<p>To the people who get 700+ on the critical reading, do you read the whole passage first then refer to the questions, or read one paragraph and refer to a question that pertains to the paragraph, and then move on to next paragraph and refer to the questions that pertain to that paragraph?</p>
<p>Because I just read one paragraph and then answer the questions that pertain to that paragraph and then move on.</p>
<p>Help?</p>
<p>Paragraph by paragraph. I got a 720 my first time out.</p>
<p>wow good job!</p>
<p>Skim the numbers in the questions.
Mark (on the passage) the lines where question answers will appear.
Read the whole thing.
Answer questions.</p>
<p>I got an 800 on my first try (assuming we're not counting my SAT when I was nine...)</p>
<p>^ If you had taken the SAT once when you were 9 then you must be some kind of genius....</p>
<p>Either way works for me. Usually though, I read a chunk and then do all the questions that can be answered, and then I keep reading. That helps me stay focused.</p>
<p>800</p>
<p>Try the reading by chunks part, it's VERY effective, make sure you underline and if you're fast at it, maybe make a summarization out on the side.</p>
<p>I got like 690 on a CR section of a College board SAT Prep test, and CR is my worst part!</p>
<p>In my sense, thecomisar made a great point.</p>
<p>
If you had taken the SAT once when you were 9 then you must be some kind of genius....
Why?
Can't everyone just take an SAT and 2 weeks later learn that they failed. :P</p>
<p>ps. Sishu is great, she nearly aced the SAT.</p>
<p>i got almost all passage problems.
however, i got almost all sentence completions wrong.
should I memorize vocabs, or just keep doing practice tests and will eventually get bette?</p>
<p>I would memorise wordlists.</p>
<p>Take practice tests, and write down all the words you don't know, and memorize those definitions. That's slightly more interesting than memorizing a list. (Edit, but memorizing a list works well, too.)</p>
<p>I read the passage through and then look at the questions. I find that this gives me a better understanding as a whole.</p>
<p>750</p>
<p>Haha, I'm in the same position as kennyk... Apparently I suck at mastering SAT vocab. I forget the words a few days after "memorizing" them.</p>
<p>And I agree with crosscurrent about reading the passage as a whole.</p>
<p>So read the whole passage rather than read chunk then answer questions? But doesn't that take you longer, because even after you finish reading the whole passage, you have to still refer back to the specific lines that questions ask you.</p>
<p>I read the passage through completely and then I answer the questions (it worked for me, I got an 800). However, I don't think that's "the best" way to attack the verbal section. It just works the best for me because I read really quickly. It also helps give me more context when answering the questions. I would suggest trying both methods with practice tests from the blue book, then choose the method that feels more natural/gives you the best scores. As you can see, people have had success using a wide variety of different methods (especially on the verbal section). In my experience there really isn't a specific trick or way that works for 100% of people.</p>
<p>I would try two passages tonight - Read it as a whole and read it in chunks.</p>
<p>I sucked badly when I read it as a whole, but was effective when I read it in chunks</p>
<p>i also read the entire article first and then go back if i need to for certain questions, but like someone mentioned before, it probably won't work unless you read very quickly and have read a lot in the past and are naturally good at reading comprehension. i got an 800 with this method but it won't work for everyone.</p>
<p>okay i took the SAT today, and on CR i just read chunk by chunk and that worked really well. I even made a mark on all the lines that each question was inferring. That worked well.</p>
<p>I usually read the whole passage through first because I find reading chunks distracts me and then I don't really understand the passage. But I guess I only recommend this way if you are a fast reader.</p>
<p>Don't read passage at all(though you will feel prepared if you read the italic blurb)</p>
<p>I don't read the passage, just attack the lined one with lining the passage down, and attack as objectly as possible.</p>
<p>After I attacked the inference questions, I attack the general one based on my inference question.</p>
<p>In this way, I was able to finish 10 minutes earlier than the allotted time, and hey, I just think I did'nt miss a single question except 2 questions, that were still puzzling me right now.</p>
<p>Well, I thought the answer for the Co2 question (a), for the question asked about the evidence that could contradict the original notion, and another SC question that I should have chosen discriminating while I really chose deferential because that men's ability seemed supernatural..Well, I thought discriminating means something of racial thingy...I should have known that SAT would'nt use such tricks...Damn</p>
<p>Anyway, I got small feedbacks from Mike Barrett, and I tell you, his way is the only way and the perfect way to make a shortcut in improving the SAT score.</p>