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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

  1. 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

  2. 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

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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