<p>@Lalanickols</p>
<p>They do, it happened to me. Mid 180s (I got sick) to high 2000s PSAT to SAT and I got flagged.</p>
<p>Since your score increased by whole 600 points, it doesn't matter that you're not in 1500/1600 group, imho. Congrats!!!</p>
<p>I know, I hate that, 1490/1600. But considering the recent circumstances I am happy. </p>
<p>I actually am going to tutor students in my school and I just have to let people know I will be available. There are many juniors that will take it soon, so...</p>
<p>The tests I have accumulated over the past 2 years which include every QAS test, all online tests, BB, and the Red book. As well as some Old SAT QAS. Amounts to around 40 tests. </p>
<p>The essay I must say must have been a stroke of luck. It wasn't really on topic and had kind of faulty grammar. I never studied or practiced for it, I just started writing. And I wrote about things that appealed to me, not the reader, because that way I would be able to support it better. It was that choices prompt. Except I went on about freedom of choice, talked about the American Revolution and Henry David Thoreau. If you want I can post it later, but really, its not that great. Both readers though it was a 6 for some reason.</p>
<p>I'd also like to point out that akahmed left some fantastic CR advice on another thread. . . akahmed, do you remember where you posted? I can't find it. It was the post in which you compared active reading to listening, and passive reading to hearing (a great analogy).</p>
<p>I can't find the one you're talking about, but this was one before it lotf629</p>
<p>Writing is simple: study the grammar, practice alot of questions until they are second nature, take the test, leave with an 800.
Seriously, study grammar, and answer the Q's, study proper sentence structure and paragraph organization. Essay is another story.</p>
<p>What I did for CR, I made my own approach, unique to me and my needs. In fact you could say the approach defines who I am as a reader. Find what works for you and stick with it. And I am not talking about generic approaches like reading the questions first or last, I mean the procedure you use to attack the questions. The answer is going to be on that page in front of you, staring you in the face. All you have to do is recognize it, that's all, recognize it. Everyone can read (almost), but not everyone can read actively. Reading actively is like the difference between hearing and listening. Hearing is just accepting sound, but listening is internalizing. Similarly, reading can just be saying words to yourself in your head. Reading actively is like getting inside the author's mind, asking yourself why he or she did this or that, constantly gleaning meaning from the sentences, squeezing every last drop of information and inference from those passages! Be the author, just be the author.</p>
<p>OK, if that doesn't appeal to you, just make your own approach, that's time efficient with your reading skills, and that can get you to the answer quicker.
Also, approach the answer choices with an eliminating attitude. You are the judge, you just read what the author has to say, now you are there to cross out any answer choices that do not reflect the author's point, are irrelevant, are distorted, are false, or that are not completely right. You will be left with a few answer choices and pick the one that best describes (in context) what the author is trying to tell you, what his purpose was for writing that piece, what he wants you to take away from his literature or prose.</p>