Doesn creating a road map of the passage waste too much time?
Creating a road map does not waste any time at all. In fact, when you get to the questions it will save you a lot of time. Keep in mind what a road map is. It’s a brief outline of the passage that will allow you to quickly find the information that you’ll need to answer a question. There are many details in a whole passage, but the questions will only test a very few of them. Without a road map, you will have to search through most of the passage in order to find the detail that’s being tested. But with a road map, you’ll immediately be able to identify which paragraph it’s in. A road map will also help you on questions that are not about details. By reviewing the map right before tackling the questions, you’ll know which part of the passage to refer to check your answer. One reason you may think that creating a road map wastes time is that you haven’t practiced doing it enough. You must do a lot of practice passages-and read a lot of magazine and newspaper articles. Each time you read
