SAT Reading Logic Tips on How to Guess Options

SAT essay reading questions are divided into 10 categories according to their characteristics.

The significance of classification is to locate the original text and find its correct selection characteristics. For example, for the details question, look at the sentences of the positioning interval, the purpose question is to test the opinion sentences near the positioning interval, and the subject question is to test the opinion sentences in the key position of the article (see the example questions below for the specific meaning).

The steps are largely the same for each type of question, but there may be slight differences in the setting of the correct options. Therefore, the true/false question type can help students quickly locate the original text and find the corresponding correct option.

The key to whether you can do the right question is positioning, which is divided into line number positioning and positioning word positioning.

If the line number is explicitly told in the stem, then it is very simple to locate the original text directly according to the line number of the stem.

If there is no travel number in the stem, it should be located according to the locator word in the stem.

The so-called locator mainly refers to those words that are not easy to be rewritten, such as the name of a person, the name of a place, the time, the place and the era.

In this way, we can first locate a smaller range according to the topic with the line number before and after, and then locate according to its locator. Sometimes these targets need to be accompanied by some additional information to further narrow down the targeting.

The key information in the stem often refers to the object of the question, the content in quotation marks, the predicate verb, or the causal relationship under investigation. This key information not only helps us solve problems, but sometimes helps us orient ourselves.

There are 4 main categories of correct options: synonymous rephrasing, abstract induction, orthodox rhetoric, and transpositional reasoning. The wrong option is often the one that has nothing to do with the positioning interval or is the opposite (including the opposite meaning and opposite attitude).

In addition, if some special words appear in the options, they can often be used to exclude some selections, so as to speed up the speed of doing the questions and improve the accuracy rate.

There are also three types of exclusion techniques: extreme words, such as only, first, best, anyone, or little; Random comparison, with superior, as....as, or morethan, etc.; The logic is confusing, and the options include but, contrast, if, when, or because, etc. However, this technique is only feasible with a probability of 80-90%, and if you want to get a high score in the question, the most important thing is to rely on comprehension and use it with caution.

For example, or do you think it's good or bad to lie?

In the first example, I was hit by my mother for lying.

In the second example, my brother lied and was beaten by my father.

And then it's really bad to summarize.

In this case, if you are talking about unity in both examples, there is no logical connection, and there is not enough connotation and deep insightful

In the first example, I was hit by my mother for lying.

The second example, and then the same thing was buried, I didn't lie and was praised.

It's really bad to lie.

In this case, you first say that it is not good from the front, and the second example says that it is good not to lie from the negative side, then there is a connection between the two examples, and there is logic.

The difference, then, is that your examples are intrinsically linked, complementing each other and logical, rather than all being rigid arguments in one aspect.

Or progressively: Is it okay to lie? Not good. 1 Lying is bad for yourself 2. Lying is harmful to everyone around you.

Or heads and tails:1. It's not good to lie. 2。It's good not to lie.

Or different aspects: 1. Lying can be harmful. 2。The dangers of lying are serious. 3。There are benefits to not lying.

In short, there should be a connection between the examples, and they can't all say one point, and it's not good to lie, then there is logic.

I hope you go well with your exams.

1. Fill in the blanks Before training to fill in the blanks, it is best to memorize the words first; After memorizing, the vocabulary problem is basically solved; Then the main thing is to train one's logical thinking ability, and the core idea of training is to find the correspondence between before and after. Fill-in-the-blank is easier than reading, but be sure to practice speed, because fill-in-the-blank and reading are tested in one section, and the shorter the time it takes to fill in the blanks, the longer you will be left for reading. Because the time for reading is generally tight.

Usually, when you are doing fill-in-the-blank questions, you should pay attention to collecting the questions you have made wrong, analyze the reasons for the mistakes, and collect these wrong questions, and read them several times before the exam. "Mistakes" are the most valuable.

2. Reading The amount of reading questions is generally relatively large, and English is not the mother tongue, so Chinese students generally feel that there is not enough time in this part. For reading, Lang Ge suggests that there is generally no time to read the entire article carefully, and because the article is relatively long, if you read the question after reading it, it is often equivalent to reading in vain. So it is advisable to take a general look at it first, then look at the topic, and then come back to find it.

