what you need to know about sentence completions
Petersons SAT success 2004 (sat success)
... directions you already know Instead, go directly to Question You re Going to Need a Watch If you re going to pace yourself, you need to keep track of the time—and what if there is no clock in your ... Exercises: Sentence Completions 115 ○ Completions 114 ○ Summary: What You Need to Know about Sentence ○ Methods and Strategies for Solving Sentence Completions 108 ○ A Closer Look at Sentence ... exams What if you don’t know which schools you want to apply to? Don’t panic! Even if you take the exam in December or January of your senior year, you ll probably have plenty of time to send your...
Ngày tải lên: 30/08/2015, 15:22
Mastering the SAT critical reading test
... sentence If you come to a question that you cannot seem to reason in short order, mark that question on your test booklet and indicate that you need to come back to that question on your answer ... reading, skip it, and return to it if time permits Be sure to indicate which question you are skipping and will need to return to in your test booklet When it comes to reading passages, short or ... is to eliminate any answer choice you know to be incorrect Obviously, the more known incorrect answers you can eliminate, the better your chances of reasoning the correct answer In order to dissuade...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 23:28
– THE SAT CRITICAL READING SECTION – 1. Although the valiant explorer tried for years to reach potx
... assumptions, which you will be asked to uncover You will be asked about the logical flow of the texts and about their consistency or lack thereof You may also have to answer questions about the tone of the ... and grab your attention Be sure to keep your pencil poised to write as you read You will want to mark key words and phrases as you see them Next, read the passage all the way through As you finish ... Even if you don’t know the answer to a particular question right away, you often will be able to eliminate one to three answer choices without even referring back to the passage Then you know that...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
– THE SAT CRITICAL READING SECTION – Part 3: Paragraph-Length Critical Reading Out with the old pdf
... help you figure out what skills you have mastered and what skills you need to improve After you check your answers, read through the skills sections and concentrate on the topics that gave you ... and when to use them There may be times when you see a problem that you are unable to solve Don’t let this stop you! It is important to break difficult problems down into smaller parts and to look ... test time As you read this chapter, keep in mind that you not have to memorize all of the formulas Most of these formulas will be given to you on the test Your task is to make sure you understand...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
The sat critical reading section 7 ppt
... come into the young people’s lives soon, so there’s no need to sadden them with this story b Bereft of his senses in line 25 is a phrase that uses the word senses to mean sanity Bereft means to be ... a few important differences to keep in mind and some specific strategies you can use to answer these questions more effectively So while you should continue to hone your general reading comprehension ... use to support the main idea? What is the impact of comparing X to Y? It might help to think of writing as a series of decisions Writers choose their words carefully They think about how to punctuate...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 13:21
Critical reading strategies
... audience WORK TO UNDERSTAND YOUR OWN STRATEGIES AND TO IMPROVE THEM • Ask yourself questions about how you read: Do you read too quickly or slowly? Do you tend to lose your focus? Can you scan for ... it your own ASK YOURSELF IF YOU CAN EXPLAIN BOTH WHAT THE TEXT SAYS” AND WHAT IT DOES.” • In other words, can you both provide a summary of key claims and theses and understand its purpose, what ... what this text seeks to (to report or state facts, to contest a certain idea, to persuade, to open new inquiries, etc.)? • Keep in mind that all texts filter reality – distort, persuade, and arrive...
Ngày tải lên: 27/08/2016, 13:27
Developing critical reading skills for first year students in English department, college of foreign languages, Vietnam national university, Hanoi
... happen if you combine … with …? List events of the story in sequence What might you say about the future of the story’s characters? Do you agree/ disagree with …? What you think about …? What is ... order to engage the thinking process in their classrooms: What you mean by _? How did you come to that conclusion? What was said in the text? What is the source of your information? What ... related to …? Why is … significant? Why does … happen instead of …? How does … compare with …? What evidence can you list for …? What can you learn from …? What ideas can be added to …? What might...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:50
An investigation into english reading strategies employed by ethnic minority junior first-year english major students at tay bac university
... strategies: (1) knowing about language (relating to what language and language learning involves), (2) planning (relating to what and how of language learning), and (3) self-evaluation (relating to progress ... Goodman's top-down view of reading, the bottom-up view of reading fell into disfavor 2.4.2.2 Top-down model About over three decades ago, the views on reading changed together with the top-down ... difficult to account for sentence- context effects and the role of prior knowledge of text topic as facilitating variables in word recognition and comprehension." Due to this limitation, and together...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:54