<p>Hey,</p>
<p>I've been a private SAT tutor for 7 years, and I've decided to put as much of my knowledge and experience as I can into a book on preparing or the SAT. I think I'm going to start with a guide to the Critical Reading section. </p>
<p>I've been asking my students this and figured I might as well post it to a website like this for a large number of responses. </p>
<p>What would be the biggest help to you studying for Critical Reading? Do you need strategy suggestions? Time management tips? Vocabulary practice? Or just lots of practice and experience?</p>
<p>Any feedback appreciated!</p>
<p>I think a lot of students don’t know the best way to approach the CR section in terms of time management and accuracy. Approaching paragraphs was my main problem because I would lose focus. Everyone needs practice to get a good score. My first time I took the test I only scored a 480 on the CR. after practicing and strategizing I earned a 710 my second time.</p>
<p>I have troubles in reading. When I read the passage, my eyes wouldnt focus on the line that I’m reading. I would accidentally read the wrong line and that breaks my focus. Do you have any tips for me on reading. I’ve been struggling with reading problems for as long as I can remember.</p>
<p>Have a nice day</p>
<p>My recomendation to you is to just keep reading, if you read books then your eyes will learn to focus if you really try. Read read read!</p>
<p>Time management strategy that I developed through practice.</p>
<p>Solve the questions with line references first. In order. You can get a sense of the main idea of the passage this way. (The main idea of the passage is the only thing that you need anyways!)
Don’t even skim the passage first. (Waste of time IMO)
Then solve the questions that ask about the whole passage or compares two passages LAST.</p>
<p>This was my strategy and I did pretty well on the CR section (started with 660, eventually received 800), but I don’t think this strategy is for everyone.</p>
<p>Best of luck to everyone!
I really do mean it when I say that there is NOTHING like practice!</p>
<p>My worst problem is probably the inference questions. They feel too vague sometimes.
Btw, do you have any prep books to recommend? Im done with the Blue Book and CB’s online course.</p>
<p>advice for people: ace your sentence completions…</p>
<p>Oh and I also have trouble with inferences. Most of the time, I feel like the answer isn’t in the passage.</p>
<p>Have a nice day</p>
<p>I only used the blue book to study. Solved that book cover to cover more than ten times and my scores on average increased significantly every time I started again from the start. Nothing beats practice.</p>
<p>The reason why I only used the blue book is because it’s “official” and I thought that the questions on there would be most like the real SAT. I looked over Princeton, Barrons, and Kaplan, but some of the questions in those books (especially math) were focused on topics that were not covered in the blue book.</p>
<p>Nothing beats practice.</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>