This is the second article in a series about LSAT Reading Comp Humanities passages. If you are reading this article before seeing the passage we are discussing, please read the first article in the series before continuing.

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Science passages typically involve topics in biology, chemistry, physics and medicine. Your approach in a science passage should not change — you still use the TestSherpa method.

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Why and how questions ask you about why the author used certain details or how the passage is put together. They’re structural and ask you to get inside the head of the author. The test wants to see if you can analyze the author enough to think like the author.

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Inference questions ask you to find the inferences and assumptions made in the passage. The main goal of the entire test is to assess your ability to go beyond what is on the page. It’s not unusual to face two or more inference questions in each passage.

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Macro Questions deal with the entire passage. You’ll typically get one or two of these questions with every passage.

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Law school candidates are often stressed out about the long boring passages they find in the Reading Comprehension section. These passages may feature unfamiliar topics, but one thing is certain: the questions will be completely familiar to TestSherpa students.

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How to tackle questions and answers on the Reading Comprehension section of the LSAT test.

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Since the LSAT Reading Comprehension section is like an open-book test, you don’t need to read each passage in detail like you would for memorization. Instead, you’re just trying to come up with a road map to refer to later when you tackle the questions.

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Reading Comprehension tests your ability to quickly read long, dense and boring passages and understand the main points the author is making in each. That’s certainly a skill you will need in law school. In this lesson, we’ll examine the TestSherpa approach to Reading Comprehension. It is critical that you understand the process and practice it over and over with sample tests. It is only through repetition that the process will become second nature and help you score more points on test day.

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While it is true that the best way to a high score on the LSAT Reading Comprehension section is to study and practice as many passages as you can, many of our students have told us that the tip contained in this article may be the best LSAT reading tip they learned.

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