<p>I’ve gotten an 800 on CR twice, but I got a 710 when I took the Lit test because I didn’t prepare for it at all. They are similar, but lit is much more involved than CR.</p>
<p>I got a 770 on both the CR and the Lit exam. In my experience, to do well on them both means to “know the test”. CR is more logic based–you can almost always find the answer explicity stated in the passage. As everyone has said, Lit is more inference based. The first practice tests I took went poorly because I made different inferences about the passage than the test makers. Both my view and theirs could usually be supported by the passage, so I had to train myself to recognize what “kind of view” the test makers would have. Oftentimes on the Lit exams, I would see at least two answer choices which I could justify, so it just comes down to knowing which one is “more right” according to the CollegeBoard. I only got that down with practice. </p>
<p>Also, the Lit exam contains harder passages, like poetry, plays, and archaic excerpts about taxes or social structure or other such topics from 18th century writers that add a ‘y’ and/or ‘e’ to the spelling of every other word.</p>