<p>Hey,
I have looked through the several SAT threads and find so many people scoring 800 on the CR section...HOW??
I mean, I have an 800 Math (with ease), a 760 Writing (stupid mistakes), and only a 670 CR (with which I am content).
What does it take to ace the reading section? It's my weakest subject on the ACT as well, and I guess I haven't cracked the code on it yet, so to speak. Any suggestions or advice? I'm sure others feel this way as well, so any personal advice is greatly appreciated...</p>
<p>memorizing vocab helps a lot.</p>
<p>seriously in the passage readings you might think it doesnt help, but there are words with such subtle meanings that they help you identify the passage. I just learned 2000 vocab words, and i feel that i now have a much greater understanding of the passages.</p>
<p>800 over here :) ... memorizing vocab is good, to an extent. And beyond that, all you need to do/can do is practice CR sections. That's all I did. I went from a sophomore PSAT score the same as yours on the SAT, to an 800 SAT.</p>
<p>for the passages, i started getting 0 to 1 incorrect when i practiced when i started reading the entire passage first and then moving onto questions. before i would go directly to the answers and try to fish out the correct choice from the passage, thinking that it saved time. wrong! i actually ended up with more time left over when i changed my method. </p>
<p>and yes, memorizing vocab helps a lot. i would have gotten 800 but i got 5 or 6 wrong from the vocab and instead got 730. SO LAME!</p>
<p>I read--and try to understand--Pynchon. By far, the best technique for getting an 800.</p>
<p>Yeah, Reading a lot helps, because everything comes instinctually, and you don't have to really study.</p>
<p>Have any of you 800-CR-scorers done the Lit subject test? I know a girl who got 2390 on the SAT (790 on math), and she did the Lit exam and got an 800. She's going to Yale now.</p>
<p>My strategy is to read the questions first, and use the passages as sort of an information source you can look up anwers in. You wind up reading the whole thing anyway as you work through the questions.</p>
<p>Make sure you read the questions AND NOT the answer choices at first, as those might mess you up. For the paragraph-length ones, you can just read the whole thing but I'd still advise reading questions first.</p>
<p>Maybe this isn't what you want to hear, but I'm convinced that different people think different ways, and that is why it is easier for some to get great CR scores . (800 W, 800 CR, 720 M)</p>
<p>I didn't do anything special to study for the CR section, besides force myself to not look beyond the surface of the passage. I could never get an 800 M, no matter how hard I try. (Well, this is an assumption that I am going to stick by. I don't have any desire to sit through the SAT a second time.)</p>
<p>read a lot and make flashcards. Also, do a lot of practice problems</p>
<p>Just a question >.<;;
Would you guys happen to have any techniques/strategies that would help me find the tone of the passage =/</p>
<p>I'm definitely just not feeling it. I heard that tone question's answer's always had words that were synonyms with it. Help pweeze =(</p>
<p>Blah I hate those questions. I miss them more than any other type.</p>
<p>yeah tell me about it.
I got lucky this time.
All I can do is eliminate the answers to either good bad or neutral (eg. analytical)
And then from there I usually have like a 50/50 chance XDD
NEED MORE CONSISTENCY PLEAASE ^__^:;</p>
<p>I've tried every strategy there is; and memorized tons of vocab...none of it ever works
(got 550 btw)</p>
<p>READ. READ. READ. READ. READ.</p>
<p>Memorizing vocab might help to an extent, but if you read a lot (books, magazines, everything you can get your hands on) you get that vocab with the additional benefit of getting a sense of tone, grammar, et cetera. I always found reading a novel to be a lot more entertaining than doing flash cards, and I believe that the amount I read was the reason I got my 800 with no specific preparation. (I also got an 800 on the Lit subject test, rockermcr.) </p>
<p>I think a lot of it has to do with proximity- if you're around the written word a lot, you just "pick up" the vocab and the rules. That's how it worked for me, at least (but English was always my strongest subject). </p>
<p>People do think in different ways, so you've got to find the method that works for you. I have a brother who's taking his SAT's now, and he does much better with simple memorization. Still, I don't think picking up a little extra reading would hurt.</p>
<p>Also- do make sure you read the entire passage at least once through. Reading the questions first can help, but you want to make sure you get a coherent sense of what the passage is trying to say, rather than picking out what you think are the answers.</p>