<p>I am retaking the SSAT on Saturday and reading was my middle score when I first took the test. I feel like I can substantially raise all of my scores but for reading I need help. I know what type of questions to expect, but I guess I want to know some strategies because the books do not contain many reading strategies.</p>
<p>Know what types of questions you are good at. For example, if poems are easy for you, but biographies are hard, skip around. Do the types of selections that are easiest for your first to guarantee some points. Then, go back and attack the harder ones. However, keep in mind that the passages tend to get more difficult as you go along.</p>
<p>If you can’t point to a specific phrase(s) in the passage as evidence for an answer, it’s wrong. You aren’t interpreting the passage, your just being asked what it says, no more, no less.</p>