The way that I improved my RC score and my confidence was by buying a book that had tons of passages in it. I copied off like 30 of the passages that didn't have the questions attached, and everyday I would read a couple of passages and highlight transition words, proper nouns, words that indicated an opinion on someone's behalf, etc. I wouldn't even look for the questions to practice answering anything.

I would practice figuring out what kind of passage it was, what the main points of each paragraph were, and what the author's purpose of writing it was. Once I felt like I could get through the passages and understand it well and answer "why?" to everything, then I came back to 7Sage RC section and started practicing with passages and their questions. I would disregard the time completely and write down my answers and why I chose that answer, so that if I got one wrong I could pinpoint where my thinking went astray.

Don't psych yourself out and end up with crippling test anxiety. You've got this and even if it ends up being 160 again, that's a solid score :)

When I was just starting out, video explanations helped because I needed to further understand the concept. Now that I understand the concepts, I use the written explanations because it just is a quick reminder of what I did wrong and I don't need further explanation about the concept itself.

@Amanitann1978 I’m in Roseville near Sacramento! What part of CA are you in?

I loooove the way they teach here. It jives with my brain and just clicks. The explanations, the visuals, it’s all perfect. Thanks you guys!

Modifiers in the subject: adjective

Modifiers in the predicate: adverbs

Modifiers that can be in both: prepositional phrases