Lang Ge suggested that at the beginning of the special reading training, you should carefully understand the logical relationship between the topic and the article, and realize that the topic is to test your thinking ability. The articles read are mainly quoted from **, travelogues and popular science articles, so in addition to a large number of OC, OG and real questions in the reading, in the early stage of preparation, Lang Ge suggested that it is best to read some English ** and English periodicals, one is to consolidate the words you remember, master the words in use, and practice speed reading. You can watch some interesting **, such as "The Godfather", which describes the rivers and lakes of the United States.

If you look into it, you will find that you will understand the meaning of ** in English, instead of translating English into Chinese in your mind first, and then understanding the meaning of Chinese. This kind of training is very important.

The first step, of course, is vocabulary. There are 19 vocabulary questions in the 67 reading questions, and there are also a large number of vocabulary questions in the reading section, so obtaining vocabulary breadth and proficiency is necessary for a high score in reading. Generally speaking, you'll have to play the Barron 3500 to death, preferably two more GRE rubies, and you'll be at the pinnacle.

But more importantly, it is important to pay attention to collecting and sorting out the option words that have not been seen in previous test questions. It is not easy to get the vocabulary right, and students who have participated in the 5 1 World War may not have encountered new words in the vocabulary specialty, but they have encountered several new words in the 6 5 battle.

But for middle school students, it is important to understand that vocabulary breadth and proficiency are only necessary but not sufficient conditions for reading success: I only keep emphasizing that it is not sufficient because I have seen many students actually take the barron 3500, and they are very familiar with it, and the reading seems to be okay, but after two consecutive battles, they have not even reached 600. This suggests that seeing vocabulary as the whole of reading is a fatal misconception.

So what else is needed?

There is often this situation: it is okay to read one or two articles, or to read a lot separately, but a lot of continuous reading, reading and reading, I get sick, there are a lot of misunderstandings or puzzles, and the more tired I read, there are people on the SAT homepage who are self-exposed to reading and falling asleep in the exam room! It's not for any other reason, it's because I feel deprived of oxygen and sleepy under the pressure of reading!

What is the consciousness of reading? It's about being able to synchronously reflect what you're reading: that is, being able to describe the general logic of the original text and the author's intent in simple language, which is the metalinguistic ability I talked about before.

There is often a situation where a sentence can be read down and it is very smooth, but after reading it, it changes from English confusion to Chinese confusion, and the question is wrong as soon as it is done. I often ask two students if they understand this place. I got it.

But often the answer is wrong for one or two. The reason for the mistake is that it is fast and inaccurate, and it is unconscious! You don't know what you're reading!

Page number targets can be set, more at a time. For example, the first time I read it today, I was really confused after only reading 20 pages, and that's okay, next time (maybe just a little later!) Try to kill Fuhan for 30 pages!

Cultivate your own strong spirit and will! You don't have to read each page line by line, you can get the general logic.

You can also use another method to combine the continuity and consciousness of reading: find the reading of the LSAT, do not have the topic, just the article, read it paragraph by paragraph, the starting point is to read 6 articles at a time, gradually increase the weight, and strive to read 20 articles at a time. How to read?

In view of the fact that the reading of the LSAT has a certain or considerable degree of abstraction, which is much higher than the level of middle school students, you can do it like this: when reading a paragraph, absorb information and logic synchronously and organize the main idea in simple Chinese. It is recommended that you read 30 LSAT articles repeatedly, so that you can complete the rapid maturity of your thinking, desensitize to abstract words and logic, and be able to penetrate at a glance!

Memorize words, read extensively (improve reading speed), do OG and past papers.

The answer is to choose C. First of all, analyze the first emptiness, the conjunction here is a comma, so look at the two sentences before and after the comma A prudent, thrifty new Englander, dewitt....It is obvious that it is a logical synonym, and the previous sentence modifies people.

Then look at the adjectives in the previous sentence are prudent and thrifty, which means thrifty, in fact, only chary is in line with this meaning in the options, so it is obvious that the answer comes out.

But let's move on to the second void, which, is to modify the previous sentence, so it is still logically synonymous. Since the previous sentence said that Chary of Investing Money can only look at AC, it is obvious that the first empty option A is wrong, so choose C. Of course, if you know the meaning of junk bonds (**low but high risk bonds), then you don't need to read it.