<p>How would one compare the difficulty of the practice tests to the actual one?</p>
<p>For me, they aren't accurate at all o_o</p>
<p>^There are some many CB tests out there...
There's like 35 CB tests you can pull practice from..</p>
<p>I have done most, if not all of the critical reading sections.
I can't do sections where I remember the story. There is utterly no point.</p>
<p>That's why I'm trying other books.</p>
<p>Anything you guys could suggest?</p>
<p>u 've done the 10 RS yet/?? if u literally finished all BB, including QAS, y dont u start redo them or just review?? ur scores wont go much higher , seems like u hit a peak . =p
dont try kaplan, kaplan is crap. pr is crap, all non cb is crap.</p>
<p>Yeah, I finished all of BB (twice), QAS from 2006 til now, and 10 RS.
I mostly want to work on analyzing CR passages (my main weakness).</p>
<p>Why is PR crap?
I find it pretty accurate to CB.</p>
<p>The math section of the Kaplan's test is a joke. So freakin` easier than BB and RR's.
The reading and writing sections are somewhat sufficient.</p>
<p>PR is actually pretty accurate and good for all sections.</p>
<p>Their writing sections are very accurate, at least in my case.</p>
<p>i dont recommend using non cb such as kaplan's after getting familiarized with the patterns of CB's. when i started,i did pr barrons and kaplans, i was naive back then,i didn't know that cb materials are actually the best ones, ended up getting 540 in W back in may, but prior to that,ive been getting like 650s in W in non cb's . after that,i got frustrated,i came to this site, now i use all CB's . i never looked at kaplan and pr again. i use cb materials accordingly, bb first,then oc, then 05 qas up till now, i have 2 more QAS to go till im done and set for oct. i also do 10 RS Cr and M for practice, i only trust CB, im sick of those big companies. im accustomed to cb materials, so i 'll be expecting the same type of material on oct, instead of some other whacked questions provided by the non cb's .
so no, dont use them at all. u really shouldn't use up all the materials`~~
and how exactly did u analyze the readin Q's ? do u spend like 30 mins ish for passages in a section? dont rush when u analyze passages~~
the way i do passages is something like this: i do a passage, usually in chunks, so not the whole section,but indiv passages. i do the Qs for that passage, leave it there. the next day, redo the same passage, usually i'd be getting the same answers, if not changing 1 or 2 ans. then i check the answers, analyze and all that; reading was very hard for me,but over the summer,i've + more than 100 points. idk if u do this,but this way definitely helped me. i dont rush passages at all ~~ doing a whole bunch of passages isn't gonna help much, remember : quality>quanity =]]</p>
<p>@xcellerator, yeah kaplan's is really easy lol... it has many flaws too, there was a Q that has a wrong answer lol... ahh whacked boooks
sry thats alot lol</p>
<p>So your method is:</p>
<p>Read 1 or two paragraphs; answer the questions relating to them
rinse and repeat?</p>
<p>For some questions that have almost the same answer choice, do you go to the passage and look for a specific word to disprove one of them?</p>
<p>CR is the reason I can't break 2100..
I get 750ish on Math and 700ish on W, but CR can't break the 600 barrier.
I don't know if it's because English is my second language, but I just find it hard to analyze anything.</p>
<p>is the cr or writing portion in that book accurate? because I ran out of books myself and I'm thinking of getting that</p>
<p>so other than the BB, you can get other CB tests from online?? how?? are they on this site??</p>
<p>@Sriacha, my approach is basically grammatix ~, however,it didn't work for me at first, but slowly i incorporate it into my own style. each person has a diff technique; so some people read the whole passage first,which i dont recommend lol,most people read the Q ,then go to passage,refer to the lines,and back and forth, covering back and forth~~
what i said in the previous post ~ i meant that , u know how sometimes there are 2-3 passages in a section? i do like 1 passage ,the whole passage,not just paragraphs,~ well u know,that was prep phrase, no hassle,~ i've done alot of passages,and im getting better at it, i know u can do it too..~
what are u getting in SC?</p>
<p>I hardly ever miss SC. Every now and then, there's a bizarre word that I've never heard of. But usually, I'll be able to eliminate 3 out of the 5 answers. </p>
<p>Most of my mistakes are in the passages.</p>