<p>Hello guys! I'm new here.
My critical reading is really poor (about 650).
I think I have short attention span,thus... I hate long passages.
I just started preparing for SAT1.
How much can you normally improve on the reading score after prep?
Or...could anyone offer me some tips other than those strategies on Barron&Princeton Review.
ThX!!!</p>
<p>Read more. That's the royal road to higher reading scores. Really. Just read more about things you like to read about, and save your money that you would spend on test prep for getting interesting books and magazine subscriptions. That's also better preparation for college.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot! I'll work on that.
By the way, do you think it is possible to have a jump of 100 for reading score in 6 months?</p>
<p>That should be possible.</p>
<p>550->700's</p>
<p>when youre doing the reading section..dont read the long passage. skip around the questions and just read what you have to. try taking some practice tests that way..
worked for me 770</p>
<p>just do the fetch questions first, where they tell you the line number (the vocab ones for example), then once youve done a few of these and get a general understanding of the passage you can figure out the others without straining yourself by reading the whole thing THEN going back</p>
<p>Thanks tokenadult and nicorobin90!!! I'm more confident now.</p>
<p>hester, you've got a very interesting method. I've never thought I could do that way. I will try that for practice tests. hope it will work for me too. haha,thx a lot XD</p>
<p>I started at a 580 and i am kinda stuck at around a 680ish range. It is really annoying. I really want to score a 700+. We will see in like 13 days how i did i guess.
Hoping for 700 at least</p>
<p>hester, i do the exact same thing. I always get the inference ones wrong. I always seem to have a beef with the CB answers. THey are soooooo wrong sometimes. I swear!</p>
<p>i got in the high 600s so I studied like 4 hours a day for 2 months after going through 3 different books and scored 30 points lower.</p>
<p>Basically what I'm trying to say is that for most people, their reading score will be determined by how much they read while growing up and not by a short 1-2 months of intensive studying.</p>
<p>katrider360,
that's very sad. But i see your point.
I'm a non-native English speaker, so intensive studying should work for me.</p>
<p>that's true~I'm a non-native 2~
extremely hard to get a high score in this part~~~~
sigh~~~</p>
<p>i went from a 570 to a 760 with good prep</p>
<p>JADY,
totally agree with you</p>
<p>StrangeIndianFoo,
Wow,very impressive! hope i could achieve that too</p>