Strategies
The TEST
Reading Passages
Using POE
Dual Passages
100
LOTD
What is the "letter of the day"?
100
No more than 3
What is the number of times it's recommended you take the SAT?
100
George R.R. Martin
Who wrote the quote on page 13 that says, "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies...The man who never reads lives only one"?
100
Trap answers
What are answers that are meant to mislead you?
100
Logical leaps
What should you never make when looking for the right answer?
200
Choose your favorite genre
What is the first thing you look for in the Reading Passages?
200
January, March, May, June, October, November, December
What months is the SAT given?
200
The blurb
What do you read first?
200
"Always, all, never"
What are absolutes?
200
Your opinion or analysis
What is irrelevant in the SAT and you should never employ when choosing an answer?
300
Process of Elimination
What is POE?
300
Educational (or Evil) Testing Service
What does ETS stand for?
300
Two
How many Social Studies/History passages will be on the Reading section?
300
Wrong answers
What is what you should be looking for instead of right answers?
300
Chronologically
How are questions in the reading passage generally arranged?
400
1600
What is a perfect score (without the essay)?
400
Five
How many passages are in the Reading section?
400
Cookbook
What is the metaphor the book uses in the first section?
400
Check mark, ~, X, ?
What are the marks you should use when marking answers in your booklet?
400
Questions about purpose or theme
What are questions you should leave for last?
500
A pencil
What do you keep moving while you take the test?
500
65 minutes
How much time is given for the Reading section?
500
Five up, five down
What is the "window" you need to read when given line references?
500
Offensive, mean, obviously biased language
What are words that will always be in the wrong answers?
500
Specific line references only
What should you read when a question asks you to identify the support for the previous answer (in a dual passage question)?
M
e
n
u