One skill I myself have been attempting to better is my text interpretation when it comes to answering certain questions regarding the content of what I have read. One tip I consider to be useful is ignoring all the unnecessary information to answer the question. Obviously, sometimes a part of the text is relevant to answer one question but is not for another. Regardless, often one sentence of the text can answer plenty of questions. In the text below, the crucial information was highlighted.
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Irrefutably, voting is essential for the maintenance of democracy. However, an innumerable amount of people reckon that making it illegal to object to voting is a tremendously idiosyncratic way of enhancing it. After all, if somebody craves not to take part in politics, they should be allowed to do so. Is the law that requires that all adults vote jeopardizing democracy as we know it and threatening to bring about times of upheaval?
There are alternative ways to make people vote. One noteworthy example is making propaganda with cogent arguments to raise awareness on the importance of everyone exerting their citizenship. If the government triumphed in using the aforementioned strategy, the amount of non-voting individuals would be extremely diminished.
Furthermore, people majoritarily abstain from voting because they lack political literacy, thus becoming incapable of distinguishing the proposals of each candidate. Even though everyone inexorably learns how influential their representatives are in their lives, some only do so late in life. In order to cease that from happening, the government could implement political literacy classes in school to provoke the critical thinking of pupils by teaching them, for instance, how the country used to function erstwhile – before democracy – and how much the standards of living have improved since the population was given the right to vote.
Fundamentally, the population, alongside the government, must commence attempting to tackle this issue forthwith. Provided that the aforesaid measures are taken, the number of people who would abstain from voting would be exceedingly reduced and, as a result, it would become absolutely unjustifiable to require voting by law. Hence, that law would be discontinued. Only then would democracy not be in jeopardy.
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The highlighted information can be used to answer any questions about the text. For example:
According to the writer, what does the lack of political literacy cause and what is the suggestion given to solve it?
Answer: The author opines that the lack of political literacy makes politicians and their respective parties and proposals indistinguishable to the population. Moreover, he suggests that the government implement political literacy classes in school so as to stimulate the critical thinking of students.
Read the text twice; read the whole text the first time and only the relevant information the second.