<p>I really want to improve my SAT CR. I don't read much though!i get like 500's in Princeton Review Practice tests. Which novel should I start reading to improve my reading skills?
Should I leave Princeton Review and do something tougher,maybe Barron's?
(I have Direct Hits,started memorizing Vocabulary from there as we'll..)</p>
<p>Try this approach: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/750399-how-attack-sat-critical-reading-section-effectively.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/750399-how-attack-sat-critical-reading-section-effectively.html</a>.</p>
<p>Read the CR section on Grammatix. Play around and see which method works best for you.</p>
<p>I’m fine with all that. I just need to practice I feel.
Any Novel or book I can start reading which will help me in SAT?
And should I continue with Princeton Reciew or start a tougher book like Barron nly for CR?</p>
<p>Review the answers to ALL of the questions, not just the ones you got wrong. Make sure that after you finish reviewing the section, you know exactly why you got that problem right or wrong. This means that if you take the same section again, you should get a perfect score. Don’t advance to Barron’s if you’re not doing as well as you should be on Princeton’s. Some people say that reading high level articles and books help but some say that it’s not necessary. I really can’t suggest a novel for you because I don’t know your level. My advice is to read a book that challenges your level but is not extremely hard or too easy. Work your way up.</p>
<p>hey ^^^^^^^^^^ that’s my tip… haha.</p>
<p>I increased my CR from 590 to 760.</p>
<p>Study your ass off in vocab. When I took the SAT, I knew EVERY (not some, not almost every) word of all the direct hits and hot words books. I also wrote down all the words I didn’t know in the practice tests I took and learned those, and learned all the words I didn’t know in the books I was reading for pleasure (I found that Stephen King’s books seem to have a ton of vocab, and are also really good books)</p>
<p>For the passages, you just really have to focus on the actual passage. You can’t get sidetracked at all. I would underline the passage as I read it so that I would stay focused on what I was reading. And for the questions, EVERY answer will be in the passage, just in different words. The SAT people won’t make a true “inference” question. Every answer to the questions will be somewhere in the passage, you just have to find where.</p>
<p>And then practice a lot. And make sure, as pastelblue said above, that you are going over EVERY question, not just the ones you got wrong. This allows you to see the patterns in the questions and answers, and will boost your score a bunch.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>@satman1111 - The reviewing all the questions thing? (: Btw, I’m seeing you all over the CR threads so I’m assuming you know a lot about the section. Do you have any advice on doing the CR sections faster? I need to work on that.</p>
<p>I went from 520 in 7th grade to 800 in 10th in CR, haha</p>
<p>Mainly, I just read books for English class, as well as some classics such as 1984 (that was more for the essay, but whatever). I went through a few books and wrote down/made flashcards for every single word I didn’t know the meaning of but that was a bit time consuming. You don’t need to know the meaning of every single vocab word to ace the fill in the blank section. I learned about 600-700. If you can eliminate 2-3 answer choices, you can probably guess the answer by the connotation and roots/prefixes/suffixes. Honestly, I guessed on 4 or 5 and got them all right.
My tip for reading passages is to skim through all the questions before reading and make notes of the line numbers in the passage. That really helped me and saved me a bunch of time because I could answer the question every time I got to one of the line numbers mentioned!</p>