follow the link in the description to my strategy series and you’ll see the strategies in action!

  • @shadowrandom123
    @shadowrandom123 3 місяці тому +4

    how to improve speed on reading questions? i get the questions right if i take like 5 mins on each one but when i go fast i get them wrong...

    • @SetteleTutoring
      @SetteleTutoring  3 місяці тому +1

      Honestly, it’s all about getting quicker with the trap answers and noticing the right Strong Words. I can tell almost instantly when a choice has a trap. It takes practice but you want to train your brain to spot words like “most” and “similar” that might indicate a wrong answer.

  • @Steelxfaze
    @Steelxfaze 19 днів тому +1

    do you recommend using "the choices give you summaries to test" all the time or only when you don't understand a passage properly?

    • @SetteleTutoring
      @SetteleTutoring  15 днів тому +1

      All the time! Even when you think you understand it, the SAT often uses similar words in trap answers to lure you in. It’s much better to think about testing the choices so that we’re actively hunting for potential problem words.

  • @CCRshorts452
    @CCRshorts452 27 днів тому +2

    12 HR BEFORE EXAM

  • @haiyen-laura365
    @haiyen-laura365 3 місяці тому +1

    This is what im struggling with

    • @SetteleTutoring
      @SetteleTutoring  3 місяці тому +1

      It’s a very common problem. You’re not alone!

  • @sanwalkhan5074
    @sanwalkhan5074 2 місяці тому +1

    thanks

  • @johnlee0106
    @johnlee0106 3 місяці тому +1

    4:20

  • @Anonymous-jb3mq
    @Anonymous-jb3mq Місяць тому +1

    woah this prime nicocado guy is smart

    • @SetteleTutoring
      @SetteleTutoring  Місяць тому

      What is “prime nicocado”?

    • @WildForestry
      @WildForestry Місяць тому

      @@SetteleTutoring I believe he's trying to say that your physical appearance is similar to that of Nikocado Avocado before he started gaining weight.

    • @SetteleTutoring
      @SetteleTutoring  Місяць тому

      @@WildForestry Oh boy I had to look up who that is. Settele Tutoring - come for the SAT prep, not the pop culture knowledge!

  • @GvickKL
    @GvickKL 3 місяці тому +5

    i just took a practice exam and got a 670 on reading cus i COULDNT UNDERSTAND 😂😂

    • @mrloser699
      @mrloser699 3 місяці тому +1

      bro i got 380 i have exam on oct 5☠️

    • @1300gummy
      @1300gummy 3 місяці тому +4

      @@mrloser699bro ur beyond cooked

    • @haiyen-laura365
      @haiyen-laura365 3 місяці тому

      @@mrloser699 same my exam is on 5th October

    • @SetteleTutoring
      @SetteleTutoring  3 місяці тому +1

      Watch my video explanations for the test, and you’ll see how I manage things when I don’t understand the passages. You’ll see that you can actually get pretty far with minimal understanding!

    • @jskakksks2880
      @jskakksks2880 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@mrloser699I have a 520 and I have an exam on Oct 5. No matter what I learn or what I study I cant seem to increase my score for a month now