E. LINES 8–9 STATE THAT OLMSTED WANTED TO CREATEWHATEVER YOUR WEAK...

38. e. Lines 8–9 state that Olmsted wanted to createWhatever your weaknesses are, it’s much bettera democratic playground, so he designed theto learn about them now and spend the time betweenpark to have many centers that would allownow and the SAT turning them into strengths than itinteraction among the various members of soci-ety(line 7). The passage does not make anyis to pretend they don’t exist. It can be hard to focus onyour weaknesses. But if you focus on the task of doingshould make a guess, and if you have time left at theend of the section, you can go back and reconsiderwell on the SAT, your effort will repay you many timesyour answers.over. You will go to the kind of school you want andenjoy the kind of career you want, and it will have allIf one type of question in a section is easier for youthan another type, go ahead and do those questionsstarted with the relatively few hours you devoted topreparing for a standardized test. What are you wait-first. Remember, you get the same point for an easy cor-rect answer as you do for a difficult correct answer. Soing for?answer the easy questions and save the hard ones for last.One last consideration about the Critical Readingsection of the SAT is the effect of good time manage-These time management strategies are not onlyment during the exam. The basic rule is one minuteeffective on the Critical Reading section of the SAT, butper question, but some questions will take less time,can also be useful for the Math and Writing sections.and others will take more. Don’t hold yourself to aDoing practice questions under timed conditions willstrict schedule, but you shouldn’t spend too muchhelp you prepare more thoroughly for the time limitstime on any one question. Remember, if you can elim-you will face on test day.inate one or more answers on a tough question, youGood luck!