Leah G. answered • 11/09/22
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SAT Reading Preparation
- Always read the questions first!
- Then look at the answers provided.
- Can you eliminate any that are obviously wrong?
- Is the answer obvious without reading the text?
- These small strategies can eliminate so much time spent on reading long texts.
Leah G.
Good ones Oliver! Here's another. If you are given a lengthy text to read, STILL READ THE QUESTIONS FIRST then the answers. Then..... Read the first and last sentence of each paragraph of INFORMATIONAL text. Usually, the topic sentence will tell you what that paragraph is about. Then, you can read the paragraphs that pertain only to the questions. This works with many types of multiple-choice questions, but not with those that require you to synthesize information or draw conclusions about the text. Example questions: How does the author feel about global warming? (You're going to have to read it to figure this one out.)
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Oliver R.
These are good tips. Some sneakier ones may include: considering answers like "all of the above," "a) and c)," etc. with more weight because those options may have only been added as options because they are correct (NOTE/CAUTION: this isn't always true, only sometimes). Also, if all of the possible answers but one are similarly negative or similarly positive, with one clear outlier, the outlier MAY be correct (e.g. "Procrastining," "Giving up," "Playing Videogames," and "Productivity," with productivity being the outlier that may be the correct answer, but this isn't really a guarantee).11/09/22