General Information
You get ____ mins on the reading portion of the SAT.
A) 50
B) 80
C) 65
D) 35
C) 65 mins
Big picture questions involve the following except:
A) Authors POV
B) The primary purpose of the text
C) A specific detail found within the text
D) Rhetorical strategy of the author
C) A specific detail found within the text
Inference questions will ask you to...
A) laugh and cry
B) figure out what the purpose of the text is
C) make a logical assumption based on details in the text
D) talk about the weather
C) make a logical assumption based on details in the text.
Detecting the underlying similarity between something in the passage and a separate hypothetical situation is know as...
A) Vocabulary in context
B) Inference
C) Analogies
D) Some English thing
C) Analogies
Authors technique questions will ask about...
A) what writing utensil was used to write the passage
B) authors tone in the passage or the mood the passage conveys
C) the policies and procedures
B
You get ____ mins on the writing portion of the SAT.
A) 50
B) 80
C) 65
D) 35
Little Picture/Details questions include:
A) In lines 63-64, "the practice" refers to...
B) The fourth paragraph (lines 20-25) indicates that...
C) The passage is written from a point of view of a...
D) Based on the information presented in the passage, which best describes what Georgia was "tired of"?
A, B and D
Which of the following is not a common phrase used for inference questions?
A) The phrase liquid gold most directly suggests
B) What does the author suggest about the transgenic studies conducted in the 1980's and 1990's?
C) Which answer best reflects the perspective of the narrator?
D) The author uses the question in lines 5-6 to describe...
C and D
Vocabulary in context questions will ask you to...
A) Define a word
B) Use context clues
C) Define a word as it is used in the text
D) Figure it out
C) Define a work as it is used in the text
Evidence Support questions will ask...
A) What time it is
B) What you think the answer is
C) How you came to the answer from the previous question
D) Where you were born
C) How you came to the answer from the previous question
The scoring range on the SAT is...
A) 200 - 1200
B) 400 - 1600
C) 400 - 2200
D) 800- 1600
Little Picture questions account for __% of the reading potion of the SAT.
A) 7
B) 15
C) 23
D) 25
D) 25
**this means it is worth your time to to ensure you are able to answer little picture questions with ease.
Function questions are also known as
A) Meaning in Context
B) Work and operations
C) Expression, rule, or law
D) the reason an object or process occurs in a system
A) meaning in context
**although, all four options are definitions of the word.
Can you find vocabulary in context in both the reading and writing sections of the SAT?
A) Yes
B) No
C) IDK
A) Yes
The reading section will ask you to use context clues to figure out the definition, while the writing section will ask you to improve the syntax of the passage.
For data reasoning questions, you'll need to do what?
A) Wait for the math section
B) Interpret a graph
C) Interpret data in a figure and place in the context of the overall passage
D) Create your own graph
C) Interpret data in a figure and place in the context of the overall passage
All of the following are study tips except:
A) Pace yourself correctly
B) Read the questions before the passage
C) Annotate
D) Skip questions
D) Skip questions
Example of Big Picture Questions include:
A) The authors of both passages agree that...
B) The primary purpose of that statement in lines 58-60 are...
C) The authors attitude towards the narrative structure indicates that...
D) Which of the following statements would the author most likely agree?
A, C, and D
Functions questions will ask you to...
A) Figure out what the purpose or effect of a line or paragraph is in the context of a passage
B) Find the function of X
C) figure out why the author used a certain phrasing in a paragraph
D) Infer the ending
A and C
There are ___ questions types in the reading section of the SAT exam...
A) 7
B) 4
C) 10
D) 9
D) 9 Questions Types
"The main idea of the passage is..." is what?
A) Something you will not see on the SAT
B) An example of big picture questions
C) An example of little picture questions
D) An example of function questions
A) Something you will not see on the SAT
You will rarely get asked questions about the main idea of a passage as the test requires you to take a deeper look at the test.
Examples of a function questions include:
A) The author invokes "Cthuhlu the destroyer" chiefly in order to
B) The phrase "horrible immensities" primarily indicates
C) In like 34, the word "follow" most nearly means
D) Which of the following most resembles the relationship between a "black hole activity" and "star formation"
A