To read or not to read the passages?

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<p>The Grammatix guide says that you shouldn't read the passages and you can perform the same or even better by not reading the passages and having more time to spend on the questions. It says to do the citation questions first where you go back to "important" parts of the passage, read those parts, and answer the question. When you're done with the citations, you can then answer the tone questions with the reading you did for the citation questions...</p>

<p>How to attack critical reading effectively (<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/750399-how-attack-sat-critical-reading-section-effectively.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/750399-how-attack-sat-critical-reading-section-effectively.html&lt;/a&gt;) says that you mark the citations in the passage, read the passage, and then do the questions. So basically, you read the passage. </p>

<p>With which technique do you guys use? I heard a lot of CC'ers perform well with the Grammatix approach. Please say how well you did and which approach you took...</p>

<p>(Please don't say that everyone has different techniques and it works differently for everyone else. I use the search button, and i've read that answer many times. I'm asking about your approach specifically and why.)</p>

<p>Thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>I make sure to read the entire passage because there is usually a tone/purpose question that basically requires knowing what the passage is about. For the relatively easy questions that are just asking what a words means in line X, yeah you don’t have to read the entire passage, so I do those questions as I read the passage.</p>

<p>It really depends on how fast you can read while retaining/understanding the information, so if you are slow in those regards, you should probably do the first approach to save time.</p>

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<p>yea that’s what i think too. I can finish the last question usually right on time. So i use the reading approach.</p>

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<p>Definitely read.</p>