SAT BASICS
This test, required by many colleges, has two main sections: Reading/Writing and Math.
What is the SAT?
In SAT Reading, a Part A question asks you to find evidence; this type of question asks what that evidence supports.
What is a Part B (paired) question?
In the slope-intercept form y = mx + b, the letter 'm' represents this.
What is the slope?
When a pronoun's antecedent is unclear or missing, this grammar error occurs.
What is a vague/ambiguous pronoun reference?
On the Digital SAT, this feature allows you to come back to a question you skipped.
What is the Mark for Review (flag) tool?
The total score range for the Digital SAT is 400 to this number.
What is 1600?
This reading type on the SAT includes passages from novels, short stories, and poetry.
What is Literature?
To solve a system of equations, you can use substitution or this other common method.
What is elimination?
This punctuation mark joins two independent clauses without a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
The SAT Math section includes a built-in version of this calculation tool.
What is a calculator?
The Digital SAT is administered on this type of device, not paper.
What is a computer (or laptop/tablet)?
On the SAT, this skill requires you to identify the author's attitude or feeling toward the subject.
What is tone?
If 3x + 6 = 21, then x equals this number.
What is 5?
The word 'benevolent' most closely means this.
What is kind or generous?
On paired questions, you should always read this question first before looking for evidence.
What is Part A?
Each of the two SAT sections is scored on a scale of 200 to this number.
What is 800?
A vocabulary-in-context question asks you to determine this based on how a word is used in the passage.
What is the meaning of the word (in context)?
This form of a linear equation is written as Ax + By = C.
What is standard form?
A transition word like 'however' or 'nevertheless' signals this type of relationship between ideas.
What is contrast?
If you don't know an answer on the SAT, you should do this rather than leaving it blank, because there is no penalty.
What is guessing (or making your best guess)?
This organization creates and administers the SAT.
What is College Board?
This reading category includes passages about biology, chemistry, earth science, or physics.
What is Science?
The solution(s) to a quadratic equation can be found using the quadratic formula, factoring, or this method that involves completing a perfect square.
What is completing the square?
On the SAT, parallel structure requires that items in a list or comparison share this.
What is the same grammatical form?
This process of removing clearly wrong answer choices before selecting your answer is called this.
What is process of elimination?