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

D)  He  had managed to  save    much    of  his income.

Notice how the Testing Serpent will try to disguise C, the correct answer, in
vague terms? That is Serpentine Deviousness 101. Also, did you catch the
answer choice that used the words bright summer morning from the text? That
was a classic trap. So was answer choice D, which referred to something
mentioned in the passage. Sure, Bubbles had saved some of his income, but it
was not the saving that directly caused the retirement preparation, it was the
investment.
Sequence questions will test your understanding of the chronological order
of events in a passage, or in the historical background contained in the passage.
But watch out! Often, the Serpent will pick sentences where, due to tricky
syntax, events do not occur in the order you’d expect. So a sentence like this:

Before  there   were    circuit breakers,   there   were    fuses.

inverts the time sequence—the fuses came first, the circuit breakers came
second.
Or you might have a cause-and-effect sentence like:

Before  Dwight  Eisenhower  was elected president,  he  won the

admiration  of  millions    as  the Supreme Commander   for the Allied

Powers.

This    would   be  accompanied by  a   question    asking:

Why was Eisenhower  known   to  most

Americans   before  his presidential    campaign?