The critical reading sections of SAT test vocabulary,verbal reasoning, and the ability to understand reading passages. These skills are measured by two question types: Sentence completions, Passage-based reading questions. This type of question tests your knowledge of the meanings of words and your ability to recognize relationships among the parts of a sentence so that you can choose the word or words that best complete each sentence.

Reading comprehension passages now include vocabulary-in-context questions. These focus on particular words in the passage and ask you to determine their meaning in the passage. sometimes the words chosen are obviously "hard" words. They are seemingly "easy" words that are tricky because they have so many possible meanings. In both cases, the broader more varied, and more accurate your vocabulary knowledge, the better your chances are of answering these questions quickly and correctly. The better your vocabulary knowledge, the easier you'll find it to understand bith the critical reading passages and the sentence completion items.

The hard words on the SAT are hard words of a particular sort: Scholastic words that deal, broadly speaking, with the manipulation and communication of ideas. The better you master this sort of vocabulary, the better you'll do on the exam. fortunately, you don't need to find these words on your own. We've done the spadework for you. By examining actual SAT exams from the last several years, we've been able to list the words most commonly used in reading passages and sentence completions.

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