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Understanding passage-based reading questions
From the course: Test Prep: SAT
Understanding passage-based reading questions
- Many high school students have difficulty at first with the SAT's reading passages because they're not really used to reading challenging non-fiction. In this video I will give you the basics of passage-based reading questions. So, these questions are really testing your comprehension of a passage. Passages are usually non-fiction, but a couple of them will be fiction. It's also a test of how an author uses language to accomplish his or her goals within a passage. So, what I mean by that is it might ask you what does this sentence accomplish within a passage or what does this paragraph function as? So, a really important... My favorite tip for passage-based reading is that you really have to be literal. You almost wanna think like a robot would think that's programmed to only make decisions about what's actually in front of it. I say that because in a lot of high school English classes, you're asked to interpret a text. A lot of times it's a novel, maybe a short story, and you're…
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Overview of SAT critical reading questions1m 38s
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Learning vocabulary using custom flashcards4m 52s
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Improving your reading comprehension2m 13s
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Reading efficiently and critically3m 51s
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Sentence completion technique4m 52s
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Understanding passage-based reading questions2m 13s
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Passage-based reading technique8m 55s
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Tips for recognizing wrong answers4m 4s
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