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SAT Reasoning: SAT Writing & Language Test: Words in Context
Improving Paragraphs on The SAT Question Types Samples Strategy

Paragraphing in SAT have provided you the opportunity of learning them and get experties on them. So, let’s have the brief discussion of that.

Improving Paragraphs on The SAT Question Types Samples Strategy

The New SAT and Improving Paragraphs

With the advent of March 2016, the SAT revised its pattern. One of its step was introducing passages in test. The improved SAT have changed the nature of questions asked in writing and language portion. Now a reasonable material is provided in context you you need to learn the basic skills in order to perform well on SAT.

So for improving the paragraphs , we are going to examine various tactics, strategies and practice questions. Let’s work on.

Question Types

You could not decide the nature of question on a single look on SAT that it would be a improving passage question oe something other then iy.

However the mistakets or the testing part is underlined so not to bother for improving it.

Following are the two types of improving paragraph questions:

The first is organization question. It will examine your ability to get the certainty that paragraph is fully organized. Logical order of steps is considered here

The other is development question. It would make yoiu capable to write well-constructed paragraphs. It would be examined throughout the passage. So proper format of writing without repetition and wordiness , will be evaluate here.

Strategies

As compared to simple sentence improvement questions, the paragraph improvement required much of your effort. But if you get puzzled in solving such questions, leave it and move forward. There is no negative marking on SAT so just wild guess such question and avoid to leave something unmarked.

As well as don’t spend your precious time on deciding the organization and development nature of question. Just consider the sentence and try to make it strongest by substituting words. Feel free o move a head now and don’t panic for it.

Example

Let’s have a paragraph to deal with such concept more effectively:

We shall go on to the end. We shall struggle in Egypt, we shall scrap on the seas and oceans, we shall fight in the air, we shall defend our country, whatever the cost we may pay for. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the l grounds, we shall fight in the farms and in the meadow, we shall fight in the mountains; we shall never cede.

Let’s have options:

  1. No change
  2. We'll never cede.
  3. Forgo is out of the question.
  4. We shall never surrender

So, according to contex of passage, right option is A.

Lesson Summary

We have learned the improvement of passage in this lesson.

Two types of testing questions are discussed above:

  • Organization questions
  • Development questions

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