IQ and Critical Reading

renoverchat
Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:02:58 +0000

I disagree that CR predicts intelligence. It tests your ability to critically analyze and understand passages, thus giving an advantage to people who read a lot, not people who are more intelligent.

CR was always easy for me because I was a very avid reader. This means that I was basically ‘practicing’ CR for years and years (reading also builds up your vocabulary tremendously). It is probably harder to ‘learn’ CR than math or writing on relatively short notice, which is why it seems difficult to improve when studying for the SAT.