Mal

Yeah...I'm an English teacher and can relate(actually tutor because my chronic pain prevents me from teaching full time).

And to add...I tutor for the ACT/SAT...many of my students mistakes boil down to needing to SLOW down and READ(Except for the actual reading section...where they read TOO DAMN SLOW!!!)

My strategy on the reading section was always to skip reading the passage altogether and go straight to the questions, then for each question I would just skim the passage until I found the right part, read the answer and answer it, and move on. Most of the time the way those questions are written the answer is in a single sentence in the passage. Worked pretty well, I was never once anywhere close to out of time on those things.