<p>Some people read the whole passage before answering questions, and some read it in 2-3 chunks. Do you feel that reading in chunks is better because you'll be more familiar with those paragraphs and you'll remember more from them than reading the whole passage and trying to not only get the main idea, but trying to keep track of all those small details?</p>
<p>I used to read the whole thing at once, but then I switched to reading little by little, first marking up line references then reading and stopping at each one. I think this made me improve significantly because I wasn't tricked by answers that were mentioned later in the passage. Also, it's much quicker since you don't have to keep going back for little details after you've read it.</p>
<p>But then again, I haven't taken the real SATs yet, this is all just in my practice. I might switch methods again if I find a better one.</p>
<p>I, too, used to read the passage as a whole. Then i switched to reading it by paragraph and answering the questions for that paragraph. It helped me A LOT. Before, when I read the entire passage at once, I not only had to find where the answer was in the passage, I also had to re-read those passages because I had forgotten the details.</p>
<p>I have not used this method in a real test yet, but in Jan I got 630 in CR. Yesterday, when I took a practice test, I got 690 using the new 'read by passage' method. I got 8 wrong in total, and 5 were vocabulary, 3 were actualy reading questions.. so yeah, I would say the read by passage method works wonders (:</p>
<p>It depends on how you are most comfortable. When I read the passages, I read one paragraph at a time and then answer the questions about the first paragraph before going on to the second paragraph, then I answer the questions about the second paragraph and so on.</p>
<p>I find it easier to just read it all at once. Just took the Jan08 Q&A and missed 5 CR but only because I didn't go back and reread the relative portions. I tried the chunk method but it left me with no clear understanding of the passage. I dunno; I guess it depends on which one works for you.</p>
<p>Quicksandslowly, where'd you get the Jan 2008 Q&A? If you have it in .pdf format, could you send it to me, please?</p>
<p>^I bought it from someone. Sorry, it's the actual Q&A test booklet. :(</p>
<p>Ah, that's all right!</p>
<p>I think that you got a little ripped off because you find all these QASs online! Including the January 2008 one, which I actually took and have the QAS by the way. QuickandSlowly, did you get most of yours wrong on the poetry passage(the long double one)?</p>
<p>Actually, I only missed 1 on that one because I didn't carefully reread the relative portion. Overall, I thought the CR was surprisingly easy. The Writing on the other hand was much harder.</p>
<p>Maybe then I can get a 700+ writing in 6 days because I got a 670 on that test, but I could care less about Writing, but it's always nice to see anything that's above a 700. </p>
<p>What did you mean when you said you didn't carefully reread the relative portions? So you read it all once and then just started answering them?</p>
<p>^Basically, I looked back for some of them but for others I was too overconfident and remebered a distorted version of what I read. Thus, because I didn't go back and reread, I missed those questions...</p>
<p>I read the questions and then go back to the passage when necessary. I never read the passage first.</p>
<p>We all have our own strategies. Your short term memory can only hold so much for long passages. I like what RocketReview says in that read until you know what the heck the passage is talking about, and then skim through it and then answer the questions.</p>