<p>I have been practicing for a while for my November SAT, and I've noticed that my weak point is CR (I am a international student, maybe that's why?). I have been checking study material and in one I read they tell you just to go straight to the questions and then read what you need. However, in College board material they tell you to read carefully first and then answer. To the ones who have already taken the SAT, which is the best way to get great results?</p>
<p>Ok, ok.
I’ve done a professional online course for SAT preparation and learnt that there is no ONE way to do the CR. Simply put,
- Read the questions FIRST then read, when they are SHORT paragraphs.
- Read the passage FIRST then answer, when they are LONG paragraphs.</p>
<p>To actually prepare for the section, though, I strongly advise that you READ READ READ!!
Banish any magazines or junk mail from your presence!
Pick up difficult books (usually classics, e.g. Charles Dickens, Homer, whatever) and read them through. This helps SO much with you being able to understand language and its implications and tones.
Also, reading newspapers and “intellectual” magazine articles is fantastic for those CR passages in which the author is making an argument.</p>
<p>Hope I could help, and good luck!</p>
<p>Strongly agree with everything Leonidas11 has said. I would add (and you may or may not already know this) that for each answer there is one that is either explicitly stated in the passage or is the MOST right out of the given answers. </p>
<p>Normally the process of elimination helps as well.</p>
<p>I took SAT last year, got 2100 twice
I was still in 650 CR this early september, and I took the test in October to get 2340 with 740 CR</p>
<p>To get better, I suggest getting a tutor exclusively for reading that is if your score only falls on that part only (that was me)</p>
<p>What I learned was: 1) Skim dont read… theres ways to skim but not fall into the skim traps as I had learned
2) Dont pick any extreme answers
3) dont pick anything not mentioned
4) dont think about questions just find it in the passage</p>