How to Improve My Critical Readng Score by 200 in 2 Weeks

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<p>Is that even possible? I took a practice test today and I got 760 Math, 710 Writing, but 540 Reading!!! I had 22 wrong plus few blanks. I'm terrible at both sentence completion and the reading passage stuff. </p>

<p>For sentence completion, I don't think I know enough words... Would memorizing like, 200 words or so help? or is that too little? But there is only two weeks left.</p>

<p>For reading passage, one of the reason I do so bad is that it's hard to keep myself from drifting away while reading long passages because I'm a terrible concentrator. But I am just bad at critical reading in general.</p>

<p>I really need to get this score up because I am probably applying early next year and this is the only time to take my SAT I...(because I'm taking the subject tests in Oct)</p>

<p>Please help, how can I improve?</p>

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<p>When you're reading the passages, talk to yourself, keep paraphrasing what you read, put it in your own words to better understand them. </p>

<p>As for the words, just try to memorize a list of prefixes and suffixes. And although you have 2 weeks, try to read a few books.</p>

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<p>Lol @ talk to yourself.</p>

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<p>vocab problems = memorize memorize. u can memorize lots of words in 2 weeks.</p>

<p>reading comprehension = there's a "trick" to answer RC questions. do lots of practice and "Analyze" why u got questions wrong and right. if there's a Q that u don't know how to answer, star it and pick ur best answer. then go back and see why you got it right or wrong. find ur footing.</p>