Critical Reading Help

<p>Guys (especially the ones who received 700+ on the Cr sections.), can you post any strategies you have when you take the Critical Reading Sections. Any tip that will help me get 700+. I previously scored a 600. Any tips on sentence completions to passage reading will be much appreciated.</p>

<p>I swear, all you guys sound like you think there's a magic button that you can press to make your score go up by 100+ points. The only way to improve is to practice. Get off the forum and go do a practice test. Or read. </p>

<p>The only thing you need to know about CR is that each answer must specifically restate a portion of the article. Everything else is up to you.</p>

<p>"The only thing you need to know about CR is that each answer must specifically restate a portion of the article. Everything else is up to you."</p>

<p>Thanks Bigb14 for sharing with us the panacea to all CR problems, except for weird things like tone and guessing the author's mindset. Yes, look to the passages for your answer. It's hidden somewhere between the lines. Try this especially with easy and medium questions you have tried. Look at the correct answer. Then look back to the passage, scanning through the quoted section to find the relevant statement in the passage. Amaze yourself with the simple restatement of the statement posed by the answer. Then keep this in mind as you practise: You want to look for restatements of what the passage actually said explicitly (most of the time) as your answers.</p>

<p>And one more thing: make sure every word in your chosen answer is COMPLETELY CORRECT. One weird word in the answer choice that is not reflected in the passage? Don't disregard its importance. One word can sink the answer choice and make it wrong.</p>

<p>Godspeed my friend.</p>

<p>I swear, all you guys sound like you think there's a magic button that you can press to make your score go up by 100+ points. The only way to improve is to practice. Get off the forum and go do a practice test. Or read.
i swear.</p>

<p>reading helps. as does doing a lot of practice tests- real ones. and memorizing the right words. mainly reading. improvements are small. sometimes negligible.</p>