<p>I'm struggle with time on Critical Reading so I was wondering if any of you found working through Barron's or Gruber's Workbooks useful. I have both books. I would just like some suggestions on which one to work on first, if either. I do have some official tests, but I want to save them until a bit later.</p>
<p>Anyone?</p>
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<p>You should use Blue Book first and foremost and Grammatix, Princeton Review, and Barron’s as supplements respectively.</p>
<p>I’m just looking for practice since I pretty much have most strategies covered. So I was thinking that if I practiced on CR at the moment from workbooks alone, I can take tests from Barron’s and PR in entirety later. I’m done with the Blue Books, by the way.</p>
<p>So, anyone else have any opinions about either of these two books?</p>
<p>Truffleliepuff i thought you said PR critical reading is way easier than BB?</p>
<p>It is, but it’s better than other publishing companies like Barron’s. Just because it is easy doesn’t mean it isn’t worth using as a supplement. I stress supplement.</p>
<p>is barron’s harder or easier than PR? and is PR really easier or just a lil easier than the actual BB tests?</p>
<p>Barron’s is neither difficult nor easy compared to PR or BB because the questions are so vague and unmatched to them that it cannot be compared. PR resembles BB more similarly but is easier.</p>
<p>alright im just confused cause many CCers say PR is harder than BB but your saying its not, lol</p>
<p>^ Maybe it’s because I find the articles in PR more interesting than in BB 
Depends all on you though.</p>
<p>yep i guess so
i personally think McGraw-Hill has the hardest CR passages</p>
<p>Are the McGrawhill Practice tests (especially the CR sections) reliable? As in…will they help me improve my mid to high 600 in CR to 750+ or are they a waste of time like other non-collegeboard prep books?</p>
<p>Thanks for the plenty of responses guys. But no one answered my question yet. 
Okay, I’m going to start with the Barron’s workbook anyway and decide what to do from there.</p>
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<p>salzahrah, if you judge the difficulty of tests by raw scores, Barrons>PR>BB and if you do it by scaled scores, Barrons>PR~BB.</p>
<p>^so your saying based on raw scores barrons is easiest?
interesting.
The questions in McGraw Hill are not bad, kind of like PR questions. But their passages are really hard which i think is good practice.</p>
<p>No no no… by the greater-than sign “>” I meant to imply greater difficulty. Barron’s is the toughest.</p>
<p>BTW, how well do your scaled scores on McGraw-Hill compare to the ones on BB?</p>