<p>I've been on A LOT of websites/forum/blogs and read about tips, strategies, advice, on how to improve on the reading comprehension and the majority of them said that reading was key to success. They stressed on the importance of reading everyday, whether it be news, books, whatever that you could get your hands on. I was just wondering that if reading really does make a difference. No offense, but I only have like two months until the SAT's, and I really don't think that reading a couple of books will improve my score (something I should've done WAY before). I mean...I'm sure there are a ton of people who get 700+ on the reading section and aren't book worms. So is reading really that crucial to get a good score? I mean, isn't the SAT all about just knowing HOW to take the test rather than being a "reader?" </p>
<p>I was just really curious because I'm pretty much stumped now if it's actually possible to improve my reading score.</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat :/.
Thankfully I made a huge error last May when I took the test (completely skipped an entire passage and it’s Q’s on accident) so I’m banking on that making the difference and bumping me into the 700+ this fall. Otherwise the only advice I’ve found is to familiarize yourself with the question format and get good at deciding when to guess/skip.</p>
<p>Reading a lot is probably more important than what any studying can do. You learned how to read when you were fairly young and some people have been reading books for fun for more than 10 years. That’s a lot more practice than learning some test taking strategies in a month or two.</p>
<p>You can improve in short duration if you can strengthen your vocabulary and reading comprehension by trying to understand exactly what passages say and not skipping by complicated phrases when you can’t understand them. Even if it’s not important to the overall point of the essay.</p>
<p>To be honest, I don’t think that reading helps very much. The SAT really isn’t so much about what you know, rather do you know how to take the test.</p>
<p>My advice would be to get the official College Board Study Guide and take all the practice tests. It has 10 of them, and they’re all past tests, so they’re as real as it gets. </p>
<p>I started off sub-700 on reading, and after doing all the practice tests, I ended up with a 780 on my actually SAT. It really helps.</p>