<p>I took a full CR practice test today and got 6 wrong only in SC!!! I usually miss 2 or 3 :/
It seems that no matter how many vocabs I study, I'm always surprised with new words when I take practice tests. Is the SC portion of the CR partly luck-based? Any suggestions on what to do? Should I just keep on studying words?</p>
<p>Yep, keep studying words. There are thousands you need to know to master sentcom. Like 8000. If you learn 3-4000, you should be pretty done.</p>
<p>I guess I’ll continue to study new words regularly and review old ones… I could have easily gotten a 750 if I knew my words well :/</p>
<p>Yeah, and that would be awesome, right? 750 is a beast score, a finishing score. It would be a bit disappointing to miss that because of something as simple as memorizing vocab. Go for it!</p>
<p>I did improve a lot on SC since I start memorizing words. That helps a lot. (Though I can’t score a 750 anyways. That’s pretty awesome!) I memorize 35/day and review all of them once a week. Just keep memorizing and the progress will be obvious.</p>
<p>Truth is, even in reading, many questions are entirely vocabulary based.
I’ll give you one example, </p>
<p>" The Tanaina live in an environment that could euphemistically be described as ‘difficulty.’ </p>
<p>Q: The sentence in which difficult appears indicates that the author considers the word to be</p>
<p>A. an exaggeration
B. an estimate
C. an understatement
D. a contraction
E. a preconception.</p>
<p>If you know the word “euphemistically”, you’ll get a free point.</p>
<p>And I actually believe people who have a solid foundation on vocabulary can easily achieve 750+</p>
<p>As far as I am concern, the critical reading is all about vocabulary.</p>
<p>Benjamin: I almost agree with you. Students with low fluency or very, very weak reading backgrounds can almost always get to the 650-700 range with vocab alone. I see all the time that 750+ requires a few actual reading skills in addition to vocab.</p>
<p>But yeah. Vocab is the only sure/easy way to gain fast in CR and an absolute essential. TONS of points are essentially “free” if you know the vocab.</p>
<p>Benjamin8415 I jus finished that question u mentioned!</p>
<p>@jenniferlien, hope you get it right. :)</p>