<p>Can anyone help me out and give my some advice. It seems everytime i do a Practice CR passage, i miss 1 sentence completion and either 1-2 passage question. Im trying to get my CR up to 730 and i know i can only miss like 1 per section. Any advice?</p>
<p>As far as sentence completion goes, I would NOT study lists of vocab. When are you taking the test? You’ve probably heard this before, but reading heavily helps immensely.</p>
<p>You have got to look for patterns. Patterns are everywhere. In life, in math books, in annoying standardized tests, so exploit them and take advantage of it.</p>
<p>Look at all of your wrong answers for the passages. Do they seem to be certain questions types? Do the passages on which you missed a few belong to a certain category ( humanities … science), do the wrong answers happen in the beginning or the end? Look for anything that will lead you to polishing up your skills. </p>
<p>If it is a certain question type, look at CB’s answer. Ask yourself why CB is right and trace the link between the answer choice and passage. Solidify this line into your mind. Live by this for that question type, usually, unless you gut tells you otherwise. If you can find why an answer is right its that much easier finding it next time. Work on those questions types more and more.</p>
<p>If it is a category type issue, there is really nothing that will help unless given a lot of time. Like the above poster said, you could read more, maybe in that subject area. Humanities type passages are more full of feeling and deep thoughts. Deep thoughts are a component of science type questions but they are also very fact like and straightforward. Of course I am only comparing two categories at a basic level, but you get my reasoning. What you could do, is try to distinguish why a certain passage type calls for such answers and like the first example, argue yourself into believing it. </p>
<p>If it happens at a certain place through the process, you need to change your process. If you are answering the first questions without reading enough that may be the problem. Or if you are reading too far for the first questions, there may also be a problem, your ideas get muddled with the arguments that are presented in sections after those that would properly answer the question. The same goes for the middle or end.</p>
<p>Just look for the loose end and tie it. Keep sharpening your skills and evaluating them. Of course, this is done through practice.</p>
<p>Hope this helps</p>
<p>i would study vocab. i had a 590 cr my first time, and got it to a 720 the 2nd time ( got all of the sentence completions right ). although since your only missing like 1 sent. comp. per section, then only study words that you dont know from the practice tests that you take, thats what i did. Or get a hit list book for the most used words.</p>
<p>Im planning to take it Oct , so i have plenty of time. I am studying some flash cards at the moment. And Akahmed i was thinking the same thing, i think ill go thru all the questions and look if it is a certain type. And as for Elanorci, i am actually going thru with a reading regimen this summer, ive ready 4 books so far- 1000 pages total and i plan on keeping this up till oct. Thanks for the advice</p>
<p>For sentence completions the +/- strategy really helps. If you get those two-word sentence completions wrong then this might help. Basically, what you do is identify for each blank whether the answer would be positive or negative and then label each word based on roots or how the words sound with a + or - or N for neutral. That usually eliminates three and then from there I usually use my gut to get the right answer.</p>
<p>vocab is usually luck. I mean, some tests have words you know, some dont. It just depends. I sometimes miss up to 3 vocab questions in 1 section (out of 8).. because there are some questions with choices i just dont know at all.. the words… and some sections, i get perfect vocab.. cuz i know all the words. The +/- strategy can take you far… but usually, it eliminates 2-3 choices… then you can rely on roots for the rest. Good luck</p>