<p>Do you guys read the questions first or read the whole thing and then answer the questions?</p>
<p>It seems like there are advantages and disadvantages of both. Lets discuss.</p>
<p>umm...
i'll read the whole passage first if it is lit kind.
questions first if the passage is science kind.
what ever,both are not simple for me...the CR sucks.lol</p>
<p>i just look at the questions and make brackets in the passage around the line references that they give but don't actually read the questions because that doesn't really help since i'll forget anyways.</p>
<p>Then I read the whole passage slowly and carefully and after each bracket that I have finished I go straight to the question. Then, using grammatix methods, the answers pretty much just jump out at me. This works pretty well for me because it lets me focus on exactly what the question is asking me about since they try to confuse you sometimes by giving you answers that seem right because they have to do with another part of the passage</p>
<p>for general passage questions without line references i don't even look at them until the very end.
for short passages, I read the questions first so that I know what kind of things to focus on in the passage.
for paired passages i make brackets on the left side meaning that the question is referring to that passage and brackets on the right side if it is asking like what the other author thinks about that part of the passage
for vocabulary in context, I circle all the vocab before I read the passage</p>
<p>Usual success on the CR section(700+) requires at least 5 years of voracious reading.</p>
<p>That sounds like a pretty arbitrary statistic ShadowRider... where did you hear this?</p>
<p>ShadowRider, I think your general idea is very sound (that CR scores depend on reading habits), but I've had several students score in the low 700s despite the fact that they only did as much reading as they needed to to do well in school. </p>
<p>If you had said the same thing about perfect scores, I would be much more likely to agree with you.</p>
<p>I cut the long passages into sections. For example, I just read 2 paragraphs at a time really closely and go over to the question(s) that deals with any of the particular lines. Also, I skip the questions that ask about the overall context of the passage until after I've read the entire thing.</p>
<p>Cutting things piece-by-piece help me keep focus and answer the questions more quickly then having to read the entire thing once and then having to go bad reading a part of it again.</p>