SAT Reading section techniques, strategies & approaches: Difference between revisions

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* transitions and chronologies organize a reading: pay attention to them!  
* transitions and chronologies organize a reading: pay attention to them!  
* unlike your typical high school essay, '''SAT passages DO NOT follow the THESIS - EVIDENCE - CONCLUSION structure'''
* unlike your typical high school essay, '''SAT passages DO NOT follow the THESIS - EVIDENCE - CONCLUSION structure'''
** instead, these readings more generally follow (fiction excepted):
* instead, these readings more generally follow (fiction sometimes excepted):
# background & introduction of the subject, problem, or argument
# background & introduction of the subject, problem, or argument
# review origins of the topic
# review origins of the topic