<p>Post your Verbal score and your respective CR strategy</p>
<p>Here is my Algorithm:</p>
<p>Read the intro thingy.
Read the passage
Attack each question one at a time.
NEVER EVER BUBBLE IN AFTER ANSWERING A QUESTION. MAKES YOU DISTRACTED. WAIT TILL YOU ARE DONE WITH ALL QUESTIONS!!!</p>
<p>I usually finish with 10mins left. This was with 10 reals, under real condiditions.</p>
<p>Score 680</p>
<p>Note: I am guessing that you wanted only 800's to post. Sorry about that.</p>
<p>dont read the passage
read the intro.
read the questions one at a time and the lines that go with it, it tells you which lines the questions are coming from
skip the questions which require you to read the whole passage and leave them til last
finish line specific questions
skim the passage (youve already read big chunks of it)
answer the remaining questions.
i did this on my second and third sats and my CR score was in the 95 percentile both times. 750 and 700 verbal on those two.
usually finished with 15 + minutes left</p>
<p>i have a really "normal" strategy...i don't know if it qualifies</p>
<p>read the intro
read the passage
read the questions
answer them, refer back if you need to</p>
<p>760 with 38/40 on cr</p>
<p>Do you guys do CR first?</p>
<p>Of all three sections, I got the most wrong in CR. </p>
<p>Nonetheless, my "strategy" was/is:</p>
<p>-30 sec-1 minute passage read
-look at questions, read (if provided with line references) appropriate content at least 2X
-knock out overly general answers/partially subjective ones
-check my answer choice with the passage for explicit evidence
-bubble</p>
<p>If there were two passages (that were later compared/evaluated together), I would do those questions that pertained to passage 1 (without reading passage 2), and vice versa. This helped me concentrate more on the individual questions, and prevented mix-ups between the two passages.</p>
<p>760</p>
<p>CR I do last</p>
<p>Read the italics thingie and some of the first paragraph
Answer questions that tell you the line its in
Answer other questions afterwards</p>
<p>760</p>
<p>Read teh questions first.</p>
<p>Read the questions. if you're strapped for time/not a fast reader, answer questions that directly reference lines. Then move to the questions about passages, then questions about the paragraph as a whole, whic you should be able to answer with ease by then.</p>
<p>770.</p>
<p>I didn't get any critical reading wrong on the November test, but I missed 3 analogies and 3 sentence completions, resulting in a 740. </p>
<p>I always read the passage first and then go on to the questions, and I refer back to the passage on EVERY question for specific evidence. If I get stuck on one, I skip it and then answer all the other questions that have to do with the passage and then come back.</p>
<p>Rush through analogies and everything else.</p>
<p>Read the passage thrououghly.</p>
<p>read the preceding and following lines when they ask questions on parts of given lines.</p>
<p>for general questions, there always seems to be a common theme among the answer choices. find out the theme and find out the answer choices.</p>
<p>750V</p>
<p>1 Read the intro
2 Read the first question
3 Read the passage until you find specific evidence for answer
4 Read the second question
5 Read the passage until you find specific evidence for answer
6 Continue this process with the other questions.
7 If you come upon a question that requires knowledge of the whole passage, skip it and come back to it later.
8 Once you've finished all the questions, finish reading the passage if there is any left..
9 Check over all your answers to ensure that they make sense in terms of the whole passage.
10 Go on to next passage.</p>
<p>800 verbal, 40/40 on CR</p>
<p>Read the first few lines, if it appears to be a scientific or difficult fiction passage, go read the questions first and return to the passage, otherwise finish the passage and then answer the questions. 770V.</p>
<p>thank you guys so much for your advices. I used the strategy to first go to the questions and I usually get zero or 1 wrong in every verbal section (apart from mc and analogies). </p>
<p>I have more questions tho...</p>
<p>What do you guys think of first scanning the passage? I think it's a waste of time b/c you can finish the rest of the passage later and then do those types of questions that need a grasp of the "main idea". </p>
<p>Do you guys have any extra strategies for tackling dual passages?</p>
<p>On passages with lots of details (usually science), don't read the whole passage at first. Read the blurb at the top and the first few lines of the passage. Then read the first line of each paragraph. </p>
<p>The reason for this is because many of the questions trick you with answer choices that are logical but don't actually appear in the passage. </p>
<p>Other trick answer choices are actually mentioned in the passage but have nothing to do with the question at hand. </p>
<p>When you read the passage straight through, your mind takes in everything and mixes it together so it is difficult to discern which parts of the passage the answer might have come from. Also, your mind will make up its own conclusions on the passage which might be true but don't appear in the passage.</p>
<p>So when you actually get to the questions, read the question very carefully, go back to the necessary lines in the passage and analyze them very very carefully. This will allow you to cross of trick answers and you can easily connect to the real answer. Leave big pic questions such as main idea, etc. till the end so that you have a good grasp of the info from the other questions.</p>