Overview of SAT Prep follows the four distinctive features of the SAT Reading Test. They include:
#1. Words in Context -
The SAT Reading Test measures students' understanding of the meaning and use of words and phrases in the context of extended prose passages. These words and phrases are neither highly obscure nor specific to any one domain. They are words and phrases whose specific meaning and rhetorical purpose are derived in large part through the context in which they are used. The passage excerpts and samples questions help to illustrate this concept.
#2. Command of Evidence -
The SAT Reading Test requires students not only to derive information and ideas from a text but also in some cases to identify the portion of the text that serves as the best evidence for the conclusion they reach. In this way, students both interpret text and back up their interpretation by citing the most relevant textual support.
#3. Informational Graphics
The SAT Reading Test has two passages that include one or two graphics (e.g., tables, graphs, and charts) that convey information related to the passage content. Students are asked to interpret the information conveyed in one or more graphics and/or to integrate that information with information in the text.
#4. Text Complexity
The SAT Reading Test includes passages that span a specified range of text complexity levels from grades 9-10 to post-secondary entry. You will go through a series of passages that are reasonable exemplars of the two ends of the text complexity continuum reflected on the redesigned SAT's Reading Test, namely lower end of the ext complexity range and upper level of text complexity range.
The material covered in these College Board preps will help prepare you to take/retake the SAT Test, and prepare you for college reading and writing.
"The Redesigned SAT - Section III." College Board. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 June 2015.
- Emphasis on words in context
- Emphasis on command of evidence
- Inclusion of informational graphics
- Specified range of text complexity
#1. Words in Context -
The SAT Reading Test measures students' understanding of the meaning and use of words and phrases in the context of extended prose passages. These words and phrases are neither highly obscure nor specific to any one domain. They are words and phrases whose specific meaning and rhetorical purpose are derived in large part through the context in which they are used. The passage excerpts and samples questions help to illustrate this concept.
#2. Command of Evidence -
The SAT Reading Test requires students not only to derive information and ideas from a text but also in some cases to identify the portion of the text that serves as the best evidence for the conclusion they reach. In this way, students both interpret text and back up their interpretation by citing the most relevant textual support.
#3. Informational Graphics
The SAT Reading Test has two passages that include one or two graphics (e.g., tables, graphs, and charts) that convey information related to the passage content. Students are asked to interpret the information conveyed in one or more graphics and/or to integrate that information with information in the text.
#4. Text Complexity
The SAT Reading Test includes passages that span a specified range of text complexity levels from grades 9-10 to post-secondary entry. You will go through a series of passages that are reasonable exemplars of the two ends of the text complexity continuum reflected on the redesigned SAT's Reading Test, namely lower end of the ext complexity range and upper level of text complexity range.
The material covered in these College Board preps will help prepare you to take/retake the SAT Test, and prepare you for college reading and writing.
"The Redesigned SAT - Section III." College Board. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 June 2015.