Help assess my CR strategy

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<p>hi,</p>

<p>I'm getting owned by the passage questions on the CR in my BB practice tests (I normally get all the sentence completions right). My current strategy is to mark the line references in the text then divide the passage into manageable sections. I focus on the line referenced lines as I read the sections. Then I go to the questions and reread the line referenced section along with a bit of the surrounding text. I normally have 2-3 minutes to spare which makes me panic and lose focus. For some reason I find certain passages easy, while passages that concern stories from the 19th century trouble me and I don't really understand the passage. I spend a lot of time deciding the answer to a question, when the answer doesn't just "come" to me and I usually get those questions wrong. On other questions I get the answer right away and I can answer the questions quickfire straight after reading a passage. I got 4 passage questions wrong on my first SAT attempt and lots of sentence completions wrong, but on my second attempt I focused too much on studying vocab, drastically reducing the number of errors, but got 7 passage questions wrong after losing focus on the 20min section and guessed about half the questions because I ran out of time.</p>

<p>so what do you think, any suggestions to improve my score to a possible 800? I am putting all my effort for the Jan test and actually studying hard out unlike for my other 2 attempts where I did about nothing except study vocab (I'm in the southern hemisphere and I've finished school so I've got nothing except studying for SAT :) )</p>

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<p>hey i am studying for the january test like you. Yeah that used to be a problem for me a few weeks ago. I find it helpful to spend a good amount of time just to spend a large amount of time (3 - 4 min.) to read the passage and focus on everything the first time around especially for the 19nth century novels. This is because in novels context is very important. Then I go to the line references and look at the surrounding text like you. Since i focused the first time around i can usually answer the question just by seeing which paragraph its on. It saves time. I still can’t get that 800 in cr but my mistakes are mostly from my lack of vocabulary than I not being able to understand the reading. Oh and it also helps if you sorta get into the reading like I do. Don’t look at it like a chore but actually look forward to a good read. Some of the passages are actually interesting lol.</p>