<p>i went from 510 in june to 470 in october =/ what should i do?</p>
<p>One needs to know grammar and word meaning. That is part of the difficulty.</p>
<p>No it isn't</p>
<p>For most people its the subjectiveness of the CR answers
you just have to prqctice and learn to understand what they want you to get from the passages--don't take practice tests just for the heck of it to look for improvements. To improve you need to do the dissect the passage and find out why you aren't getting them right. There is actually no need to practice more than the ones given in the blue book</p>
<p>stupid question: what is the "blue book" i've heard it mentioned several times</p>
<p>yeah what is this bluebook you speak of</p>
<p>The official new SAT book. It just happens to be blue.</p>
<p>yup with 8 full tests and unhelpful advice</p>
<p>I was constantly stuck in the low 700s (a good score to be sure, but with a relatively weak math score, I needed to pull up my CR) until I realized that for many of the questions, I had to try and figure out what ETS wanted to hear. So I'd shut off my brain, stop trying to look too deeply into the passage, and basically take my answer from the text and the text alone. Got an 800 this time thinking that way.</p>
<p>congrats for your score jpps !</p>