<p>Lol, I thought I would get a lot of views with the title. but anyways i just purchased Grammatix, and I studying with it now, and I am a little confused. i know alot of people praise it for cr, but I don't see anything special about it. For instance, Mike said not to read the passage, but isn't the whole point of the cr passages to read them??? So i need some insight, is this really useful for cr...???</p>
<p>Princeton Review says not to read the passage either, so this isn't a new technique. Read the question first, then skim the passage for the part that answers the question, and read only that. Great timesaver.</p>
<p>i dont think that method works. Well, it works for improving from 400 to high 500's I guess, but to get above 700+, you have to read the whole thing. No other choice.</p>
<p>i have to disagree with that--i scored 800 on the new SAT verbal as well as twice on the old SAT verbal and never read any of the long passages all the way through. (on the new SAT, you might as well read the short passages since they're only a couple of paragraphs.)</p>
<p>the need to read the entire passage probably depends on the person. some people bring strong background knowledge and have refined scanning skills, so these students score higher by not spending extra time on reading carefully. yet some students need to read the entire passage to grasp all the key details, so they would be at a disadvantage by not reading. test which one you are better for by taking a practice section with each of the two strategies; whichever you feel more comfortable with and score higher using is the way to go!</p>
<p>yeah, i totally agree. i just didn't want anybody to think that not reading the entire passage doomed you to a score in the 500s.</p>
<p>alright chill</p>
<p>jellybeanz.....where did u purchase grammatix from???</p>
<p>it is suicide to not read the passages. I tried that "tip" on the ACT and it royally screwed me over. They write the tests to work against this strategy.</p>
<p>i found it on the grammatix site, just google it. and thanks for all the replies!</p>