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The Most Important SAT Critical Reading Tip. The biggest thing you can do to improve your SAT Critical Reading score is to focus on the main idea of the passage. If you can really get this concept and apply it when you’re taking the SAT, your score on the Critical Reading section will increase dramatically. In fact, if you combine this one tip with my Sentence Completion method, your Critical Reading score will go up by 5.

Here’s why. If you’re having trouble with the critical reading passages, you’re probably getting stuck on the details and missing the main idea of the passage. Sometimes when you read a passage, you may get confused by certain words, sentences, or even whole paragraphs. You might be tempted to re- read those parts until you understand exactly what they mean.

Don’t do it, it’s a waste of valuable time. Why? Most of what’s confusing you is details, but not all of the details will be referred to in the questions. If they don’t ask you about them, you don’t have to know them. That’s why it’s important that you don’t get caught up in the details as you read. Which details do you have to know? The SAT will tell you.

Any question that asks about specific details from the passage will refer you back to specific lines. When that happens, you do need to go back and re- read lines, and usually a little bit before and after as well. While you don’t need to know all the details, you must know the main idea, which for our purposes includes the author’s opinion on the topic if his opinion is clear. Most of the questions, even if they’re about specific details, relate back to the main idea in some way. That’s why once you know the main idea, almost all of the questions get a lot easier.

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I’ll show you how that works in a moment. First we have to look at our second tip. In the Critical Reading section of the SAT, unlike in the Math section, you’re not looking for an exactly right answer. You have to look for the best possible answer among the choices they give you.

Sometimes you’ll be doing a question and think to yourself, none of these answers seem right to me. Sometimes none of them seem right to me, either.

Sometimes none of the answers will be the same as how you would answer if you could write anything you want. One of the answers will still be better than all the rest. All of the wrong answers have something about them that make them wrong. Students who do really well on this section know this. They use the process of elimination to eliminate the answers that are clearly wrong, then pick the best remaining answer. The good news is that in almost every question, 3 of the answers will obviously be wrong, and you’ll be able to cross them out right away.

In fact, when using the process of elimination, after you’re done crossing off the answers that are obviously wrong, if you’re not sure which of the remaining answers is the best choice, pick pick the one that most closely reflects the main idea of the passage. Let’s see how this works for the second long critical reading passage in Section 7 of the Official SAT Practice Test for 2. It’s the passage that begins, “Ridiculing television, and warning about its inherent evils, is nothing new.”Download it now and follow along with me. The main idea of that passage, and the authors opinion, can be simply stated as: “The idea that TV is evil and dangerous is not new. In fact, going all the way back to Plato, the primary means of artistic expression have always been attacked like TV is today. I think that people who do that are wrong.” If you thought the main idea was anything along those lines, you probably did pretty well.

Here’s how knowing the main idea applies to the questions. Question 1. 6: If you know that the passage is about criticizing TV, you know that B, D, and E are wrong.

If you know that the author himself is not criticizing TV, you know that A is wrong, and the answer is C. Question 1. 7: The lines they refer to say, “television has been blamed for corrupting our youth,” and is a, “big, perhaps dangerous, waste of time.” Notice that this detail is just an expression of the main idea of the passage. This question is easy. The least bad television show is D, which is the correct answer. Question 1. 8: This type of question is asking you about what a word means in the context of the passage. The main idea won’t help you on a question like this.

Just plug the answer choices into the sentence in place of the word “drawn” and you’ll see that the correct answer is D. Question 1. 9: Plato thought those stories, and their heroes, were bad, in the same way some people today think that TV is bad, so you know that A and B are wrong.

Since Plato felt very strongly about that, the answer is E. Question 2. 0: If you realize that the “academic” mentioned in this question disagrees with Plato (and agrees with the author), you know that A, B, and D are wrong. If you noticed that he called Plato an “elitist”, you know the correct answer is E. Question 2. 1: This question is about the same lines you read for the previous question. The author is building up his argument that Plato was wrong, so the answer is A.

Question 2. 2: Remembering the main idea, the correct answer is D. Question 2. 3: The author disagrees with Plato, so A, C, and D are wrong.

Plato was a Greek philosopher, so E is wrong. The correct answer is B. Question 2. 4: Again, remembering the main idea, the correct answer has to be E.

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I picked this passage to show you this concept because it’s particularly clear. In some other passages, it’s not quite this easy to apply the main idea to each of the questions.

For all passages, though, knowing the main idea is the key. Let me add a few additional steps that will help you do your best on the reading passages, and put it all together in order. Read the part in italics before the passage. Always read the passage before answering the questions. Read for the main idea and the author’s opinion, not the details.

If a question refers to specific line numbers, always go back and re- read those lines. It usually helps to read a little bit before and after those lines, as well.

For most questions, when you’ve eliminated the answers that are obviously wrong, if you’re having trouble deciding which of the remaining answers is right, pick the one that is closest to the main idea of the passage. As long as you’re not rushing, always go with your gut on this section of the test. That’s it. Practice this a few times until you get the hang of it. Then watch your Critical Reading score shoot way up. Try it and let me know how it works. P. S. If you want a full length Critical Reading video course that will help you raise your CR score fast, check out my SAT Critical Reading Quick Fix.

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