<p>PLZ HELP ME, i do excellent on sat on math secion 800, but not so much on writing especially CR, any help, any tacktics, any advice on learning vocab and such, what books should i read etc</p>
<p>I got a 700 in the critical reading.</p>
<p>Is it the vocab or passages that you have trouble with?</p>
<p>I frickin' hate vocab, so my strategy was the just not do the ones I really had no idea on instead of trying to guess like I once did.</p>
<p>me too have a huge problem in CR the highest score i got is 390!!
but i dont think my problem is in the passages, so everyone tells me that i should concentrate on my vocab so i guess you gotta do that too..just dont solve anything that you're not sure of</p>
<p>pretty much just reading a lot, paying attention to what you read, learning how to read really boring things, reading comprehension (should come with reading, but make sure you work on it), guessing words in context.</p>
<p>those should help quite a bit.
I had a 740 CR.</p>
<p>Just make sure you stay focused and comprehend what you're reading. It shouldn't be that difficult. I got an 800.</p>
<p>the vocab is like 8 questions each section, so i think passages are more important.</p>
<p>do the collegeboard book; go over each CR section VERY METICULOUSLY, pay very careful attention to WHY you got questions wrong, and try to adjust your reasoning/thinking the next time you see those kinds of questions so you can get them right</p>
<p>the CR sections in that book are harder than the ones on the SAT, or at least on the SATs from Oct. - Jan.</p>
<p>as for vocab., study a 500-word flipbook or something; if you have more time, memorize more words; if you have less time, study word roots.....</p>
<p>i got a 730</p>
<p>I don't like the strategy of reading topic sentences and then using the questions to find the answers by looking at word clues and such. I personally have to read the entire thing to understand it, whereas others prefer the question approach. Practice both, marking the booklet in different ways (could underline topic sentence or key words or both), and see which one works best for you.</p>
<p>I think vocab is important for both subsections, because if you have a better grasp of words you can read the passages more comfortably and understand the gist of the passage better (if this is your weak spot...). And often directional clues are masked in the big vocab words, so you might not understand an important idea.</p>
<p>Part of SAT CR is reading skills and part of it is knowing the section's structure and the type of questions asked on it. If your weak area is the first one, pick up a book with somewhat challenging vocab and improve your reading ability over a long period of time. More likely it's the second one, in which case go through practice tests, go through the Princeton Review (or equivalent books) and read up on the format of the test, and go through more practice tests reading the solutions section of the books to understand why you got questions wrong.</p>
<p>I got a 690... hoping December will change that!</p>
<p>^ I read the entire thing and did the questions slowly. You have ENOUGH time to do that. I got a 740 -- will retake.</p>
<p>i got 800 on CR, but i think that was luck, they just happened to test all the vocabs i knew.. but i DO need a better writing score, i got 640 last time, and it looked sort of low compared to my other two scores which were both 800.
i retook this month, hopefully writing improves, so i can jus use my composite score</p>
<p>Annotate the passage, make sure the answer you pick is supported by the passage. I got a 740</p>