SAT CRITICAL READING WORKBOOK
PART 1 INTRODUCING THE SAT: CRITICAL READING SKILLS
The Critical Reading Sections
Passage-Based Reading Questions
Before the Test
During the Test
PART 2 SELF-ASSESSMENT
PART 3 SENTENCE COMPLETION QUESTIONS
Tips on Handling Sentence Completion Questions
Before You Look at the Answer Choices, Think of a Word That Makes Sense
Spot Clues in the Sentence: Signal Words
Words Have Many Meanings: Stay Alert
Break Down Unfamiliar Words, Looking for Familiar Word Parts
Sentence Completion Exercises
Answers to Sentence Completion Exercises
PART 4 PASSAGE-BASED READING QUESTIONS
Tips on Handling Passage-Based Reading Questions
Try to Anticipate What the Passage Is About
Read Purposefully: Passage, Questions, and Answer Choices
Go Back to the Passage to Double-Check Your Answer Choices
Tackle Paired Passages One Passage at a Time
Passage-Based Reading Exercises
Answers to Passage-Based Reading Exercises
PART 5 BUILDING YOUR VOCABULARY
Tips on Building Your Vocabulary
Read Widely to Develop Your Feeling for Words
Use Memory Tricks to Keep New Words in Your Active Vocabulary
Create Your Own Unique Flash Cards
Passage 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Custom House” (Preface to The Scarlet Letter)
Acquaint Yourself with Word Parts—Prefixes, Suffixes, Roots—to Expand Your Vocabulary
Work Through the SAT High-Frequency Word List to Expand Your College-Level Vocabulary
Basic Word Parts