<p>So, I've been practicing the CR reading for the past 2 months and im taking the November SATs soon. I'm not getting anywhere with this... My scores always fall around 400s. Any suggestions i can do to improve by next week? I think my problem is understand the context of the passages? My vocabulary isn't that great..</p>
<p>firstly, are u a senior? if you are not, do not, DO NOT take the november sat. Believe me, I am hundred percent sure that u can do better, and I am not saying that you should delay it because you will never get better at CR. For some people it just takes a bit more time to train and what not. Even if you are a senior, take it in december, it will give u at least a month more to train.</p>
<p>Secondly, you said that ur vocab is not great. It is quite funny that vocab is both the easiest CR aspect to train for, but also the most unpredictable part of the SAT CR. Study vocab for like 2 hours a day, you will gain 50-100 or so points just through that.</p>
<p>Thirdly, for the reading comprehension, you need to find the root of your inability. I find that once people find out exactly what they are doing wrong, once they actually identify it, they tend to rapidly improve their scores. For me, it was me over thinking and reading too much into the passage. I inferred too much and doing so resulted in me inferring too much about a certain fact. Now, exactly how do you do this? You need to find trends, what kinds of crit reading probs are u getting wrong? If there is a certain type, focus on that and research methods to tackle the question, most review books cover all of the types of questions. Is your problem a time constraint? Is it not being able to memorize the text? If so, actively highlight instead of taking excessive notes.</p>
<p>Fourthly, if you are a junior, and you find that no matter how hard you work, you still can not improve (I doubt that you will not improve) then maybe you want to try the ACT. Many kids who do not do well on the SAT do well on the ACT. If you are a sr then I think that you can not really take the ACT for reg decision, but do not quote me on that.</p>
<p>fifthly, I know this is completely out of logical order, but make sure that you analyze ALL Answers, for every question you do. This is far more important than actually doing the questions. When you process each answer, make sure you do not tell yourself, “Well, That is stupid, my answer is just as good!” Remember, there is ALWAYS one best answer, and once you understand how the collegeboard judges the right answer, you can better answer future questions.</p>
<p>I am a senior and i signed up for the November SAT like last month… I’m trying to look back at what im doing wrong. I can see some things. Yeahh I study those vocabs but they don’t appear on the exam! The reading comprehension might be the vocabs in the question/ answer choices or even in the passage that makes it hard for me to understand? So far it seems to me that the right answer is usually straight forward logical sense?</p>