Reading Comprehension

Humanities, social sciences, natural/physical sciences, and law-related passages.

Arts, literature, philosophy, and the history of ideas.

It cues you to track interpretive claims, competing critical viewpoints, and the author's evaluation of a work or idea rather than empirical data.

Economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and political science.

Social sciences passages often present a theory or study with evidence and rival explanations, so track the hypothesis, the data cited, and competing accounts.

Biology, physics, chemistry, and earth science.