<p>CR is killing me, every answer choice seems to be correct. What is going on, even I practice on the BB, I seem to get the questions wrong every time. I finally realize why that answer choice was correct when I actually look at the answer sheet and looks like nothing is improving. Even after practicing multitude of times, I seem to get the same amount of questions wrong and do not seem to recognize the problem that I am having.</p>
<p>Please I REALLY NEED HELP.
How did you guys improve this? (Other than reading, because I read already)
Please please, contribute.</p>
<p>On sentence completion some of the answers look absurd.There are always 2 answers that look similary correct ,but if you know the vocabulary and you have practised a lot,you should be fine.</p>
<p>there honestly is no "secret tip" that we can give you to improve. honestly, reading is more of a skill that must be built over time. that doesn't mean you still can't improve though.</p>
<p>when i browse these forums, i find that most people have their own rhythm and skills for identifying with the reading. its different for everybody, really.</p>
<p>I've wondered the same thing for a long time (not a CR pro). It seems your best bet is continuing to do BB practice tests and try to pick up on how the ETS makes the wrong answers appear right and what the real right answer is.</p>
<p>i get what the OP means. And its quite obvious u've just begun ur SAT prep. That's how most of us felt : "Every answer is rite!!"
Well...the simplest advice, to get u started and to get u to like the CR :get grammatix</p>
<p>On the sentence completions, say the sentence in your head with each of the options. Things that look fine on paper can sound really weird when you hear them, and this helps eliminate some of the answers. What kind of stuff do you read? Try to vary what you read so you're exposed to more sentence constuctions, concepts, and ways of putting things. If you read slowly, getting your reading speed up helps. </p>
<p>When you get to the long reading passages, first read the questions about specific line numbers and bracket the lines so that when you read the passage for the first time you know what to remember. Then underline odd words, similes, or main concepts as you come across them. This saves craploads of time :)</p>
<p>I got an 800 on CR. My math sucked though. I'm a right-brain person...</p>
<p>I understand what it's like when every answer seems correct. Especially bad are those hypothetical type questions that go "Which of the following scenarios would best refute the author's argument?".</p>
<p>Something that should help, if you're not already doing it, is to skip around. Find the easiest questions and start with those. Don't follow the given order of the questions. Unlike the rest of the SAT, passage-based reading questions are not arranged by order of difficulty. Let me repeat that for emphasis: THESE QUESTIONS ARE NOT ARRANGED BY ORDER OF DIFFICULTY.</p>
<p>So your task is, just like you do in every other section of the SAT, to find the easiest question in the set and answer them first. With each little "gimme" question you get right, your comprehension of the passage improves a little bit. So you're actually using the questions to help you understand the passage better.</p>
<p>There can be some ridiculously tough reading questions here, but you can't let those discourage you. You have to accept that you're going to miss a few, or skip them entirely. And that's fine when you're starting out your SAT prep. Focus on getting the easy and medium ones right in every passage. In time, you'll get better at the hard ones.</p>
<p>The tricky part to all this is of course identifying which questions are hard and which are easy...but I'm sure you can manage. You just have to realize that you can take charge, don't be passive and just answer the questions in the given order.</p>
<p>Oh goodness that's how I feel when I do CR! I see like 2 or 3 answers that seem right and I can NOT figure out which one it actually is and then I end up picking the wrong one.
But after reading some tips on CC, I'll give CR another try..</p>
<p>IDK if I really have a strategy.. If you are planning to study, make sure you do the following as I have:</p>
<ol>
<li>Study your vocab! My prep place made a nice box full of 2000 interesting words!</li>
<li>Take practice test seriously (so that you get familiar with dense boring passages)</li>
<li>Review mistakes! It helps you distinguish the best answers from the good answers.</li>
</ol>
<p>Mine went from a 600 to a 740. Aside from memorizing a ton of vocab, I tried to concentrate on what is mentioned in the passage. Remove your knowledge from school and do not overthink!</p>
<p>Focus on the passage. If the passage answers it directly (happens a lot actually), that is the answer, it does not matter what you think. And also trust your first instinct when you choose an answer and avoid reading between the lines. Also, thought this may sound counterintuitive to someone like you who is new to SATs, the best advice I can give is go very fast. It helps in so many ways, trust me. 760 btw.</p>
<p>One more tip: with vocab, one thing that helps me is to try to replace the words before I look at the answer. Sometimes I fill it in right, sometimes the first word matches, other times there are synonyms in the answers. It helps me a lot.</p>
<p>One more (advice-y mood today I guess): Read something that requires a lot of reading comprehension. Double meaning stories are good, you know when the story is a story but its really about an idea. Example: Huck Finn is not about a river float trip.</p>
<p>I concur with posters above. For the reading passages, the key is just understanding the passage, and using what is implied/stated within the passage to answer the questions. Don't bring "common sense" or "logic" into the reading passages, any choice that can't be substantiated by any line in the passage is spurious. Oh, and memorize vocabulary.</p>
<p>How much is a "ton of official CB CR tests?", because all I do not have much time. Can you specify on basically how many hours you have studied? for the people who have gotten 700+?</p>