Master SAT Reading: Craft and Structure

Find the clue that explains the blank, read its direction from the signal, predict the word in your own plain words, then cross out and check the choices.

30 min · 8 practice problems

When two choices both fit the clue, read a word pair as one relationship, say what each word names, and match the strength the text shows.

30 min · 8 practice problems

Cover the quoted word, predict the meaning the text needs, and pick it over the everyday meaning, in “as used” questions and in blanks.

30 min · 9 practice problems

Label each sentence’s job, say what the underlined part does and what it connects to, tell the setup from the finding, then cross out and check the choices.

35 min · 9 practice problems

Say what the whole text does in one verb plus its scope, then cross out the choices whose verb the text doesn’t do or whose scope is too narrow or too broad.

30 min · 8 practice problems

Answer purpose, structure and function questions on stories, memoirs and poems by reading what each sentence shows about a person.

35 min · 9 practice problems

Read a word you don’t know by its parts: the prefixes that mean “not”, prefixes that give a direction, suffixes, a dozen high-value roots, and when the parts mislead.

35 min · 8 practice problems

Learn the words SAT texts use to back up, knock down, guess at and judge claims, each with its charge, so you can cross out a choice you only half know.

35 min · 8 practice problems

Learn the SAT words for how much there is, how much it matters, which way it changes and how alike things are, and use them to cross out choices.

35 min · 9 practice problems

Learn the words the SAT uses for attitude and character in six groups, from doubt and fairness to care and firmness, each with its charge, and use them to cross out choices.

35 min · 8 practice problems

Learn the words the SAT uses for change, cause and relation in six groups, from helping and blocking to lasting, timing and depending, each with its charge, and use them to cross out choices.

35 min · 9 practice problems

The six types of text structure the SAT uses, and how to answer an overall structure question: write the text’s moves in order, then check each choice clause by clause.

25 min · 8 practice problems

Check who answers whom, put each text’s claim in a few words, name the stance one author would take toward the other, then let the reason decide between the choices.

35 min · 10 practice problems