SAT 7

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SAT 7

• Final SAT Review

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CONTENT OVERVIEW

• Sentence Completion
• Passage-Based Strategies
• Short
• Long
• Paired-Passage Strategies
• The Essay
• Identifying Sentence Errors
• Improving Sentences/Paragraphs

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SENTENCE COMPLETION

• 2 types of questions
• Vocabulary in context
• Essentially given a definition and asked to find
  the appropriate word
• The sentence will act as a definition, example or
  a synonym of the correct answer
• Logic Based Questions
• Not just the definition, but the relationship of
  the word to the sentence
• Requires that you understand which word best fits
  according to its relationship to the other words
  in the sentence.
• Compare and contrast
• Cause and effect

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SENTENCE COMPLETION STRATEGIES

• Context Clues (definition hint)
• Synonyms
• Antonyms
• Word Charge
• Word Parts

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WORD CHARGE

• Refers to a Positive () or a Negative (-)
  connotation
• Insidious- vivacious-
• Diabolical- effervescent-
• Disconsolate
• What DO you know about this word?

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WORD ROOTS, PREFIXES, AND SUFFIXES

• My neighbor is both ________ and ________ he
  keeps to himself and has great fear of anyone who
  isn't from our town.
• a) callouspredisposed
• b) misanthropictolerant
• c) insularxenophobic
• d) ignorantbiased
• e) prejudicedobstinate

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CONTEXT CLUES

• Type 1 Vocabulary in context
• Definition
• In other words
• Such as
• For example
• Type 2 Logic Based Questions
• Contrast Cause and Effect
• But Because
• Although As a results
• Rather than Since
• However Therefore

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CONTRAST

• The student spent no time planning his essay,
  resulting in a ______ of a unconnected ideas,
  rather than _____ argument in support of a
  thesis.
• What is the relationship between spent no time
  planning his essay and the first blank?
• What is the relationship between unconnected
  ideas and the second blank

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CAUSE AND EFFECT

• If/then relationship
• If A is true, B is true
• We will face the idea of old age with____ as long
  as we believe that it invariably brings poverty,
  isolation, and illness.
• Where is your context clue illustrates the cause
  and effect relationship in this sentence?

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CONCLUSION

• You do not have to know the meaning/definition of
  all of the options.
• You have to know what strategies to use
• OR
• You have to be able to find clues hidden in the
  question or in the answers

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PAIRED PASSAGES

• Include fiction and nonfiction
• Majority will be nonfiction
• Topics include
• Natural science scientific discovery, theory, or
  controversy
• Social studies history, politics, economics
• Humanities artist, music, philosophy
• But dont worry You are not expected to draw
  from outside knowledge. Everything you need to
  know will be in the passages themselves.

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TYPES OF QUESTIONS

• Vocabulary in context
• However the vocabulary is going to fit in the
  context of the passage
• Extended Reasoning
• Ask you to draw conclusions from or evaluate info
  from passage
• Ask about overall theme, message, purpose,
  attitude, sometimes even tone of the writer
• Include words like probably, apparently, seems,
  suggests, the author implies

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TYPES OF QUESTIONS

• Literal comprehension
• Information that is DIRECTLY presented from the
  text
• Example Find the place in the text where a
  particular detail is discussed.
• line 1, 2, or 3
• Recognize different interpretations of the same
  fact or idea

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FACTS, ASSUMPTIONS, AND INFERENCES

• Facts
• Statements known to be true
• A foot has 12 inches
• Assumptions
• Suppositions or propositions that author makes to
  reach their conclusions
• Not proven fact
• According to the author
• Inferences
• Conclusions you reach based on what has been said
  in a passage
• This requires you to read between the lines

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TYPES OF PASSAGES

• Short
• 100-150 words
• Approximately 2-3 questions
• Long
• 400-850 words
• Approximately 8-13 questions
• Paired Passages
• Two passages
• Require you to make connections

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STRATEGIES

• Short Passages
• Read the questions first
• Long Passages
• Take notes
• Paired Passages
• Read Passage 1, answer Passage 1 questions
• Read Passage 2, answer Passage 2 questions
• Lastly, answer questions about BOTH passages
  (these are always last)

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THE ESSAY

• First part of the SAT
• Timed 25 minutes
• Prompt topic will be general
• No specific academic knowledge is necessary
• Draw from what you have learned, read, observed
• Freedom of writing style
• Narrative
• Expository
• Persuasive
• Argumentative

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WRITING EXPECTATIONS

• Strong development of ideas
• Ability to connect to audience
• Language use
• Organization
• Evidence/Support

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STRATEGIES

• How WELL you write is more important than how
  MUCH you write
• Writing more than a paragraph, but be concise
• Watch your handwriting
• If illegible, you may receive a zero
• Stay on topic
• Outline for 5 minutes

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GRADING

• The essay is graded Holistically
• Two readers score the essay out of 6
• Combine scores to a total of 12 points
• Essays that are off topic will receive a zero

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IDENTIFYING SENTENCE ERRORS

• Tests your knowledge of
• Grammar Parts of a sentence
• Usage Agreement
• Word Choice
• idioms using the best word
• Sometimes includes the exceptions of our speech.
• E.g. Go, Gone, Went

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MOST COMMON SENTENCE ERRORS

• Subject/Verb agreement
• Parallelism
• Placement of modifiers
• Use of relative clauses

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GRAMMAR USAGE

• Now that we have identified the grammar, lets
  look at our grammar USAGE
• All of our grammar must Agree.
• Qualitatively and Quantitatively
• Same amount of subjects to verbs
• Same tense (past, present, progressive)
• I goI like to go to the movies
• She went..She went to the movies last night
• They were.They were at the movies together

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PARALLELISM

• Parallelism Puts the contents of a sentence into
  a recognizable patter.
• Makes your sentence easier to understand
• Balance a word with a word, phrase with a phrase,
  clause with a clause
• Similar types of words adjectives, prepositional
  phrases, noun clauses,

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IMPROVING PARAGRAPHS

• Utilize the information about improving
  individual sentences
• Wordiness using unnecessary words and phrases OR
  adding empty expressions to a sentence.
• Empty Expressions are redundant (repetitive) and
  do not add anything to your sentence
• two in number, if you know what I mean
• Adding Descriptive words

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ADDING DESCRIPTIVE WORDS

• Be careful You are not adding words just for the
  sake of making the sentence longer!
• Adding words to CLARIFY and/or DESCRIBE.
• Clarify Making clear the context or the meaning
  of the sentence (who, what, where, when, why)
• Describe Using meaningful adjectives that
  contribute to the sentences meaning/objective.

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CONTENT OVERVIEWReference Pages and Chapters

• Sentence Completion
• Passage-Based Strategies
• Short
• Long
• Paired-Passage Strategies
• The Essay
• Identifying Sentence Errors
• Improving Sentences/Paragraphs