自我激励的<阅读日记>

MillionaireCL

按照foundation of gmat上阅读篇的那个步骤来：
1) Make 10-15 new flashcards from Vocaulary of this book, and quiz yourself.
2) Read 1-2 non-Gmat articles using Stacy's instructions.
3) Do 1 OG passage according to the instrucions in this book, including reading all of the explanations.
4) Quiz yourself on your new flashcards again, as well as your flashcards from previous days.

Do this every day for 24 (or 42) days!

Push, push, push!

MillionaireCL

June 14th, Fri, am
Read article <Surveillance> from Economist, not difficult. 400+ words using 3mints. The structure of the article is very clear and straightforward. Didn't find the "BUT" part
Read article <How nails regenerate lost fingertips> from Nature. A bit difficult, got very blurry idea at the first read. Read summary at second read, a bit more clear to catch the main idea. "BUT" part: None of this will happen, if the digit is amputated too far back and too much nailE is lost.

OG13 Q11-13, 3mints. Didn't catch the main idea at the first read. Too much notes will not help for gathering information, need clarified. Second read, got the main idea, but still feel too much information.
Q11 (Supporting idea), Didn't understand the article well, also didn't read the question carefully. I should find the key word "cratering" and locate it in the article. PS, Crater:火山口，在…形成坑
Q13 (Evaluation), Again, didn't understand the article well. When the question directly ask something in certain place (like line25), find the surrounding information which is related. Like in this place, after line25, the article starts talking about Io, thus, Io should be appear in the correct answer choice.

OG13 Q14-17, less than 3 mints. Maybe nervous about the timing, I tend to read too fast, thus, didn't catch the main idea precisely. Slow down and read carefully in the first paragraph!! Usually the first paragraph introduces what is this article taking about. "TWIST" part in the last paragraph, some scholars have argue, but..(the fact is opposite)
Q16 (Inference), when "it can e inferred from the passage", correct answer has to be according the passage. I didn't understand the answer choice well.

MillionaireCL

JUNE 17TH MONDAY, AM
<Climate change may drastically decrease snowfall in Southern California Mountain>, from <SCIECE WORLD REPORT>
3mins, easy level, most likely is because I familiar with Climate change this topic. Although, still didn't get the main point precisely. TWIST PART-- climate change is inevitable, but our choice matters, it depends on whether we begin to mitigate greenhouse gas emission. MITIGATION:减缓平静
<First fluorescent protein identified in a vertebrate animal> from <SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN>, I started read from the middle of the article, therefore didn't read the title and first paragraph that did summary of the article. Difficult, 3mins only read about 300 words. don't know a lot of words related in this topic, thus, first read didn't catch much things. Second read, the title helped me to understand the main idea of the article. After second read, almost gathered everything.  (eel: 鳗鱼， fluorescent: 发光的）TWIST PART-- this is new discovered thing is totally different, you can't find anything that is the same.

OG13 18-25
Read this article before in OG12, still remember the main point, so a bit easy to solve the problems.

OG13 26-30
This article also showed in OG12, 2 mins read the article and gather the main point easily. However, I was super careless when coping with the questions.
26-- the problem of understanding the words "ARGUE FOR", argue for means give forth reason for something, which means "strength". !!!!!Argue against means give forth reason against something, which is weaken.
27-- I Understand the meaning of the question and knowing the answer but careless!!
29-- The correct answer directly coming from the passage! careless again!
30-- Arbitrariness, inaccuracy… these can lead to "a flaw", I thought "a flaw" is a too strong words to describe this situation, but didn't think through about other choices are all not correct. I overlooked the word "covered" in the answer choice I choose, which is incorrect.   

