Need help with critical reading purpose quesitons

<p>Most of the questions I miss are "The author says" <insert statement="" here=""> "in order to" or "suggests". The answer that is right is always the one that I think is too surface level and I say "Yeah, that's WHAT the author does but not WHY he does it." Should I just not read too much into those questions and pick the answer that pops out at me?</insert></p>

<p>By the way, are the CR sections in the back of the blue book harder than the beginning because I was scoring ~ 720 the first few tests and now i'm scoring around 660</p>