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

choosing    the shortest    answer  works   on  an  extraordinary   percentage  of

questions.  Take    a   look    at  this    question:

Mr. Howe’s  class   has organized   a   special program for our school:

the purpose being   to  help    us  increase    our understanding   of  Japanese

culture.

A)  NO  CHANGE

B)  school  and the purpose is  to

C)  school, the purpose is  to

D)  school  to

The answer is the shortest: D.
Makes sense? Now let’s try out these tips on the following sample passage.

Perfect Planning?

When    we  think   of  dinner  parties,    we  think   of  friendship, home-cooked

food, and relaxation. What we don’t think 1 about, massive planning,

expense,    timing, stress. Unfortunately,  you cannot  have    the former

without the latter. 2

Though  there   have    always  been    private-party   planners,   the field   did

not come into 3 it’s own until the 21st century. Planners Incorporated

was founded in  New York    City    in  2004,   Dinner’s    Ready   in  Chicago in

2009, 4 and the creation in Dallas of Cook 4 You in 2012. Now, in 2017,

the industry altogether employs more than 30,000 5 professionals,

sending chefs,  servers,    and cleaners    into    American    homes   every   night   of

the year.

What    are those   weird   looking numbers in  the passage?    The ones    in  the boxes   correlate   to  the questions   that    follow. The ones    in  thebrackets indicate    the sentences   involved    in  the “best   order”  questions.

—Samantha

6 JOBS ADDED TO LABOR MARKET IN 2017 (OUT OF A TOTAL OF

150,000)