<p>When I practice CR, I just stare at the passage and it takes a while to get the author's main idea into my head. I usually get 95% of the questions right, but I usually go a lot overtime.. Anyone have suggestions as to how I could work through and comprehend the CR passages faster?</p>
<p>Read faster & force yourself to like the passages.</p>
<p>I usually glaze over prepositional phrases and descriptions. It’s just something I do when I try to weed out unimportant stuff.</p>
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<p>You need to read actively and “engage” with the passage. There is no easy way to practice this, it really comes down to how much much you concentrate.</p>
<p>On some practice tests I scored -2/-3 on CR, on others I scored as badly as -15 resulting from losing concentration, not engaging with passage, etc. However, come the SAT, I somehow forced myself to concentrate immensely on each passage and ended up with raw score 67 on CR. So I guess I’m saying, force yourself to concentrate, perhaps by emulating SAT conditions.</p>
<p>I’m not good in Reading, but if I were you I would read a lot.</p>
<p>^ Agreed. The best way to read with celerity is to READ.
^^ How did you simulate test conditions? I am also trying to do that in my future practise exams but I don’t know how I should do so. Should I add an experimental section? Or should I finish slightly under-timed?</p>
<p>Oh, I also find it helps if you read in an active voice. Maybe even try reading in an accent. It helps me engage in the passage like the previous poster suggested.</p>
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<p>I timed myself very strictly on each section and had a penalty/reward system. I would penalise myself with a 1km run every time I found myself losing concentration during the passage, but this would be negated if I scored full marks on the section. Weird method I suppose, but it worked for me lol.</p>