Reading Overview
How many passages are on the SAT Reading Test?
What are five?
What should you always read FIRST when starting a passage?
What are the introduction and overview at the start of the passage?
FREE SPACE
FREE SPACE
This word refers to the dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
FREE POINTS
FREE POINTS
How many questions are on the SAT Reading test?
What are 52 questions?
Which type of passage will contain characters and story elements?
What are the US/World Literature or Fiction passages?
When pointed to a specific line number for answers, how many lines above and below should you read?
What are two above and two below?
This word refers to the meaning of a word based on context, emotions, and experiences.
What is connotation?
When you look at these features, you should use the underline tool.
What is the main idea?
How many questions are on each Reading passage, on average?
What are 10-11 questions?
Informative passages fall into which category, fiction or non-fiction?
What is non-fiction?
You should spend this amount of time reading each passage according to SAT guides.
What is 2-3 minutes?
Usually you will have two or three questions based on precision--either you know the word or you do not. On which English test will these questions be found?
What is the Writing/Language section?
Use the circle annotation to pick out these in a passage.
What are key words?
What are the three skills covered in the reading test?
What are Information and Ideas, Rhetoric, and Synthesis?
What passage will NEVER have a chart or graph next to it?
What is US/World Literature or Fiction?
TRUE OR FALSE: Annotations are not recommended on the SAT Reading Test.
What is FALSE? (ALWAYS, ALWAYS ANNOTATE.)
Usually you will have seven or eight questions based on connotation--you must be able to distinguish the word's meaning as used in the passage. On which English test will these questions be found?
What is Reading?
After you read several paragraphs, it is a good idea to write one of these in order to help you read actively.
What is a brief summary?
How much time do you have per passage on the SAT Reading test if you divide your time evenly?
What is 13 minutes a passage?
The Paired Passage is typically found in what passage?
What is either Social Science or Science?
To infer means...
What is make a judgment based on context clues?
TRUE OR FALSE: There may be more than one answer for questions that seems correct. Your job is to choose the response that is most correct.
What is TRUE?
Some students respond through visuals to passages when reading actively. List a type of response that we discussed.
What is drawing arrows? What is illustrating the passage?