<p>Well, I'm taking the PSATs this coming saturday and I'm skipping school on Friday to prepare for it. I really want to get the NM but it seems I keep falling short on the Critical reading (On the Practice I got a 76 in math, 80 in writing, but only 61 in CR). Because I have a good vocabulary, I rarely miss sentence completions. I need some advice on how to improve my score to a 70 within these 2 days. Any advice would be very helpful.</p>
<p>well if it helps, on the real one there's a curve so your score will be a little higher than on practice tests. i would just keep taking practice tests and learn from your mistakes.</p>
<p>For passage-based questions, you have to take everything very literal. If the passage doesn't support an answer choice, eliminate it. </p>
<p>Process of elimination is very helpful for passage questions.</p>
<p>^ agreed. The best advice I ever got was, "Sell your answer". If you can't find any evidence, it's not a choice.</p>
<p>well, sometimes I have trouble understanding what a passage is about and I usually completely bomb those. It seems to happen a lot for the double passages. Any suggestions on how I could take in more of the reading?</p>
<p>Read Passage 1, answer Passage 1 questions. Read Passage 2, answer passage 2 questions. Answer questions relating to both.</p>
<p>Study and utilize reading strategies and suit them to your preferences.</p>
<p>I personally prefer Kaplan's method of reading long passages than PR's method.</p>
<p>Just read the passage and summarize each paragraph so you know where to go to.</p>
<p>For the short passages, read the question stems (not the choices), and then read the short passage.</p>
<p>On Friday, there's not much you can do except practice better CR strategies.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help guys. I hope tomorrow will be good enough. Any other strategies that will help me better interpret some of the more complex passages?</p>