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IN THIS CHAPTER

Practicing questions from Social Studies, Science, and Literature passages

Working one- and two-part passages

Saving Literature for last

Now you’ve got the strategies from Chapter 3. No one gets a perfect Reading Test score, but as long as you get a higher score than do most other SAT-takers (which you will, because you’re learning the strategies from this book, and other test-takers are not), you’ll do well enough to reach or exceed your goals in college admissions. If social studies are your strength, start with those passages, but if science is your forte, you can work those first. Following are two Social Studies, two Science, and one Literature passage.

On the actual exam, you get four one-part and one two-part passage, but in this practice session there are two two-parters: one Social Studies and one Science, so you can practice both. (Literature is never two-part.) Whether one- or two-part, start with the introductory blurb and check the visual element (if present) for helpful information.

Remember the basics:

1 Read the introductory blurb.

2 Start with the line-number questions.

3 Work the detail questions.

4 Read the whole passage.

5 Answer the inference and main-idea questions.

Then for each question (except for the best-evidence questions):

1 Cover the answer choices.

2 Answer the question yourself.

3 Cross off the wrong answers or put a dot if you’re not sure, but don’t spend time on it.

And for those best-evidence questions:

1 Using the answer choices, mark the sentence answers in the passage.

2 Reread the correct answer to the previous question.

3 Cross off the wrong answers.

Got all that? Now practice the strategies and make your mistakes here so that you make fewer mistakes on the exam.