<p>I'm trying to get a 700 on CR by reading pride and prejudice, Jane eyre, and wuthering heights. The thing is I fail to finish those books because they were so boring! Don't get me wrong- I love reading. I read mysteries, romance, adventure, and all sorts of books. But most of them are in the eighth and ninth grade level. So my question here is, how do people not get bored of reading boring classics????</p>
<p>It is not your thing. Find something that will interest you. I wouldn’t be able to read classics either because it seems so pointless. I suggest science books. Find a topic that is interesting to you and get a science book about it. The vocabulary will be of the right level, you will get used to SAT kind of texts and you will find out new and interesting things. What is it that you are planning to study in college? Get a book related to that subject. For example, I love neuroscience, philosophy and biology books. Which topics are “yours”?</p>
<p>I want to read more fiction because these are the ones that I am having troubles with on the SAT</p>
<p>Interesting, to me those are easier because they are based on real life situations and allow me to connect to them. Then it is better for you to pick new books that are well received by critics and are “SAT style-educational”. Something based on “being different from everyone else” or seeing things from different angles. Anything that challenges common beliefs, prejudice, stereotypes and makes you think. Just choose something that will interest you and keep you at it. What about reading biographies?</p>
<p>Eww no reading lit is probably one of the slowest ways to boost CR. Why don’t you just read more passages and answer more questions? There’s an endless amount of practice in the books at your local library.</p>
<p>Think about it. Which is more effective: reading passages made for the SAT (or at least by a prep company) and answering questions geared toward the SAT, or reading entire books that are boring and mundane and half of them aren’t even like the SAT (although passages often tend to come straight from them - I remember one from Pride/Prejudice as well as one from Great Expectations).</p>
<p>By the way, Pride&Prejudice is boring at first but the plot is actually pretty interesting later on. I would like to take this opportunity to recommend The Count of Monte Cristo (make sure it’s unabridged). It’s like 1480 pages long with fairly small font, and imo the book is FANTASTIC. Dumas is awesome.</p>
<p>Anyway, to end my rant, there is going to be no shortage of CR practice materials, so just practice out of them, not passages. For example, from the public library I obtained 4 Kaplan tests and 10 McGrawhill tests. I bought the blue book as well as PR 11 tests. 3 sections per test gives 3*(4+10+11+10)=105 CR sections. I also had Barron’s/Kaplan CR workbooks. And there are like plenty more books out there, i.e. actual Barron’s SAT/actual Kaplan/etc.etc.etc.etc.</p>
<p>I would read only if I had problems with vocab. Even then, flashcards are so much more efficient.</p>
<p>TL;DR: stop reading. go practice.</p>
<p>I improved from 600’s to 750-800 on CR just by doing problems. Go figure</p>
<p>^yes 10char</p>