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SAT Critical Reading Passages –TIPS for tackling the test and practice websites Reading Strategy for Reading Tests for the main idea reading comprehension test answers about author’s attitude or tone – TIPS on choosing words ask you to assume things. Here are tips on how to answer these types of questions. on how to answer Biography passages about a person’s life and the persons ideas or views. on using the context of the sentence to figure out a word or ideas. for reading fictional passages – ask why – characters have relationships etc. for reading historical passages Tip on looking at groups vs individuals in for inference questions to answer “line” questions Line 25 states…… for answering FACT or DETAIL questions on comparing 2 long passages – TIP – 2 nouns = main idea: Reading long SAT passages for reading science passages for figuring out the text structure of passagesTell (a story): depict, describe, portray, recount, relate (a story)Analyze (a topic): evaluate, examine, investigate, scrutinize (a topic)Give (an example): offer, present, proffer, tender (an example)Argue For (an opinion): advocate, assert, confirm, defend, endorse, justify (an opinion)Argue Against (a fact): counter, debunk, denounce, dispel, rebuff, rebut, refute (a fact)Mention (a source): allude to, cite, invoke, refer to, quote (a source) reading comprehension test critical reading question typesSAT critical reading practice questions ................
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