<p>Okay, I know there were many threads like this but I really need help with critical reading! First of all, for those who got 700 or above on critical reading, what book did you use? And can you give me some tips? any advice? If you would insist on giving out any vocab list for free, that would be great too! But what book did you use that has good explanation for each problem?!</p>
<p>GRAMMATIX!!!!</p>
<p>Seriously, its the fastest way to a higher score,
Passage based reading is amazing as well as the SCs
It will rocket you to the 700s</p>
<p>PS: ^^honest opinion, no advocation here</p>
<p>what is grammatix! is it like a test book or what? where do u get it? is it a book?</p>
<p>peteyflow, there are posts all over the place.</p>
<p>Why don't you use google and see for yourself?</p>
<p>This is Grammatix</p>
<p><a href="http://www.grammatix.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.grammatix.com/</a></p>
<p>I've never actually tried it but i will look into it as i am seriously in need of boosting my CR score by at least 160 points</p>
<p>Read good books and you should be pretty comfortable with CR. I had a huge problem with it before, but after you get the hang of the arcane language, and deceptive questions, you should be able to do much better.</p>
<p>May i ask you how you usually go about the reading comprehension section? </p>
<p>Do you read a question first before the passage, skim the passage, read all questions before the passage, read question and answer before passage, or any method i did not list?</p>
<p>Hey I was wondering for the Narrative Passages on the CR, should the approach be different from normal long passages or the same? Please help, thanks.</p>
<p>Not to bash grammatix or anything, because I do think the book is good, but its too much of this theory and applied techniques jazz while it doesn't really advocate too much practice. (If you look at the book theres a lot of "oh well you only need to study for like 30 min, use these techniques, then you do fine")</p>
<p>I really think that if you just pick up the old big CB white book and work through just the CR sections of it, the experience alone will help your score tremendously.</p>
<p>thats wat i did, but still scored 550</p>
<p>i would say that the grammatix approach is the best, from my experience. a lot a MC CR questions require you to know the full context; that's why it's good to skim the passage</p>