Study Tips
These are two ways to make yourself feel "full"
What is get a full night's sleep and eat a balanced meal.
This is one way to become familiar with new vocabulary.
What is read more.
This is what the passage is about.
What is the main idea.
These are the most common transition words.
What is but/also/because
When the word is similar is meaning, it is called this
What is a synonym
You should tackle these type of passages before other ones
What are familiar subject passages
This is a word that means either feeling a kinship or an attraction to.
What is affinity
One way to answer this type of question is look at where you found the answer to the previous question
What is Command of Evidence
This is a type of writing in which you express the most in the littlest way possible
What is being concise
To best understand a passage, you should do this on your own first.
What is paraphrase.
You can look at these clues to understand the vocabulary word
What is context
One way of understanding the definition of a vocab word is by using
What is using an example/sentence
What is to infer
The tip: For proper order of sentences, look what follows AND what comes before helps with type of question
What is logical sequence questions
Grow
This is what the P in PSAT stands for
What is Preliminary
This word means to float but also to be cheerful
What is buoyant
This is the sentence where you can find out what the paragraph is about
What is the topic/introductory sentence
In order to look for this, look whether words are phrased formally or informally
what is style and tone
a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure is called this.
what is parallel structure
This is the amount of time (without breaks) I have for the PSAT
2 hours and 45 minutes
This is adjective is used to describe an athlete's movements
What is agility
This is what will be tested on the Evidence-Based Reading test
What is main idea questions, vocabulary in context, command of evidence, and graphic questions
what is: idea development, organization, language use, sentence structure, usage rules, and punctuation
These are two techniques that help you memorize things better
What is association and connection or putting things in stories