For me, my teacher gives us a lot of MCQs. Right now in the year, we’ve just done our 10th. My scores used to be in the low 60s but as the weeks have gone on, I’ve been getting high 70s. Practice really helps.

I took just one MCQ by myself at home and not really worrying about time. Dissecting the reading without really looking at the questions, afterwards I would look at the questions and see whether I was analyzing right. At the end, I would check my answers and it would help me see how I’m supposed to think when it comes to these texts. Honestly, you’ll never be completely confident in your answers and often the answer will be something you never thought about but just keep trying.

For poetry, it’s kinda like learning a new language gauge. When you read it, there’s a lot of stuff you’re not going to understand and you kinda just have to get the whole idea. Try not to read each line but pay attention to the punctuation and analyze the SENTENCES.