<p>I'm not a great student or anything, but I've decided to share something that somewhat worked for me, and improved my score.
Instead of reading the whole passage and the answering the questions, I tried something different. I basically just read a little bit of the beggining paragraph(whenever I felt like stopping), and went to the first question. Since the questions are in order, you should have enough information to answer the first question. Then just take things one at a time. Read a little, then answer the question, etc.(if the 1st question is a main idea or theme question then save it for last). This usually helps me focus on the question at hand better, since I don't have any extra information from other parts of the passage clogging my brain. This might not be anything new, but I decided to share it.
(I was lazy and crammed one week before the SAT, but using this little trick I raised a 590 CR to a 650. Most of the ones I got wrong were vocab.)
Well, that's my two cents. Hope it helps!</p>
<p>Thanks. I'll try that on the next practice test.
<em>holds up the I-HATE-CRITICAL-READING-SECTION banner</em>
It's stopping me from breaking the 2300 barrier. :(</p>
<p>woah .. never thought of it that way .. (: COOL</p>
<p>I do that too. I think it works quite well :)</p>
<p>comisar .. apx what scores have you been getting?</p>
<p>*i've also been missing mainly on "in context" questions for vocab. I've concluded that the answer is most likely the one that doesn't match in the group choice like : cool, wow, exciting, ugly</p>
<p>I just finished the 8th blue book test today. Here are my amounts of errors in CR for each test:</p>
<p>6 3 4 5 1 0 2 5</p>
<p>thecomisar, what's the best way to reduce your mistakes? Like I can answer all questions if I do pretty fast (I'm still practicing on pacing) but main problem with me is that the number of questions I miss is very large.. It's usually 15-17. >_< Any tip?</p>
<p>You should just try different things... what happens if you go a little slower, and maybe not answer every question? Does your accuracy increase enough to make your overall score improve?</p>