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As a recent college grad, I can tell you personally that the best college students learn to skim and read effectively. Quite frankly, it would be impossible to read every single piece of assigned text from all your professors.Tying this back to your question, I would second Wanda's suggestions but also add that it's important to learn to read efficiently. Just as can be said of college-level reading, reading for the SAT is all about cutting through the crap and getting to exactly what you need. Learn to skip over repetitive and secondary sentences and focus on the sentences that truly add to the story's main point.How to do that?1) With each sentence, learn to scan to the juice of that sentence. Skip over modifiers, unnecessary dependent clauses, etc. 2) Through practice, improve your ability to walk away from each paragraph knowing exactly what the key point was.

I've thought about this before. Good question Nikita. Here are my thoughts:When it comes to reading, you're always balancing two things: 1) speed and 2) accuracy. Up to a certain point, you can increase both. But, once you reach that point, usually an increase in speed will lower your accuracy.Given this, I would work on trying to find the most optimal speed and accuracy combination for you. To figure that out, you'll simply have to do some experimentation. Here's how I would structure a simple test to figure out what's yours:1) Find three Critical Reading sections of similar magnitude and length.2) Try to complete each section using a different reading speed. (e.g. If the section time limit is 25 minutes. Do the first on "Fast" mode (read entire passage within ; do the second on "Medium" mode; and do the last in "Slow" mode.) *NOTE: As you do this, see how your reacting once you get to the questions. Do you find that you were able to read with a fair amount of accuracy when reading "Fast", which was ameliorated by the fact that you had tons of time left over to answer questions? Do you find reading on "Slow" mode is not giving you enough time to answer questions? Think about the varying scenarios.3) Walk away from your experiment with a better understanding of how you read best.Please share your thoughts once you figure something out. I'd be interested to see what else you find out about your reading level.