<p>so for all you people who consistently score 700+ on CR, how do you do it?</p>
<li>how often do you read?</li>
<li>what did you do to practice for SAT?</li>
<li>what is your strategy when taking the CR section - do you try hard to analyze everything you read, or just go with it and choose the answer that first seems right to you?</li>
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<p>need your opinions, thanks!</p>
<p>Ok my best advice (btw i'm not master, i usually get 1 or 2 wrong per section as of now) is to practice with the blue book. I mean i used to SUCK at CR, but ive done plenty of practice. Study common words, study all the words that come up in the practice tests. As for the critical reading, just pay attention when you read. It REALLY helps me. Like before, i just sort of skim, forget stuff. But this really cuts time off. And, analyze what you read. the answers HAVE to be supported by the text, many hard questions are hard because what kids think is right is usually wrong. Make sure ur answer makes sense correspondence to the text</p>
<p>well I did like 8 practice tests, 5 out of blue book and 3 from the online collegeboard course. I feel that I have improved however I still need much practice. I rarely score over 700 on CR. To me, it all still seems so subjective.. ever felt like that?</p>
<p>no its just you</p>
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<li><p>i read TIME occasionally, but i read a lot of little novels when i was a kid. It probably gave me a really good base.</p></li>
<li><p>CR-wise? practice tests and sparknotes 1000</p></li>
<li><p>when i'm reading the passages i think it really helps to get into it. Most of the time, I actually find the passages I read pretty interesting. If you treat the passages just as boring text, you wont be able to find any meaning in what you're reading, and you'll probably come up with poor answers. My strategy is to answer the questions as I'm reading the passage, so I don't have to spend time reading the whole thing, then going back. I find it helps you save time and gauge a better response. I do the general tone/main idea/purpose questions last. Finally, you've probably heard this before, but after I read a question, I think of the answer first, and then LOOK for it among the choices. Usually, my answer is there and I just go for it. On harder question, it doesn't always work out that way, but I get by...</p></li>
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<p>hope this helps. i know CR is the hardest section to improve, but just keep reading and keep practicing.</p>
<p>...thanks severed. you're really cool. i bet you get like 2500's on your SAT's, eh? that's great, too bad all the good colleges will realize you are an arrogant, low-life loser and reject you. grow up.</p>
<p>thanks cory123, advice noted.</p>
<p>lmao meany :P if u really want to know what i do </p>
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<li>completely read everything thoroughly</li>
<li>read question</li>
<li>answer question, skip 1st time anything im not sure of</li>
<li>come back to anything i skipped</li>
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<p>in other words, i dont answer questions until i completely read el passage</p>
<p>ya seriously you need to get into the passages you read. Treat it like it's sex ed in 7th grade, not personal hygiene :-p. Point is, you remember what you want to read. it's hard getting into it, but you gotta try</p>
<p>I used to read constantly. not as much anymore, but still a lot. I really think a lot of reading is the key.
one thing I'd recommend that I didn't do is get used to reading boring passages...</p>
<p>also, don't spend forever on the passage, but make sure you have some idea of what it's about.
do some practice tests and find out what you're missing and work on those questions a lot.</p>
<p>I had a 740 CR, most of what I think I missed was from over-analyzing.</p>
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<li><p>Very often, on whatever I can get my hands on. I subscribe to TIME and The Economist and I often read them cover to cover before the next issue arrives.</p></li>
<li><p>Nothing much really. Just practised some portions of the Blue Book.</p></li>
<li><p>Read the passage, read the question, read ALL the options (even though the first or second one may jump out as being the correct answer). Most probably go with instinct unless the options are ambigous (then I analyze).</p></li>
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<p>I had a 750 CR on the June 06 SAT.</p>
<p>thanks for all the responses guys. just what i needed. so basically i just need to 1. find out what works best for me
2. read more</p>
<p>for improvement on SAT, would you guys recommend magazines, articles, essays and such or novels?</p>
<p>The sat isn't subjective. It really isn't...</p>
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<li><p>Use common sense in the reading passages. Most of the questions only require simple logic. DON'T OVER-THINK QUESTIONS.</p></li>
<li><p>Glance at the questions. Underline the words asked about in any vocab questions. Know what to look for.</p></li>
<li><p>Read the entire passage. I do this because a lot of the questions are easier to answer when you know what happens after that part in the passage.</p></li>
<li><p>Check your answers if you have time left.</p></li>
<li><p>Don't listen to Princeton Review. They suck for CR.</p></li>
<li><p>For vocab, practice by doing some every now and then. Bathroom reading. Pay attention when you do vocab in class.</p></li>
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<p>I got a 730 with these strategies, which is probably on the low end of people on this site...</p>
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<li><p>I don't read.</p></li>
<li><p>I took three practice tests.</p></li>
<li><p>I focused really, really hard while reading the passages, then chose the answer that made sense.</p></li>
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<p>react to what you read-don't be callous. Say that the narrator is describing sth as "a white haze"-what you should do is " what does he mean by that?". REACTION-->SUCCESS in the CR passage reading. I got that from my CPE practice courses, and brought that into my CR passages (I don't mean to look immodest, but I rarely make mistakes at the CR passages, and if I do, they are invariably vocabulary-related, not understanding-the-text questions)</p>