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Foreword
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Part I: Orientation
1 The Digital SAT, The Princeton Review, and You
General Information About the Digital SAT
How to Begin
2 Practice Test 1
3 Practice Test 1: Diagnostic Answer Key and Explanations
4 Cracking the Digital SAT: Basic Principles
Basic Principles of Cracking the Test
Taking the Easy Test First
Cracking Multiple-Choice Questions
Process of Elimination (POE)
Summary
Part II: How to Crack the Reading and Writing Section
5 Reading and Writing Introduction
Find Your Strengths and Weaknesses
Reading, Rules, and Rhetoric Questions
Start with the Question
6 The Reading Questions
SAT Reading: Cracking the Passages
Steps of the Basic Approach
, Applying the Steps
POE Criteria
Summary
7 Reading Question Types 1–3: Craft and Structure
Vocabulary Questions
Purpose Questions
Dual Texts Questions
Summary
8 Reading Question Types 4–8: Information and Ideas
Retrieval Questions
Main Idea Questions
Claims Questions
Charts Questions
Conclusions
Summary
9 Advanced Reading Skills
Vocabulary: Playing the Greatest Hits
Down to Two (or More): Mastering POE
Poetry: Keeping Your Cool
Sentence Function: Understanding Why Sentences are
Included
Summary
10 Comprehensive Reading Drill
Comprehensive Reading Drill Answers and Explanations
11 Introduction to Rules Questions
Learn the Rules and Follow Them
Tools for Rules
What’s Changing in the Answers Exercise
, Answers to What’s Changing in the Answers Exercise
12 Rules Questions: Complete Sentences
What Does a Sentence Need?
Question or Statement?
Verb Forms in Complete Sentences
Complete Sentences Drill
Complete Sentences Drill Answers and Explanations
Summary
13 Rules Questions: Describing Phrases
Who or What Are You Talking About?
Extra! Extra! Put Punctuation Around It!
Specifying vs. Extra Information Exercise
Answers to Specifying vs. Extra Information Exercise
Describing Phrases Drill
Describing Phrases Drill Answers and Explanations
Summary
14 Rules Questions: Linking Independent Clauses
How to Connect Independent Clauses
Punctuation with Transitions
Linking Independent Clauses Drill
Linking Independent Clauses Drill Answers and Explanations
Summary
15 Rules Questions: Dependent Clauses, Lists, and No
Punctuation
Dependent Clauses
Independent vs. Dependent Clauses Exercise
Punctuating Lists
Where Punctuation is Not Needed
Foreword
Get More (Free) Content
Part I: Orientation
1 The Digital SAT, The Princeton Review, and You
General Information About the Digital SAT
How to Begin
2 Practice Test 1
3 Practice Test 1: Diagnostic Answer Key and Explanations
4 Cracking the Digital SAT: Basic Principles
Basic Principles of Cracking the Test
Taking the Easy Test First
Cracking Multiple-Choice Questions
Process of Elimination (POE)
Summary
Part II: How to Crack the Reading and Writing Section
5 Reading and Writing Introduction
Find Your Strengths and Weaknesses
Reading, Rules, and Rhetoric Questions
Start with the Question
6 The Reading Questions
SAT Reading: Cracking the Passages
Steps of the Basic Approach
, Applying the Steps
POE Criteria
Summary
7 Reading Question Types 1–3: Craft and Structure
Vocabulary Questions
Purpose Questions
Dual Texts Questions
Summary
8 Reading Question Types 4–8: Information and Ideas
Retrieval Questions
Main Idea Questions
Claims Questions
Charts Questions
Conclusions
Summary
9 Advanced Reading Skills
Vocabulary: Playing the Greatest Hits
Down to Two (or More): Mastering POE
Poetry: Keeping Your Cool
Sentence Function: Understanding Why Sentences are
Included
Summary
10 Comprehensive Reading Drill
Comprehensive Reading Drill Answers and Explanations
11 Introduction to Rules Questions
Learn the Rules and Follow Them
Tools for Rules
What’s Changing in the Answers Exercise
, Answers to What’s Changing in the Answers Exercise
12 Rules Questions: Complete Sentences
What Does a Sentence Need?
Question or Statement?
Verb Forms in Complete Sentences
Complete Sentences Drill
Complete Sentences Drill Answers and Explanations
Summary
13 Rules Questions: Describing Phrases
Who or What Are You Talking About?
Extra! Extra! Put Punctuation Around It!
Specifying vs. Extra Information Exercise
Answers to Specifying vs. Extra Information Exercise
Describing Phrases Drill
Describing Phrases Drill Answers and Explanations
Summary
14 Rules Questions: Linking Independent Clauses
How to Connect Independent Clauses
Punctuation with Transitions
Linking Independent Clauses Drill
Linking Independent Clauses Drill Answers and Explanations
Summary
15 Rules Questions: Dependent Clauses, Lists, and No
Punctuation
Dependent Clauses
Independent vs. Dependent Clauses Exercise
Punctuating Lists
Where Punctuation is Not Needed
