<p>I'm a rising freshman so I have a good amount of time before I take the SATs. The questions that I miss the most on practice tests are the passage q's in CR. What should I do in the long-term that will help me in this section when I take the test?</p>
<p>Read A LOT of 18th, 19th, century novels. the language and style of those novels will help to increase your CR ability, and will help you understand the CR passages in the long run.</p>
<p>Also, keep a dictionary by your side. Many of the SAT vocabulary are drawn from novels of that time period.</p>
<p>i agree, read a LOT of classic novels. unfortunately, it’s too late for me 
i’m going to be a jr taking the sat’s in oct…the most i could fit in is maybe 2 novels, but then again school’s about to start and i’d rather just memorize vocab.</p>
<p>yes, have a dictionary by your side too, haha. i recommend that you start memorizing some words from several word lists, like DH and Barron’s 3000.</p>
<p>oh, and read the ny times. it’s very good for comprehension and vocab. the writing is similar in style in that it’s formal and well-written and short.</p>
<p>I don’t think that reading old novels will help you out much, if not at all. </p>
<p>Go read the Op-ed section of the New York Times.
Atlantic Monthly
The Economist
HuffingtonPost
Time</p>
<p>The introduction parts to books.
Academic Journals (college ones are really good)</p>
<p>From what i have been prepping and going over SAT questions… they mostly look like the “Academia” science/ social books one would read. </p>
<p>The topics are actually quite pertinent and when they do include history it is with language from present times.</p>
<p>I think the advice for novels and stuff like that is more pertinent to SAT II Lit.</p>