Today, as part of the reading explanation for the marathon passage, I explained why students need to remember that every passage has two writers: original writer - the author who wrote the piece for whatever publication - and the exam writer who edited, made changes, and created the questions.

It is important to keep in mind that the original writer's goal was to communicate a certain messaage - the ultimate objective of any writer, so once you find the main idea, finding answers to the questions, created by the exam writer, will be much easier.