<p>So, I practiced CR like crazy, used numerous different methods-used gruber, barrons 2400 etc.</p>
<p>However, I can NEVER finish CR on time!!!This is really driving me insane,
I don’t even get a chance to look at last 5 questions on each section.
and even if I rush myself and finish it on time, I miss like 20 questions!</p>
<p>really, I think I’m really not smart, I mean I practice CR everyday! and can’t just finish it on time!!! Please, help me, I’m so stuck! and I need to get above 750 on Oct SAT!</p>
<p>I know how you feel – I’m the same way with the Math sections. I can finish CR and W with a couple of minutes to spare, but I have yet to completely finish one M section. It’s annoying.</p>
<p>What exactly is keeping you from finishing, though? Is it that you’re a slow reader? Do you struggle with the questions themselves? Find the cause of the problem first, and then work on improving that.</p>
<p>Could you expound on why you don’t finish? </p>
<p>Is it that you read slowly? Or that the questions are hard to understand? The material is hard to understand? The material and questions don’t connect for you? You bubble slowly (I’m serious)? You read the passage multiple times before understanding? etc</p>
<p>If you could come face to face with the specific reasons, it’d be easier to focus and eliminate the problem areas, plus I think the folks here would have an easier time helping you.</p>
<p>By the way, I doubt you’re stupid. The fact that you’ve come to CC for help shows intelligence in trying to resolve the problem Chin up!</p>
<p>Doctorpark: You are NOT stupid (I don’t think you are, at least) and you do NOT need to get above 750 on the October SAT! I wouldn’t be worrying if I got a 740 on my critical reading test.</p>
<p>I’d also like to know why you don’t finish. Exactly what sphoenixee wrote. I think that to improve, you have to look at your mistakes and then learn from them.</p>
<p>If you read slow … you should answer the questions that requires you to comprehend a certain line (lines) and the questions with the vocab (context clues) … after those you can read it for the main ideas.</p>
<p>Getting a 750 is not a piece of cake. I’m consistently taking a 800 on M, and so so on W, but doing really bad on CR. It’s driving me crazy.
I’m a int’l student. So my first prob is vocab. Sometimes I don’t even know a word that you might say SIMPLE. So that’s what I’m working on these days.
My goal is take 2000+ or preferably 2100+ in which I’m planning to take 800 on M unless I do a careless stupid mistake and to take 1300 out of 1600 from W and CR?
Does my plan sound reasonable? Can I reach my goal???</p>
<p>Even though I am still bad at CR(740) I use to have basically the same problem you had. I had the misconception that in order to get a good score and answer the questions right you had to completely understand every part of the passage.</p>
<p>In the critical reading passages, I usually find some part that is really had to digest/figure out completely. Sometimes it’s the wording sometimes I just plain don’t get it. Usually I get really bogged down on this one detailed section only to come to the questions and find out that there are no questions on that one section.</p>
<p>I would suggest skimming for overall understanding… and if you come to a detailed hard to understand section… let it go but make note of it. </p>
<p>Another problem for some ppl is that they can’t concentrate and remember everything in the passage clear in their heads. I am one of those ppl so I usually take the passage in bits and pieces. I do half or 1/3 depending on the length answer the questions for that part and then do the rest, leaving the overall questions for the very end. This way i don’t spend as much time rereading and reunderstanding the part of the passage the question is refering to.</p>
<p>I use the same method that thegodofrice uses, I’m hovering at around 700 right now (Can’t stand it, my score won’t budge). I think the method will definitely bring your score into the high 600s if not 700s.</p>
<p>Good luck, hope we both do well in October.</p>
Chin up!</p>