<p>The consensus on CC seems to be to only use official CB materials when prepping, but how do you use the BB tests “efficiently”? I’ve taken a few tests so far and I usually just look over the questions I get wrong and try to understand why I got it wrong and what to do in the future. This takes me about 15 minutes. So I’m just wondering if I’m missing something or doing something wrong when I’m reviewing my test. </p>
<p>Btw this method works great for writing and math, but my CR scores dont seem to be improving. Is there some better way to check my answers, especially for CR? When I go over the CR questions, the answers always seem to make sense AFTER I already know what they are lol.</p>
<p>Idk if it matters but on my last test I got -1 math, -3 writing, and -11 CR (ouch!) and 4/11 were sentence completion questions.</p>
<p>For the CR, try to find information in the passage that supports that answer. For instance, highlight key words/phrases in the passage that support the answer choice. Pay attention to the wording of the CR question, and then analyze how the answer is presented IN the passage for those types of questions, and when you see a similar worded question you’ll know where to look for the answer. Remember, all the answers are stated in the passage, usually CB just paraphrases it into the answer choice.</p>
<p>If it’s a tutorial you want, try the Princeton Review, but be careful of the questions, my English teacher and I found a ton of mistakes on reading.</p>
<p>do the sets of questions you had a hard time on over again in different ways…and try to snipe the answer. dont look for the right answer or try to redetermine the right answer (cuz you already know it) but understand how to get it almost instantly. for sentence completions, look over the answer choices and find roots, prefixes, and suffixes to look up (even the ones in words you already know)</p>
<p>thanks for the replies. I’ll try reviewing my CR a lot more thoroughly. but i was just looking at “Bigb14’s SAT FAQ v1.0”, and he says that reviewing each test should take the same amount of time it took to take the test, and that’s about 3 1/2 hours. i don’t think rereading the cr passages should take more than 1.5-2 hours, so does that mean i should really go over and analyze the other sections, like math and writing, even if i got the questions right?</p>
<p>If you read on, I believe I said that reviewing times will vary by people, depending on study habits. As long as you don’t mindlessly take practice tests, you should be ok. </p>
<p>It should take you at least an hour though, no matter who you are. I was very meticulous in my work, analyzing and categorizing every single question (regardless if I got the right or wrong). This definitely helped my score, but not everyone wants to do this (I still believe this is the best method though).</p>