<p>How do you get an 800 on the Critical Reading? Besides reading.</p>
<p>Well, what areas of CR are giving you trouble? The vocab questions? The time constraints? If you figure out where your problems are, you can fix them more easily.</p>
<p>how to get an 800 on CR?</p>
<p>read, analyze, repeat.</p>
<p>that’s success in a nutshell.</p>
<p>a more explicit example would be-- practicing SAT CR passages, highlighting your problems, and learning from them. </p>
<p>here’s one thing you’ve gotta figure out–once you reach this point, you’ll have no problem reaching, or coming close to, the elusive 800
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<p>SAT CR is the same–the questions, the format–is the same, every time. it’s just a matter of GETTING USED to the format that is blocking you from your goal.</p>
<p>also, you’ve gotta avoid overanalyzing the passage–never try using your own logic to solve CR problems, ALWAYS look in the passage for your answer, almost 99 % of the time the answer is explicitly stated in the passage.</p>
<p>I jumped from a 660 to a 780 CR score in a few months. How?</p>
<p>Read the post above mine and do what it suggests :p</p>
<p>Its all about practice for the people who naturally aren’t good at CR (like me).</p>
<p>Whenever you get stuck between 2 questions, remember that there is only 1 correct answer.</p>
<p>If necessary, reread the passage and critically deduce which answer would be most open to interpretation.</p>
<p>Do not pick questions with all-or-nothing words like “never”, “always” unless it actually makes sense (e.g. All squares have four sides)</p>
<p>i suck at Critical reading. 600 
it always comes down to 2 aswers and i somehow ALWAYS choose the wrong one…</p>
<p>i found the oct critical reading passages actually interesting but still bombed it. i guess i have a hard time interpreting the passage correctly</p>
<p>don’t get too down on yourself,
you’re a lot better than you think!
just practice, practice, practice!! i can NOT emphasize this enough!!</p>
<p>thanks. is taking all the sat practice tests in the blue book enough? what is another good book with good critical reading practice? mcgraw hill’s 12 practice sats?</p>
<p>I personally wouldn’t recommend McGraw Hill. I didn’t think that those tests were accurate at all. The princeton review 11 real tests book is AMAZING. Its tougher than the tests you will see but it will surely prepare you. The blue book tests are somewhat accurate, however, they are easier than what you may encounter on test day, in my opinion. </p>
<p>I also recommend that you stay away from Barrons as it is way too hard.</p>
<p>I don’t know why but i found barron to be lot easier compared to the BB.</p>
<p>May its the answer explanation at the back that helped me improve.only If it was the same for the BB i don’t Know maybe 600 is sure for me</p>
<p>Thanks, StrangeIndianFoo.</p>
<p>so the princeton review book of tests is recommended. Anyone know if the barrons verbal practice 11th edition is any good??</p>