<p>These are the bits in the SAT that always hurt me. If it weren't for them, I'd easily get a 2400. Help/tips? Other than the one in the Best of thread?</p>
<p>Math:</p>
<p>Stupid Errors. They suck. They are always there. I hate them.</p>
<p>CR:</p>
<p>Long Passages. I used to think I was good at reading.</p>
<p>Math: Double check your work maybe?</p>
<p>CR: Perfect practice makes perfect.</p>
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I’m pretty sure that’s how everybody feels.
hmmm
Oh besides that one? Ask me specific questions (even those long passages). I can’t show you how to avoid making stupid errors cus they’re stupid.</p>
<p>^ heh fair enough.</p>
<p>The main problem I have with the passages are that I tend to overthink/over interpret them. Obviously, the solution is to not overthink/over interpret, but do you have any strategies to help you do so?</p>
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Obviously. Anyway the best advice on the CR section I’ve ever read was offered by the guy who took 25 practice tests to go from a 500 to an 800 in CR. His guide had been stickied, but I can’t find it now.</p>
<p>The one thing that stuck with me from his guide was that "you have to apply brute force to the passages. The SAT isn’t the test to start feeling sorry for certain answers (awww, poor C hasn’t been picked in the last 17 questions! and this time it sounds so appealing!). Read a question, eliminate it down to 2 choices, think for a few seconds and just pick. If, when you’re done, you have more time, go back to it. Otherwise, don’t start thinking whether a polymath (Oct 09 CRers anyone?) who studied everything from paleontology to onychorrhexis would have disliked physics and decided not to pursue that field just cus.</p>
<p>Best I can do. (Edit: that doesn’t mean you should refrain from sharing some of those long passage problems with me)</p>
<p>^How to attack the SAT CR section effectively by Nnoitara?</p>
<p>Devil’s Advocate :3</p>