<p>Any ideas...read the passage and do the questions as you go? read then answer? read and annotate? Im open to ideas.</p>
<p>I just pop right to the questions. I find them enormously easy.</p>
<p>I read and then answer.</p>
<p>I skim through the passage first and then answer the questions, referring back to specific sections of the passage as necessary.</p>
<p>I just read them, I mean you have the time, don't rush through it. I also tend to write side notes and maybe box a few important passages.</p>
<p>read through them, underlining and noting places where I find some kind of figurative language (because there always seems to be a question that says "what type of fig. language did the author NOT use")...then i tackle the question</p>
<p>meng,</p>
<p>You don't have the time. There are 50 difficult questions and only 60 minutes. Time is sparse.</p>
<p>vtoodler, isn't it 53 questions?</p>
<p>I read the entire passage while annotating, and then answer the questions and I still have enough time. I guess it depends on how fast you read and comprehend.</p>
<p>I usually have time left over o.O; I guess I just read pretty fast.</p>
<p>On average, how much do you guys usually miss out of the whole MC part of the test?</p>
<p>My average seems to be 9 using Cliff Notes guide...but on official tests i miss 3-2.</p>
<p>wow missing 2-3 is insane!</p>
<p>wow I really suck at English MC...on practice tests I never finish on time and usually get 50% or less correct. :(</p>
<p>yeah i get a 31.5 rawscore out of a possible 55 ;)</p>
<p>I read through once and then refer back to the passage as I'm answering questions. I usually manage to finish with 15 or more minutes left on the clock, and I've done fairly well on the three released exams I've finished (1991, 1996, and 2001), generally missing between two and six questions.</p>
<p>By the way, for the poster that asked, I believe the number of MC questions changes from year-to-year. I've seen some released MCs that had more than 60 questions but I've also seen some with as few as 49 questions.</p>
<p>I've done both "read passage -> read questions -> go back to passage" and "read questions -> read passage -> answer questions" methods. For me, the latter is more effective. I just read the questions (but not the answer choices), then read (not skim, read) the passage so I knew what I'm trying to look for beforehand.</p>
<p>How do you do so well? What strategies do you employ?</p>
<p>Do I have to use a pen on the free response?</p>
<p>Yes, I'm almost positive that you must write in ink on the free response section.</p>