Khan Academy: The Sat Reading Test: Synthesis

The SAT. The ACT. AP exams. The very mention of these exams can cause the college bound to feel anxious. One way to combat Test Anxiety is to provide high schoolers with models of these tests and give them opportunities to analyze...

This video [2:08] is an overview of the SAT Reading Test. It explains that the passages include one literary text from a famed author, informational texts from science, history, etc. The sections include Information and Ideas, Rhetoric,...

Details about Rhetoric on the SAT Reading Test. One definition of the word rhetoric is "the study of writing or speaking." Rhetoric questions on the Reading Test assess how well you understand the choices that authors make as they...

The Information and Ideas category of the SAT Reading Test includes questions that focus on what the passage says (directly or indirectly). To interpret the author's message, you'll need to consider both what's stated and what's implied...

A powerful reading strategy designed to encourage you to trust yourself while working through the SAT Reading Test. If you know what you want before you start looking, you are a LOT less likely to make a bad choice..

The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for the SAT. This section provides an overview of the SAT Writing and Language Test.

This Khan Academy Resource is an article about Active Reading Strategies Part 1: SQ3R.

This video is an overview of the SAT Essay: Reading, analysis, and writing, and test scoring.

An overview of the SAT Writing and Language Test. Each Writing and Language Test consists of four passages with 11 questions each. You will have 35 minutes to complete the Writing and Language Test.

On the SAT Writing and Language Test, you will encounter a variety of questions that will ask you to revise and edit passages in different ways. This article gives tips and details about the expression of ideas part of the writing and...