i wonder if experts of CR can realize or grasp the motif of all passages while doing practices.Or do they just focus on tackling the questions since i have experience of knowing nothing about the passages but got only 3 wrong answers simply by using elimination.
also, i have almost finished all practice tests from CB.how can i practise more???i worry that practise CR with using practices of other publishers can be detrimental
You should concentrate on tackling the questions. After you answer all the line and paragraph references, you will know by then what was the passage all about.
Always trust that the questions are in order with the lines. For example, you answer question 1 reading the first paragraph, you answer question 2 using second paragraph, you answer question 3 using half of the third paragraph, you answer question 4 using the second half of the third paragraph and so on. You do not look for answers in other places.
I recommend reading the text together with the questions. This way you will nicely read the whole text once while answering the questions and concentrating on the relevant parts. All you need is those relevant parts to answer the question. You do not need the whole text. The questions are always specifically asking you of what was being said in that exact place. General tone and purpose questions are another matter. These will become clear after answering all the other questions.
Always trust that the lines you are referred to are enough to answer the question. At times you need to read a sentence further to fully grasp what was said or the sentence before those lines will tell explicitly what is about to be said.
Trust that there are no tricks or ambiguities. All the answers are there in the text. All you have to do is follow the text and the clues. Learn to actively look for the clues which will tell you the answer. You just simply need to get what is there (to get the correct answer) and what is not there (to eliminate all the other choices).
Your task here is to practice to hear (read and understand) what is being said without making things up with your own preconception. Just use what is given to you. Clear your mind of all kinds of bias, sober up and you can ace it!
If you honestly do not understand a part of the passage, just leave it and move on to the next question. You can come back to it later after you answer other questions; maybe by then the author's opinion will seem clearer.
When you tackle double passage where all questions are about comparing the two passages, then read the first passage, briefly note what was the main point and then read the second one. While reading the second one actively look for similarities and differences of opinions. Determine the main point of the second passages if you didn't detect any common grounds with the first one.
Other times double passage has individual questions and comparison questions. Work first with the first passage, then with the second, and only then tackle the comparison questions.
While questions from other materials may not seem the same, it is useful to read as many SAT-like passages as you can to gain more experience with them. Leave a couple of CB tests to take before the real SAT and work on all other material. Princeton's texts are nice. I am working on them now. I think they are of similar vibe like CB's passages.
sometimes i can't get the message but simply eliminate as many answers as i can and trust my guts to choose the answers. it turns out to be ok...
therefore i wanna ask if anyone who score high in SAT CR experience similar thing as mine.
