Improving CR score

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<p>I've been doing a bit of SAT prep but I seem to be stuck.
My math is consistently 750-800, my writing has improved from a low 700 to around 750-780 but my CR score isn't changing at all. I usually get 4 passage based questions wrong and 2 sc, which brings me down to about 650-700. I'm aiming for a 2300+ but I can't seem to get there. Any tips? </p>

<p>What can I do besides read the New Yorker and the Economist to improve my CR score? I'm currently working on Direct Hits vol 1 and 2.</p>

<p>Also, for Xiggi's method, how did you guys go over your correct answers?</p>

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<p>I don’t think -6 = 650-700… I missed 9 (2 sc, 7 passage) in June and got a 680.
But anyways it doesn’t look like vocab is your main problem so I wouldn’t really devote too much time to that… I would recommend learning better reading passage techniques.</p>

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<p>According to my chart, getting 6 wrong on the CR section and getting 61 correct is a 710.
Getting 61 right and skipping the 6 hard questions would be a 730.</p>

<p>There’s not much room to improve your SC.</p>

<p>I’d say focuse on improving the passages. Are you skipping any questions?
It might be helpful to skip 3 passage questions throughout the whole test.</p>

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<p>It was a rough estimate, I just know that I get around the 650-800 range. I’m trying to improve my vocabulary for SC but I’m still not sure about the reading passages. I don’t want to just leave them blank either because I’m aiming for 2300+</p>

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<p>Are you taking practice tests from the blue book? If you aren’t that’s probably the reason you aren’t getting all 19 sc right.</p>

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<p>Chances are you’re going to miss around 2 sentence completions, of which will have maybe 3 words total you don’t know out of 350+ you will be studying with just DH. And the odds of those 3 words being in DH are slim</p>

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<p>Any advice? All anyone is telling me is that there’s nothing I can do…</p>

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<p>There’s really no magic solution. You just have to keep practicing and thoroughly reviewing (the most important part), and hopefully it’ll click with time.</p>

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<p>ill say it until my head explodes-- learn the ways in which these cr questions try to trick you. to that end, rocket review really helps but so does doing many questions and finding patterns. it worked a hell of a lot for me</p>

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<p>Thanks guys, I guess for CR all I can do is practice (and try to find a way to focus)</p>

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<p>yes! another trick would be to subscribe to either economist or new yorker and read from them whenever you can. My scores rose slightly as it helped me to browse quicker.</p>

<p>-skoodu</p>