Reading Section
65 minutes
What is the length of time for reading section?
Comparison words, Contrast words, Continuation words, and Cause and Effect words all help us move from one sentence/passage to another... In other words they help us.....
What is transition?
The order of operations.
What is PEMDAS: parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction?
This can be substituted for any idea or unknown number in mathematics.
What is a variable?
An old section that you will not be asked to complete on your SAT.
What is the essay?
The sentences most useful for finding the main idea of a paragraph or passage.
What are the first and last sentences of a paragraphs?
This common W&L issue not only says it again and again, it says it twice! ugh, argh!
What is redundancy?
This strategy is best used when numbers are given in the responses or answer choices.
What is backsolving?
y=mx+b
What is the equation of a line?
36 weeks in total (30 during the year and 6 during the summer)
What is the number of weeks that we meet for SAT prep each year with the Uconn Explorations program?
Unpack the question stem, research the answer, predicting the answer, and find the correct answer.
What are strategies for SAT reading?
The three parts of an independent clause.
What are subject, verb, and complete thought?
This theorem is used to calculate the side lengths of right triangles.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
A label applied to zero and all positive and negative whole numbers.
What is an integer?
What is the Monty Hall Problem?
Passage maps for this type of passage should focus on what motivates the characters and the passage's overall tone
What is a literature passage?
The three ways to offset a parenthetical clause.
What are commas, hyphens (dashes), and parenthesis?
Change over original.
What is the percent change formula?
y=a(x-h)^2+k
What is the Vertex form of the Quadratic Equation?
Psychology is to Michael, [blank] is to Phil....I guess we know where to go if we need to understand our state's rules.
What is Law (or criminal justice)?
According to the...the central claim....it implies...the main purpose... serves best evidence for...what this strategy or focus...most nearly means....
What are cues or strategies for identifying Reading Question Type?
.:; make one clause dependent, FANBOY conjunction, Use a dash
What are ways to correct a run-ono sentence?
An equation featuring a domain and range.
What is a function?
The equation for exponential growth.
What is y=ab^x.
Lyudmila, Polina, and Rufina.
What are the names of Phil's cats?