<p>I found that some passage needs to be read whole before you can answer any question.</p>
<p>Like for instance the Novel Passage. If you don't you do most of the question wrong.</p>
<p>And There are also some of the passage that can be skimmed( By my definition of Skimming is reading first and last sentence of each paragraph. Is it correct?) I found this working specifically for the Science passage.</p>
<p>So without anymore talk i would like you to write your view on which passage can be skimmed and which cannot.</p>
<p>These are my experience from BB.</p>
<p>Also Please mention the time you will take answering any particular question and reading the whole passage if you do.</p>
<p>!If you can please group the passage like Social Science or even paired passage etc.!</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Hmm, I usually read all the passages through and I don't understand how people do well without doing do. :p</p>
<p>I don't read the passage.
I think it's a waste of time.</p>
<p>But maybe reading through will imrpove my CR score :P</p>
<p>I first look at the questions and underline all the phrases or words they refer to in the passage. Then I read through all of the passage and refer back to specific bits when I do the questions afterward. Might be a bit time-consuming, but I don't run out of time.</p>
<p>Skimming doesn't help with the tone/inferential questions unless you really read the passage.</p>
<p>I'm a fast reader. I read everything.</p>
<p>I just read to the questions and that usually ends up with me reading the passage fully by the end (when i do the overall comprehension questions), which lets me get a deeper understanding the first time so i can get away with one full read (rather than two, because i would look back at it while answering questions anyways)</p>
<p>I do quite well on CR...</p>
<p>i would suggest reading all the passages because then you get a basic idea about what the passage us about
then for the more specific questions referring to a line, definitely read a couple lines before and after the specific line they mention
and for questions relating to the passage as a whole, they are usually found straight up in the passage or very obviously implied directly in the passage, which is why i think that reading (rather than skimming) all the passages is important
for paired passages i usually read passage 1 then answer all the questions pertaining to passage one and then do the same for passage 2 AND THEN answer the questions for both passages
i hope this helped lol</p>
<p>Ok @Princessmarion</p>
<p>Can i ask you a question how much time do you take to do a complete question(13+passage) to do?</p>
<p>there is definitely enough time to read the whole passage-i can do it and im not even a fast reader. seriously, if u take the ACT, u have to speed read like 2x faster, and even still being the slow reader i am lol, i was able to skim through those passages. i dont think u can get some hidden meanings in the passage if u dont read it.</p>
<p>I used to try to read the whole passage through and i got a 570. So then my friend who got an 800 told me the exact same strategy that Yeti Crab said and then I jumped to a 710 :). At least for me, that was the best approach</p>
<p>What is the method seems like i am in the same place you were before?</p>
<p>I first would read the little background text to get some info about the passage. Then I would go and read the questions before reading the passage without reading the answer choices. Then, I would underline all the lines in the passage that the questions were asking about such as "what does the author mean in lines ..." and where they asked for the meaning of certain words. Then I would read through the passage and once I got up to one of the parts that I underlined, I would read that and then try to answer the question using those lines and the couple of lines before and after that sentence. I found this to be a very robust approach and it worked for virtually every passage that I came across. At first, it was a bit time consuming, but eventually I was able to finish all the questions with 4-5 minutes left. Also, I did a TON of practice sections of CR. This strategy really helped me when I was struggling to score in the high 500's and low 600's to get into the high 600's and low 700's. Keep doing this or any other strategy that people suggest and stick with it and you'll be fine.</p>
<p>i got up to an 800 from a 670. i read the entire thing, then went back to find answers. i also read extremely fast, and if you can do that, i suggest it.</p>