SAT WRITING AND LANGUAGE
Writing will be present in all the phases of your life whether it be your college or your job or even any the business that you might start in the future.
SAT writing consists of questions involving editing of a passage. The main part is underlined, given a number and you are given options to mark the correct answer. To answer these, you should be able to read, and comprehend the passage and correctly identify the errors.
SAT writing and language section consists of 44 questions to be done in 35 minutes, thus there is a fairly risky time limit. It consists of 4 passages each containing 11 questions. The passages will be about -
1) History
2) Social Studies
3) Humanities
4) Science
In SAT writing and language, the page is divided into 2 halves: the left side, which contains passages and the right side, which contains all the questions. Each passage is of approximately 400 - 450 words.
So you will have to read this passage and solve 11 questions in 8 minutes. Seems easy right?, well it is easy but after a lot of practice.
There will be a lot of questions where you will find the underlined part to be accurate and there you need to mark NO CHANGE.
In SAT writing and language, the page is divided into 2 halves the left side contains passages while the right side contains questions.
The questions that come in this section are of 2 types:-
1) Expression of ideas
2) Standard English convention
#Expression of ideas
The SAT writing and language section consists of 24 questions from this section. Thus you can understand how essential it is to prepare for this section. These questions ask you to edit the passage in order to improve the substance and quality of the writer's message.
#Standard English convention
SAT writing and language section consists of 20 questions from this section. These questions ask you to edit the passage in order to correct grammatical errors, punctuation and better usage of words.
INSTRUCTIONS TO BE FOLLOWED BY STUDENT
1) In graph questions, your purpose is to interpret the graph and mark the option whose data provides evidence or strength to the argument of passage.
2) It's not necessary that there will always be an error. Many a times the marked text will be correct thus you will have to mark NO CHANGE.
3) When there is no question written then you have to just edit the word/words depending on the errors present.
4) In questions related to the transition between 2 paragraphs, don't repeat what's already been mentioned in the previous paragraph.
5) Pay special attention to punctuation mark and brackets.
a) Period - It is placed at the end of declarative sentence.
b) Question mark - Placed at the end of interrogative sentence.
c) Exclamation mark - It is used for exclamation.
d) Comma - It is used to denote separation of elements within structure. They may contain a clause and a word, different words of same category or 2 dependent sentences.
e) Semicolon - It's used to connect 2 independent clauses. Pay attention to the difference between comma, semicolon and colon.
f) Colon - It's used to introduce an example, an explanation or sometimes a quotation. It is also used to pay emphasis e.g. - There is only one person who can answer this: The watchman.
It's also used to connect 2 independent clauses when the second is explains the first one.
Clause 1,clause 2 : Both are dependent clauses.
Clause 1,clause 2 : Both are independent clauses.
Clause 1,clause 2 : Both are independent clauses but clause 2 is explanation of clause 1.
g) Hyphen - It is used to join two or more words to create a compound term, there is no spaces present between them.
h) Brackets/parenthesis - Both are used to contain additional information.
i) Apostrophe - It is used for omission of letters from words, to emphasize possession to someone or plural for letter.
j) Quotation marks - It is used to write a dialogue said as it is by the speaker. The single quotation mark[' '] is used when you want to write a quote inside quotation marks.
6) While editing you should note that the focus should remain on the topic that is discussed in the passage.
7) Always choose the option which has relevance and connection to passage.
8) In sentence rearrangement, you will be asked to shift a sentence after any of the the given numbers of marked sentences. In this case you need to understand that the sentence should be shift to a place where the flow of the passage smoothly goes to it's conclusion.
9) In questions asking you to delete the underlined sentence check if there is any relevance of it's presence or not, and if there is, then do mention whether it is building the argument or evidence do mention that as the reader.
10) Always make sure that the subject verb agreement is followed i.e. if the subject is plural then verb should be plural and vice versa.
For compound subjects i.e. 2 subjects in same sentence it takes a plural verb.
For collection nouns, it may be singular or plural.
11) Just like subject verb agreement the Pronoun - Antecedent agreement must also be followed. Here Antecedent is the noun or another pronoun to which the pronoun refers. They both should agree in number. i.e. either both be singular or both be plural.
PROCEDURE
Let's discuss the procedure to solve this section:
Skim the passage in which errors are marked and solve them out while skimming. If you find a passage with no errors then try to skip it at first and answer the next question. Read it only if the next question need you to. you won't have much time to ponder and think out the options, thus making discussion with options thus try not to get confused and mark the answers. Always keep the time in check. 8 mins is more than enough for 1 passage. I must tell you it's not going to be easy but with all the knowledge provided above, you now have got a good head start to begin with your practice. I would recommend you to solve at least 5 writing sections.
BONNE CHANCE !
SAT HOMEPAGE
SAT EXAM FORMAT
SAT READING
SAT WRITING
SAT MATH
SAT MATH: HEART OF ALGEBRA
SAT MATH: PROBLEM SOLVING AND DATA ANALYSIS
SAT MATH: ADDITIONAL TOPIC IN MATH
SAT MATH: PASSPORT TO ADVANCE MATH
SAT MATH:GRAPH
SAT ESSAY
SAT writing consists of questions involving editing of a passage. The main part is underlined, given a number and you are given options to mark the correct answer. To answer these, you should be able to read, and comprehend the passage and correctly identify the errors.
