E is correct because it is not mentioned in the text, correct?
How should we attack those EXCEPT questions? It is a detail question, but it is hard to go back to check all other 4 choices...
Sometimes the answer is the one which contradicts with what is told in the passage but sometimes it's just not mentioned.
Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you
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Re: Q5
You're correct on all accounts.
We have to just get rid of the four that we know are there, and so that can definitely take longer than average. There's not a secret trick. EXCEPT questions are generally worse / more time consuming than their alternatives.
If you take a quick pass through all five answers, you're hoping that one of them strikes you as too extreme, unfamiliar, or opposite. In that case, you can hunt for the closest related wording and try to confirm that the answer is NOT supported.
Otherwise, you go off the ones you CAN prove are supported. Normally, one or two of them will be pretty easy to remember, so it'll really just be 2 or 3 you have to carefully research.
The only way to be faster at these questions is to be slower at reading the passage initially. That is to say, the more you can get yourself interested in the topic, the more you take your time to visualize supporting details that author's provide, the more you will have vivid recollections of some of these tidbits.
But the tradeoff there is that you're spending more time reading up front and potentially getting too lost in the details and losing the thrust of the Big Picture read.
So there's no magic solution. Your speed on these questions is really tied to your ability to be a human search engine and go hunting for keywords / your ability to create a vivid Passage Map as you read so that you have a head start in thinking about "Where would I look for that detail?"
(A) 44-45
(B) 46-47
(C) 2-3
(D) 54-55
(E) unsupported
If we take a quick 1st pass through these answers, choice (E) SHOULD stick out as a possible outlier, because it goes against the thrust of the passage.
The author's main point is that Tutuola is NOT a novelist, he's a teller of folktales.
So it would be surprising if Tutuola had turned folktales into novels. Also, the capitalized word Yoruba is very easy to scan for: it appears in line 5 and 58, so if you suspect that answer is unsupported, re-read the available mentions of 'Yoruba' and verify that neither one of them justifies (E).
We have to just get rid of the four that we know are there, and so that can definitely take longer than average. There's not a secret trick. EXCEPT questions are generally worse / more time consuming than their alternatives.
If you take a quick pass through all five answers, you're hoping that one of them strikes you as too extreme, unfamiliar, or opposite. In that case, you can hunt for the closest related wording and try to confirm that the answer is NOT supported.
Otherwise, you go off the ones you CAN prove are supported. Normally, one or two of them will be pretty easy to remember, so it'll really just be 2 or 3 you have to carefully research.
The only way to be faster at these questions is to be slower at reading the passage initially. That is to say, the more you can get yourself interested in the topic, the more you take your time to visualize supporting details that author's provide, the more you will have vivid recollections of some of these tidbits.
But the tradeoff there is that you're spending more time reading up front and potentially getting too lost in the details and losing the thrust of the Big Picture read.
So there's no magic solution. Your speed on these questions is really tied to your ability to be a human search engine and go hunting for keywords / your ability to create a vivid Passage Map as you read so that you have a head start in thinking about "Where would I look for that detail?"
(A) 44-45
(B) 46-47
(C) 2-3
(D) 54-55
(E) unsupported
If we take a quick 1st pass through these answers, choice (E) SHOULD stick out as a possible outlier, because it goes against the thrust of the passage.
The author's main point is that Tutuola is NOT a novelist, he's a teller of folktales.
So it would be surprising if Tutuola had turned folktales into novels. Also, the capitalized word Yoruba is very easy to scan for: it appears in line 5 and 58, so if you suspect that answer is unsupported, re-read the available mentions of 'Yoruba' and verify that neither one of them justifies (E).
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