Today, due to unemployment, many people are going back to school, which are mainly graduate schools. Accordingly, since the achievement of academic skills depend highly on reading skills, making use of those skills while reading.
For me, as I am an undergraduate student, I'm preparing for admission to law schoo, which requires an LSAT(Law Scholastic Aptitude Test) score. When studying for this exam, I come across pretty difficult vocabulary words, especially implemented in the RC(Reading Comprehension) section.
Thus, I have utilized and always utilize strategies that I'm learning in this class. I use skills, such as recognizing words in context and drawing inference. As I read long passages, it's sometimes an arduous task to know every single word in detail. Therefore, I try to make the best sense out of an unfamiliar word by looking at it in context with other sentences or phrases. Moreover, I try to draw inferences from the given information from the passage, since there are some questions that actually ask me to make some inferences based on the passage.
Conversely, I almost never use skills, such as retrieving material from long-term memory or categorizing words and clauses. The main reason for this is that it is not such a practical method to retrieve material from the long-term memory at the same time I'm reading the text or passage. Rather, I have to use certain strategies to go back to the passage to retrieve specific information that I had forgotten as a short-term memory. Moreover, categorizing words and clauses takes a long time for me to make use of it. For instance, it's not probable for me to distinguish formal aspects while I'm reading about certain spheres that may be considered odd to me.
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