<p>25 minutes to complete a CR section 2 of the 1st practice test on the Blue Book, yet I was only able to complete 21 out of 24 questions...</p>
<p>Is there something wrong I'm doing? I'm reading all of the passages as quick as I can and trying to answer the questions, though having to look back at the passage to answer..</p>
<p>how do i improve my timing by alot?</p>
<p>Definitely repetition; after practicing often, you tend to scan through passages and pinpoint answers to questions faster. Also, if you’re stuck on a question or if the question has to do with main idea/overall tone/purpose, leave it for last.</p>
<p>As well as for math, I find myself omitting a bunch of questions… Any solution to that?</p>
<p>Do you not know how to solve them? If that’s the case, you should buy a good review book.</p>
<p>Save time by looking at the questions first, looking for any particular line numbers and vocab words you can mark in the passage. Apply the main idea of the passage to those questions in the context of the line or word.</p>
<p>@caffeinemolecule What’s a good review book for Math? (specifically the Geometry and questions that ask to solve for a Pyramid’s height given certain values, etc)</p>
<p>I didn’t really use a review book for math, but I saw that the explanations in the blue book are pretty good. </p>
<p>There are a ton of great resources in this forum (especially look up Xiggi’s advice). If you don’t have time to finish, there isn’t a single magic bullet that will give you more time. You’re simply unfamiliar with how the problems work and solve them too slowly. WIth more practice, you’ll get better. Stick with it!</p>
<p>I’ve just recently read Xiggi’s advice thread</p>
<p>and okay thanks 
I shall stick to the blue book, but currently am studying for permit test this saturday; I will resume SAT studies on saturday!</p>
<p>If you really know the vocab, you can do sentcoms in less than 2 minutes (even for the 8-question sentcom sections), which will save you time for passages.</p>
<p>@marvin100 When I take the actual SAT this December, do you recommend me skipping to the sentence completion questions first (considering I find them much more easier than the passage-reading based questions), and then answering the passage questions?</p>
<p>And what are your thoughts on not reading the full passage to save time, but to instead read the given line number question and skimming around the context to answer?</p>
<p>thx</p>
<p>No. Def. don’t save sentcoms for the end–they’re easy (free points, honestly, if you know your vocab), and you’d rather leave hard questions unfinished if you run out of time.</p>
<p>Thanks for that feedback and nice new profile picture aha</p>
<p>Here’s how I did it;</p>
<p>1) Read info prompt and first question. If first question is a “summary/whole passage” question, skip to question 2.</p>
<p>2) Read first paragraph. The answer to q1 or q2 is usually here.</p>
<p>3) Go to next question. Find relevant section in text and read to find answer.</p>
<p>4) Repeat step 3 for all questions excluding “whole passage” ones.</p>
<p>5) Read last paragraph, if you have not done so already.</p>
<p>6) Answer “whole passage” questions, using all the reading you have done. If necessary, read a little more, keeping time in mind</p>
<p>As for how this worked for me, I usually had at least 5-8 minutes to check my answers, but the volume of practice I did is a large contributor to that.</p>