<p>okay this is my situation: At first I took a practice test and saw that I did badly on SC. So I went over RR and did the SC in Barron's Critical Reading Workbook. And the weird thing happened : Barron's book divided the SC into 3 level:easy, medium and hard, each of which has 4 exercises. Before I reviewed RR, I had 7-9 wrong/20. After, still 7-9 wrong/20 no matter how hard the level is. I couldn't even reduce the wrong answers to 5. What happened to me ??? I got the same number wrong on easy-medium-hard ??? sometimes I got wrong at easy questions. I think I'm facing my limit. can you guys help me break it up ??? I'm really stuck :(</p>
<p>Do you know the vocabulary? Is that what you get stuck on?</p>
<p>The list I posted earlier did wonders for me in SC (missed none). It's about 1000ish words. Scroll through the old pages and you should find it or look up my posts and you should find it. </p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>I'm trying to learn as many vocab as possible.
But in some questions even though I know all the words I still do wrong
Do I fall into the category of those who "read into things" ???</p>
<p>Even if you know all the words you still get them wrong? That shouldn't happen, because if you knew what the words meant, you should be able to eliminate the answers that don't make sense. Furthermore, the correct answer should make perfect sense. Try using the process of elimination. Insert one word or pair of words into the sentence and read the sentence. Read it to yourself. If it doesn't make sense, eliminate it. If it might be right, leave it. Do this for each of the five choices. Then, out of the possible correct answers remaining, choose which one fits best. That should be the correct answer.</p>
<p>It seems like you need to learn the structure of the sentence. Do a lot of sentence completions and try to guess which word will come next; if it's + or -. Learn pivotal words such as however, but, as a result, etc.</p>
<p>This may seem like weird advice, but try reading Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre. You'll be well served reading vocab in context, and they're interesting novels.</p>
<p>Asides from memorizing vocab words, mark the blanks with (-) or (+) to help. Look for shifters. Eliminate answers. If it's a two blank question, go down one column first and mark out ones that don't make sense. Then look at the other column. It goes faster that way. And if you're not sure, skip.</p>
<p>Sorry, I forgot to add. If you're getting words wrong and you think you know the meaning, that probably is indicating that you're using words with the wrong tone. Either that or you're choosing extreme words which are usually not the answers.</p>
<p>alright let me try again.
I also try to locate the clues in the sentence. sometimes I don't know the meaning of one word but unfortunately that's the key word. So what should I do ?</p>
<p>It's quite simple. Learn the key word! If you're taking the SAT and come across the word you should still eliminate the other choices that you know are wrong and then guess from those that are left.</p>
<p>For example, take these sentences from Time magazine:</p>
<p>Mandela loved to _________ about his boyhood and his lazy afternoons herding cattle. "You know," he would say, "you can only lead them from behind." He would then raise his eyebrows to make sure I got the analogy. </p>
<p>(A) sing
(B) argue
(C) deviate
(D) reminisce
(E) yell</p>
<p>Even if you didn't know what reminisce meant, you can still figure out that it's probably D.</p>
<p>lol that's the way I think too.
But sometimes I don't trust my answer, so I go over other choices. And if I catch any new WRONG idea but appears right to me, I choose it :( How gay is that. it's like the more you stay the more bad ideas coming to your head</p>
<p>So if that's your problem, how can you fix it? I'll let you think about it.</p>
<p>And please don't say "How gay is that" on a public online forum.</p>