SAT Digital Reading and Writing Test quick start guide: Difference between revisions

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 ** participle phrases
 ** punctuation of phrases, dependent clauses and independent clauses
+= Elimination =
+* On any multiple-choice question, the test-taker is presented with
+** a set of wrong answers designed to fool the test taker
+** a single correct answer similarly designed to fool the test-taker.
+* thereby, the test-taker must employ an elimination strategy that approaches every possible answer '''with distrust'''.
+=== The correct answer is not the best answer: it is the only answer that has no error ===
+* wrong answers are designed to fool the student into making an incorrect association with the evidence
+* correct answers are designed to hide the correct association with the evidence
+=== Eliminate for errors, do not select for correctness ===
+* make every possible answer account for itself
+* test it against the evedience
+* do not infer what is not there
+=== Inference ===
+* is... given certain evidence we can conlude that...
+* is not ... given certain evidence we can insert new evidence
+=== Elimination types ===
+{| class="wikitable"
+|'''Evidence'''
+|states
+|suggests
+|concludes
+|-
+|'''Inference'''
+|suggests
+|infers
+|draws
+|-
+|'''Degree'''
+|error of specificity
+|error of generality
+|
+|}
 = Reading Strategies quick start guide =