New York City SHSAT 2017

The Format This is what the questions look like. You’ll see six sentences—one Topic Sentence and five other sentences listed in ...

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Kaplan’s 3-Step Method for Scrambled Paragraphs The key to taking control of the test is knowing how you’re going to approach ea ...

STEP 1: READ THROUGH EACH SENTENCE, CIRCLING ANY IMPORTANT STRUCTURAL CLUES Structural Clues are words that provide information ...

STEP 2: USE STRUCTURAL CLUES TO CONNECT THE SENTENCES IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY LOGICALLY FOLLOW THE TOPIC SENTENCE The key to con ...

You now have two sentences left. Take a look at them to see which should come first. Which of the two better connects to the fou ...

STEP 3: READ THROUGH YOUR PARAGRAPH TO MAKE SURE IT MAKES SENSE Paragraph 1 Porpoises and sharks appear to be similar in that th ...

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Working with Structural Clues Structural Clues are words that authors use to indicate the function of each sentence in relation ...

Use ambiguous nouns and pronouns to determine the order of the following sentence pairs. More Structural Clues Example Example c ...

CLASSIC PARAGRAPH STRUCTURES The more you practice Scrambled Paragraphs, the more you’ll recognize paragraph structures that app ...

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Scrambled Paragraph Practice Set Paragraph 1 It is ironic that, despite the many successes of scientific medicine, many afflicti ...

R. A star’s brightness stays the same over any distance, so each of those stars would be visible to us, and the heavens would be ...

Paragraph 6 Many people find it puzzling that groups of people sometimes engage in behavior that seems to be clearly dangerous o ...

salute. S. He returned the honor with his cane and then astonished his friend by following exactly in the guard’s footsteps, dup ...

Q. Passive margins are created relatively slowly and are characterized by flat regions of accumulated sediment that develop betw ...

Paragraph 14 Desert plant populations have evolved sophisticated structural and behavioral traits that aid their survival in ext ...

in India is uncertain even now. T. In India alone, home to about sixty percent of the world’s wild tigers, the population was es ...