<p>Hokay...so...I just can't get a CR score over 600 its always 570-590, and i think its because the way I read and answer the questions is not very efficient, and i've tried a couple of techniques and strategies, but none of them worked for me. So what should I look for when I read the passages and some techniques and tips that can help?</p>
<p>also when I get a long passage especially ones about literature and the comparative ones, I just can't focus and tends to be like " oh crap" and dose off...what can I do to overcome this?</p>
<p>thx</p>
<p>focus on the QUESTIONS not the READING
you only get points on answering the question; you dont get points for thorough reading. this doesnt mean to not read at all..you should definitely read the whole passage..but focus more on what the question is asking, and what textual evidence there is in the passage(s)</p>
<p>and always remember that there is only ONE correct answer. others can be distortions and mislead you. find the answer with the most precise evidence you can gather from the text</p>
<p>some people just arent good at CR because they think its really really subjective. i thought this at first too, but i realized that there really is one answer to each question and that there is an explanation for it. go thru your mistakes too</p>
<p>oh, i like partxtimexlovah's method.</p>
<p>my strategy may not work for you, but it helped raised my CR score by around 60 points.
1. go straight to the questions (most of them have line references and are in order anyway)
2. skip the attitude/tone passages for now
3. once you get to the end of the passage through answering the line reference questions, answer the attitude/tone questions</p>
<p>i found that this saved me a lot of time from reading the whole passage (i'm a slow reader) and helped me focus on what the question asked rather than what i had read in a paragraph subsequent to the question's reference.</p>