<p>Hey, just read all (Ok, most) of the '800 in Math and Writing' thread and I started this thread about CR because THATs the one I have problems on. If you guys who are getting 800s on CR and think it's the easiest section help me out, it'd really be beneficial for me because I suck at it. It'd be really helpful if you gave advice like in the other thread.
It's just that I think it's the most subjective out of the three and what usually happens is I can't even finish the sections in time. (I do read part of passage, answer question, read more passage, answer question) Ive been on these forums for a while too so it's not like I haven't searched</p>
<p>So your question is: How do you get an 800 on Critical Reading? It helps to have strong critical reading skills, and that’s something that you develop over time. It’s not really something you can just study for–you can study vocabulary and test-taking strategies, but you can’t study good reading skills. So you should read as much as you can and think about the author’s point of view and think about it. I’m sure reading things like The New York Times will indirectly help your critical reading score because in the long run (You can’t expect to have crappy critical reading skills and get an 800.) it’ll help your reading skills. The critical reading section doesn’t measure your critical reading skills, but the ability to quickly grasp what the author is saying and the author’s overall message will help.</p>
<p>learning a lot of vocab and getting all the vocab questions right will give you some leeway on the passage based questions. other than that do practice tests and yeah, of course, read.</p>
<p>I didn’t learn as many vocab as I should have. But I was safe. In hindsight, I think there’s some element of luck involved. For example, I had no trouble comprehending the cr sections expect for the experimental. Had the experimental counted I’d be so far away from an 800. I think you should take dchow08’s advice seriously. Nailing the cr section takes a gradual process. To achieve consistency, you need to build up from the fundamentals.</p>