<p>So on the june sat I got a 2190. Unfortunately, I got a 630 in critical reading. So I have been doing a lot of preparation to improve my cr score. One thing I am doing is reading classics. So I was wondering, do I read like I would read in the actual sat (fast and glossing over superfluous details) or slowly and grabbing all details?</p>
<p>I always read slow and grasped the details but everyone has their own way.</p>
<p>I got only 520 in CR, and my main problem is time. It takes me more than average time to grab what is written in the passage. I missed most of the questions in the CR part as well.</p>
<p>Guys, any one of you, what do you recommend for me to improve my CR?</p>
<p>I got 800 in CR and I studied through reading classics as well.
What I did was I underlined as I read through even though I knew I wasn’t going to come back to those lines (it takes some time)
For some reason, underlining really helped me focus on the text and although it might take some time at first, you really get used to it after a while.
I used exact same technique on the real SAT and aced the reading section</p>
<p>If you’re a fast reader (like me) you can afford to read through the whole passage once and then start answering the line-specific questions. You’ll have to reference back to those lines. Once you’ve done that, you’re left with the “big picture” questions and by then you’ve read through the whole text pretty much twice, so you’re golden. I got 760 in CR and I’m not a native English speaker. But this really only works if you’re a REALLY fast reader…I usually have time left over in the reading sections, even when I do the reading twice.</p>