<p>Ok, this is what my deatiled report told me for critical reading:</p>
<p>Sentence Completion: 19 correct, 0 wrong, 0 omitted
Reading Passages: 36 correct, 11 wrong, 1 ommited </p>
<p>Scaled Score: 650</p>
<p>Omg what the heck is up with reading passages? How is it that I get all the vocab right and miss that many on reading? If it wasn't for all that BS, I'd probably would have gotten 700+...</p>
<p>Any advice on how to improve reading passage skills?</p>
<p>hahah the passage questions are hardly BS.</p>
<p>practice!</p>
<p>AHH You’re so lucky! I miss about 10/19 sentence completion questions and maybe 2-4 from the passages…</p>
<p>What I do for passages is I go to the questions first, find what it’s asking, go to the section, and choose the only answer that has proof</p>
<p>Wait…
I got 19 correct on sentence completion.
I got 37 correct, 11 wrong, 0 ommited for passage reading and I got 650.</p>
<p>Bell I got 16/19 sentence completions
and 40/48 passage so I got 650 too.
I think there are only 67 questions, dunno maybe you had a diff paper</p>
<p>it means that you can’t expect that cramming vocab lists ans simply studying strictly to the test will get you the marks you want.</p>
<p>it means that you need to have read widely throughout your academic career and possess the intuition to pick up on what the author of a passage is saying.</p>
<p>that’s something you can’t study very well for. and it’s what makes this test an assessment of perceptiveness and intelligence rather than who can study the hardest.</p>
<p>unfair? tough $hit</p>
<p>I recommend that you try several different methods of reading. </p>
<p>You can read the questions first and do the passage afterwards, and go back to the questions.</p>
<p>I think that though, the best way is to just read and improve your comprehension. And if there is an area that you are weak at, read on that too. For me, that was on US Presidency (I died when I saw a question about presidency in my second SAT… that passage was hard and boring; I love science-related passages).</p>
<p>To nike: If you add my scores up, I got 67 questions. All the CR sections are the same for everyone.</p>
<p>To IF: I didn’t study vocab. Most of the hard vocab on the May SAT actually appeared in the passage readings.</p>
<p>Whoops sorry math error, my bad, I feel stupid now :P</p>
<p>On that passage questions remember that the correct answer will be supported in someway at some point in the passage. I’ve got a bad habit of assuming things and drawing conclusions, now that I’m breaking myself of that I’m doing a lot better.</p>
<p>Great advice everybody. See what happens with me alot is that I usually can narrow down the answer choices on reading passages down to 2 and then I have a hard time deciding and choosing the right one. Any advice on that?</p>
<p>I am usually at the 650-680 range ,having between 10-13 errors every time.I am so much hoping that I will get a 700 in June</p>
<p>I got:
17 right and 2 wrong for Sentence Completion
43 right and 4 wrong and 1 omit for Passage Based Questions</p>
<p>Score: 710</p>
<p>What I do with the passages is read the questions first, and as I read the words from the question appear and I go with the most obvious answer.
The score above (710) was my first time taking the SAT and my strategy seems to have worked out okay.</p>
<p>Chelsea- if you can narrow it down to 2 choices then you really need to remember that one of them will be supported by the passage and the other will seem supported by the passage, however you will have to draw a conclusion to find that true.</p>
<p>I find myself doing that on the practice tests all the time. Just remember; is the answer supported by the passage or does it just seem to be supported based on a conclusion you draw?</p>
<p>i guess i draw conclusions as well, but usually when i pick answers, its because i think its the best answer choice out of all the choices. anyway i can fix that?</p>
<p>man u are awesome i got like 420 on my reading section</p>
<p>When I usually get it down to 2 choices, its always hard to try and see which one is actually supported by the passage…espically when its one of those inference questions like “based on the passage, it can be infered that…” </p>
<p>Anyone else feel the same way? And if so, how do you choose the right answer in that situation?</p>
<p>Time for some bumpage</p>
<p>Yeah I know what you mean. Then if I have time I go back to the passage and look for something that hints at that or summarize the passage in my head</p>