<p>ive been trying to get my reading score up from a 26 for the past 3-4 months or so. took practice tests and couple of real tests. my reading score is not going up that much. i tried the princeton review or the kaplan books, but they havent been helping me much. any advice.</p>
<p>Strategies for reading
I got a 35 in reading...this is what i did</p>
<p>1) the 1st passage is prose fiction, those are more interpretive so read them fairly slowly..not to slow...just so you understand</p>
<p>2) The last passage is science...that is really straightforward, it is basically word for word in the anwers...THus skim the passage fairly fast (to make up time)</p>
<p>3) the middle two are alright so you should skim as well but not too slow and not too fast (all depends where your speed is right now)</p>
<p>This helped me becasue I found myself missing 2-3 on the ist passage alone!
so slowing down and I did not miss any</p>
<p>Science however, is word for word si i flew through</p>
<p>The other two passages in the middle I just did noramlly and I missed 1</p>
<p>so 35 Hope that helps</p>
<p>O yeah as you are reading make sure you underline random place or things that seem improtant (this will help create place markers in you brain and will be easier to refer to) Also don;t read questions first
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<p>arpster...how fast do you read/skim the passage? like in minutes?</p>
<p>do you read questions 1st?</p>
<p>If you have time, get some good books and increase your reading speed.</p>
<p>Don;t read the questions first and when I mean skim I mean just enought to get a basic understanding. However on some parts of the humanties and prose fiction there are parts where it is confusing. You must slow down on those cause they will definatley ask about them. So, for science and social science (maybe humanities) just skim according to what you think is pretty fast. Personally, I actually move me head with the flow cause that seems to make me go faster. And don;t forget to underline. HOWEVER, don;t do this on the fiction otherwise you wil ahve no idea what the hell is goin on (and humanties to a certain extent)</p>
<p>My reading score b/f was a 30 now its consistantly 34-36</p>