- GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE SAT ESSAY. - THE RULES FOR THE SAT ESSAY. - Make sure you read the key parts of the passage. - Choose one of the blanks to focus on first. - Focus only on the underlined portion of the sentence. - Focus on the underlined portions of the prompt sentence. - question on the SAT. - Why Guessing Fails On The SAT. - General Overview of the SAT Essay. - The Rules for the SAT Essay. - But be careful! The SAT Scoring Guide that appears on page 105 of the College Board Publication The Official SAT Study Guide For the New SAT isn’t very useful if you’re trying to figure out exactly what to do on the test.. - Don’t believe me? Take a look at page 197 of the College Board publication The Official SAT Study Guide For The New SAT. - In the middle of the second paragraph you’ll insert the story that goes with your first example. - The first example is out of the way. - I did this to show you the relatively low standards of the SAT Essay.. - Fortunately, this isn’t the case. - Only one of the answer choices will make any sense.. - The SAT cites all the important portions of the passage—IN ORDER—so that you don’t have to read the passage. - Right answers are often direct restatements of the words and phrases in the citation.. - You’ll. - Make sure you read the key parts of the passage.. - the opening sentence of the passage. - the closing sentence of the passage. - (E) is the correct answer choice—all of the skills listed in the passage are skills that humans have.. - relevant part of the text, it’s exactly the kind of answer choice we’re looking for.. - (A) is irrelevant to the cited part of the passage. - (C) is the right answer because it restates the cited part of the text. - Wherever possible, the correct answer choice must restate part of the prompt sentence. - [If you aren’t certain of the answer, you probably don’t know all the words. - Choose one of the blanks to focus on first.. - That’s the one that you like.. - restatement of the sentence.. - If you don’t know one of the answer choices, skip it. - To show that we don’t need to know all the words on the SAT, we’ll sometimes proceed as though we don’t know some of the words in the question.. - which means that (A) and (B) can’t be correct, according to the rules of the SAT. - Note that none of the other answer choices fits smoothly in the blank. - Let’s assume that we don’t know the meanings of any of the words in the answer choices.. - That isn’t possible here, since we don’t know any of the words. - The current version of the SAT features several different types of math. - The SAT likes to ask about the squares of the numbers -12 through 12. - Example: In the expression (21xy + 7x), both of the terms in the. - In the function f(x. - But isn’t the domain for f(x. - The vertical separation number goes in the numerator of the slope fraction. - The horizontal separation goes in the denominator of the slope fraction.. - So a 6 goes in the denominator of the slope fraction.. - of the function.. - The m coefficient of the x variable will be the slope.. - There are 6 possible outcomes, so 6 goes in the denominator of the fraction. - Most of the hidden patterns on the SAT Math section have to do with using the answer choices to help you check your answers, where that’s possible. - In your test booklet, draw a diagram of the situation described in the question.. - That means that the diameter of the circle is 8 units. - (B) is the answer you get if you add the lengths of the sides of the rectangle.. - (E) is the area of the rectangle.. - Now let’s look at some of the other answer choices.. - absolute values of the two original numbers. - The remaining three SAT question types are all part of the Writing Section of the SAT. - This is a bad sentence on the SAT:. - This is an acceptable sentence on the SAT:. - This is a good sentence on the SAT:. - In the sentence. - For the purpose of the SAT Writing Section, all verb-forms that use a past-tense form of the verb to be indicate actions in the past.. - For the purpose of the SAT Writing Section, all verb-forms that use a present- tense form of the verb to be indicate actions in the present.. - Singing is a form of the verb to sing that acts like a noun—it’s the subject of the verb-form is.. - This is a correct sentence on the SAT:. - Example: In the sentence. - list is the subject of the verb-form is.. - This sentence is acceptable on the SAT:. - To do this, we’ll talk in terms of the “bad” and “good” patterns that appear on the SAT.. - the SAT. - Sometimes, according to the SAT, one of the answer choices just “feels” better.. - Focus only on the underlined portion of the sentence.. - Remember that you’ll see a lot of sentences like this on the Writing section of the SAT.. - It gets rid of the words by, that, and and, which appear in the other answer choices. - That makes (C) the more attractive choice according to the hidden patterns of the SAT Writing Section, so it’s the right answer.. - That makes (D) the most attractive answer according to the hidden rules and patterns of the SAT Writing Section. - You don’t have to worry about fixing any of the problems you see.. - Several of the words and phrases in the sentence will be underlined. - This isn’t an option on the Identifying Sentence Errors Questions—the need to delete a selection isn’t one of the “errors” you’re allowed to identify on these questions.. - Focus on the underlined portions of the prompt sentence.. - [When you’ve found an underlined portion of the sentence that does not fit with the words it’s related to, continue to step 5.]. - [If you’ve found one underlined portion of the sentence that is incorrect by itself, continue to step 8.]. - [If you’ve found more than one underlined portion of the sentence that is incorrect by itself, you’ve made a. - We’ve just seen an entire approach to the Identifying Sentence Errors portion of the SAT Writing Section. - we have to consider it in the context of the paragraph that it appears in. - Now you’ve covered everything you need to know in order to answer Improving Paragraphs Questions on the Writing Section of the SAT. - This problem is at the root of the very nature of the SAT itself. - One of the students who marked (B) raises her hand and makes a convincing, compelling argument as to why she should get credit for marking (B). - The only way to do really well on the SAT is to mark the correct answer to most of the questions on the test.. - In other words, they don’t take advantage of any of the gaping holes in the SAT. - These pages sketch out the format and background of the SAT and its. - These pages introduce you to the Writing Section of the SAT. - Just like the Toolbox, this part of The Official SAT Study Guide For The New SAT contains every single math concept you’ll need on the SAT, so it’s definitely worth your attention.. - These pages are the meat of the College Board’s book. - More importantly, it allows you to “test” the rules of the essay section.. - authority on the SAT. - This is the major gimmick of the College Board. - Fact: The SAT is NOT a test of the skills you’ll need in college. - On page 14 of The Official SAT Study Guide For The New SAT, this sentence appears:. - someone asked the admissions rep giving the tour what Princeton thought of the SAT.. - Fact: Anyone can do well on any part of the SAT—or on all of it—by attacking the test intelligently.. - A perfect score of 1600 on the pre-2005 version of the SAT.
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