<p>I am currently stuck on 1950with a 650 in each section
I will take the test in October
any unconventional tips to raise my score past this invisible wall</p>
<p>key is to practice more, preferably with CB’s blue book or the online course</p>
<p>no “unconventional” tips will suddenly increase your score to a 2100.</p>
<p>haha… 570 (r) + 660 (w) + 720 (m) = 1950!! - my score too :)</p>
<p>Raising your score is surprisingly natural if you practice and practice.</p>
<p>its not easy to raise your score… well at least not for me. Sorry to be rude but nothing is easy. Anyways, you have probably reached a “learning plateau.” basically you just keep practicing and nitpicking at EVERY SINGLE problem until you know and memorized each and every single trick in the test by heart.</p>
<p>thanks for the help</p>
<p>I agree with tofulover.</p>
<p>All you can do now is practice, practice, practice, and then dissect the tests to see how and why you got it wrong.</p>
<p>You might also look how you can solve specific problems faster in order to give you more time for the more difficult problems.</p>
<p>I’m in same situation but slightly different.</p>
<p>I had 1950 then went up to 2050 once but I’m on 1950’s again. My score is 800(M), 610(W –> I had 700 when I got 2050), 540 (R). I know that practice is only tool but how can I get more concentrated on writing section (multiple section). Sometimes, I want to smack myself (and do) for not recognizing really easy stuffs.</p>
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<p>Thought is pretty easy for most people.</p>
<p>I have tutored many students over the years who wound up crushing question associated with the longer critical reading passages. This is how they did it:</p>
<p>They skipped the passages and went right to the questions. They then referred back to the text only as needed. If you experience some success the first time you try it this way, keep trying. Like most other skills, it is one that can be developed and perfected.</p>
<p>I tutored a kid about two weeks ago. He took two critical reading practice tests for me. On the first one, he got three “long-passage” questions right using the traditional method. On the second one, he answered all 21 correctly using the method described above. </p>
<p>There is no guarantee that this approach will work for you, but it is worth trying.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>I got a 1980 the first time around (about 660-680 on each section). I’ve done a lot of practice, and now my average practice test score is around 2100, sometimes I can break 2200. </p>
<p>So just practice.</p>
<p>How long have you been “stuck” at 1950? How many practice tests or whatever have you taken?</p>
<p>Karl S, your method won’t work. Trust me, your friends are just getting lucky…I advise you to tell them to try it for every CR section they encounter…and they’ll fail. I tried that method, and I only got answers correct by luck, it’s much better to read the passage and put the correct answers because frankly, the answers are there right in front of your eyes.</p>
<p>questions are in order so I suggest read a paragraph and answer any questions that you can… then continue… and skip general answers until you have got to the end and can answer them. Sometimes you’ll end up being able to answer all the questions without reading the whole passage.</p>
<p>Karl S’s method is very risky but it’s not that bad idea when you’re running out of time. For instance, reading only that part is helpful in some cases because you probably will not overanalyze. I think the best way for me is to skim while putting small note for each paragraph to remember what the heck that was about. But then, my CR isn’t great so I need to look for better way.</p>
<p>Tralfamadorian, that’s what I do, too-- read a paragraph at a time :)</p>
<p>read a lot whenever you can</p>