Digital SAT Reading & Writing Practice Module 1: One of the best ways to practice for the Digital SAT is to take a practice test. This practice module has been carefully designed to replicate the difficulty and feel of the actual Digital SAT. Detailed answer explanations are included at the end, along with a score conversion chart.
Command of Evidence (Strategies & Practice): Command of Evidence Questions require you to determine which answer choice would best support or weaken an idea expressed in a text. They represent one of the three question types that make up the Information & Ideas Domain of the Reading & Writing Section of the Digital SAT. This guide offers strategies to help you answer these questions effectively, along with drills to help you practice applying those strategies in solving questions similar to those you will encounter on the actual test.
Transitions (Strategies & Practice): Transitions Questions require you to determine the most logical transitional word or phrase to connect two sentences or, on occasion, two parts of a sentence. They represent one of the two question types that make up the Expression of Ideas Domain of the Reading & Writing Section of the Digital SAT. This guide offers strategies to help you answer these questions effectively, along with drills to help you practice applying those strategies in solving questions similar to those you will encounter on the actual test.
Essential Vocab for the Digital SAT: Although there are strategies you can use to guess around unfamiliar vocabulary on the test, sometimes you simply need to know the words. A good vocabulary is not just important on questions that test it directly, such as Words in Context Questions. It’s also essential if you hope to understand the questions, answer choices, and texts. This list of high-impact words was created based on our meticulous analysis of official practice tests and questions from leaked previous versions of the Digital SAT, and it should be a must learn for anyone who hopes to achieve a high score on the test.
Vocab in SAT Poetry: One reason that poetry is challenging for many students is because of vocabulary. This guide is designed to help you conquer the kind of vocab that often appears in poems you’ll encounter on the SAT.
Figurative Language in SAT Poetry: One reason that poetry is challenging is because it often relies on figurative language, which is when writers use words or expressions that go beyond their literal meaning to create vivid images or express complex ideas. This guide is designed to help you uncover the deeper meaning of poems you will encounter on the SAT.
Essential Word Roots for the Digital SAT: Around 60 percent of English words are derived from Latin and Greek roots. The following Latin and Greek roots frequently show up in words that you might encounter in academic texts. Learning them can be a shortcut to rapid vocabulary growth and allow you to guess around unfamiliar words on tests like the SAT.
Video Resources
A handful of questions on the Reading & Writing section of the DSAT will be accompanied by an infographic. If the official practice tests are any indication, that infographic will most likely be a graph or a table, but it could also be a diagram or some other visual presentation of information. For many students, these questions are some of the hardest ones on the test, but that’s usually because they’re approaching them the wrong way. In this video, I outline 4 and a half steps that you can use to answer infographic questions quickly, confidently, and above all, correctly.
English grammar is extremely complicated. Luckily, the DSAT will only test you on a limited pool of grammar concepts. I’ve scoured every official practice test released by the College Board and identified the 5 concepts that I believe are the most important on the test. Concepts covered include clauses & fragments, run-on sentences & comma splices, subject verb agreement, pronoun agreement, and dangling modifiers. All of these concepts are highly likely to come up on the digital SAT, so be sure to review them before test day.
There are thousands of vocab lists for the SAT. Unfortunately, most of them suck. As a student, it can be difficult to know which lists are worth memorizing and which lists are a waste of time. In this video, I examine the top seven results for “SAT vocab list” on Google and rate them on a scale from 200-800. I also provide some general tips on what makes a vocab list good to help you distinguish the winners from the trash.
To earn a high score on the SAT, it helps to have a strong vocabulary. Unfortunately, acquiring a strong vocabulary can be difficult. In this video, I discuss four common methods of vocab acquisition and weigh the pros and cons of each. Then, I propose my own method that draws on the best elements of each.
In my years of teaching SAT, I’ve witnessed countless students limit their long-term growth by rejecting strategies and tactics that don’t work at first. I’ve also seen students stubbornly stick to strategies or tactics that simply aren’t working for them because their textbooks or teachers tell them to. In this video, I discuss one of my favorite inventions, the bicycle, and what it can teach us about short-term and long-term progress on the SAT.
For many students, reading the hardest subject to master because it isn’t always clear how to improve. The skills needed to read effectively can seem vague or imprecise. That said, there are several concrete strategies that you can adopt to perform better on the Digital SAT. In this video, we’ll cover six simple hacks that can quickly and dramatically help you improve your score on the test.
Are you thinking about canceling your SAT score? This video will help you weigh the costs and benefits of canceling and determine whether it is the right decision for you.
This video covers what you should be doing to prepare in the 24 hours leading up to the test, as well as throughout the test itself. Taking the SAT can be scary, but follow these simple steps, and you will maximize your chances of performing well!
Do you feel like you’ve been putting in hours and hours studying for the SAT, but your score just isn’t going up? Well, stop wasting your time, because, in this video, I will explain exactly why your score isn’t going up and what you can do to change that. NOTE: although the specific questions discussed in this video come from the Digital SAT, these strategies can be applied to the traditional paper SAT or to any standardized test like the ACT or AP Exams.
In this video, I cover everything you need to know about semicolons. Though rarely used in daily life, they’re one of the most important punctuations on the test, and once you master the two usages covered, you should be able to tackle questions involving them with ease.
In this video, I cover vocab-in-context questions. They’re one of the most common question types on the Digital SAT, and the three steps outlined in this video will help you answer them with confidence.
In this video, I cover one of the most unusual question types on the Digital SAT. I call them “Research Note Questions,” and once you master these three simple steps, you will be able to answer them with confidence.
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