<p>For those of you who have improved their CR scores drastically, how have you done so? I've prepared myself as much as I can, but I didn't improve by much from my 1st to 2nd SAT. I'm fine on the vocab, didn't get any wrong, but the short and long passage kill me. Please list some tips that some of you who have done well on the CR find useful.</p>
<p>i have the same problem. missed none on vocab section. but i have a decent score, so might not retake.</p>
<p>i have been told that annotating helps a lot, but i always pick the wrong things to underline and i think it takes up too much time.</p>
<p>my problem is really trying to focus.</p>
<p>Be critical. The answer is always going to be in the passage, you just have to find it.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there are no secret “tricks” to CR, it just requires practice.</p>
<p>^Oddly enough, I disagree with the person above. The secret to success in critical reading is to remember that every single answer is IN the passage. There is no guessing, no interpretation, everything has to be stated or directly implied. I went from a 500 to a 690 in one test doing that. I’m hoping next time I can get around 730.</p>
<p>Generally the best answer is stated in the paragraph.</p>
<p>Like on the BB book, there’s a passage that mentions that a belief is not new. There are several correct answers in the CR thing for the question that asks about the belief, and the best one is about the longetivity over time of the said belief.</p>
<p>Most extreme answers are wrong too. Not always, but look out for ones that can’t be proven. It only takes one flaw in the answer to make it wrong.</p>
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<p>Where’s the disagreement?</p>