<p>Epic I need to start kicking it in gear.</p>
<p>Hi Apoc314,
Is it possible to raise your CR score from 670 to 750 in one or two months?</p>
<p>when you say, be able to do SC in 30 secs. Do you mean be able to do all the questions within 30 sec or spend no more than 30 sec per question?</p>
<p>I am sure he meant 30 sec for every sentence completion. </p>
<p>Thanks for sharing, this is useful. I adapted my strategy according to this and it really helped.</p>
<p>Yes, I meant 30 seconds for every sentence completion - every second counts, “tik tok on the clock”. Sorry I haven’t been responsive, I’ve been busy in my first semester of college at Vanderbilt. It certainly is possible to raise your SAT CR score from 670 to 750+ in 1-2 months if you study hard consistently like a warrior and persevere.</p>
<p>Some points are worth to try out, thanks!</p>
<p>Have a great winter break, all!</p>
<p>Hey guys. Just because I’ve seen a lot of people waste a TON of their time doing this, I wanted to throw out there that instead of studying a ton of vocab to help with those beginning questions, you might want to try scanning through a “Latin for dummies” book. Pick up how the words are broken up with suffixes and prefixes, learn all of those suffixes and prefixes, and then go online and study some Latin roots. You should be pretty much covered (as far as I can tell), because even if you’re asked about words that you’ve never seen, you should generally be able to figure out what they mean. This may not work for everyone, but I hope it helps somebody out there!</p>
<p>—I say this as a kid who got an 800 in CR as a freshman, and who consistently gets them in practice tests (and hopefully also on the first real SAT I’ve taken since I was a freshman which I took today!).</p>
<p>Ivygolfer: I feel that underlining can get messy and confusing- circling and bracketing works better for me. You can also mark up key words in sections other than the passages, such as sentence completion (mark transition phrases) and the ACT English and Reading sections. I had a perfect 36 on the ACT English section a few years ago.</p>
<p>omg this is very insightful. In fact, even before reading your thread, I had been using 3–6.
Usually, I get middle to high 600s (highest is only 690 sadly) and I think part of the reason is because I haven’t been using suggestion number 9. so thank you for that!</p>
<p>I Hope my CR >720
HOPE HOPE HOPE <3</p>
<p>Good luck, guys!</p>
<p>Want to know how I got an 800 in CR? I never studied, but I did read A LOT growing up. It’s really not that hard if you actually know the English language.</p>
<p>I’m stuck around 700 with two weeks left of the sat :’(</p>
<p>i am stuck with 500 :((((((((((((((((((( help!!!</p>
<p>Thank you so much</p>
<p>Keep on practicing, everyone! I know you guys have what it takes to excel on the critical reading. I really emphasize playing devil’s advocate when you get into the 700’s and above to really nitpick and find the true, correct answer in the reading comprehension passages. </p>
<p>SAT97TAKER, you might need to start off with finding a friend who can help you practice through the SAT passages - you can even start off by also using Kaplan and Princeton Review as approximate examples for reading comprehension and vocabulary practice. Are you an international student? If you are, you could take the TOEFL. Thanks for reading my guide, and best of luck with studies!</p>
<p>great advice about Devil’s advocate</p>
<p>I am in 9th grade and am starting to prepare for SAT critical reading. I read the forums and everybody discusses blue book. I can not find it online. can sombody please tell me the complete name of Blue Book and where can I buy it from.
Thanks</p>
<p>The blue book is “The Official SAT Study Guide” by The College Board and the version I used was the 2nd edition I think. You can shop for it on collegeboard.org or just type it into google shop and try to get a good deal on it.</p>