Digital SAT English Cram Plan: Know These 3 Questions!
Summary
TLDRIn this video, Laura from STP offers strategies for acing the digital SAT English section, focusing on three key question types that account for 65% of the points: transition, Standard English convention, and word and context questions. She categorizes transition words into supports, contrasts, causations, and reinforcers, and provides a three-step process for tackling them efficiently. For Standard English convention questions, she emphasizes the importance of mastering punctuation and subject-verb agreement. Laura also shares tips for answering word and context questions, even with a limited vocabulary, by using linguistic cues and positive/negative connotations. The video encourages viewers to access free resources and subscribe for more SAT prep support.
Takeaways
- 📚 Focus on mastering three key question types in the digital SAT English modules: transition, Standard English convention, and word and context, as they constitute 65% of the points.
- 🔗 Transition questions typically appear after Standard English convention questions and before not-taking questions, with about four to five per module.
- 📈 Categorize transition words into four types: supports, contrasts, causations, and reinforcers to better tackle transition questions.
- ✅ For transition questions, follow a three-step process: categorize answer choices, determine the relationship between sentences, and cross off duplicates within the same category.
- 📈 Standard English convention questions are placed around the middle of the module and test knowledge of punctuation, comma placement, and subject-verb agreement.
- 📝 When dealing with subject-verb agreement, identify the subject first and then match it with the correct verb tense from the answer choices.
- 📍 Use the strategy of reading aloud to determine comma placement, as natural pauses often indicate where commas should be.
- 🔍 For word and context questions, which appear at the beginning of the module, strategies like playing positive/negative, utilizing linguistic roots, and finding synonyms in the text can be helpful.
- 📑 Download the free digital SAT workbook from STP's website for additional practice on these three question types.
- 📱 Consider using the Prep app for a more flexible and mobile-friendly approach to SAT preparation, including short quizzes and drill modes.
- 💡 For a deeper dive into these question types, consider enrolling in STP's digital SAT English self-paced course and use the promo code for a discount.
Q & A
What are the three types of questions that make up 65% of the points in the digital SAT English modules?
-The three types of questions are transition, Standard English convention, and word and context questions.
What is the first step in tackling transition questions on the digital SAT?
-The first step is to categorize the transition words into four major categories: supports, contrast, causation, and reinforcers.
How many transition questions can be expected per English module on the digital SAT?
-There are roughly four to five transition questions per module.
What is a support transition in the context of the digital SAT?
-A support transition is a detail that backs up the main argument or the topic sentence of the paragraph.
What is the strategy for dealing with Standard English convention questions on the digital SAT?
-The strategy involves knowing punctuation rules, placing commas correctly, and linking subjects to the right verb.
At what position do Standard English convention questions typically appear in the digital SAT English modules?
-Standard English convention questions come at the very middle of the module, around question number 15.
What is the process for tackling word and context questions on the digital SAT?
-The process involves playing positive negative, using linguistics by knowing roots, prefixes, and suffixes, and looking for synonyms in the text.
How many points can be scored from word and context questions in each digital SAT English module?
-There are roughly four to five word and context questions, which is another 8 to 10 points.
What is a lead-in in the context of the digital SAT English modules?
-A lead-in is an introductory phrase that sets up the subject of the sentence, often followed by a comma and the blank.
What is the recommended approach for students who are weak in vocabulary when facing word and context questions?
-The recommended approach is to play positive negative, use linguistics to deduce word meanings from roots, and look for synonyms in the text.
Outlines
📚 Preparing for the Digital SAT: English Modules
Laura introduces a video by STP aimed at students preparing for the digital SAT with limited time. She emphasizes focusing on three types of questions in the English modules—transition, Standard English convention, and word and context—which constitute 65% of the points. Practical tips and strategies are shared to tackle these questions efficiently. The video also promotes a free digital SAT workbook available on their website for subscribed users. Additionally, Laura mentions 'Prep Le', a mobile app for SAT preparation, as a sponsor of the video.
🔗 Transition Questions in SAT English
Laura explains the importance of transition questions, which typically appear after Standard English convention questions and before not-taking questions in the SAT English module. She categorizes transition words into four types: supports, contrasts, causations, and reinforcers. A three-step process is introduced to tackle these questions effectively: categorize the answer choices, determine the relationship between sentences surrounding the blank, and use the process of elimination for same-category transition words. An example is worked through to demonstrate these strategies.
