How to Attack the SAT Critical Reading Section Effectively

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<p>Don’t move on until you completely understand why the correct answer is so. Review is essential to your understanding. If you don’t have someone you can reliably go to, ask CC for help on the question.</p>

<p>I’m a foreign student, i haven’t learned anything for the CR section. After reading this, I tried with one long passage exercise and I answer wrong only 1 questions over 7 all! This is really helpful!</p>

<p>How long did it take you to raise from 500 to 800?
Is it possible to raise from 550 to 750 in 4 months?</p>

<p>Hi I kinda skeptical about crossing off the “extreme” answer choices. What if it’s right???</p>

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<p>I never said to cross them off blindly - I simply said that they’re rarely ever correct on the SAT. You’ll be able to tell in those special circumstances when an author really does write with “vitriolic indignation,” but most times that’s going to be a bit of a stretch. On a more subtle level, words like “majority” (not to mention the word “all”) can be extreme as well if there is no indication of such a thing.</p>

<p>Thanks for the great post!</p>

<p>Wow this is honestly amazing, i haven’t been able to score above a 590 and i just got a 650 on a practice test…your amazing</p>

<p>This is amazing advice!! thank you for sharing! I’m definitely using this method for my next practice test!!</p>

<p>Need some help here: most of my wrong answers are comming from the comparing passage one and two questions… Any good strategies Pls?</p>

<p>I have just one month to prepare for my SAT n my CR is not improving at all, i have practised alot but I want to know if you recommend me to try new methods(like urs) or to keep following the old ones.MY CR score is 500-590.</p>

<p>You should be given an award for this. The advice is brilliant! I never ever looked at the passage based questions like this. I haven’t tried it yet but I am almost sure it’s going to help tremendously. I really wish I could give you something apart from words…but I can’t. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!</p>

<p>Wow! This is truly amazing! In the CR section I get about 610. My decent knowledge of roots, the use of elimination, and intuition allow me to get most of the sentence completion correct, but line citation in passage based reading has been killing me! </p>

<p>On my practice tests and practice questions, I miss way too many line citation passage based reading questions and my scores suffer because of this. I read this, and then I went and practiced with questions in the BB (the 31 question passage based reading) and I missed ONLY ONE question! (so 30/31) I am so shocked at how effective and instantaneous these results were for me! </p>

<p>Wow. I have the confidence that if I can effectively use this tactic time-efficiently, I could get an 800 on the CR.</p>

<p>Our kids are juniors. we expect them to take the SAT in the spring and maybe again next fall. One of the SAT prep course outfits said it is best to take the prep course the preceding weeks right up to the test date. Is this the case? What do you all think of one on one programs like Huntington, Sylvan and C3</p>

<p>proudfather, I don’t think you will find an answer by posting an off-topic question in a thread.</p>

<p>Noitaraperp, your method works. Thanks a lot. I never thought i could get any nice strategy to shoot up my CR score.</p>

<p>Sir, I wanted to ask you some questions but I could not message you. So please give me your email so I could message you.</p>

<p>Thank you</p>

<p>Please message me…Temebrizzy@********** I desperately need your help.</p>

<p>It’s really helpful!!
However, as an international student, I find it a bit difficult to finish all the questions on time. So I had to bubble the answer while I am reading. What should I do to be faster??</p>

<p>sigh…actually time management is my huge headache…
i almost finished college board exercise but it 's still to no avail…
what can i do to familiarize myself with the passages quickly???
i simply have no idea after many practices…i have improve my accuracy and find the hints revealing the answers from passages but it really TAKES TIME…
TIME MANAGEMENT is my archenemy</p>

<p>In fact, Noitaraperp’s method is the best. All you need is absolute concentration. It really works.</p>