Digital SAT

Test Tips
By: Mrs. Maysoon Mohammed
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 Sentence Completion - Vocabulary
- Understand the general meaning of the given text.
- Locate your blank and find the clues and key words that help you figuring out
the target word. ( try to predict the word before looking at the options.)
- Play positive / negative : check the tone of the text ; do we need a negative or positive word ?
check then the choices if they are positive or negative.
pay attention to this: negative + negative = positive / negative + positive = negative
- Look for transitional words : continuers ( the idea is continuing ) / cause and effect / contradictors
- Look for T - words , colon , semicolon
- Look for synonyms or antonyms
- Pay attention to the second meaning : found : past tense of find / establish to build – fluid : liquid / flexible to shape
- If you are unfamiliar with the given words, go for roots , prefixes and suffixes
- if you want to make a guess, try to search for a word has same initial letters or root
example : innocuous : innocent / latent ( inactive - ) : late / imminent ( about to happen / future word ) immediate
- Pay attention if the initial letters are original or prefixes
atypical : not typical - inadequate : not sufficient /invalidate : not validate / inventive this is original
 Reading Questions – wrong answer choices

❑ While reading , highligh the key word : repeated ones or their synonyms , antonyms , transitional words
and functional words.
❑ Try to simplify the given information
❑ Divide the options into small parts ; every word in the answer choice counts.
Wrong options:
- Off topic
- Too broad ( e.g. the passage discusses one scientist while the answer refers to scientists / other / one person : other people .
- Too extreme ( never , always , or completely note ( pay attention )
- Partially correct : half correct , half wrong or confusion ( right words , false statement )
- Could be true but not enough information ( part of whole – specific info )
- True for the passage as a whole but not true for the specific lines in question.
- Factually true bot not stated in the passage ( deal only with the given information )
- Irrelevant information
 Reading Questions – wrong answer choices

Some tricks ( be careful with them )

- If the question does not ask for comparison , eliminate any answer choice that has comparison.
- If the question asks for short info , eliminate any option with describe , explain , illustrate or any synonyms
( which indicates elaborated details ) .
- If the requested information is after a colon, semicolon or T word, go for this words in the answer choices
: exemplify , identify or illustrate.
- In double passages : check the options that include : argue or any synonyms like discuss , debate and dispute.
- If you have 2 opposite answer choices , one of them is correct.
- The correct answer is an exact translation to what is requested and stated in the text .
 Reading Questions – Main Purpose

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text? Why the author write this text
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
Why the author wite this sentence : relation of this sentence to the other parts

- Scientific one: Claim/ hypothesis , Study/research , finding / results

- Literary one : blurb is very important , characters and setting
- Poem : deal with it as any other text: title is so important , tone , mode and the meaning of the figurative language.

- Do not get confused by the main idea and the main purpose
- Main idea is the answer of what? while the main purpose is the answer of why?
Reading Questions – Main Purpose
Reading Questions – Main Purpose
Reading Questions – Main Purpose
Reading Questions – Main Idea

Topic + So What ?

- Include the main information

( key words )
- Summarise the content

- Eliminate
- specific information
- Irrelevant info
- Extra info
Reading Questions – Main Idea

Topic + So What ?

- Include the main information

( key words )

- Eliminate
- specific information
- Irrelevant info
- Extra info
 Reading Questions – Specific Information

❑ Read the question first- what is requested ?

❑ Highlight the key words relating to the specific info

( repeated words or their synonyms – repeated actions- transitional words )

❑ Eliminate : irrelevant , off topic , extra info

True to the text but not true to what is requested

 Reading Questions – Support the claim

❑ Read the question first- what is requested ?

❑ Highlight the key words

( repeated words or their synonyms – repeated actions- transitional words )

❑ Eliminate : irrelevant , off topic , extra info

 Reading Questions – Support the claim

❑ Read the question first- what is requested ? If to support or if to weaken

❑ The claim or hypothesis is the most important part .

❑ Highlight the key words ( make a short statement to check the options )

( repeated words or their synonyms – repeated actions- transitional words )

❑ Eliminate : irrelevant , off topic , extra info and opposite info ( confusion )
 Reading Questions – Support the claim

❑ Read the question first- what is requested ? If to support or if to weaken

❑ The claim or hypothesis is the most important part .

❑ Highlight the key words ( make a short statement to check the options )

( repeated words or their synonyms – repeated actions- transitional words )

❑ Eliminate : irrelevant , off topic , extra info

❑ Choose the opposite of the findings .

 Reading Questions – logically complete

❑ Read the question first- what is requested ?

❑ The claim, argument or hypothesis is the most important part .

❑ Highlight the key words ( make a short statement to check the options )

( repeated words or their synonyms – repeated actions- transitional words )

❑ Eliminate : irrelevant , off topic , extra info

Reading Questions – Double Passages
Reading Questions – Double Passages
Reading Questions – Double Passages
 Reading Questions – graphs

❑ Read the question first- what is requested ?

❑ Read the claim

❑ Check answer choices with the chart

- eliminate false information

- eliminate misreading information

 Reading Questions – graphs

❑ Read the question first- what is requested ?

❑ Read the claim

❑ Check answer choices with the chart

- eliminate false information

- eliminate misreading information

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