what kind of passages are you going to encounter on the new sat reading test? tests are always way less nerve-wracking when you know what to expect, so let\u2019s talk a little bit about redesigned sat reading in general:<\/p>\n
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sat reading passages aren\u2019t written specifically for the test. instead, they\u2019re taken from high school or college-level reading sources and adapted to make them fit into the 700 words or so that the sat likes. of course, that means that test-makers have to make some pretty significant changes to the original texts\u2014creating clear introductions and conclusions\u2014because these books or essays weren\u2019t written with the sat exam in mind.<\/p>\n
unless you\u2019re a voracious reader, there\u2019s not much chance you\u2019re going to come across a passage that you recognize (unless <\/em>it\u2019s a passage from a u.s. founding document that you\u2019ve studied in school; then you might get lucky). but it\u2019s rare, and no matter how much you read between now and the day of your sat, you\u2019re not going to better your odds in any significant way.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n generally, sat readings come from books that you might read in high school or college, and that makes sense. of course, there are all sorts of different things you might study in college. so that\u2019s why the new sat makes sure you see a little bit of everything from fiction to history to science.<\/p>\n if you read through an article or two from the new yorker<\/em>, the economist<\/em>, or other similar publications, you\u2019ll get a sense of the level of reading the sat expects of you.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n even if they\u2019re academic, sat reading passages are supposed to be readable for people who aren\u2019t actually in the field of study that the passages come from. so you won\u2019t get anything really old (e.g. shakespeare or kant) or highly specialized (e.g. linguistic theory from chomsky). as long as you stay focused while reading, you\u2019ll be able to understand the information in the passage without any background knowledge.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n there\u2019s always a literature passage on the sat, but it\u2019s not usually the kind of thing most people have read for fun\u2014sorry, no harry potter. it\u2019s more likely to be something, well, literary. the books you read in high school are a good comparison. while you won\u2019t see the great gatsby<\/em> on your sat, since so many students read it in school, it\u2019s the right type of book.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the best advice we can give you is to read everything you are assigned in school from now until the sat (and well, you should probably keep reading all of it after your sat too, but we won\u2019t be breathing down your neck then \ud83d\ude42 ). since the new sat reading test is designed to measure what you are learning in high school, high school reading material is the best material to practice with.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" what kind of passages are you going to encounter on the new sat reading test? tests are always way less nerve-wracking when you know what to expect, so let\u2019s talk a little bit about redesigned sat reading in general:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[85,64],"ppma_author":[24868],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nnew sat reading passages are academic<\/h2>\n
redesigned sat readings aren\u2019t super dense, old, or full of jargon<\/h2>\n
fiction on the sat reading test<\/h2>\n