Hopeless at critical reading section

riaudo
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:41:03 +0000

Hey. I took a practice PR SAT earlier and didn’t do that well, but I guess it’s okay for my first time practicing. I got:

W: 800
CR: 600
M: 650

I’m a beast at the writing section. I’m pretty good at math. My only errors were careless mistakes and I know that if I take a few more practice tests I’ll be able to score much higher.

However, I feel hopeless with critical reading. Vocabulary is not a problem for me at all, but I loathe passage-based reading. I can never focus, all of the answers always seem right, the choices are ambiguous, etc. I hate it. It’s not black-and-white like math. And I don’t know how you prepare for passage-based reading.

What’s the secret to scoring high on the CR section?