<p>hi friends!can anyone please tell me how to improve critical reading score on the sat. i recently took the sat in october 2013. Got only 32 mcqs out 48 in passages. scored in only 50 percent of the sentence completion leading to a sxore of 530.i want to take that to 700 . any suggestions? gonna take the sat again in dec.</p>
<p>Buy Direct Hits 1 and 2 for sentence completions. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/750399-how-attack-sat-critical-reading-section-effectively.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/750399-how-attack-sat-critical-reading-section-effectively.html</a> for the passage-based questions. Some people like the Grammatix approach too.</p>
<p>I increased my CR from 590 to 760. </p>
<p>Just learn lots of vocab (I learned every word from the direct hits and hot words books, and also learned all the words I didn’t know from the books I was reading, and also the words I didn’t know on the practice SAT sections I did)</p>
<p>Then practice, A LOT!
And after you do a test, review EVERY question, not just the ones that you got wrong.</p>
<p>@satman Did you do anything in particular for the passages?</p>
<p>@shalooky, not really.</p>
<p>There’s different techniquest you could use. (like reading the questions first and marking the passage, or doing the “line” questions first then the overall ones). You just have to find what’s best for you. For me, I found the best way was to just go in order for the questions (I was afraid of making a bubbling error). The only thing I found to be really helpful was to underline the whole passage as I read it, just so that I would stay focused on what I was reading.</p>
<p>And just remember that every answer to the questions will be in the passage, just hidden in different wording.</p>