<p>I and a lot of others want to know the most effective way to improve critical reading. Please, if you can, be as brief as possible. </p>
<p>Thank You.</p>
<p>Use the force.</p>
<p>Stop playing around. Come on and tell us! And I don't mind if you're not breif.</p>
<p>Look through the forum and find other threads that posed the same exact question.</p>
<p>Practice questions. <----I'm serious. There is nothing better. You will learn to think in that certain way...</p>
<p>When I started AP English, we were required to read a lot and fast. It really helped my reading, because my biggest flaw was getting lost in the paragraphs, not focusing, and not understanding vocabulary. I know it's going to sound cliche, but reading helps. I hope this does too :)</p>
<p>I´m sorry as this may sound harsh, but the critical reading is very easy on the SAT I. There is no interpretation needed, its just plot summary, i´m not in any ap class for english and I just got my 1st A on a paper throughout my entire high school career last week (I´m a junior). I took it in March and I got an 800 on the critical reading and a 780 on writing, seriously its not hard, just read the passage, answer the questions. Don´t double check, even if it tells you that in Line 15 the author is stressing what point, don´t go back to line 15. You read the passage you know what it is about, just answer the question it will save you time. I don´t agree with reading the questions first and then the passage, I don´t see how you can get the meaning of a passage without reading the whole thing.</p>
<p>Also in the writing, use personal experience, thats all I did, even though PR will tell you otherwise. Don´t make up facts, even though accuracy doesn´t count the colleges will see your essay, and grade the writing for themselves.</p>
<p>i havent found a way. i improved from 610 => 700 naturally.. just from getting older. the only thing i can think of for verbal is to memorize some vocab. writing section is by FAR the easiest to up ur score in.</p>
<p>Adopt a philosophical view toward the English language and the use of language in general. I suggest the view of the logical positivists or the skeptics. Begin to view words as "feigned" rather than having concrete meanings.</p>
<p>Depending on how low your current score actually is, you may want to consider guessing. :)</p>
<p>don't worry, the force will be with you</p>
<p>tbry23m...´m sorry as this may sound harsh, but the critical reading is very easy on the SAT I. There is no interpretation needed, its just plot summary</p>
<p>Doesn' the cr contain....tone,inference,main idea, and detail?</p>
<p>"don't worry, the force will be with you"</p>
<p>sorry man, but the force will be with everyone, which means that it will be spread very thinly and not enough for everyone.</p>
<p>solution: sit behind someone who is uber good and tap into their brain waves.</p>
<p>Start paying a lot of attention to the answer choices. There is something in each wrong answer choice that makes it wrong, and often that thing is a single word that doesn't quite fit the passage...it's too broad, too narrow, or just not mentioned. I find that students who try to use outside information or who try to think creatively get hurt on the RC questions. Don't try to extrapolate...and remember, language is actually a very precise, um, thingy-ma-bob. Really think about the meaning of the individual words in the answer choices.</p>
<p>Look at a lot of questions. I've done so many that I can do CR questions without reading the text, with about 90% accuracy. You have to come to use College Board's way of thinking. After enough CR questions, they all start to look the same because there is a definite pattern among them.</p>
<p>So yes, practice questions a lot. Do NOT do them blind on the actual test, but doing them blind as practice is great for acquainting yourself with the minds of the test makers.</p>
<p>Great advice, thinkdifferent!</p>
<p>for CRITICAL the formula for getting cr questions right is
3x(p) - (8k^5)/7j <--- that whole thing divided by 20,000</p>
<p>x = number of questions you lowered it down to
p = probility of getting the question right
k = number of questions in section
j = the magic number</p>
<p>if you get a number between 1 and 4 (disregarding decimals) then pick that choice. if you don't, then you have the wrong choice.</p>
<p>you cannot use your calculator in reading section and I doubt you can do this in your head (einstein couldn't lol) so best bet is either omit it or guess it's not that hard....just rmbr get 10 hours of sleep today.</p>
<p>just rmbr get 10 hours of sleep today.</p>
<p>Hey that explains why I bombed CR in March!! I had only 5 hours of sleep the night before!</p>
<p>Read a lot. Read the newspaper every day, and try to read one book outside of school every two weeks. This is how you get really high CR scores.</p>
<p>Also, for the sleep thing, the first time I took it, i was coming off 5 hours of sleep and a double OT basketball game the night before and I got a 780. The second time I got 9.5 hours of sleep and was well rested the day before and got a 740. Sleep doesn't mean all that much.</p>