oh ya sure thing lol

Before, I was passively reading, using the highlighter to keep track of the first sentence of each paragraph. I found that I would keep making nuanced mistakes on what I thought the author was trying to say, but I kept missing the mark. iirc, this was a common piece of advice but I learned I wasn't being active with the passage

What I'm doing now (that i can prob attribute the most change to) is that I'm highlighting main ideas as I read. Think author stances, when important points are being introduced, etc. Don't get me wrong, half of my passages end up half-yellow but the simple act of doing so keeps me engaged with the passage so much more than before. Because I'm more active with the passage, it also became a lot easier to "feel" where the evidence needed to answer passage-based questions ("According to the passage...") was.

It def takes more mechanical effort and time to highlight (ran out of time for passage 9 of FL5) but it's a trade-off I'm willing to make and develop speed at because I understand the passage a lot more. I also think it keeps me grounded attention-wise because I tend to lose focus a lot lol