<p>How many of you struggle with CR? How do you tackle your problem?</p>
<p>i do struggle ALOT..how do i tackle it? well build my vocab and practice with it as much as i can..does it help? err…i leave that answer up to you</p>
<p>^^ same ---------</p>
<p>depends on your trouble</p>
<p>well, my 2cents…besides vocab, try to find all of your answers in the passage…actually look for a quote that would support ur answer when you aren’t sure?</p>
<p>CR finally clicked with me like a month ago when I was studying and I finally realized that the answers HAVE to be found in the passage or really simply implied. My scores on practice tests jumped almost 200 points after that little epiphany.</p>
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<p>Yeah when I realized that and my score jumped up 100 points. Now to just eliminate careless mistakes…</p>
<p>I used this answer in another section, and a responder who claimed she got 800 on CR in spite of barely reading for fun at home and told me to ‘stop scolding’. I don’t believe she got an 800 on CR, and I think the following is still true. See what you think.</p>
<p>Sorry to say it, but look what years of television viewing and computer videogames in their early years have done for society’s young. It is a shame that the vast majority of teen contributors on this website think that READING is the hardest of the 3 SAT tests. </p>
<p>Recreational reading is mostly passive. You just lie there and soak up the adventures of the characters. And I know a lot will protest that these CR passages are non-fiction and difficult to comprehend, but I know from personal experience that reading fantasy fiction for years and years as a child is a FANTASTIC way to prepare for the CR part of the SAT. For example, Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books are wonderful vocabulary builders, all while the child is having a great time.</p>
<p>Those of you reading this–please see that the younger members of your family start reading for recreation for 1 hour daily starting in first grade and increasing to 2 hours daily (minimum) after about second grade. That is the very best way to prepare for the CR–my d got an 800 on the CR by doing this exact thing. And the 800 on the CR was INCIDENTAL–she just so enjoys reading and that was simply gravy.</p>
<p>it’s called insight learning. Evidence of work, confusion, and trying. Then an epiphany. If you practice enough, you may experience it. I did, i suddenly realized in math that i knew all the problems.. knew em all.. just had to stay calm and focused.. helped me jump from a 66 in PSAT to a 80 in 1 month. Now that’s something.</p>
<p>@schoolmarmabc
"It is a shame that the vast majority of teen contributors on this website think that READING is the hardest of the 3 SAT tests. "
Why is this a shame? Would you rather the insanely easy math be the hardest of the 3 SAT sections? Or the easily improved/systematic writing? I think it would be the greatest shame if teens thought math was the hardest section.</p>
<p>Yeah, thats why the Grammatix reading section is so good, that one little fact</p>
<p>@schoolmarmABC alright I didn’t develop reading as a habit in my childhood and I regret it now but the PSAT is on Saturday.</p>
<p>@raiderade I know they must be supported or implied but when you have a 800 word long passage and 10 questions which you must finish in less than 15 mins its hard to figure it out at that point.</p>
<p>CR finally clicked with me like a month ago when I was studying and I finally realized that the answers HAVE to be found in the passage or really simply implied. My scores on practice tests jumped almost 200 points after that little epiphany.</p>
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<p>What do you mean by this? </p>
<p>Sorry, kind of new to the SAT</p>
<p>Basically what I am saying is that questions on the SAT and PSAT will ask you questions based on a passage…obviously. Okay so when a question like “Mr. X is most happiest when he is
a: smoking a cigar
b: eating
c: walking
d: doing nothing”
You don’t just have to guess on a question like this, the answer WILL be in found in the passage. CR is not just a big guessing game like I used to think. And as for the 800 word thing, I don’t find that having a passage be 100 - 800 words has much a difference other than time spent.</p>