<p>I'm starting to get stressed out about this...in the practice tests I've been doing, I've been getting low-mid 500s on my CR (it's my worst section by far) and on my previous SAT I got a 520. I really need to improve it to at least a 600 before Oct. Any suggestions? You guys think I should spend more time on the passages + each question and skip a few at the end or no?</p>
<p>Learn how to guess.
Try to get much the vocab questions at the beginning as possible</p>
<p>Memorize high frequency vocab words. Look for shifter words. Do the long passages at the end first. Find your right reading pace. Look for the "in line 3" questions first. Cross out random answers. Read a lot of CR questions and analyze why the answers are the answers. Think from the test writers' pov, not from yours. Um...skip if you can't narrow it down to at least 3. Yes, skipping will definitely raise your score. Underline passage main ideas and important stuff as you go so you don't have to read the whole passage over again. Hope that helps.</p>
<p>read dude, i read the news paper for about a month and read all the boring and cool articles in the magizines, it helped alot for me (540-650, not amazing but pretty good for doing so little)also try doing a bunch of sets of CR sections, like do 4 or however many there are in a test in one sitting and do that for like 3 other tests, i bet it will help</p>
<p>also try different strategies with the passages, like for me at first i thought it was impossible to fully read the cr passage and answer all the questions, but after trying it on a test i found out i did beter than looking at the questions fist then looking at passage.</p>
<p>So yea, just try a bunch of stuff, read whole passage, mark the area of where the question is, and other things, and try them on more then one jus tto see if it works or not, i think you can do better you just need to find ur style.</p>
<p>oh also try circling all the answers on 1 page of a cr passage in the test booklet then before turning page copy all answers onto test sheet, this sometimes helps cause you dont break your concentration turning to ur answer sheet looking back and circling in, maybe give it a shot.</p>
<p>as for vocab, what i did was when i read a news article or a book, whenever i saw an interesting or high level word, i would try to guess the meaning of it by using just the context of it, and then check online to see if i guessed kinda close. oh and remeber on the passage questions, if they ask for what a word means, it is most likely not going to be the word most similar to it in the answer(like in the context what does strenuous mean.. a. tiring b. difficult
the answer would probably be not tiring cause it is really close to what stenuous means, just try different techniques like this)</p>
<p>well i hop this helps good luck man hope u do well</p>
<p>Good suggestions moviemania. Check this out, he's obviously playing around with words but playing with words can help. Scrabble:</a> Old Word Order: Besting the Beast: Mastering the SAT Critical Reading Section - Part I</p>
<p>if you're anything like the masses...read a little bit but don't overdo it.</p>
<p>do a practice test and analyze what problems you got wrong. for example, you missed a problem that was right in the passage [*think: next time you'll take the author's word DIRECTLY and not infer anything. ]
this would be the BEST Thing to do so you know what questions are ASKING FOR and whether or not you SHOULD BE ANALYZING the text to find your answer. inference questions: guess the author's intent based on evidence in the passage. DIRECT (v-i-c) and literal comprehension: answer should be CLEAR in the passage.</p>