<p>PR says that you should just read the italicized part above the passage, skip reading the passage and go straight to the questions. It tells you to first answer the question that refers you back to the passage, that allows you to get a gist of the passage, and using that information answer the reasoning based (inferring etc.) questions.</p>
<p>Should I follow this advice, and not read the passage?
I try to do that, but then I get lost..</p>
<p>If i try reading the passage, i can't focus and keep on losing track while reading.. What do I do?</p>
<p>Are you being serious..? The PR tells you that? That sounds like the dumbest advice i have ever heard. If you are having a hard time focusing, use Barron's strategy. Make marks by the parts where answers will appear (for example, if a question says on lines 80...make 80). Then, break the passage up into every 2 paragraphs, read, then answer, paying special attention to those markings you made. This will keep you focused, so instead of reading the whole passage about quantum physics, you read only 2 paragraphs at a time. That way, you wont get lost as easily</p>
<p>PR gives stupid advice. I got my 800 in the olden days of the reading section by reading the whole passage and answering the questions by looking at the questions only after I'd read the whole passage. I had extra time on each part of the test, because I practiced reading a lot and had adequate reading speed. It takes good reading speed to get through college, so it's always to your advantage to learn to read faster (which comes from practice in reading books and magazines you like to read). Then you'll have time to read the test sections in the order they're printed in, with extra time at the end to check your answers.</p>
<p>I did exactly what tokenadult did and got an 800 like he did. Some of the review book strategies are just ludicrous IMO. Even that Barron's thing kevinscool posted... sounds really complicated, my head hurts just thinking about that -- unnecessary to get a 800 reading, i think.</p>
<p>There's no easy way out of CR... find the general purpose/idea of the passage, while reading look for sentences, words, or ideas that you think will be used as part of questions, and refer to the passage when necessary.</p>
<p>ya but his problem is he can't focus. it really helps for people who don't take interests in the lame passages they provide us with. If all passages were interesting, reading through the whole thing would probably be easy</p>
<p>My son took a local SAT review course before the May exam and was told not to read the entire passage. Dumb advice. This last SAT (October) his score went up 60 points after he decided it would be better to read the passages!</p>
<p>Thank you lol. It really helps. Maybe not paragraph by paragraph. Just look through the questions, and make marks by those with line references. That way, you can judge it accordingly. For example, if 1 passage u wrote has like 3 questions on it, why not do those questions? It may sound confusing, but helps amazingly</p>
<p>I got an 800 on the reading section AND took the PR course...so, </p>
<p>The PR course DOES NOT HELP. It is totally wrong. You're much better off reading the "Barrons 2400" Method (Which is what I did on the test): Look at the line references, make marks on the side of story, skim/speed-read whole passage, paying special attention to marked passages. Also, when reading, substantiate ALL your answers-"sell it" as it were. The Barrons 2400 book was great, though.</p>
<p>Hey, thanks a lot for the great advice people.
That really helped. Because I myself was thought that PR's advice was absolutely absurd and confusing. I used the advice on my May SAT, and was about to go nuts. Couldn't understand anything.</p>
<p>The Barron's advice sounds good, and yes I'm working on increasing my reading speed.</p>