<p>What strategy do you suggest for me? I am a really slow reader and recently my CR scores have gone way down because of this and just not having enough time to think out the question.</p>
<p>I’m having a lot of trouble…scores have dropped to around 650. I was at around 720, but I want to get to about mid 700s in 2 weeks.</p>
<p>Any tips appreciated!</p>
<p>anyone…?</p>
<p>A super slow reader does not score a 650. You are at a good level. </p>
<p>Super slow readers are people who attempt one of the passages when a dual non-comparison passage section comes up.</p>
<p>Why do you think you have dropped. In what area are you performing badly (vocab, passage)? Are you solving tests from different companies?</p>
<p>If you are a super-slow reader, then go straight to the questions. Don’t bother reading the passage first.</p>
<p>Do the questions that give you line references first (since it tells you where to go). Work your way up to the theme questions (This is a PR strategy, and I remember that you posted on CC that your parents are making you take PR classes).</p>
<p>I would just say try and get back to when u were getting 720. You are obviously capable of it. Maybe you’re just in a rut.</p>
<p>Try answering the questions that ask about the meaning of the whole passage after you have answered all the line reference questions, even if it is the first question after the reading. Going through the line reference questions first will take you almost all the way through the passage and if you run out of time you will have only omitted 1-2 questions that way.</p>
<p>Read more books.
This does help reading speed and comprehension a lot.</p>
<p>I am doing PR practice tests right now, but on my last BB practice test I scored around a 640 as well. So, I am really scared that this is starting to become a trend (scoring mid 600s).</p>
<p>I’m going to write a full length BB test on Saturday morning (simulate waking up early and everything) and see what I get in CR and overall.</p>
<p>Time is really an issue though. I was writing the Online tests from CB (which are also past QAS that I wrote a while back (couple months ago or so) and I was getting around mid 700s and even one 800. So, I was really pumped because it was not like I remembered all the answers and didn’t have to read the passage to answer…I was reading the passage and then attacking q;s.</p>
<p>I think that I was doing so much better because I could kind of skim the passage because I had read it before (even if it was a couple months ago) and I had a general idea of what it was about. So, that saved me a lot of time. So, I ended up getting awesome scores.</p>
<p>But now, I’m scoring mid 600s. Also, my problem is not vocab. The problem is entirely passage based q’s.</p>