<p>Sadly, I want to improve both of my scores but I usually score 100 points higher in Math Section rather than CR section :(</p>
<p>hi
i get easily 700+ in my math but i am having problem getting good score in cr and writing. any one suggest me to get rid off this problem please.</p>
<p>i do not get +550 in CR n WRITING!!!</p>
<p>800M 800CR here… now I need some help on that stupid essay…</p>
<p>i can help! i haven’t taken the sats yet but i have gotten 800s on practice tests and i did take aplac as a soph which by the way has harder mc than sat CR and got a 4 so i would be willing to trade with you;D my math skills are more on the low 700 or high 600 side unfortunately:/</p>
<p>Best way to be good at CR (not always feasible to improve by doing this, obviously) is to be a lifelong reader.</p>
<p>Other than that, you should be fluent with words commonly on SAT tests.</p>
<p>You should have a strategy - probably to mark each question in a passage before reading. I do this by just slashing the lines in the margin where a question is referred to (drawing a line parallel to the passage, along the lines referenced). I used to write the question number but that took too long. The other thing I started doing on my recent test which freed up time for me is marking the answers in my test booklet before marking them on my answer sheet. You can probably save 1-2 minutes a section by doing this, so you can review your answers more. You have to be confident that you can finish in time (if you aren’t, then you can do this for all but the last passage of the test, or wait until the proctor calls 5 minutes).</p>
<p>The other piece of advice is that every answer should be supported by the passage. When two choices seem ambiguous, GO BACK to the passage and find specific things that support each of them. Don’t rely on your general impressions. You can also try to think of each response from the perspective of the test-maker: why put each one there when only one is right.</p>
<p>These are the things you can improve and practice by studying CR. Everything else, like reading speed or logic/linguistic ability that allows you to speed through sentence completions, is mostly going to be inherent as a result of who you are or how much you read.</p>
<p>I seem to have trouble on the math section as well. Does anyone know where or what I should be using to master the content tested on the SAT comprehensively. </p>
<p>What in your opinion improved your math score drastically that I should know? Is it a strategy that is so important to know? Other than doing lots of practice. </p>
<p>It would be nice to know what people think </p>
<p>And Critical reading for me has always been about looking at the questions quickly, marking them quickly, and then understand what the passage is saying as well as looking at what is supported on the passage and what isn’t. That is pretty much it. I read, but I’m not a book worm or anything so I can’t say Im naturally gifted in any sort of way. </p>
<p>Cheers</p>
<p>i realize this thread is super old, but for anyone else who wants to know</p>
<p>I improved from a 60 on my PSAT reading sophomore year to a 76 early in junior year and an 800 on the SAT at the end of junior year, so it is possible to improve.</p>
<p>what i found helped me the most is that you should always keep in mind the author’s purpose because that helps you answer just about every question, especially the tone ones. Since tone is an author’s attitude towards a subject, thinking about the author’s purpose helps you find the right tone.
also, if you’re stuck between two, try to think about which answer is clearly WRONG and find evidence to disprove that answer, then pick the right one. </p>
<p>hope this helps.</p>
<p>hey Noitaraperp, could u please give me some advice for the critical reading section.</p>
<p>first time I took the SAT I got 770 math and 590 CR… Then for 3 weeks, I went through practice tests, and brought up CR to 680, and I think the test I just took, I got 750. </p>
<p>I feel like for different people, math and critical reading can be equally as easy or hard. I know a kid that can easily get every single reading comp. right, cause he just has that innate skill to just understand the passages, but he can barely pull a 600 in math. And then, there’s other people who understand math, but not the reading parts.</p>
<p>I feel like, with time, it’s actually easier to improve CR. All you have to do is memorize vocab and do lots of practice to do better. But in math, you can’t get better just by practicing, you actually have to work on understanding the concepts tested.</p>
<p>I feel like I know how to choose the right answer but I lack the vocabulary to get an 800. I’m not just taking about sentence completions. Whenever I know all the words being asked in a question whether it be passages or sentence completions, getting the answer correct is ridiculously straight forward. There’s not much analyzing on the critical reading section. The only reason I miss problems is because I don’t know the words in the question so I don’t understand what I’m being asked.</p>