<p>Hey guys. I'd like some advice. The CR questions are the most challenging to me, especially the ones about tone and inference. Often, I miss them because of some little subtlety I fail to notice. How do you high scorers sift out the right answer from the wrong and tricky choices? thanks.</p>
<p>alright dude, heres an approach i found helped me a lot. i aint gettin 800’s by any means, i usually score in the 670’s to 700’s, but tha fact that i pulled it up from 500s makes me a candidate 4 answering ya question. for a lotta these, i found that doing less thinking, and more finding evidence helped. wenever u mark a question that u even tha least unsure of, mark the question number next to a line in the passage that supports ur choice. dont interpret or assume anything; thats dangerous. use exactly what CB has given u as proof for ur answers. in short, 4 words: “less thinking, more finding”.</p>
<p>Here are some links from CC that looks helpful</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/750399-how-attack-sat-critical-reading-section-effectively.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/750399-how-attack-sat-critical-reading-section-effectively.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/602755-tips-2400er.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/602755-tips-2400er.html</a></p>
<p>Both of those links are extremely useful. I scored an 800 on the CR section and whenever I read tips from other people who scored a 750+, their tips are often very similar to the ones I used, which means they work. Both of these posters are telling you exactly what I found in the prep books, and exactly what I was teaching my students when I taught CR prep.</p>
<p>I agree with you. Never try too hard to think about the question and stick to cold, emprical evidence. Trust your instincts if you are good at English and have studied prep books.</p>
<p>try to give each of the characters a voice and some personality-- i.e. don’t read everything in monotone and try to actually live and feel the story (unless it’s a scientific document)</p>
<p>this usually works because the sat reading is almost always clear and unambiguous, and in my case, as i don’t drift off to day-dream in the middle of a section, then i can usually get a feeling for what the tone is. for instance, if the story is about a native american describing how ‘the white man stole his land’, then he’s probably ****ed, and so the tone probably won’t be ‘light’, ‘fluffy’, ‘jovial’, or anything like that. </p>
<p>also, another helpful thing to do on these questions is to not look at the answer choices beforehand and ask yourself what you think answer is and then try to find it. </p>
<p>by being able to eliminate incorrect answers and having a general feel for what you’re looking for, then the correct answer should light up as though it has a GFP-tag.</p>
<p>I found the biggest help is to find evidence for why a choice is wrong. (that isn’t parallel construction…the verb tense is incorrect…dangling participle…etc.)</p>
<p>In reading, be sure to reasd the questions first.</p>