Bad SAT CR score

omgwthbbq
Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:37:45 +0000

I read A LOT. I literally read everything. For some odd reason though, I got a HORRIBLE score on the critical reading on the SAT a little less than a year ago. Even though I didn’t exactly understand the test format nor did I study specifically for it, my critical reading score was ridiculously low (480).
The majority of my friends broke 600, and some of them hardly read. Although I was in 8th grade at the time, the fact that I couldn’t even break the average score for the section hurts my self-esteem greatly.
What should I be doing prepare for this? Is the section simply vocabulary based (there were quite a few words that I didn’t know)? If so, should I be listing vocab words as I read so that I can look them up and learn their definitions or is it just a matter of studying the long “SAT Vocab Lists” (that have thousands of words)?