Short Passage Strategies?

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<p>For some reason, I always feel very anxious about short passages and whenever I miss questions it’s almost ALWAYS on this subsection of the Critical Reading. If it weren’t for these I would be getting an 790 or 800 consistently.</p>

<p>Today in my AP English class we did a practice critical reading section and I got all the sentence completions right and all of the other passage based reading questions, but I got 3 out of the 4 short passage questions wrong.</p>

<p>It feels incredibly awkward because it’s supposedly the “easiest” subsection, yet for me it’s anything but that. The longer the passage, the better I do (it doesn’t make any sense whatsoever).</p>

<p>Any useful tips?</p>

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<p>1) Calm down.
2) Some people aren’t good at certain sections of tests. They aren’t good at certain subjects. It’s not your fault.
3) Find a prep that works for you. Don’t just use what people who got 2200s did because you figure it must get you a 2200. Do what helps you.
4) Please, don’t be stuck up with the “I could get an 800 if not for my problem.”</p>