<p>One of my weak points, and I would assume a very common weak point as well. Anyway, as anyone who has prepared for the SAT might know, the Critical Reading section is by the far the most challenging one of all. The passages are written in complicated prose, so reading and fully comprehending a passage is a challenge by itself, let alone under a time limit.</p>
<p>Any advice please?</p>
<p>Positively vandalize the passage. The test booklet is yours to mark up, after all. Circle/underline key words or phrases and scribble notes in the margins. Often, you’ll find that one entire paragraph can be paraphrased into one sentence or main point without missing anything important (not everyone can be Hemingway), so write those somewhere, too.</p>
<p>Also, the text itself isn’t the only thing you can look at. The questions and their answers can sometimes help you understand the passage and guide you through some more abstract concepts. One time (this was AP Lang, but that’s pretty much CR on steroids), I read a passage about a girl wandering through a university and thinking along the way, and the questions pretty much told me that it was actually talking about the obstacles women face in intellectual pursuits.</p>
<p>I have a similar post in another thread, if you’d like to read it. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/1199629-cr-tips.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/1199629-cr-tips.html</a></p>
<p>Wank it right before you do the test. It helps you think like a girl, without all the baby batter on the brain.</p>
<p>^ That was actually a pretty good one… Lol.</p>
<p>I just read the first and last paragraphs slowly to get the main idea, and speed through everything in between. I don’t see the point of marking line and going slow when you reach them because I usually end up reading them again to answer the question.</p>