SAT Basics
How many points are in the reading section? How many TOTAL points is the language arts section?
Reading Section: 400
Total: 800
What are the subcategories under a VOCAB type question?
None
Name the 5 reading tips
Annotate
Tone
Extreme language
Bogus
Trap
What are the 4 Reading Strategies
1 - Read question
2 - Annotate
3 - Apply Poe and Tips
4 - Select Answer
Is the vocab word “awe” an adjective, verb, or noun?
Noun
The READING section on the SAT consists of ___ on varying topics that are anywhere from ___
SHORT reading passages
25-150 words
What are the subcategories under an EXPRESSION type question?
1 - Main idea
2 - Graph/ Chart
3 - Support/ Evidence
4 - Purpose
5 - Inference (true)
Given that the conditions in binary star systems should make planetary formation nearly impossible, it's not surprising that the existence of planets in such systems has lacked _ explanation.
Roman Rafikov and Kedron Silsbee shed light on the subject when they used modeling to determine. a complex set of factors that could support planets' development.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
a)discernible
B)straightforward
C) an inconclusive
D) an unbiased
B)straightforward
How is annotating and applying poe useful?
Annotating helps with understanding what you're looking for and POE gets rid of unnecessary answer choices
What does the word affinity mean? Give an example.
To have a connection or bond with something
He has a close affinity with the landscape he knew when he was growing up.
List the 4 main types of reading passage genres
Literature, history/social studies, Science, Humanities
What are the subcategories under an READING COMPREHENSION type question?
1 - Quote Interpretation
2 - Complete sentence Idea
Thou, with stroke of mighty pen,
Hast told of joy and mirth,
And read the hearts and souls of men
As cradled from their birth.
The language of the flowers, Thou hast read them all, And e'en the little brook Responded to thy call.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
A)To praise a certain writer for being especially perceptive regarding people and nature
B)To establish that a certain writer has read extensively about a variety of topics
C) To call attention to a certain writer's careful and elaborately detailed writing process
D) To recount fond memories of an afternoon spent in nature with a certain writer
A)To praise a certain writer for being especially perceptive regarding people and nature
Use POE and select the correct choice.
In recommending Bao Phi’s collection Sông I Sing, a librarian noted that pieces by the spoken-word poet don’t lose their ______ nature when printed: the language has the same pleasant musical quality on the page as it does when performed by Phi.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) jarring
B) scholarly
C) melodic
D) personal
C) melodic
Public-awareness campaigns about the need to reduce single-use plastics can be successful, says researcher Kim Borg of Monash University in Australia, when these campaigns give consumers a choice: for example, Japan achieved a 40 percent reduction in plastic-bag use after cashiers were instructed to ask customers whether _ wanted a bag.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
a) they
b) one
c) You
d) it
a) they
Name the 3 types of reading questions
RC, Vocab, Expression
Identify QUESTION TYPE and SUB CATEGORY
Which choice best describes the function of
the underlined sentence in the text as a
Whole?
QT - Reading Comp
ST - Purpose
"To You" is an 1856 poem by Walt Whitman. In the poem, Whitman suggests that readers, whom he addresses directly, have not fully understood themselves, writing, __
Which quotation from "To You" most effectively illustrates the claim?
A)"You have not known what you are, you have slumber'd upon yourself / all your life, / Your eyelids have been the same as closed most of the time."
B)"These immense meadows, these interminable rivers, you are immense / and interminable as they."
C)"I should have made my way straight to you long ago, / I should have blabbed nothing but you, I should have chanted nothing / but you."
D) "I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you, / None has understood you, but I understand you."
A)"You have not known what you are, you have slumber'd upon yourself / all your life, / Your eyelids have been the same as closed most of the time."
Annotate and Select correct answer.
[Iraqi artist Nazik Al-Malaika, celebrated as the first Arabic poet to write in free verse, didn’t reject traditional forms entirely; her poem “Elegy for a Woman of No Importance” consists of two ten-line stanzas and a standard number of syllables. Even in this superficially traditional work, ______ Al-Malaika was breaking new ground by memorializing an anonymous woman rather than a famous man. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A) in fact,
B) though,
C) therefore,
D) moreover,
B) though,
What's the subject and verb of the sentence?
Martin's brother went to his swimming lessons this morning.
Subject - Martin's brother
Verb - Went
A reading passage consists of ___. There is ____ per short paragraph. There are ____ questions for each reading section. Some passages even entail a ___.
One short paragraph, one question, 16-18, graph or chart
Identify question type and sub category
Which quotation from ...... (paragraph topic) most effectively illustrates the claim?
QT - Expression
Subtype - Quote Interpretation
Herbivores sauropod dinosaurs grow more than 100 feet long and weigh up to 80 tons, and some researchers have attributed the evolution of sauropods to such massive sizes to increase plant production resulting from high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide during the Mesozoic era. However, there is no evidence of significant spikes in carbon dioxide levels coinciding with revealing periods in sauropod evolution, such as when several sauropod lineages underwent further evolution toward gigantism, or sauropods reached their maxim known size, suggesting that___
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A)fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide affected different sauropod lineages differently.
B)The evolution of larger body sizes in sauropods did not depend on increased atmospheric carbon dioxide.
C)atmospheric carbon dioxide was higher when the largest known sauropods lived than it was when the first sauropods appeared.
D)sauropods live longer than they were when the first sauropods appeared. Such immense sizes if atmospheric carbon dioxide had been even slightly higher.
B)The evolution of larger body sizes in sauropods did not depend on increased atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Annotate and Select correct answer.
[Jay Gatsby] was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American—that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games. This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness. As used in the text, what does the word “quality” most nearly mean?
A) Characteristic
B) Standard
C) Prestige
D) Accomplishment
A) Characteristic
What are the 7 main categories for transitions?
Cause/ effect
Contrasts
Comparison
sequence / order
Emphasis
Elaboration
Example