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Reviewing the ordering of difficulty for questions

Reviewing the ordering of difficulty for questions

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Reviewing the ordering of difficulty for questions

- Some of the questions on the SAT get harder as the section goes on, and some don't. In this movie, I'll explain how that works, and offer strategy to use order of difficulty to your advantage. In the Math sections, in the Sentence-Completion sets, questions generally get harder as they go. Reading passage questions, however, are in random order of difficulty, and grammar questions are all about the same difficulty level, so difficulty level is just something that's determined by how many people got the question right, when it was given on a previous test's experimental section, so the SAT takes that data, and they look at it, and they say, "Well, if everyone got "this certain question wrong, or if most people did, "it's probably going to be "at a difficult place in the section." Let's say a Math question that everybody got wrong might appear as question number 19 and number 20 out of 20 in the Math section, so knowing a question's difficulty can help you make better decisions. Hard…

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