SAT writing and language section consists of 44 questions to be done in 35 minutes, thus there is a fairly risky time limit. It consists of 4 passages each containing 11 questions. The passages will be about -
1) History
2) Social Studies
3) Humanities
4) Science
In SAT writing and language, the page is divided into 2 halves: the left side, which contains passages and the right side, which contains all the questions. Each passage is of approximately 400 - 450 words.
So you will have to read this passage and solve 11 questions in 8 minutes. Seems easy right?, well it is easy but after a lot of practice.
There will be a lot of questions where you will find the underlined part to be accurate and there you need to mark NO CHANGE.
In SAT writing and language, the page is divided into 2 halves the left side contains passages while the right side contains questions.
The questions that come in this section are of 2 types:-
1) Expression of ideas
2) Standard English convention
#Expression of ideas
The SAT writing and language section consists of 24 questions from this section. Thus you can understand how essential it is to prepare for this section. These questions ask you to edit the passage in order to improve the substance and quality of the writer's message.
#Standard English convention
SAT writing and language section consists of 20 questions from this section. These questions ask you to edit the passage in order to correct grammatical errors, punctuation and better usage of words.
INSTRUCTIONS TO BE FOLLOWED BY STUDENT
1) In graph questions, your purpose is to interpret the graph and mark the option whose data provides evidence or strength to the argument of passage.
2) It's not necessary that there will always be an error. Many a times the marked text will be correct thus you will have to mark NO CHANGE.
3) When there is no question written then you have to just edit the word/words depending on the errors present.
4) In questions related to the transition between 2 paragraphs, don't repeat what's already been mentioned in the previous paragraph.
5) Pay special attention to punctuation mark and brackets.
a) Period - It is placed at the end of declarative sentence.
b) Question mark - Placed at the end of interrogative sentence.
c) Exclamation mark - It is used for exclamation.
d) Comma - It is used to denote separation of elements within structure. They may contain a clause and a word, different words of same category or 2 dependent sentences.
e) Semicolon - It's used to connect 2 independent clauses. Pay attention to the difference between comma, semicolon and colon.
f) Colon - It's used to introduce an example, an explanation or sometimes a quotation. It is also used to pay emphasis e.g. - There is only one person who can answer this: The watchman.
It's also used to connect 2 independent clauses when the second is explains the first one.
Clause 1,clause 2 : Both are dependent clauses.
Clause 1,clause 2 : Both are independent clauses.
Clause 1,clause 2 : Both are independent clauses but clause 2 is explanation of clause 1.
g) Hyphen - It is used to join two or more words to create a compound term, there is no spaces present between them.
h) Brackets/parenthesis - Both are used to contain additional information.
i) Apostrophe - It is used for omission of letters from words, to emphasize possession to someone or plural for letter.
j) Quotation marks - It is used to write a dialogue said as it is by the speaker. The single quotation mark[' '] is used when you want to write a quote inside quotation marks.
6) While editing you should note that the focus should remain on the topic that is discussed in the passage.
7) Always choose the option which has relevance and connection to passage.
8) In sentence rearrangement, you will be asked to shift a sentence after any of the the given numbers of marked sentences. In this case you need to understand that the sentence should be shift to a place where the flow of the passage smoothly goes to it's conclusion.
9) In questions asking you to delete the underlined sentence check if there is any relevance of it's presence or not, and if there is, then do mention whether it is building the argument or evidence do mention that as the reader.
10) Always make sure that the subject verb agreement is followed i.e. if the subject is plural then verb should be plural and vice versa.
For compound subjects i.e. 2 subjects in same sentence it takes a plural verb.
For collection nouns, it may be singular or plural.
11) Just like subject verb agreement the Pronoun - Antecedent agreement must also be followed. Here Antecedent is the noun or another pronoun to which the pronoun refers. They both should agree in number. i.e. either both be singular or both be plural.
PROCEDURE
Let's discuss the procedure to solve this section:
Skim the passage in which errors are marked and solve them out while skimming. If you find a passage with no errors then try to skip it at first and answer the next question. Read it only if the next question need you to. you won't have much time to ponder and think out the options, thus making discussion with options thus try not to get confused and mark the answers. Always keep the time in check. 8 mins is more than enough for 1 passage. I must tell you it's not going to be easy but with all the knowledge provided above, you now have got a good head start to begin with your practice. I would recommend you to solve at least 5 writing sections.
BONNE CHANCE !
SAT HOMEPAGE
SAT EXAM FORMAT
SAT READING
SAT WRITING
SAT MATH
SAT MATH: HEART OF ALGEBRA
SAT MATH: PROBLEM SOLVING AND DATA ANALYSIS
SAT MATH: ADDITIONAL TOPIC IN MATH
SAT MATH: PASSPORT TO ADVANCE MATH
SAT MATH:GRAPH
SAT ESSAY
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