<p>Does any one have any tips on how to boost a reading score??</p>
<p>Read more books. I read like 8 books this summer and my CR went up 80 points. As for vocab, there’s not really any way to study for it I think. Direct hits is too inefficient and not really effect. Your vocab should correlate to quality of reading you have done over the past few years.</p>
<p>What kinds of books did you read? Something classic or popular?</p>
<p>I was fanatical and kept a vocabulary journal and wrote down any word that I encountered on practice exams that I didn’t know, along with its definition AND several examples of it used in context. </p>
<p>Don’t just write down the word that was in the right answer-- look through the answer choices and even the question stem, and if there are any words in there that you wouldn’t be able to confidently use in a sentence, then you should definitely make an effort to learn it. </p>
<p>[Dictionary</a>, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary](<a href=“http://thefreedictionary.com%5DDictionary”>http://thefreedictionary.com) is awesome for finding examples of words in context (scroll down on any definition page to see “References in classic literature”. </p>
<p>To be fair, I read (past and present tense) a lot, but I do think writing down the example sentences of the words helped me a lot, and eventually CR became my favorite section :)</p>