New Two-Part Reading Questions

In: SAT Strategies

The College Board may have removed sentence completion questions and tough vocabulary from the SAT Reading section, but they’ve added in a new question type: Two-Part Questions.

These can be tricky, especially if you try to just read the lines in the choices of the Part Two question out-of-context in the hopes of finding the answer to the Part One question. I think there are multiple ways to tackle these question types, but I think there’s one way that’s the Gold Standard for the SAT Reading test. I discuss that strategy in this video:

About the Author:

I’m Rob Schombs, the founder of Reason Prep, creator of these videos, and your test prep tutor. I earned a BA in Chemistry (2006) and an MA in Science and Technology Studies (2009) from Cornell University. In 2010 I started tutoring SAT, ACT, math, chemistry, and writing full-time, and Reason Prep followed shortly after!