<p>What's your approach in CR? Do you read the whole passage or do you read just the relevant parts to answer the questions? I wonder if reading just relevant parts is safe or a risky method? Will I miss anything important if I don't read the whole passage? Let's discuss about it, I need some insight.</p>
<p>Well, it’s all about finding your style of answering the questions. I would think that with enough experience, you could potentially answers the questions right reading on relevant portions of the passages, but I like to read through the entire passage, just to be safe. What I do is quickly skim through the questions and find any questions about vocabulary in context meanings, and mark the lines in the passage. Then I go ahead and read the passage itself. Also, when answering questions about main idea and such, I try to formulate my own response before looking at the choices given.</p>
<p>Hope that helped!</p>
<p>Reading through the entire passage helps give you a sense of context, as well as being necessary for “main idea” questions that appear on like 80% of questions. Also it might make reading it a lot more interesting and “complete”.</p>
<p>Also, sometimes the time you take reading context in order to answer a question takes MORE time than just reading the entire thing and already having a vague idea of context.</p>
<p>For me, I approached the passages by reading relevant parts ONLY if the practice tests I took are made by Collegeboard, or better known as the Official SAT Study Guide, but for other SAT prep books such as the Barrons, Princeton, McGraw Hill etc… I approached them by reading the whole passage because on the actual SAT most of the questions contain line references, whereas other non-Official Books contain limited line reference questions.</p>
<p>I think carefully read the first and last sentence of each passage will give you some senses of the author. This method really works when the passage is 'bout controversial discussion, something like scientific events or social phenomena cause in these topics, authors make clear thesis statements( usually the first sentence of the paragraph).</p>
<p>There is not one set approach for CR questions. In general, it is a very good idea to read through the passage slowly because you’ll be able to remember more about the piece when you’re answering the questions.</p>
<p>I am answering my own question :)</p>
<p>I am analyzing the passages and the questions and see that mostly you need to read everything. With practice, you develop a kind of intuition that tells you how much and where you should read to get the full context for the correct answers.</p>
<p>Actually,sometimes I don’t think I have enough time to read the whole passage.</p>
<p>You’ll always have enough time to read the whole passage word by word after some exercising and doing some of the CB’s tests.
For me, I have to read it all or else I won’t understand the heck is going on.</p>
<p>Virtually all 750+ kids I’ve taught have read the whole passage. To get a top score you should be fast enough to do so.</p>
<p>(I’m talking about HUNDREDS of kids, fwiw)</p>