<p>It’s great that you are already starting to practice for the SAT’s; you will have plenty of time to improve your score. A lot of people say it is very difficult to raise CR but I have found that there are ways around that. Practice IS essential to raising your score but you also need to analyze what types of questions you are getting wrong and why you are scoring lower than you want to be. Are you having time management issues? If so, the most helpful trick I learned is to use indexing as a way to get the passages done quicker. Basically you go through the questions before reading the passage and then you block off passages of text for any question that has a line reference. That way, you can answer in context questions as you go along and hopefully not have to go back and read the passage over. It takes a minute or two but it got my score up to the 700 range. I also like the Princeton Review guides because they use the Joe Bloggs principle which is an interesting strategy. For vocab I would suggest the following website which offers a free trial: [SAT</a> Vocabulary Word Videos | SAT, ACT, GRE Vocabulary Test Prep - Vocab Videos](<a href=“http://www.vocabvideos.com/]SAT”>http://www.vocabvideos.com/). They are marginally entertaining and I still remember some of the words from them!! The hit parade is great but I personally didn’t have the discipline to study words from flashcards. Good luck!!! and congrats for being proactive and starting with the college process early.</p>
<p>dang… My reading and writing scores are decent, around 650 reading, 700 writing. Math is pretty bad though, I need to get 700s like you guys… I’m currently only at like 600-650ish.</p>
<p>The best way to increase the SAT CR is to actually know what’s it about. You need to look for the wrong answers instead of the correct ones. Incorrect choices are easier to be spotted, so look for them and eliminate them. Once you’ve found 4 incorrect choices in a question, then you know which one is your correct, even if you have no idea what the choice is saying.</p>
<p>Study a lot of vocab :), it’ll help. And oh, I don’t know how others approach their CR, but I read the questions first then start to figure out what I need to read in order to answer those questions. I end up skipping up to 30-40% of the content on the CR.</p>
<p>Works well for me as I was aiming for a 650 on the SAT (got a 670 btw).</p>
<p>And oh, The Reading Passages are tricky as there are both content specific questions (with line reference) and Main Idea Questions.</p>
<p>For content specific, use your thumb. Your answer will be within 1 thumb above and below the line(s) referenced. For Main Idea, read the first and last paragraph. For questions asking about passage I and passage II, do those last, and then follow the above strategy.</p>
<p>Thanks Guys!!!</p>
<p>Oh man, I am Indian as well… math and writing are a breeze~ Critical Reading… is like LOL WUT? xD</p>
<p>Oh btw Princeton answerkey is incorrect but explanations have the correct answers. I got a 430 on my writing from my first writing in blue book, then I did all 11 practice test and my scores shot up to a 640-670! But the thing is I am also a good essay writer and that was just graded with MC… I am expecting at least a 730 on writing with essays.</p>
<p>I am an indian as well… actually I am an exchange student in the US… For u guys i think u guys need to adhere to this strategy (works for me… give it a shot for cr):</p>
<p>1) Read the italisized blurb
2) Read the first and last sentence of every paragraph (only applies to textbook passages that are not from a novel)- with this get the gist of what the passage is about and where everything in the passage is. You should be able to sort of see the tone, etc.
3) Now dive into the questions (line reference ones) and read the question carefully
4) Look for the answer in the five line above and below (almost always there)
5) Look carefully at answer choices… which answer works best should be the right one
6) Then once you are done with the more specific questions move onto the general questions.</p>
<p>Thats it!!!</p>
<p>Hope this helps!!!</p>
<p>Ohh… use direct hits for vocab.</p>
<p>Thank you! Will do that definitely!</p>