| OK! I am going to teach you 3 Critical Reading | | | | trying to say. Tricks to answer the questions |
| Tips for the SAT that really helped me improve | | | | correctly when you don't know all the words is to |
| my score. I got a 740 Critical Reading Score | | | | see if the words have a negative or positive |
| without studying too much. And by the way, I'm | | | | connotation, look for familiar roots, and look at |
| not much of a reader, nor do I have a great | | | | prefixes and suffixes. Once you can implement |
| vocabulary. | | | | these strategies especially the negative/ positive |
| 1. Answers are in-text - The single most | | | | you will do very well on the Sentence |
| important tip that you must learn for the Critical | | | | Completions |
| Reading portion of the SAT is that, every single | | | | 3. Timing - The major problem everyone faces in |
| answer choice in the passage based reading | | | | the Reading portion of the SAT is being able to |
| comes directly from the text. Therefore, you | | | | finish the entire section in the time allotted. Well I |
| should never make inferences, you should look | | | | figured out a great Critical Reading SAT Tip that |
| for the answer choice that comes closest to | | | | helped me finish the entire sections with a few |
| what the text directly states. If you follow this | | | | minutes to spare. How? easy! You go through the |
| single rule, your score will improve once you fully | | | | Sentence Completions fairly quickly and don't |
| realize that the answer choices are always in the | | | | waste time over thinking. Then comes the trick. |
| passages, and all the wrong answer choices fail to | | | | You skip reading the passage(s) and go to the 1st |
| fully match up with what the passage states. | | | | question... answer that by reading whatever line it |
| Trust me this is really powerful. It took me a few | | | | tells you to go to... then go to the 2nd question... |
| Reading practice sections before I started to | | | | answer by reading whatever line/ paragraph to |
| recognize this pattern. | | | | go to.... So you do this and while you are doing |
| 2. Sentence Completions - This is a pain for many | | | | this you are basically reading the passage so after |
| SAT test takers. However, I managed to get | | | | finishing all of the "go to line...." questions and "what |
| every single one of these vocab questions right, | | | | does word in line..." you can answer the main idea |
| except for one that I got wrong. How did I do | | | | questions because you will know what the |
| this with an average vocabulary? Its Simple! You | | | | passage is about. You may have to skip around |
| Have to fully read the Sentence Completion | | | | sometimes as the main idea question(s) may be in |
| questions and fill in the words that fit in the | | | | the middle. |
| blank(s) that matches with what the sentence is | | | | |