<p>I just CAN'T ever quite finish the whole paper in time. I get damn good marks for the bit I do, and I'm going as fast as I can. I skim read the passage the first time and then go into detail when required by each question.</p>
<p>Any advice as to speeding up?</p>
<p>read the questions first. then you'll know what to look for in the passage.</p>
<p>yeah but wont that take up even more time? i have a lit time problem too :-S</p>
<p>im having the same trouble..by reading the Q, should we also read the answer choices???</p>
<p>i tend to just scan the questions to get an idea for what i should look for while reading, then as i'm reading i recognize what i should be paying attention to, and i underline.</p>
<p>i just took the november lit test and got a 790....what i did was read the passage--not skimming but not being painstakingly thorough--and then i went to the questions. for each one, i made a "gut-feeling" prediction before looking at the answers, then found the closest match. i even 5 min to do some checking over...besides, i find that during the actual test, adrenaline kicks in and you automatically speed up</p>
<p>Hmm. That's helpful. Thank you. Practice test time...</p>
<p>hm, adelaide, did you look at the Barron's review book before taking the test? just wondering, because I've been taking practice tests and I keep getting about four to seven wrong.. is Barron's harder or easier than the actual exam?</p>
<p>explode im having the same problem...ugh</p>
<p>my sat tutor told me barron's is harder than the actual test. i tended to score about 100 points lower on practice tests than i did on the actual (i ended up with a 720)</p>
<p>explode, i actually used the prep book from kaplan</p>
<p>Did you use the Princeton Review book too? I have no clue whi ch one to get..</p>
<p>does anybody second that barron's is harder than the actual test?</p>
<p>i got a 790 and i kinda did the same thing as adelaide..
try reading through each passage the whole way first, even if you miss a few details (you always end up going back and looking for them later anyway)</p>
<p>underline anything you think COULD be a possible answer.. sometimes you can just tell, its things that stick out. then go through each question, answer what you first think it is and then you can go back and confirm</p>
<p>i always ended up with extra time at the end too :)</p>
<p>that's the thing I've noticed with CB's tests..there are answers that you can just tell are right (or blatantly wrong) ugh, collegeboard. how you slay me.</p>
<p>does anybody second that barron's is harder than the actual test? sorry to ask this again, I just... am worrying a bit here</p>
<p>My advice: First read the questions (ignore all answer choices) to get a quick sense or an early idea of what the passage is about. Second, read the passage thoroughly, underlining any words or phrases that remind you of the questions or simply anything you think is important to the main idea of the passage. Finally go back to the questions. I think it is important to be be thorough so that you fully understand the passage in order to answer some tricky and abstract questions. I advice against skimming through the passage because after you read the questions, it is very likely that you will go back to the passage and look over it for a while before finding what you look for. Be precise.</p>
<p>Aren't Barrons books usually harder than the tests? I heard the Lit book was kind of bad though..</p>