<p>Ok, I heard that reading the Time magazine helps you in your sats. I;m an international student and i was just wondering if their subscription works like national geographic where they can deliver it to your home. Does time magazine do this internationally?</p>
<p>Try the Economist instead. Time is kinda on the low end for intellectual stimulation</p>
<p>i recommend salon.com and nymag.com--and they're free</p>
<p>just from one article from one of those sites (the article on steve jobs...you can look it up), i found a TON of words i didn't know. intro paragraph:</p>
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Well into his forties, Jobs appeared to have pulled off some kind of unholy Dorian Gray maneuver. But now, at 52, his hair is seriously thinning, his frame frail-seeming, his gait halting and labored. His striking facial features—the aquiline nose, the razor-gash dimples—are speckled with ash-gray stubble. A caricaturist would draw him as a hybrid of Andre Agassi and Salman Rushdie. The senescence on display is jarring, but it’s also fitting. After three decades as Silicon Valley’s regnant enfant terrible, Jobs has suddenly, improbably, morphed into its presiding </p>
<p>What grade are you in? If you're looking for definitions, then what they said above my be true. However, if you're looking to improve your critical reading by reading alot more mentally stimulating/difficult passages, unless say your a sophmore (which is already a bit late) then its too late for you to get better at CR by simply becoming a better and faster reader.</p>
<p>yea it does</p>
<p>Time helped me get 800 on CR</p>
<p>the economist helped me get 900 on CR</p>
<p>you're funny</p>
<p>Actually I think Time's writing isn't THAT sophisticated, recently. I'm in my 5th year of subscription to Time and I've noticed the quality of articles somewhat declined.</p>
<p>The New Yorker and some editorials/feature stories in New York Times are very challenging though.</p>
<p>If you are just starting out, you can make reading Time a habit - but note that you won't see a drastic improvement immediately. It takes at least one-two years of continuous reading... In the long term though, it definitely helps.</p>
<p>Yes, Times does deliver internationally (note my location) - but if you're in Asia, you get the Asia edition of Time (which isn't very different from the US version - you just get more stories on like China and Japan and not so much on US politics). They deliver to your home too. You can go on the Times website and look up subscription under your regional page.</p>
<p>I got a 710 on my CR. I've read Time magazine since 8th grade...it's very enjoyable to read, but I don't think it's the best for prepping for the SAT CR section.</p>
<p>well, as of now i read national geographic
also, im going into 11th grade next year</p>
<p>and im taking the sats in october and my main concern is CR
im doing the sat online course and i got a 5 in the essay so im pretty confident in writing and math</p>
<p>CR, on the other hand.. i suck</p>
<p>I would recommend what are called "SAT novels". You read a novel (usually geared toward teens) that has been written to incorporate the usual SAT words. If you check your library or amazon, there are at least a dozen of them by different authors. I can give you one title that I found in our local library, called "Test of Time". It's more fun than studying lists or words.</p>