The Digital Sat Reading And Writing Course

A complete guide to the Reading and Writing section of the Digital SAT

What you'll learn

Prepare for the SAT Reading and Writing section

Learn vocabulary

Learn grammar rules

Learn reading comprehension

Requirements

No prerequisites

Description

This course is everything you need for the Reading and Writing section of the Digital SAT. It provides everything you need to know to do well on the SAT Reading and Writing section. Included are techniques for reading the questions, recognizing typically right and typically wrong answers, identifying question types, and understanding the structure of the section. Also included are grammar lessons for the commonly tested grammar on the SAT, lessons on what synthesis means and how it is tested on the SAT, and various techniques for approaching the texts and questions. You will be able to follow along through video lectures, content quizzes, and downloadable handouts.You will not need any previous experience with the SAT or SAT prep materials to understand this course; it is intended mainly for those at the beginning or those brand new to their SAT test prep (although anyone should be able  to get useful techniques, strategies and practice from this course). The handouts are given in pdf form, so you may need a pdf reader for those items. Everything else is provided in the course: video lectures, sample questions, quizzes, etc. You will not need any additional materials. Just bring a mindset of learning: be open to new strategies and ideas about the test.The course begins with a look at the overall structure of the Reading and Writing section, including techniques for guessing and recognizing question types. Then, you will be given a look into the Reading section, the very first section of the SAT. You will get a look at a couple techniques for recognizing typically right and wrong answer, techniques for using POE to narrow answers down to the correct answer, techniques for different question types, and techniques for expanding your vocabulary.Then, the course will go over the Writing portion of the section. In this part of the course, you will get a look at grammar rules and synthesis concepts. You will be given an understanding of what grammar rules the SAT tests and how to combine information within a text.When you are finished with this course, you should be fully prepared for the Reading and Writing portion of the test, with an understanding of how to work through each module efficiently and with little stress. Good luck!

Overview

Section 1: Reading and Writing Introduction

Lecture 1 Digital SAT Reading and Writing Course Introduction

Lecture 2 What is the Reading and Writing section all about?

Lecture 3 Sample Reading Questions

Lecture 4 Sample Writing Questions

Section 2: Reading Answer Choices

Lecture 5 What makes an answer good?

Lecture 6 Extreme Answers

Lecture 7 Reused Language Answers

Lecture 8 Out of Scope Answers

Lecture 9 Wrong Question Answers

Lecture 10 Opposites Answers

Lecture 11 Answers That Infer Too Much

Lecture 12 Answers That Are Too General or Too Specific

Section 3: Reading Question Types

Lecture 13 What are the types of Reading questions on the SAT?

Lecture 14 Vocabulary Questions

Lecture 15 Vocabulary Sample Questions

Lecture 16 Function Questions

Lecture 17 Function Sample Questions

Lecture 18 Main Idea Questions

Lecture 19 Main Idea Sample Questions

Lecture 20 Retrieval Questions

Lecture 21 Retrieval Sample Questions

Lecture 22 Dual Text Questions

Lecture 23 Dual Text Sample Questions

Lecture 24 Claim Questions

Lecture 25 Claim Sample Questions

Lecture 26 Chart Questions

Lecture 27 Chart Sample Questions

Lecture 28 Conclusion Questions

Lecture 29 Conclusion Sample Questions

Section 4: More Reading

Lecture 30 Reading Review

Lecture 31 Building Vocabulary

Section 5: Writing Word Grammar

Lecture 32 Introduction to Word Grammar

Lecture 33 Pronouns Part 1

Lecture 34 Pronouns Part 2

Lecture 35 Pronouns Sample Questions

Lecture 36 Subject/Verb Agreement Part 1

Lecture 37 Subject/Verb Agreement Part 2

Lecture 38 Subject/Verb Agreement Sample Questions

Lecture 39 Parallelism

Lecture 40 Parallelism Sample Questions

Lecture 41 Comparisons

Lecture 42 Comparisons Sample Questions

Lecture 43 Apostrophes

Lecture 44 Apostrophes Sample Questions

Lecture 45 Commonly Mistaken Words

Section 6: Writing Clauses and Phrases Grammar

Lecture 46 What are Clauses and Phrases?

Lecture 47 Independent Clauses

Lecture 48 Independent Clauses Sample Questions

Lecture 49 Dependent Clauses

Lecture 50 Dependent Clauses Sample Questions

Lecture 51 Nonessential Phrases

Lecture 52 Nonessential Phrases Sample Questions

Lecture 53 Relative Clauses

Lecture 54 Relative Clauses Sample Questions

Lecture 55 Modifiers

Lecture 56 Modifiers Sample Questions

Lecture 57 Colons

Lecture 58 Colons Sample Questions

Lecture 59 Commas

Lecture 60 Commas Sample Questions

Section 7: Writing Synthesis

Lecture 61 Introduction to Synthesis

Lecture 62 Transitions Part 1

Lecture 63 Transitions Part 2

Lecture 64 Transitions Part 3

Lecture 65 Transitions Sample Questions

Lecture 66 Rhetorical Synthesis

Lecture 67 Rhetorical Synthesis Sample Questions

Section 8: More Writing

Lecture 68 Writing Review

Section 9: Next Steps

Lecture 69 Practice Tests

Lecture 70 SAT Test Day!

Students at the beginning or near the beginning of their SAT Reading and Writing prep