Most people take a rather informal, intuitive approach to verbal questions. This is often described as "using your ear": simply reading the answer choices and trying them out in your mind's ear, seeing which one sounds best. And here, dear reader, there lie...
In this post, we'll be digging into some of the science of language as it applies to verbal questions. Our examples are drawn from official practice questions released by the College Board for the new Digital SAT, but the issues discussed here apply equally...
For anyone new to the posts in this series feel free to go back to the first post to get a little background about what is going on here….. Below is the link for the article that was the subject of the 4th installment of the series:...
Below is the link to the next article in the installment. This one is pretty hard in my opinion, but it is also pretty short so it should make for a fairly quick exercise. Happy reading!!!...
So this is the first post in a series of posts aimed at helping both my students and any other interested readers learn to read more critically. For a more in depth discussion of my motivation here and why this skill is so important, both on the SAT and in...
This is an analysis of the passage that I introduced in the previous post (SAT Reading Comprehension Exercises – Passage 1). Please see that post for more information about the purpose of this exercise. The article being referenced is:...
This is the second post in my Reading Critically series. The article that follows is a bit longer than the first (its hard to find articles that are as short as SAT passages), but it is a pretty interesting piece. I will pose the questions below, but first a...
This is the second post in my Reading Critically series. The article that follows is a bit longer than the first (its hard to find articles that are as short as SAT passages), but it is a pretty interesting piece. I will pose the questions below, but first a...
In this installment of the Reading Critically Exercises, I chose to go with an easier, shorter, and perhaps more interesting passage. The length is closer to what you would see on the SAT (though still a bit longer) and the author’s purpose is a little more...
Below is the link for the article that I introduced in the previous post and below that are the questions and commentary. Please don’t just read the commentary – try to answer the questions for yourself first!!!...
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