For double passages, which approach ensures you cover both?

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Handling two passages effectively means treating each passage as its own unit before tackling questions that compare them. Finishing a passage and then answering its questions helps you lock in the details, understand the author’s purpose and evidence, and keep information from that passage clear in your mind. Once you’ve solidified your understanding of the first text, repeat the same process with the second one so you have solid, passage-specific notes and answers. After you’ve worked through both passages and their questions, you’re ready for the final set that asks about both texts together, and you’ll have the relevant details fresh for accurate comparison and synthesis.

This approach reduces mixing up information from the two passages and makes the cross-text questions easier to manage, because you’re not juggling two streams of details at the same time. Skipping the second passage or only answering questions from one passage would miss important content and the cross-reference skills those final questions often require.