How to Attack the SAT Critical Reading Section Effectively

<p>This is now my favorite thread. I’ve been having a hard time with the CR section but I can’t wait to try this method :slight_smile: Thank you</p>

<p>wow VERY inspirational, im in the same situation that you were in. im scoring in the low 500s for CR and its not too much about me understanding the passage anymore. its more of understanding the answer i choose b/c you know how CB can word them weirdly. How can i ensure that i stop making this mistake? all i want is to raise my score to say mid 600s</p>

<p>what do you mean by breeze through the vocab section?</p>

<p>I bought the Kaplan’s SAT Strategies, practice and review and I have also the Official SAT Study of collegeboard. I wonder if the book Cracking the SAT princetown review is better than Kaplan’s SAT Strategies, practice and review. </p>

<p>What is your opinion dear friends?</p>

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<p>My method is not truly skimming. What I said was:</p>

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<p>You’re still reading it, but slightly faster and without pausing. My experience has been that most line reference questions are answerable having read from the beginning to the point of reference. And if not, it should be unambiguous that it is a general question to be answered after all the specific questions are finished. Hope this helps.</p>

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<p>You should prepare for the sentence completion section by going through a lot of vocabulary. In other words, all the work should go in before the test, perhaps even a year before. I don’t think “tricks” are very helpful with this section because the hard ones will be difficult to get from context alone. As such, being preparation based, the sentence completion section should not take up more than a very small portion of your time because you’ll either get it or you won’t.</p>

<p>I don’t have enough time to read all twenty pages, so excuse me if I repeat a question. </p>

<p>I suck at the inference questions. Would say that I should only use the passage and not try to use deductive reasoning when asked about, say, the meaning of a certain phrase?</p>

<p>Hey nice thread and good job on the SAT.
Did you decide what college you are going to?</p>

<p>what the SAT likes?
to apply at US university,it need to get SAT,where the SAT test take place?at US itself,or at current country?</p>

<p>I please the author to answer my two tiny questions:</p>

<p>1) which vocabulary did u take to learn ( which book)</p>

<p>2)how much vocabulary did u learn?</p>

<p>THANK U IN ADVANCE</p>

<p>Noitaraperp, you are a genius. Thanks so much for posting this.</p>

<p>Improved from 650 in March to an 800 in June.</p>

<p>You rock.</p>

<p>jimi123, I feel you. Inference questions are damn irritating. </p>

<p>I try to use the passage and stuff and even did the section untimed. The thing is, I kinda understand why that an answer choice is right, or MORE right than the other ones. But just by looking at that specific part of the passage, I wasn’t able to discern that subtle difference on the spot.</p>

<p>800 eh? nice</p>

<p>thanks very much .
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<p>What exactly is this a link to?</p>

<p>I’m Kind of a slow reader and I wanted to try this method, I got 600 on the CR with 2 wrong on the sent. completetion. And 14 wrong on the passages. Do you think practice can make me a faster reader?</p>

<p>^Definitely. I’m not the fastest reader either…this method can sometimes be better for a slower reader.</p>

<p>Does anyone know where I can buy DH 1 +2, it’s ebook on barnes and noble and no paperbacks…?</p>

<p>Amazon.com ^.</p>

<p>are they coming w/a 2010 version soon? I’m about to go buy the 2011 DH 1+2 off of amazon, or are the earlier editions fine also?</p>