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1807443 No.1807443 [Reply] [Original]

/lit/, I need your help!

I take the SAT's on June 4th, and no matter how many practice tests I do, my Critical Reading score won't go above 600! Please help me /lit/, how do I "read more critically"? Everything my books tell me to do, I've done naturally and yet I still have to go "back to lines X - Y" even if I marked those lines.

>> No.1807446

bump for help

>> No.1807455

/lit/! come on!!!

>> No.1807457

>>1807443
always go back to lines and re-read them
after you read each paragraph, summarize it's content in a couple of sentences before you read the questions
don't look at the options after until you've read the question and formed an answer in your head
draw diagrams connecting ideas in each passage.
write one word on the tone of each paragraph before you read the questions

>> No.1807459

Can't do anything about it now sorry bro. You should have read more books in high school.

>> No.1807460

>/lit/ is NOT a homework board.
how bout that
600 isn't even a bad score.

>> No.1807461

Be more specific with what types of questions you consistently don't get right and why you don't get them right. Asking for help in the Critical Reading section is far too broad a question for there to be a practical answer

>> No.1807465

>>1807443

>Critical Reading
>done everything my books tell me to do

>critical
>doing what I'm told

wtf

>> No.1807472

>>1807465
lol, your association is terrible. Critical Reading and
Critical Thinking are 2 different things. Critical Reading
on the SAT involves finding out implications and
understanding what you read thoroughly

7/10, nice job Troll

>> No.1807474

Read the fucking questions, kid.

>> No.1807476

Read some of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems. Your vocabulary and reading comp. will be better for it.

>> No.1807478

>>1807465
>Implying logics applies to liberal arts.
>implying this whole board isn't full of religionistic idiots.

>> No.1807483

The CR section is more closely related to your IQ than any other part on the SAT (or ACT). You can't really study for it like you can for the W and M sections. Only thing that might help is to do some practice tests.

>> No.1807496

>>1807443
http://satninja.com/sat-critical-reading/how-to-answer-sat-critical-reading-questions-without-readin
g-the-passages

just pick the politically correct answers

>> No.1807621

you are reading about the world, not just words. learn more stuff.