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Master SAT Reading: Information and Ideas
Find the main idea, complete a text with a logical inference, and choose the quotation, finding, or data that supports a claim.
- 7 interactive lessons
- Step-by-step worked examples
- SAT-style practice questions
Intermediate
- Lesson 10%How to find the main idea of a passage
Name the topic, find the point after any turn, and predict a main idea that covers the whole text, then cross out what is only a detail or goes too far.
30 min · 8 practice problems
- Lesson 40%Quotations that illustrate a claim
Put the claim in a few words, split it into its parts, and put each quotation in plain words, then keep the only one that shows every part.
30 min · 8 practice problems
Advanced
- Lesson 20%Details and what a text suggests
Find the lines a question points to, put them in a few words, go one step past them at most, and check who does what and which way.
35 min · 8 practice problems
- Lesson 30%SAT inference questions: complete the text logically
Read what the blank needs, put each clue in a few words, and predict the smallest conclusion they support, then cross out what goes too far, goes past the text or turns it around.
35 min · 8 practice problems
- Lesson 50%Findings that support or weaken a claim
Put the claim in a few words, split it into its parts, and keep the only finding that shows every part, or the one that pulls the cause and effect apart.
35 min · 8 practice problems
- Lesson 60%Inferences about a study
Name each group in a study and what it showed, say what the difference shows and what it can’t, then predict small and cross out what goes too far.
35 min · 7 practice problems
- Lesson 70%Graphs and tables
Read the sentence or claim before the graph, then its title, axes and key, check every number a choice states, and keep the only choice that shows the whole claim.
35 min · 7 practice problems