<p>Choxlit, I am not lecturing. I'm puzzled by your sensitivity.</p>
<p>I also take with a grain of salt your assertion that you 'barely read'. Reading is a skill, and people improve with practice, i.e. reading a lot makes you a more capable reader. So it is a mystery to me how someone who 'barely reads' can score an 800 on CR. How would that work?</p>
<p>I gave great advice, by the way. I do hope those who read this encourage younger folks to establish a lifetime reading habit, 2 hours a night minimum, reading fun fiction if that is what they enjoy and will read lots of. It's the secret to doing well in school!</p>
<p>" Sorry to say it, but look what years of television viewing and computer videogames in their early years have done for society's young. It is a shame that the vast majority of teen contributors on this website think that READING is the hardest of the 3 SAT tests. "</p>
<p>800 CR is more impressive because it takes the longest to "study" for. You can't just pick up a prep book for a couple weeks and then 800 the CR. You can easily do that for Math and Writing.</p>
<p>I'd just like to contradict everybody here. I am definitely a math/science guy, but I scored a 760 CR 690 M with more studying for M. I didn't study for writing because nobody cares about it, so that was a 650. Yes, CR was highest. And I have NOT been an avid reader since junior high.</p>
<p>Well, previous generations did read more than this generation typically does. As I understand it, not too long ago, too few students were scoring in the high 700's and 800 on the CR part of the SAT. To fix this problem, the College Board had to re-work the SAT CR test in some way, which allowed more students to score higher than they had been.</p>
<p>Why aren't students reading much anymore? At least in our U.S. society, tv viewing and playing videogames is often to blame, siphoning off leisure time that might otherwise be spent reading fiction or whatever.</p>
<p>I noted the comment made by a student that he scored high on CR despite not reading much since middle school. Actually, I do think that the benefit of reading a lot when IN ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL lingers. That's why I suggested that anyone who influences a young child should encourage that child to read lots during his childhood.</p>
<p>I regret not reading much in junior high. Instead, I played games and goofed off. I read a bunch in elementary school, but I'm not scoring high in CR, so...</p>
Word. I read a LOT in childhood but haven't read much in my spare time since 7th grade or so (of which I'm very ashamed and hope to remedy when I have more FRIGGIN' TIME :(), and I got an 800 in CR.</p>
<p>^ Agreed. I read like sometimes 3-5 hours a day when I was in 8th grade/younger. Unfortunately I haven't had any time recently to read (like maybe 1-2 non-assigned books in the last 3 years LOL) but I still got an 800 CR.</p>
<p>I think that 800 CR is the most impressive, even if it's statistically harder to get an 800 W. It says a whole lot more about the person - that they're an avid reader, whereas an 800 W says nothing to me about writing ability.</p>
<p>it's ok, I am totally weird. Somehow, if I'm reading actual, engaging, interesting literature, the questions seem ridiculously easy to me. If it's some boring CR passage about some author's childhood, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" I mean, my CR score is still good (at least in my mind) just not an 800 :)</p>
<p>cr. if you can make it through passages about a boy retelling to his kitten a childhood fantasy of being a lumberjack and not get crazy bored, then congratulations to you. besides that cr questions and passages just seem to make the section go on forever</p>