Thursday, June 28, 2012

Pretest

I know that this won't be a factor in taking the test for real, but I'll say that I found it annoying to have to scroll up and down several pages just to look back at the text in answering a question.Otherwise, I found the test a good way to practice and to learn what I need more help on. I knew, of course, that reading comprehension of poems wasn't my best point, and that there were usually poems on reading comprehension sections, but I hadn't thought about it until taking the test. The thing is, poems, symbols, and imagery all can be interpreted in many different ways. It's one of the things that Foster explicitly says in his novel. I can't help feeling slightly peeved that the only right answer is the interpretation that the test makers came up with, but I guess part of learning reading comprehension is figuring out which interpretation most closely fits. I often have an interpretation that is a little more abstract, persay, than most people's.

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