<p>You read a passage and have no idea what it's saying. You encounter a hard vocabulary word and you skip over it. Then you come to the questions and your brain freezes. You have no idea what the question is asking. You go back to the line referee by the question and you read it several times but you still cannot understand what the line is saying. Then you read the whole passage again thoroughly. After staring at the answer choices, you finally understand what the question is asking. You quickly bubble it down only to realize that you wasted 5 minutes on one CR question.</p>
<p>That's what uh ally happen to me when I'm doing a CR problem. Are there any way to stop this?</p>
<p>That used to happen to me as well. The only way to fix this is to memorize a lot of vocabulary, recognize the words in context, practice reading, and increase your comprehension of passages. </p>
<p>If that’s the case, you’ll probably have to read the news a little bit, read a couple of books in increasing difficulty as you get better, and take more practice tests afterwards until you start understanding. That’s what I did.</p>
<p>I get something like this, probably more on CR like you then anything else really. While not the case for math, I look at each CR and sometimes writing sections as the same way I look at a race (I’m a swimmer).
Before that test starts, or even after it does if you need to, get into the mentality of taking the test. While this feeling itself may be different for everyone, try to find a way and get yourself into the correct mindset. However you feel when you take a practice test and you feel both confident and clear headed with all the questions (not rushing) is how you should feel the moment before the test starts. I like to take a few breaths, remind myself to the weakest links in my test taking skills, then start. Those seconds can end up meaning that 5 minutes on one CR question.
Oh but in general
don’t get distracted
don’t tell yourself not to be distracted
and learn to block sound out… don’t do this consciously or you’ll be distracted with trying to keep yourself not distracted</p>