It's now time for you to employ the strategies of Road mapping and skimming past details - which, if you think about it, are quite related tasks, aren't they? Your Road map is an attempt to highlight the main attractions of the passage while merely taking note of the location of certain less-essential details.
We'll get you started: Here's what your Road map on your scratch paper might look like thus far:
1 - - new democs need lots of institutions - may be tough
2 - - challenge faces Europe and Asia - - differences between them - - but similar in readiness for demo
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Attack the remaining two paragraphs. (This passage is a little longer than what you will probably see on test day, but for practice purposes it's ideal.) Road map them on a piece of scratch paper in the manner above. Skim past details, focusing on the main gist of each paragraph. |
Notice how paragraph 3 is one long list of details! Once you understand what these details represent, you can (and should!) just skim right past them. Merely note their function in your Road map:
3 - - institutions necessary for democracy
This paragraph is an excellent example of the importance of not dwelling on details. If a question were to ask about one or more of these democracy-sustaining institutions, the answer could simply be looked up in paragraph 3 - there's no payoff in trying to memorize all this stuff.
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