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Lesson 1: Reading- Active Reading Step | Science passage | Reading test | SAT
- SAT Reading: How to approach a Science passage
- Survey step | Literature passage | Reading Test | SAT
- SAT Reading: How to approach a Literature passage
- Active reading step | History passage | Reading test | SAT
- SAT Reading: How to approach a History passage
- Survey step | Social Science passage | Reading Test | SAT
- SAT Reading: How to approach a Social Science passage
- Worked example: Science passage, part 1
- Worked example: Science passage, part 2
- Worked example: Literature passage, part 1
- Worked example: Literature passage, part 2
- Worked example: History passage, part 1
- Worked example: History passage, part 2
- Worked example: Social science passage, part 1
- Worked example: Social science passage, part 2
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- Purpose | Quick guide
- Part-whole relationships | Quick guide
- Words in context | Quick guide
- Word choice | Quick guide
- Evaluating evidence | Quick guide
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What do you think about the practice question in the first top tip that can only be accessed by pressing show me? I think there should be more questions like that.(8 votes)- yeah i also think there should be more question like that because that is really tsting our knolge.(3 votes)
- What does it mean to loose the details? airnet the details the main thing u need to make a question or statement make sense and direct?(1 vote)
I don't really like the wording that this article has either, but what it means is that you should forget about the specifics of the context of the passage when you go to make an analogy. Instead, make sure that you match the relationships between ideas to the correct analogous situation.
For example, if you were reading a passage that was about how laziness is caused by tech addiction and there was a question that asked you to pick a situation that resembles that, you would not look for mentions of laziness or tech addiction. Instead, look for where something causes another thing. Translating the relationship into vaguer terms might be helpful, as it allows you to more easily walk away from the details. An answer choice that said something like "Laziness is not an admirable quality" would not be right even though it mentions a detail in the passage, while something like "big giant meteors cause lots of death" would be more correct, as it does involve one thing causing another.(7 votes)
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- yeah i also think there should be more question like that because that is really tsting our knolge.(1 vote)
- Analogical reasoning questions are generally more advanced and usually take more time to solve than other question types. If you are usually pressed for time during the Reading Test, consider skipping these questions entirely—you may spend your limited time more productively on easier questions(1 vote)
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