<p>On the Critical Reading sections: If you do not know a vocabulary word, what strategies do/can you use to figure out the answer?</p>
<p>luck and more luck</p>
<p>Positive negative charge of the word. then look at prefixes/suffixes to get an idea of the word. look for synonyms too. If a few have synonyms for the same column in a few different answers, one of those is usually the answer</p>
<p>guess your ass off</p>
<p>here's a good strategy:</p>
<ol>
<li>cross of the ones you know for sure are wrong (maybe one or two on a hard question)</li>
<li>place the letters on your booklet in order (ex. B,C,E if you could eliminate A and D)</li>
<li>Place your pencil on the first letter, and move your pencil once to the right as you silently sing each word of this chant:</li>
</ol>
<p>"mini,
mini,
maini,
mo,
catch
a
tiger
by
the
toe..."</p>
<p>Oh, I see the most way to prepare for the CR section is to read widely. But still, I have a question:
It's well-known fact that reading widely helps us considerably. A lot of good people on CC board advise us to pick out our favourite kinds of books and read them. So, reading will be no longer torturous and become much more pleasurable. But I still don't know is it necessary to read sophisticated books ? My favourite kind is adventure, detectives ( by authors like Sidney Sheldon...). But somehow I feel it's not tough enough. I mean we should read classic novels though they're no easy, and at times fairly convoluted . Because we are all aware that the passages in CR section are complicated :)
What do you think ? Can you dispense me a few advice on this matter ? Because to tell the truth, apart from several classic authors and their works, I find the vast majoirty not really enthralling ( I mean the content , and of course their writing styles are always intricate to follow ). Thanks a ton ;)</p>
<p>Work crossword puzzles, hard ones, like NY Times or LA Times.</p>
<p>i still don't understand why you have to "read widely"
all you have to do is CR practice tests and look up all the words you don't know... they repeat so often </p>
<p>just in the official SAT book alone they have 8 tests... thats about 6-7 CR and writing sections for each test so about 50 sections you can practice with vocab</p>
<p>i don't read books at all and i think i did pretty good today
then again i didnt practice either xD</p>