Chapter 1 Reading Comprehension

Section 1: One Principle

Section 2: Two Styles
1. Presentation
2. Argumentation
3. Organizational Structure

Section 3: Three Subjects
1. Natural Science
2. Social Science
3. Business Subject

Section 4: Four-step Process of Reading
1. Dissect the introductory paragraph.
2. Skim the passage and get the author's main point
3. Diagram the organization of the passage
4. Tackle the questions and correspondently refer to the passage.

Section 5: Five Types of Questions
1. Main Idea Question
2. Recall Question
3. Inference Questions
4. Critical Reasoning Question
5. Difficult-to-locate Question

Section 6: Six test points
1. Comparison
2. Example & Listing
3. People, Date & Place
4. Special Punctuation
5. Words of Attitude and Transition
6. Complicated Modifier
 

Introduction
Three-step method
Section 1: Subject-Verb Agreement
Section 2: Verb Time Sequences

Section 3: Modification
A. Adjective or adverb as a modifier
C. Clause as a modifier
D. A phrase as a modifier
E. Appositive as a modifier

Section 4: Parallelism
Section 5: Pronoun

Section 6: Comparisons
1. Quality Comparison
2. Quantity Comparison
3. Analogy

Section 7: Choice of Word
Section 8: Idioms
Section 9: Sentence Structure
Section 10: Subjunctive Mood
Section 11: Ambiguity
Section 12: Redundancy
Section 13: Awkward
Section 14: Logicality
Summary: Finding an error step-by-step in Sentence Correction
 

Chapter 3 Critical Reasoning

Section 1: Introduction to Critical Reasoning
1. One Definition: Argument
2. Four-steps process
3. Three-elements Rule
4. Two Traps
5. Five Answer Choices

Section 2: Six Types of Reasoning
1. Deductive Argument
2. Generalization
3. Analogy
4. Causal Reasoning
5. Identifying Assumption
6. Business Thinking
Section 3: Seven Common Fallacies

Section 4: Eight Types of Question
1. Inference
2. Assumption Questions
3. Strengthen or Weaken Questions
4. Paradox Questions
5. Evaluation Questions
6. Conclusion Questions
7. Complete Questions
8. Boldface Questions