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Acknowledgments
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
Take 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
Common Trap Answers
Summary
7 Reading Question Types 1–3: Craft and Structure
Vocabulary Questions
Purpose Questions
Dual Texts Questions
Craft and Structure Drill
Craft and Structure Drill Answers and Explanations
Summary
8 Reading Question Types 4–8: Information and Ideas
Retrieval Questions
Main Idea Questions
Claims Questions
Charts Questions
Conclusions
Information and Ideas Drill
Information and Ideas Drill Answers and Explanations
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
Advanced Reading Skills Drill
Advanced Reading Skills Drill Answers and Explanations
, 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: Connecting Clauses
How to Connect Independent Clauses
Punctuation with Transitions
Dependent Clauses
Independent vs. Dependent Clauses Exercise
Answers to Independent vs. Dependent Clauses Exercise
Connecting Clauses Drill
Connecting Clauses Drill Answers and Explanations
Summary
14 Rules Questions: Punctuation with Describing Phrases
Who or What Are You Talking About?
Extra! Extra! Put Punctuation Around It!
Specifying vs. Extra Information Exercise
Acknowledgments
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
Take 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
Common Trap Answers
Summary
7 Reading Question Types 1–3: Craft and Structure
Vocabulary Questions
Purpose Questions
Dual Texts Questions
Craft and Structure Drill
Craft and Structure Drill Answers and Explanations
Summary
8 Reading Question Types 4–8: Information and Ideas
Retrieval Questions
Main Idea Questions
Claims Questions
Charts Questions
Conclusions
Information and Ideas Drill
Information and Ideas Drill Answers and Explanations
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
Advanced Reading Skills Drill
Advanced Reading Skills Drill Answers and Explanations
, 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: Connecting Clauses
How to Connect Independent Clauses
Punctuation with Transitions
Dependent Clauses
Independent vs. Dependent Clauses Exercise
Answers to Independent vs. Dependent Clauses Exercise
Connecting Clauses Drill
Connecting Clauses Drill Answers and Explanations
Summary
14 Rules Questions: Punctuation with Describing Phrases
Who or What Are You Talking About?
Extra! Extra! Put Punctuation Around It!
Specifying vs. Extra Information Exercise
