The Rest Of The Passage

It's now time for you to employ the strategies of Roadmapping and skimming past details - which, if you think about it, are quite related tasks, aren't they? Your Roadmap 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 Roadmap 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 democ

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.) Roadmap them on a piece of scratch paper in the manner above. Skim past details, focusing on the main gist of each paragraph.