📖 Standard English Convention Questions
Standard English convention questions are discussed next, which are positioned around the middle of the module. Laura advises students to start with these questions for quick points if they are familiar with the rules. Key areas include punctuation, comma placement, and subject-verb agreement. Examples are provided to illustrate how to approach these questions, emphasizing the importance of identifying the subject, understanding verb tenses, and recognizing essential and non-essential clauses in sentences.
🔍 Words and Context Questions
The video concludes with words and context questions, which appear at the beginning of the English modules. These questions can be challenging for students with weak vocabularies. Strategies such as playing positive/negative, using linguistic roots, and finding synonyms in the text are suggested to improve performance. Laura works through an example to show how to apply these strategies, even with limited vocabulary knowledge.
🎓 Conclusion and Additional Resources
In conclusion, Laura offers a self-paced digital SAT English course for further study and provides a discount code for YouTube viewers. She encourages viewers to comment '65%' with a brain emoji if they watched the entire video, expressing her appreciation for their engagement. The video aims to enhance students' intuitiveness for the SAT, wishing them success in their upcoming exams.
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💡Digital SAT
💡Transition Questions
💡Standard English Convention
💡Word and Context
💡Punctuation Rules
💡Subject-Verb Agreement
💡Lexicon
💡Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes
💡Lead-ins
💡Prep Le
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Highlights
Three types of questions in the digital SAT English modules make up 65% of the points: transition, Standard English convention, and word and context.
Practical tips and strategies for tackling transition, Standard English convention, and word and context questions are provided.
A free digital SAT workbook is available for a limited time by subscribing to the email list.
Prep Le is a fun digital SAT prep app available on the App Store and Google Play.
Transition questions start at around number 20 on each English module.
Transition words are categorized into four major types: supports, contrast, causation, and reinforcers.
A three-step process for tackling transition questions is explained.
Standard English convention questions are located in the middle of the module around number 15.
Punctuation rules, comma placement, and subject-verb agreement are key areas in Standard English convention questions.
A strategy for comma placement questions involves reading the sentence and identifying natural pauses.
Lead-ins are identified by a comma followed by the blank, and the subject usually comes right after the lead-in.
Word and context questions appear at the beginning of the English modules and often test vocabulary.
Strategies for word and context questions include playing positive/negative and using linguistic roots.
A self-paced digital SAT English course is available for those who want to delve deeper into these question types.
A promo code '50 off' is offered for the digital SAT English course for YouTube viewers.
The video concludes with an encouragement to comment '65% with a brain Emoji' for those who watched until the end.
Transcripts
hey guys Laura here with STP if I was a
student and I didn't have a lot of time
to prep for the digital sat I would make
sure I knew how to do these three
questions in the digital sat English
modules because they make up 65% of the
points the three types of questions I'm
talking about are transition Standard
English convention and word and context
questions so in this video I'm going to
show you practical tips and strategies
for how to tackle these three types of
questions so you can maximize your
points and minimize your studying now if
you want to work on these three
categories even more then make sure you
go to our website and download our
digital sat workbook for free we're
giving it away at no cost for limited
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so I'm going to link up here to our
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get that workbook and get
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let's get started and talk about
transition questions first transition
questions start at around number 20 on
each English module so they come right
after the Standard English convention
questions and right before the not
taking questions there are roughly four
to five transition questions per module
so you're looking at like an extra 8 to
10 points now it's important to
understand the different types of
transition questions you will see to get
good at this type of question I like to
keep it simple and I put the transition
words into four major categories the
first category is what's called supports
a support transition essentially is a
detail that backs up the main argument
or the topic sentence of the paragraph
for example words like also moreover in
addition and likewise are all support
words the second major category are
contrast words contrast transitions
essentially link two sentences and they
go against each other so one sentence
might be positive the other sentence
might be negative common contrast
transition words are however
nevertheless and
regardless the next major transition
category you will encounter are called
causation words causation words
essentially uh evoke a a cause and
effect situation so the first sentence
causes the second sentence to occur so
some example causation words are thus
therefore and
consequently the last major category is
what I like to call
reinforcers reinforcers essentially are
sentences that restate or reward the
previous sentence in a different point
so there's a three-step process for
efficiently tackling transition
questions
the first step is when you get to the
answer choices categorize them the
