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Master SAT Writing: Expression of Ideas
Choose the most logical transition and build the sentence from a student's notes that meets every part of the goal.
- 5 interactive lessons
- Step-by-step worked examples
- SAT-style practice questions
Beginner
- Lesson 10%SAT transition words: find the relationship
Cover the choices, shrink the two sentences around the blank, name their direction (same way, cause, turn or time), then cross out every transition that goes the wrong way.
35 min · 9 practice problems
- Lesson 30%Rhetorical synthesis: how to answer SAT student notes questions
Answer SAT rhetorical synthesis (student notes) questions: read the goal first, name the answer’s shape, cross out the true choices that miss the goal, then check the notes.
35 min · 9 practice problems
Intermediate
- Lesson 20%However vs nevertheless: tell close transitions apart
Tell close SAT transitions apart: when two choices go the right way, swap in each one’s literal meaning and keep the one that’s true, from “however” vs “nevertheless” to “granted” vs “that said”.
30 min · 10 practice problems
- Lesson 40%Rhetorical synthesis comparisons: similarity and difference goals
Answer SAT student notes questions that ask for a similarity or a difference: check both subjects, the trait the goal names and the relation, then check which subject has which detail.
25 min · 8 practice problems
Advanced
- Lesson 50%Rhetorical synthesis: two-part goals and audiences
Answer SAT student notes questions whose goal makes two demands or names an audience: list every demand, tick each one off, and give the audience what it needs and no more.
30 min · 9 practice problems