The way passage based reading questions are arranged.
What is chronologically?
100
Keywords are usually these two types of words.
What are strong verbs and adjectives?
100
You should avoid answer choices that make broad generalizations. List three words that indicate a broad generalization.
What is always, never, all, only, impossible, total, solely (superlatives/absolutes)
100
You should read the passage quickly and look to underline these two types of information in the passage.
What are main/important ideas and opinion statements?
200
to spread or broadcast
What is disseminate?
200
One way to save time on the Critical Reading section.
What is making a table of contents, crossing off wrong answers on your test booklet, circling and skipping hard questions?
200
Far from blunting America's economic advantage, environmental regulation spurs the development of new products that ________ our competitive edge.
a. commandeer
b. pale
c. sharpen
d. elucidate
e. stem
What is c. sharpen?
200
The common wrong answer type that takes a phrase directly from the passage, but then distorts the meaning by twisting or adding to it.
What is bait and switch?
200
Three examples of sentence shifters
What are although, however, but, nevertheless, on the other hand...?
300
to wander from a given topic
What is digress?
300
The number of minutes you should take to complete a passage-based reading question.
What is 1?
300
The way the sentence completions questions are arranged.
What is in order of difficulty (easy to hard)?
300
The number one incorrect answer choice on the passage-based reading section.
What is not mentioned/sounds good?
300
What you should do immediately after reading a complete passage (before reading the questions).
What is write a short summary in your own words?
400
Friendly; polite; approachable
What is affable?
400
The three main purposes of literature.
What is to inform, to entertain, and to persuade?
400
With its losing record and two key players injured, the team's chances of making it to the playoffs are _________ at best.
a. remote
b. credulous
c. overt
d. predatory
e. solidified
What is a. remote?
400
Most SAT passages have a non-confrontational, moderate tone. If the author uses exaggerated language in a passage, he is probably trying to convey __________.
What is sarcasm?
400
Name one strategy to use with sentence completion questions if you cannot come up with your own word to fill in the blank.
What is +/-?
500
stingy or tightfisted
What is miserly?
500
Passage-based reading is designed to test your ___________________.
What is comprehension?
500
The 19th century composer Donizetti was renowned in his own time for his serious operas, which often took as their subject tragic historical figures; _________ audiences, however, prefer his lighter work depicting the ________ of ordinary people.
a. contemporary...suffering
b. modern...antics
c. discerning...acquisitions
d. meticulous...behavior
e. archaic...foolishness
What is b. modern...antics?
500
Three things you should do when marking up a table of contents.
What is underline the main idea, opinions; circling names, dates, sentence shifters; +/-; writing a short summary?
500
A good strategy for answering tone/attitude questions.
What is marking up the passage (+/-), underlining author's opinion statements?