The time frame for the reading SAT.
What is 65 minutes?
This type of answer is supported by the text.
What is every answer?
The 'best evidence' questions ask you to determine this for an answer choice.
What is textual support?
Before looking at the choices for this type of question, I should do this.
What is trying to define the 'word in context' on my own?
This company makes the SAT.
What is College Board or ETS?
The number of literary passages on the reading section.
What is one?
This should be the first thing read when coming to a new reading section.
What is 'the blurb?'
This question is known as a "vocabulary" question.
What is words in context?
In 1996, a loggerhead turtle called Adelita swam across 9,000 miles from Mexico to Japan, crossing the entire Pacific on her way. Wallace J. Nichols tracked this epic journey with a satellite tag. But Adelita herself had no such technology at her disposal. How did she steer a route across two oceans to find her destination?
"Tracked" most nearly means this.
A) searched for. B) traveled over. C) followed. D) hunted.
What is followed?
This is the penalty for wrong answers.
What is zero or none?
The SAT aims to see your comprehension of texts you will find in these two future endeavors.
What is college and career.
These type of questions are answered first.
What are questions with line references?
This type of question gives you 4 choices - two agree and two disagree.
What is a yes-yes-no-no question?
After I define the word on my own, I should do this with the answer choices.
What is plugging in each answer choice to see which one fits in context?
Out of all 4 answer choices, this is how many you should consider.
What is all four answer choices?
The number of questions in the reading section.
What is 52?
The amount of lines I should read around line references.
What is 5-10 lines?
This question is not supported by the text.
What is no question - EVER?
Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in Mr. Woodhouse’s family, less as a governess than a friend, very fond of both daughters, but particularly of Emma. Between them it was more the intimacy of sisters. ...Emma doing just what she liked; highly esteeming Miss Taylor’s judgment, but directed chiefly by her own.
"Directed" most nearly means this.
A) trained. B) aimed. C) guided. D) addressed.
What is guided?
This makes simple SAT questions tricky and hard.
What is the wording of the questions and/or answers?
The amount of time that should be spent on section.
What is 10 minutes?
I should do this after read the question and before looking at the answers.
What is answering the question in my own words?
This type of question ask you for the reason behind the passage.
What is a purpose question?
It was only small change—if I’d had to buy a book with that pittance, I would probably have been able to afford only a booklet of cigarette papers. When it was time for me to leave, I would do so dragging my feet, a weight on my soul. If it had been up to me, I would have stayed there forever.
"Weight" most nearly means this.
A) bulk. B) burden. C) force. D) clout.
What is burden?
These are the type of "vocab" words will you find on the SAT.
What are "high utility" words?