<p>Hello CC, this is my first post, but I have read the advice posted on here and its been extremely helpful. However, I am still struggling with critical reading. I am a strong math student and okay at writing (but I know how to improve). However, when it comes to critical reading I just utterly fail. The sentence completions are okay too, but the passages are just too difficult for me. My biggest problem is getting interested in them. I naturally like the science passages, but the history and narratives are just so boring for me. I miss 4-5 questions each passage that I am uninterested in. When I took my SAT back before I started studying I got a 630 in CR. I want to improve this to the 700s. I don't feel like I have improved at all after going through a Kaplan CR book and currently working through a Barons CR book. Do you guys have any advice that worked for you guys? Thanks.</p>
<p>I would advise against your using any non-CB materials for CR, especially Kaplan (generally too easy) or Barron’s (discouragingly difficult). Between the Blue Book, Online Program, and Preparing for the SAT packets and pdf.s, you have 19 different official tests to practice from.</p>
<p>That being said, check the CR guides on this site. Noitaraperp’s “How to Attack the SAT Critical Reading Section Effectively” was one of the most useful guides for me, and Silverturle’s Guide and Apoc314’s “How I got an 800 on CR” are also very useful. I could give you some tips that helped me, but all of this people scored 60 points higher than I did and have wrote in far more detail all the techniques that helped them in Passage Based questions.</p>
<p>Check those out and hopefully you’ll score 700+ with some good practice.</p>