second step is to read the sentence
before the blank and the sentence that
the blank is in to determine the
relationship between them that way
you'll know what category transition
word you need the third step and this is
just a shortcut is to cross off any
answer choices that come from the same
category transition words so if you see
two causation words that function the
same exact way like thus and therefore
cross them off because there's only one
right answer in multiple choice all
right what I'm going to do now is I'm
going to work out a transition question
with you so you can see these strategies
and steps in action so as you can see
we're on an example here and the first
thing I'm going to do is I'm going to
categorize these transition answer
choices
alternatively is a
contrast but it's a specific type of
contrast cuz it's really talking about
different options like I might say I'll
eat the steak alternatively I'll eat the
chicken so if you're not sure what
category a transition word goes into try
to put it in a context and use it in a
sentence and that'll help you determine
what situation and what type it is
consequently is a
causation which makes perfect sense
because we have the root scq which is
basically uh goes into the math term
sequence if you think of about a math
sequence it's one thing happening after
another so consequently is something
happening as a result of something else
in fact is a
reinforcer and moreover is a
support okay I can't cross any off
they're all from different categories
now what I'm going to do is read the
first sentence and the second sentence
to determine a relationship so it says
although TS Elliot devoted several years
to writing the Wasteland it sold only
about 330 copies in the 6 months
following its publication that word only
tells me that that's a negative sentence
I'm going to play positive negative and
make a mental note okay that's a
negative sentence now I'm going to read
the second part Elliot was forced to
seek other sources of income that also
sounds negative to me so I know they're
not going against each other it's not a
contrast I'm going to cross off a this
to me sounds just like a cause and
effect situation because he only sold
330 copies he was forced to go seek
other sources of income so I'm going to
go with the causation all right let's
talk about Standard English convention
questions now Standard English
convention questions come at the very
middle of the module around number 15
and you have about four to five standard
English convention questions in each
module as well which is another 8 to 10
points so I typically recommend to my
students that they actually jump to
number 15 and start with these when they
get to a module because these are quick
easy points if you know the rules
there's very specific things that they
test now in this digital sat you want to
get good at knowing the punctuation
rules you want to get good at knowing
how to place commas in the right spots
and you want to get good at being able
to link a subject to the right verb so
I'm actually going to do a few examples
with you right now to show you how to
tackle these effectively the first
example I'm going to show you guys deals
with subjects verb agreement you'll know
you're on a subject verb agreement
question because the answer choices will
all be different verb
tenses so in this case I can see is are
have been and were those are verbs of
being so you know verbs although they're
typically action words like jump and run
um these are also verbs as well so don't
count these out it's very easy for
students to mistake them for something
else but these are verbs as well what
I'm going to do is I'm going to read the
sentence that the blank is in and I'm
going to try to pinpoint my subject so
it says for engineers the elimination of
Sonic boom's blank one of the biggest
challenges involved okay I know that my
subject is the
elimination because of Sonic booms is
just extra information describing more
about the
elimination anytime you see an of clause
cross it off when you're on this type of
question because that is not the subject
it's the word that came right before it
so it's a singular subject and when I
read it the elimination is one of the
biggest
challenges now I know and I can validate
that my answer is correct because
another trick that you can use is to
test singular plural and the answer
choices this is the only singular tense
I can say he is right but I would say
they are they have been and and they
were so you want to find the one that's
different and you want to find the only
singular tense or the only plural tense
cuz that's going to be the right one
okay the next example I want to go over
with you guys are comma placement
questions CU these are huge on the
digital sat so there's a big strategy
that I like to use which is basically
read the sentence and listen to where
you pause that's probably where the
commas need to go you can also use the
strategy of deter determining if
something's essential or non essential
let me highlight and show you what I
mean by this example so it says aah love
LA and her acquaintance Charles babage
were two of the most influential figures
okay already from the way that I read it
out loud you could hear me read it
without pausing so I'm already leaning
towards picking B but if you weren't
sure or you know you have your doubts
what you can do essentially is like look
at answer Choice a if we put Charles
babage in between two commas that would
mean that that part is non essential if
we took it out will the sentence still
be okay and make
sense if we said aah Lovel and her
acquaintance were two of the most
influential figures well now we're
losing an important piece of information
they gave her name so they should give
his name too especially if they're
influential that means they're important
so we wouldn't be able to take his name
out because then it wouldn't really give
us the information that we need um so
that's how you can eliminate a and then
