<p>First of all, I am a totally normal student; I didn’t score well on the SAT yet.
I am writing this because I felt it will make a real difference.
How many don’t suffer from the critical reading section. Many make and search for tons of preparations and writings in order know the secret beyond raising the critical reading score. Many succeed, many fail.
What about those who fail to raise their score after a lot of approaches and attempts done by and worked out with others.
I am an international student “a non-native English speaker,” I got an 1800 on May test, a 480 critical reading score.
Although I tried everything to raise my score, nothing worked.
Lately, while reading an SAT book. I read “the SAT tests your critical thinking.” Oh really!! I said to myself. so, what I’ve been trying to improve didn’t work because I have a wrong basis or different critical thinking from that tested on the SAT. I kept searching and reading for “the critical thinking” which you are supposed to learn well through your life experiences. “A hawker has critical thinking but diminutive compared to that of a college professor.”
People tend to scrutinize everything about the SAT but they rarely mention what the SAT originally needs from students, and what skills do these students need from school.
Let me give an example for how your critical thinking can trick you:
This is a short passage: read it and go through the questions slowly,</p>
<p>The nation’s health system requires a continual supply of new blood from donors to replenish its stockpiles. Freezing blood for long-term storage is a delicate, expensive, and time-consuming process; moreover, many doctors believe that the resulting product is unreliable. When stored in a solution of plasma and nutritive dextrose (a sugar), fresh red blood cells can survive and remain viable for transfusion for only six weeks.</p>
<p>The passage above suggests which of the following?
a-Additional facilities must be created to prepare and store blood for future transfusions.
b-Without special storage procedures, red blood cells cannot exist for long outside the human body.
c-The public should be reminded frequently of the need to donate blood, not merely appealed to in times of crisis.
d-The nation’s stockpile of blood is dangerously low and needs an immediate infusion of donations.
e-The nation’s stockpile of blood supplies is exhausted on average once every six weeks.
If you selected choice A—careful—you misread the passage and didn’t consider all the choices. Nothing was said about the need for additional storage facilities. New facilities would be of little use if the blood supply were not replenished continually.
If you selected choice B—careful—you misread the choice and didn’t consider all the choices. The passage says that blood cannot survive for long; the passage does not say that blood ceases to exist. Indeed, common sense tells us that blood exists for a long time (think of a blood stain), although the blood would not long remain viable for transfusions.</p>
<p>If you selected choice C, you used process of elimination correctly and found the answer. Congratulations, this was a deceptively difficult question, too. If blood remains viable for transfusion for a limited time, then the public must replenish blood stockpiles continually.</p>
<p>If you selected choice D—careful—you misread the passage. The first sentence says that the nation requires a continual supply of new blood; the passage does not say that the current supply is inadequate.</p>
<p>If you selected choice E—careful—you misread the passage. The passage said that blood in solution remains viable for only six weeks. The stockpile of blood would be exhausted six weeks from today only if no new blood were donated.</p>
<p>That was a sample for the radical change you are likely to encounter in your way of thinking.
I used a book called: "critical thinking skills developing effective analysis and argument."it has a lot for examples that a likely to make a difference in your critical thinking; moreover, in your critical reading section and the whole SAT.</p>
<p>Make your comments!
Thank you!</p>