<p>I need to boost this score. But before you give me the usual advice of reading books, memorizing vocab, etc., I’d like to give you a description of the usual scenario whenever I’m in the middle of a critical reading section:</p>
<p>-I breeze through the vocab section because I know/ can reason out the meanings of the words. (I don’t miss these.)</p>
<p>-I read each passage thoroughly and easily, knowing what sections to skim over (details) and what sections to read carefully (new points.) </p>
<p>-When I get to the questions, I use the knowledge that I have supposedly attained from reading the passage in order to choose the best answer. I have plenty of time to weigh possibilities and all that.</p>
<p>-It turns out that I answer a lot of the passage-based questions incorrectly.</p>
<p>As you can see, my problem isn’t not being able to fully immerse myself into the passage and questions while making reasonable decisions. My problem is that my interpretation of the passage is different than that of the correct answer with too high of a frequency.</p>
<p>I have taken around six practice tests already, and I still have the same problem.</p>
<p>Am I just plain stupid in that I simply cannot catch the CB’s right answer trends, or is there a way out of my predicament?</p>
<p>Wow quick response
Should I read these books as one normally would and expect results to follow, or is there an aspect of active analysis and reflection- similar to taking the SAT- involved?
By the way, I am ready and willing to do anything to be able to improve this score, because it lags FAR behind that of my math and writing.</p>
<p>If you’re takign time to weight the possible answers, most likely youre thinking WAY too in depth. Choose the most concise, first answer that comes to ur mind answer; dont overthink it. If its implied, its not the answer (of course unless it asks for what is implied)</p>
<p>Rule of thumb:
If an answer is 90% correct, then it is always 100% incorrect</p>
<p>If what you are saying is indeed the reason, it is a huge relief. I’ll make good use of both of your pieces of advice. Hopefully it will help me boost my dismal score -_-</p>
<p>A very annoying part of SAT critical reading is that it does a lot of paraphrasing, changing the wordings of the answers more confusing rather than straight-forward. As an international with English as a second language, I need to boost up my reading A LOT too.</p>
