Up Your Score SAT, 2018-2019 Edition The Underground Guide to Outsmarting The Test

• Reasoning • Evidence • Rhetoric We are going to go into more detail later, but you know what ...

What NOT to Write Did you notice what we did not say in our analysis? We did not simply write about what the ...

There are many ways to plan out an effective analytical essay. One fine strategy is to spend one paragra ...

First things first: The new SAT Essay comes with a ton of instructions, like a full page of them. How ...

thought the problem was simple, but soon I was evaluating mass and surface area, buoyancy and wind resistance, ...

No, the real problem with video games is that they pose problems with predetermined solutions. If a ...

Step 2: Plan the Essay (20 minutes) Resist the urge to start writing right away. All around you, you’ll ...

He shows the stakes of the question by demonstrating the popularity of video games. His evidence is a sale ...

This kind of analysis is not easy. Critics make a good living by doing this sort of reading-with-a- ...

Parallelism: parallel structure or word choice that often emphasizes a similarity or difference. Example: ...

Back to Planning! So, let’s take our paragraphs and spend another eight minutes finding some rhetorical choices a ...

initially appear. He again ends a paragraph with a question, which helps propel the reader from one p ...

Step 3: Write the Essay (25 minutes) You know everything you need to say; you planned it all out. Now all ...

Before he outlines his argument against them, Krumpf wants the reader to understand that video games are ...

An interesting thing happened during the writing of our first draft. Our conclusion is a bit different, and a ...

*Bigger is better. This is not golf. —Samantha The Reading score grades your understanding of the main idea ...

your own points and arguments will make you sound like the owner of a fine- grained intellect. And who do ...

—Samantha When describing the tone of the passage, consider using some of these tone words. Analytical: pi ...

Equivocal: ambiguous, difficult to interpret; often unnecessarily wordy. Example: Upon second thought, I h ...

caught it on camera—it’s hilarious. Incredulous: disbelieving, often in reaction to surprising news. Example: ...