"The passage provides info to answer which one of them" Qs

[ganbayou]

How do we go back to the passage to find the answer for this?
Do you answer those questions by memory?
Should we read answer choices beforehand if we want to read questions first?
(since modern RC requires more active reading I thought reading questions first would be helpful?)

[ohthatpatrick]

These are definitely among the more annoying types of questions.

They normally do NOT test main ideas, so you won't usually remember the answer from the first read. And all five answer choices usually come from different parts of the passage, so you have to do a lot of hunting.

I would DEFINITELY not try reading these before reading the passage. They're not important questions. Four of them are total garbage. And people have enough on their plate just trying to make sure they correctly solve the author's purpose / tone / main point / structure on the first read.

I will take a first pass through the choices to see which ones sound too strong or specific.
(A) Was Catherine Jackson the first person who ever used mathematics to inform her cross examination?
(B) How many similarities are there between Aristotle's philosophy on law and Aristotle's philosophy on math?

Then I'll just research the 2 or 3 that sound most plausible.

Correct answers are probably more likely to ask a question that has a qualitative answer, questions like "how / why / what are some of".

Incorrect answers I think tend to dwell more in the binary / quantitative realm. "Is this idea true?" "What is the number?"

But all of these thoughts / tactics don't change the fact that this question type is among the most annoying and will often take longer than average for people to finish.

[ganbayou]

Thanks for your reply.
So do you read/skim the whole passage again to find the answer?
If we do not have time then maybe this is the question to skip right?