Strategies for SAT Reading Success

Laura from STP shares her personal SAT struggles and introduces effective reading strategies. She emphasizes breaking reading into blocks, eliminating wrong answers, focusing on synonyms and adverbs, and handling difficult words. Laura advises against making unsupported inferences and highlights the importance of understanding correlations in science passages. She also warns against literal interpretations in poems. Finally, she promotes a crash course for further learning.

What personal experience does the speaker share about their SAT scores?

• They scored perfectly in both math and English.

• They struggled with SAT reading passages.

• They never took the SAT.

• They found the SAT math section very easy.

What is the speaker's mission with STP?

• To make SAT math easier.

• To create strategies for easier SAT reading.

• To eliminate the SAT entirely.

• To focus only on SAT writing.

What is the first strategy mentioned for tackling SAT reading passages?

• Skip all difficult questions.

• Break the reading into two blocks.

• Start from the beginning and read through.

• Focus only on grammar questions.

What should you focus on instead of finding the right answer?

• Reading the passage again.

• Skipping the question.

• Guessing the answer.

• Finding three wrong answers.

How can identifying synonyms help in SAT reading?

• It helps match the text with the correct answer.

• It confuses the reader.

• It is not useful at all.

• It makes the passage longer.

Why are adverbs of degree important in answer choices?

• They can change the correctness of an answer.

• They are always correct.

• They make the passage more interesting.

• They are never used in SAT.

What should you do when encountering a difficult name in a passage?

• Skip the passage.

• Use initials instead.

• Try to pronounce it.

• Ignore the name completely.

What is the recommended approach when you come across a big word you don't know?

• Ignore the entire passage.

• Guess its meaning.

• Skip it and use context clues.

• Look it up immediately.

How can you simplify a complicated passage?

• Read it multiple times.

• Focus on keywords and phrases.

• Ignore it completely.

• Rewrite it in your own words.

What is the advice regarding annotation during reading?

• Annotate every line.

• Use minimal annotation.

• Avoid annotation completely.

• Annotate only in the Blue Book.