<p>I do it, and I think it helps a lot, but I hear lots of people do something else like just read the specific lines mentioned, but I never understood how that can actually help you achieve a high score in critical reading. Anyways what do you guys actually do for the passage based reading part?</p>
<p>Yes. Theres no way I would be able to skim it or just look at the questions and find the section its asking about.</p>
<p>Yeah I do. Or I read the passages not underlined (I look at the questions’ references first and underlined the lines referred to) really quickly and then when I get to the underlined part I read it more thoroughly. But I still end up reading the whole passage</p>
<p>Yeah, I read the ENTIRE passage before I start the questions. If you pay attention then most of the time, you don’t even have to look back at the passage to answer any of the questions.</p>
<p>The Kaplan 2400 book presents a novel strategy for tackling CR passages :): </p>
<p>1) Read the 1st third of the passage
2) Then read the 1st sentence of each paragraph that’s left
3) Proceed to questions</p>
<p>This method seems to work best on science passages, where knowing every single detail about plate tectonics (or whatever subject the article concerns) isn’t necessary for answering the questions. </p>
<p>On the other hand, I wouldn’t use the Kaplan method on a narrative passage, where a solid impression of the characters and the plot is needed.</p>
<p>I do what Noitaraperp (I <em>think</em> that’s the username) suggests.</p>
<p>^Please elaborate.</p>
<p>^Ntoriaprep is this guy on cc who posted a thread called “how to attack the sat crticial reading section effectively” It provides very good advice</p>
<p>But no, I don’t. I do what grammatix does and just read the citations most of the time and glance over the rest. It’s surprisingly effective.</p>
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<p>Hossain,</p>
<p>I’ve tried methods that are mentioned above, such as reading certain portions, then lines from the questions, etc., but I never found it as useful as reading the entire passage. The trick is you don’t read the entier passage all at once. I usually read the first paragraph, then proceed to the questions. Sometimes I can knock out 2 or 3 questions. On other occasions, the questions are structured around more of the later paragraphs. At that point, I go and read the entire second paragraph, see and solve what questions I am able to. I repeat this process and, by the end of all the questions, I have read the entire passage. While it IS possible, I find it harder to not read the entire passage and then do questions; especially ones that ask about overall tone/purpose of the passage. This is the method I’ve been using that helped me slowly climb out of the 400s and eventually into the 700s. Hope I helped, good luck :)!</p>
<p>~Aceventura74</p>
<p>I’ll read the lines that are specified when it asks questions that are in a certain line and by doing this I’ve pretty much read the passage by the time i’ve finished those questions. It saves time and I usually have about ten minutes left over at the end to check everything.</p>