C and C would be incorrect because
you're not going to have uh it's very
rare that you would have a comma right
before the verb you don't pause before
the verb if you have a subject and then
a verb you read right through
that and then if you look at D you
wouldn't pause between acquaintance and
Charles babage either so you can be
confident in going with be
again I would just keep it simple and
read it out loud and Listen to If I need
to pause or not and at the end of the
day if you're narrowed down to two and
you're not sure which one to pick pick
the one with less commas in it you'll
have a better chance of picking up the
point all right the last example I want
to look at with you is dealing with what
I call leadens and this is super super
popular on the digital sat so you need
to be aware of this this will be on your
test now as you can see this example is
from a paper test test but that doesn't
matter it's still the same on the
digital
sat I have basically an introduction to
the
sentence with a comma now here's a
digital sat question so the way that you
can pinpoint that you're on a lead in is
if you see a comma and then the blank
right after it chances are the part
before it is a lead in and they're about
to introduce the subject and what
they're going to be talking about and
that's exactly what a Leen does it warms
you up and gets you ready to um to
understand a little bit more about the
subject so if I say approaching a
doorway in which dangles a red envelope
filled with green paper money my subject
has to come right after that
here so your subject comes right after
the leading and the subject has to be
whatever was approaching a doorway so
whatever they talked about in that lead
in that is the subject well if we go go
through our answer choices answer Choice
a says the lion's teeth would it make
sense for the lion's teeth to be
approaching the doorway no that's not
the subject would an envelope approach a
doorway no that's not the subject would
the teeth of the lion approach the
doorway no that's not the subject the
only subject that makes sense here would
be the lion because it's the only thing
that would be approaching the
doorway so that's how you tackle leadens
all right guys the last type of question
we are going to look at is what's called
a words and context question so these
come at the very beginning of the
English modules and you're going to have
roughly four to five words and context
questions as well so that's another 8 to
10 points so as you can see these three
categories really do make up most of the
module now the challenge of words and
context questions is a lot of students
their vocabularies are weak maybe you're
in that category if you are comment
below for me me let me know what you
think about your Lexicon do you have a
strong lexicon do you have a weak
lexicon if you didn't know lexicon meant
vocabulary maybe you need to work on
your vocabulary more but there are a few
key strategies you can use even when you
have a weak vocabulary to still get the
questions right so let's talk about
those the first strategy is you can play
positive negative so if you read the
text and it sounds positive pick a
positive sounding word the second
strategy that you can use is linguistics
words are comprised of Parts typically
Latin and Greek Roots so if you know
Roots prefixes and suffixes in their
meanings for instance if I put the
prefix a in front of a word it means
without so apathy means without feelings
that will help you figure out what words
mean without memorizing thousands of
definitions your third strategy is to
look for synonyms in the text there's
going to be a definition somewhere in
the text nearby especially after like an
interesting punctuation mark like a
colon or semicolon really look out for
that okay so now I'm going to go over a
words and context question with you just
to show you how it works so I'm going to
read this little paragraph first and try
to play positive negative so it says
since decades old regimens developed for
the later stages of cancer uh have
little success in the entire body
focusing on the first stages of cancer
would be more effective and cheaper okay
when I kind of get a sense of what's
going on here with positive and negative
the decades old regimens developed for
later stages sound like bad so that is
not good but they it sounds like they
have a solution if you focus on the
first stages it would be more effective
and cheaper that sounds good it says
thus professor of Medicine Dr AZ razza
an international Authority on pre
leukemia and Leukemia blank the
traditional SL poison burn approach to
treating cancer okay so I need to figure
out does this word need to be positive
or negative here and I'm not really sure
because there's a part of it in the text
is positive and part of it is negative
so what I'm going to do is I'm going to
try to pinpoint the definition or a
synonym to the word that I need in the
blank now it's describing the
traditional approach
which is a synonym to a decade old
regimen well the decade old regimen was
negative right so I know I need a
negative word in the blank well bolsters
sounds positive to me and it is
reinforces sounds positive to me and it
is would it make more sense for him to
control or rebut rebut sounds more
negative to me than controls controls
kind of sounds neutral so I'm going to
go with a so that's how you can get a
word and context question right even if
you don't know what all the words mean
all right guys if you want to dive into
these different types of questions even
deeper we have an awesome digital sat
English self-paced course so I'm going
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much all right that's it for now if you
made it all the way to the end of this
video comment below 65% with a brain
Emoji I really appreciate you sticking
it out with me to the very end and I
have no doubt this STI intuitiveness of
yours is going to help you succeed on
your next sat so until next time guys
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