绝望的小老鼠

求指教！ 怎么读的那么快。。。就是一句一句地读吗？

MillionaireCL

绝望的小老鼠 发表于 2013-6-18 10:13
求指教！ 怎么读的那么快。。。就是一句一句地读吗？

阿我不觉得自己读的快阿，我总是电脑倒计时设定的必须读完。
按照理论来讲，第一段读仔细，后面几段开头一句仔细读其它可以带过。碰到however, but转折句仔细读。Usually, main point都在转折句上。

绝望的小老鼠

MillionaireCL 发表于 2013-6-18 20:53
阿我不觉得自己读的快阿，我总是电脑倒计时设定的必须读完。
按照理论来讲，第一段读仔细，后面几段开头 ...

哦，谢谢~ 加油哈~~ 期待进一步讨论~~

MillionaireCL

JUNE 18TH, TUE, AM
<Oil prices: The triple-digit barrel> from <Economist>
Not easy article, because didn't feel related with the topic. First read, didn't get the main point, but knowing the items of each paragraph talking about. Second read, knowing what is the article talking about, however still didn't find the main point. Third read, found the main point, but not sure. Need catch up this area, oil, economy, and world politic.

<Bioterror detection program comes under scrutiny> from <Scientific American>
First read, got the main point, which is at last paragraph and starts with BUT. This structure is very close to gmat reading, and I'm a litter get used to already. Although I didn't know much details about what the articles talked about. When there comes a person name, usually a long title would followed behind, skip this quickly, just pay attention on what he or she said/did. Catch main verb, that's the important one.

OG13 Q37-41
Long article, used a little more than 3mints to finish. This article has two "TWIST" part, in the beginning and ending of the first paragraph. At first glance, I thought the first one is the main point, however the second one actually is the true main point. Thus, need pay attention no every BUT HOWEVER part. This article is also a typical GMAT reading passage. Two paragraph, main point is at the end of the first paragraph, and the second paragraph corroborate the argument presented in the first paragraph.
37-- Still didn't get, why in the correct answer using "first", I didn't find anything about "first" stated in the passage
READ THIS ONE AGAIN IN 10 OR 15 DAYS

OG13 Q42-44
Short article, read in 2 mins. Also, read before in OG12
Q43 (Logical structure: weaken)-- Question ask about "human capital theory", find what is this theory about (the contents), and them attack the "contents" instated of "theory", in this way, it will be more direct. The correct answer seems very subtle, feel quite obvious.
Theory says: women's role in childbearing made them choose occupations that could be carried out at home.
Correct answer choice says: Women were unlikely to work outside the home even in occupations whose hours were flexible enough to allow women to accommodate domestic tasks….
Theory: women are forced to choose work at home
Choice: women were unlikely to work outside --> no body force them, their own willing
Thus, if "Choice" is true, then "theory" is false.
If the question ask "Which of the following, if true, would….", I need think all the answer choices are true solid evidence, make judgment starts from the answer choice, then see if this affect the statement in question. Choice attacks question!

绝望的小老鼠

你英文赶脚很流利啊。。最后一篇的if true would 题我觉得关键在weaken 上，找到要削弱的逻辑链，然后按削弱题做，后面答案说这是个结构题对吧。。。不过先从答案开始看也是一个很好的思路。

37题 请移步line 35 找 “first”

继续fighting，大家一起做进步更快~~~哈哈。

MillionaireCL

好的，谢谢指点37题。
我觉得阅读时心理得足够强大，碰到不熟悉的领域什么也不懂的时候也得逼着坚持往下读心理暗示自己“懂了懂了”
我的英文都很口语化，我要更加学术化阿。。。

MillionaireCL

绝望的小老鼠 发表于 2013-6-19 07:48
你英文赶脚很流利啊。。最后一篇的if true would 题我觉得关键在weaken 上，找到要削弱的逻辑链，然后按削 ...

好的，谢谢指点37题。
我觉得阅读时心理得足够强大，碰到不熟悉的领域什么也不懂的时候也得逼着坚持往下读心理暗示自己“懂了懂了”
我的英文都很口语化，我要更加学术化阿。。。