<p>I have been working through the practice CR passages in the book and its definitely worst than barrons. The level of reading is on par with the reading given on the real SATs, but the questions and their explanations are just absurd. I only worked through 2 passages and there are about 4 questions that make no sense whatsoever. On one question, they claim that the evidence cannot be found in the passage when its right in your face. I don't know, the book is great for math, but i feel like the reading is a bit out of touch, if not downright pathetic.</p>
<p>I don't even like Gruber's math that much.</p>
<p>C'mon gruber owners, speak up.</p>
<p>I have Gruber's, but I haven't gotten to the CR section yet and I was kind of just planning on skimming over it anyway. To prep for critical reading I think the best way is just to take the practice tests from the BB and go over every answer. To me, there's no other way to prep for it, besides reading your entire life.</p>
<p>^ That or memorizing vocab....although I think reading consistently for 3 months would help dramatically. So far I'm doing that and have been seeing relative improvements...to some extent.</p>
<p>Memorizing vocabulary does help. I know some people think it's pointless to try to cram in hundreds of words, but between taking the SAT in May and then June, all I did was study vocab flashcards. I went from a 670 to a 720, with no fill-ins wrong. As far as reading consistently, it can probably help, but it has to be fairly challenging literature.</p>
<p>Yeah, Gruber's CR SUCKS. I looked at the Gruber's critical reading and knew it was garbage just from the questions. The type of questions it asks doesn't even resemble those of the actual SAT.</p>
<p>I knew it! The questions somewhat differed from the actual BB ones, not to mention that their reasoning behind the answers are horrendous.</p>