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Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

How To Use This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

PART 1: OVERVIEW OF THE SAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

What Is the SAT? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

What Is the New SAT? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

How Does the New SAT Differ from the Old SAT? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Why Do I Need to Take the SAT? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

What Do I Need to Take the SAT? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

When Do I Take the SAT? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

How Do I Register for the SAT? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

How Do I Get My Score? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Five Great Ways to Prepare for the SAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

The Multiple-Choice Questions: Should You Guess? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

PART 2: DIAGNOSTIC VERBAL SAT AND ANSWER KEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

General Directions for the Diagnostic Verbal SAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Section 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Section 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

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Section 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Section 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Section 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Diagnostic Verbal SAT Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

ON THE CRITICAL READING TEST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

What Strategy Should I Use? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

How Can I Figure Out What a Passage Means? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

How Do I Answer Vocabulary Questions? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

How Do I Answer Questions on Style? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Practice Critical Reading Passages and Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

ON SENTENCE COMPLETIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

What Are Sentence Completion Test Items? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

The Basic Five-Step Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Strategies for Tackling Sentence Completion Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Questions with Two Missing Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Questions with Two Missing Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Questions with Two Missing Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Practice SAT Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

ON THE MULTIPLE-CHOICE WRITING QUESTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

What Are the Multiple-Choice Writing Items? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

The Basic Five-Step Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

PART 3: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS

PART 4: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS

Using Contrast Clues to Answer Sentence Completion

Using Support Clues to Answer Sentence Completion

Using Summary Clues to Answer Sentence Completion

Using Cause-and-Effect Clues to Answer Sentence Completion

PART 5: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS

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Questions and Improving Sentence Error Questions? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

How Do I Get a High Score on Improving Paragraph Questions? . . . . . . 109

Practice Multiple-Choice Writing Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

ON THE ESSAY QUESTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

What Will I Be Required to Write? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

What Are the Qualities of a Successful Essay? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

How Are the Essays Scored? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Top-Ten Hints for High-Scoring Essays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

How to Write a High-Scoring Persuasive SAT Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

How to Write a High-Scoring Expository SAT Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Practice Writing Prompts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

PART 7: TWO SAMPLE VERBAL SAT TESTS FOR PRACTICE . . . . . . . . . 147

Practice Test 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Practice Test 1 Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Practice Test 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Practice Test 2 Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

How Do I Get a High Score on Identifying Sentence Error

PART 6: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS

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How To Use This Book

No matter how you decide to study, be systematic in your approach. Set up a

routine and stick with it. I recommend that you study for a set amount of time

every single day, at the same time. Aim for about half an hour a day, but be

sure to start early enough in the year to get through this entire book.

Cramming the last week may help you pick up some useful test-taking tech-

niques, but it won’t help you raise your scores as much as a sustained course of

study will.

The following method has proven successful for many students:

1. Work through the book from start to finish.

2. As you work, analyze your test scores to figure out which aspects of the test

proved the easiest for you and which the most difficult. For example, did

you find sentence completions easier than critical reading? Did you have a

difficult time writing the essay?

3. Isolate the areas where you need more practice.

4. Concentrate on improving those skills. Go back to those sections of the

book, review the material, and work through the test questions again.

5. Stick with it. Make a commitment to study and improve your skills.

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