<p>My CR is improving but not fast. My current score is 460.
What can I do besides Direct Hits and "one book-one night"?</p>
<p>P.S I have only 22 days until I go to exam.</p>
<p>Thanks for help. I appreciate your ignor.</p>
<p>What is “one-book one night”?</p>
<p>If I were you, I would concentrate on where you need help: is speed an issue, is accuracy?</p>
<p>If it’s speed, practice.</p>
<p>If it’s accuracy, also practice, but maybe follow the suggestions of ST’s guide— mark up lines that the questions refer to beforehand and answer the questions that you can as you go along. Leave the general questions for the end.</p>
<p>Basically, just keep practicing, and you can get that score up.</p>
<p>I downloaded from internet 3 books in [pdf] format. Jane Austen “Emma”, “Mansfield’s Park”, and “Pride and Prejustice”. Each book contains 3 volumes (except M.P). One volume=18 chapters. One chapter 10 pages of A4 paper. My reading speed in 10 pages in A4 per 20 minutes. And every night I’m reading one volume. My current score is 460. I went from 270 in one week–maximum–5-6 nights. Thus, I would like to learn good strategy for passage based reading. It’s no use of reading whole thing, right?</p>
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<p>Read the entire passage, but go quicker on the parts that aren’t labeled in the questions (don’t have line references).</p>
<p>I’m not sure if reading books is the optimum way to study in terms of efficiency. You’re taking the SAT, not a literature test, so I would concentrate on the test specifically…</p>
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<p>Listen man, I have nothing to loose. It’s my only hope. 21 nights remaining for exam, right? one night=one volume=18 chapters=180 pages<br>
I’m developing my reading skills, that’s it.</p>
<p>It’s “lose” not “loose”… I’d focus more on writing if I were you.</p>
<p>thanks for opening my eyes…</p>
<p>I have already focused on silverturtle’s guide…after 4 days of tenacious preparation my score was the same; just wasted time.=(</p>
<p>TRUFFLIEPUFF and ViggyRam//I have a similar sentiment.</p>
<p>Hey, not to make you feel bad or anything, but reading books REALLY won’t help with CR.
Unless you’re reading the books and simultaneously writing down your interpretations of important passages and checking the internet if they’re right - PLEASE don’t do this, it’s too time consuming.</p>
<p>What I’d say you should do is get a book that offers SOLID answer explanations, something like The Barron’s Verbal Workbook. It is BRILLIANT and gives really good answer explanations. What you really need to focus on, from my experience with CR on the SATs, is trying to understand what the author really meant when he wrote the passage - that encompasses things like his tone, his opinion on the subject; and you’ve got to be able to spot sarcasm, humor, boredom, frustration, condescension, and all these other random emotions that the author/characters in the passage could have. Also, if you get a question based on a phrase from the passage, make sure you read and re-read the area around that phrase too, because there could be something you can miss.</p>
<p>Feel free to PM me if you need anything :)</p>
<p>460-500 it isn’t good score for me=( I need at least 600 and I have only 21 days. Thus, I need to improve my reading qucikly. Reading a lot gives reading speed; and reading speed gives apportunity to read whole passage. And reading whole passages improves your score. Like Jim Kawagucha said, vocabulary is waste of time.</p>
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<p>Yeah, but not with stuff like Pride and Prejudice. Even for native English speakers, that book (and the other 2 you listed) is pretty hard to read. If you really want to read a lot to improve your speed, I’d recommend you read newer young adult novels as opposed to the classics.</p>
<p>why you are puting me down? do you know my real level? why you think that I cannot read those books?</p>
<p>^they are not putting you down. They just hate you 
Suleyman you are too cute, as in adorable.</p>
<p>lol on a serious note, I’ve read books ovver the summer and they didn’t help me. Find something else better that works for YOU.</p>
<p>Jim Kawagucha said “Vocabualry is waste of time” watch youtube videos about cr.</p>
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<p>and I abhor them twice.</p>
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<p>No, I really don’t think you can read those books; they’re difficult even for native speakers. Plus, reading those novels probably won’t boost your CR score much, if at all.</p>