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SAT CRITICAL READING

SAT CRITICAL READING. Jonathan Eisen. What do you know about the SATS? CR Section?. INTRODUCTION . 3 Sections: 2 25 minute sections (24-25 questions each) 1 20 minute section (19 questions) 3 Subsections Sentence Completion Short Passage (Dual Unrelated or Comparing Passages)

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SAT CRITICAL READING

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  1. SAT CRITICAL READING Jonathan Eisen

  2. What do you know about the SATS? CR Section?

  3. INTRODUCTION • 3 Sections: • 2 25 minute sections (24-25 questions each) • 1 20 minute section (19 questions) • 3 Subsections • Sentence Completion • Short Passage (Dual Unrelated or Comparing Passages) • Long Passage (Dual Unrelated or Comparing Passages) • Topics Included • Literary Fiction • Social Science (sociology, psychology) • Natural Science (biology, chemistry) • Humanities (history, literature) • Entertainment (art, music, dance, etc.)

  4. KEYS TO SUCCESS IN CR • Know what you know and know what you don’t know • It’s OK to Skip • Develop a skipping strategy • Don’t be intimidated • Reading is NOT FUN • Put it in your own words because they do too • Draw inferences, not assumptions • Time Management • It’s OK to not finish

  5. Sentence Completion • Understand the sentence • Agree or Contrast? • They start easy and get harder • Recognize which words you know and which you don’t know • Take and educated guess/ break down the words left

  6. Long Passage TYPES OF QUESTIONS: Main Point Specific Detail Inference Attitude & Tone Technique & Organization Word Usage

  7. Long Passage (cont)

  8. Common Greek/Latin Roots • Lau, lav, lot –wash • Liber, liver- free • Gen- birth, race, produce • Duc, duct- lead • Ben/bon- Good • Mal- bad • Anim- life or spirit • Quo, loc, loq- speech • Voc-call or word • Spec- sight, view • Luc, lum, lun– light • Micro- small • Pedo- child • Vac- empty • Phil- love

  9. What does it mean? • Bonafide (adj) • Malodorous (adj) • Dismal (adj) • Advocate (n) or (v) • Perspicacious (adj) • Elucubrate (v) • Grandiloquence (n) • Circumlocution (n) • Indigenous (adj) • Philoprogenitive (adj) • Philander (v) • Vacuous (adj) • Libertine (n)

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