<p>For students who got a 750 or above on CR this is directed towards you. I would like to know the step by step process you follow to answer the reading comp. questions on a given SAT test, starting from, say, the beginning of the test. I've tried many strategies ranging form PR to Grammatix, and my score seems to be the same (I get about 2-3 questions wrong following each passage). </p>
<p>Thanks for all your help.</p>
<p>bump.....anyone?</p>
<p>Please help.</p>
<p>i did not get a 750 on CR (i took verbal) but here are a few tips from mcgraw-hills that i found very helpful: </p>
<p>refer to the lines just before and after, and never refer to what you think it implies. all answers have to be based directly on the info provided by the passage (or the line if the question specifies it)
*this tip is helpful for the I, II, III question types!</p>
<p>also: don't cross out answer choices based on what you think it implies,
but find solid info that contradicts it. </p>
<p>when 2 answers are similar, the less extreme or exclusive one is the answer. </p>
<p>purpose of passage questions: purposes are to be worthwhile and specific. purposes like to describe the relationship between literature and history, or to belittle modern literary critics are less likely to be what you're looking for. </p>
<p>hope this helps! the book is great by the way, although i haven't seen grammatix i think it's really good.</p>
<p>Thanks bneg.</p>
<p>bump...anyone else?
I only have a few months before the SATs...</p>
<p>to clarify, the last sentence of my post doesn't mean that i like grammatix or think it works~</p>
<p>you still have a few months? what grade are you in/when are you planning to take it? i think if you provide more details it'll be easier for people to post stuff.</p>
<p>I'm actually just a sophomore, but would like to take the SAT early (preferrably this December or January '06) so that I dont have to worry about it as a junior, when my other stuff (courses, activities, etc) will be more important. Hopefully that helps. </p>
<p>Thanks again for the advice guys.</p>
<p>Not sure but I think colleges will only take SATs from your junior or senior years. I'd check that out, but lol i should be doing homework as I type. </p>
<p>LOL CC ruins my homework concentration :)</p>
<p>Jollyranger99, I would wait until next year anyway, because you will just be...how do I put it....smarter.</p>
<p>Right now i'm constantly scoring between 2100 and 2200, but i would really like to get 2350+...the math section isnt that bad for me (although the curve on the real test has become quite harsh), and the essay is okay too...it's just CR...i'm scoring in the high 600s (670-690) to low 700s (700-720), while i would like to score 750+...any advice for making that change in a few months (esp. the reading passages)?</p>
<p>Thanks again guys.</p>
<p>i agree with JTC007, instead of giving yourself a hard time now, you might as well focus on schoolwork; you might just find yourself having a really easy time by the end of your junior year. almost as if you don't need to study. however, studying vocab early is a good idea, but that doesn't seem to be the problem~ and 700 is not bad, and it doesn't indicate that there's a major problem, so there's no point in bothering yourself right now~</p>