Please share your critical reading strategies!

eatlovepray
Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:23:23 +0000

@bluecanary. Lucky you Unfortunately, I don’t have any strong side. All three sections score up to 600 at best. So I can’t concentrate on only one particular section thoroughly like other people do Some people say it’s hard to bring up your score from 1800+. And this is where I’m at right now.
Yes, I do the same on passages. I read by paragraph by paragraph. But if it’s a long para, I usually read the lines the question asks and one or two sentences up and down those lines. I came to know after a lot of practice that the answers of the inference questions lie in one or two sentences up and down those lines. I always look at the questions first and then read the lines and then the choices. And then there’s always 2 possible choices, so I have to refer back to the passage to know which one is correct. Sometimes I find the correct answer, sometimes don’t, referring back to it. The questions are also very misleading and mean. So I guess I usually fall into the trap of CB.
Also, I usually have to rush through the last few questions of the passage or leave them unanswered because no time is left.
Thank you very much for sharing the way you deal with CR :).