<p>I'm kind of weak in this section. Any good advice? I heard reading newspapers is good.</p>
<p>Practice. Identify the types of question you commonly answer incorrectly and practice attacking them. Do not think too much. I did about three critical reading sections per day.</p>
<p>3 per day. Well I guess I'll try that. Thanks.</p>
<p>It worked for me. Assuming I scored perfectly on the sentence completion and analogies, I boosted my score from a 700 to an 800.</p>
<p>On the dual passages, read Passage 1 first, do the questions pertaining to passage 1. The info from that passage will be fresh in your mind then. Then go back and read Passage 2 and do the questions pertaining to that passage. Then do the questions that pertain to both passages.</p>
<p>Also, there should always be be material in the pasage that supports your answer choice--like specific words, phrases, and sentences that prove that the answer you chose is correct.
Keep in mind, that a statement in an answer could be absolutely correct, but could still be the wrong answer. Answer exactly what the question is asking!</p>
<p>Also, read a lot on your own from * sophisticated * magazines and newspapers like Scientific American, National Geographic, the New Yorker, etc. The passages on the Critical Reading part are very similar in caliber to articles found in academic journals, so reading them, identifying the main idea, and finding details that support it is very good practice indeed.</p>
<p>Also, when you're reading, underline the words you're unfamiliar with, guess the meaning, and look the real definition up later. This strategy can help with the vocabulary-in-context questions.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>P.S. Burn your Teen People, Seventeen, Playboy, and other non-intellectual publications lol :).</p>
<p>Lol I was thinking about like newsweek, time sort of magazines. Thanks for all posts. More would be appreciated. Need to get like 1450+ on new SAT (math and verbal combined only).</p>
<p>FIND MY POST on this. in that, there are good advices from a student who scored 800 in verbal.</p>
<p>1450+ on the new SAT is not hard at all, that is less than 500 points per section which is below average. Are you sure you measnt 1450+?</p>
<p>"1450+ on new SAT (math and verbal combined only)."</p>
<p>Only math and verbal combined -.-</p>
<p>I read your post Nit. It was pertty good. I'' try to read more and get a feel for the CR. Numerous people have told me that only after they really understood the test could they get like 800's.</p>