SAT Reading Course

All 7 Lessons

Every lesson has a narrated video, a written lesson and 10 practice questions. Each description says when to use that lesson on the test.

1. Lesson 1Free · 1:40Command of Evidence: TextualThe question hands you a claim (a hypothesis, an argument, an interpretation) and asks which finding or quotation would support or undermine it.
2. Lesson 21:31Command of Evidence: QuantitativeA bar graph, line graph or table sits beside a paragraph, and the question asks which choice “most effectively uses data from the graph” to complete or support it.
3. Lesson 31:31Central Ideas and DetailsThe question asks for the main idea or main purpose of the text, or what the text says “according to the text.”
4. Lesson 41:28InferencesA passage builds an argument and stops mid-sentence at a blank: “Which choice most logically completes the text?”
5. Lesson 51:18Words in Context“Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?” or “As used in the text, what does ___ most nearly mean?”
6. Lesson 61:26Text Structure and PurposeThe question asks for the main purpose of the text, its overall structure, or the function of an underlined sentence.
7. Lesson 71:32Cross-Text ConnectionsTwo short passages, Text 1 and Text 2, on one subject: “Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to…?”

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