<p>800 CR on SAT? Dayum.</p>
<p>the funny thing is that CR has been my worst section until my last practice test before the real thing (780 on that last prac test but significantly lower before that). Luckily I crammed ~100 vocab words night before test at about 10 pm and at least 2 of those words were on my test ^^</p>
<p>I started off with a 600 in CR at the beginning of the review course i took so i am thrilled that it went up 200 points. Unfortunately math only went up 50 but we can't have it all.</p>
<p>I have a problem where I CANNOT concentrate on the long passages, especially the boring ones. That's where I answer most of the questions wrong.</p>
<p>@carsonne, how do you concentrate on boring passages? Do you read the questions before the passage or vice versa?</p>
<p>For the boring passages, I think the best thing to do is pretend that you are EXTREMELY interested in what it is saying. It sounds stupid but say like "Wow! That's amazing!" in your head for the most boring crap and you start to process it better and get interested in it.</p>
<p>Another way to get past the boring stuff is to do practice tests. I think I took 3 or 4 total practice tests and the first two I took, I had headsplitting headaches after the critical reading sections because the passages were so boring. I couldn't concentrate. I would get up during the time I was supposed to be testing and just walk around so I could stop staring at those horrible passages.</p>
<p>But by the 3rd test, I could do it without getting so bored, and I began to do what I mentioned earlier, PRETENDING that it was interesting. So try it out on a practice section, hopefully it will work for you.</p>
<p>OK, now I think I am officially done with anything to do with the SATs-- unless I later decide to take em again.</p>
<p>oh-- and i read (i guess skim but a little more indepth than skimming) the passage before the questions.</p>