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SAT Sentence Completion Strategies

This document provides information about the Sentence Completion section of the SAT critical reading test, including test basics, question types, strategies for answering sentence completion questions, and sample questions. It discusses what the College Board aims to test with the critical reading section, such as vocabulary, reasoning skills, and reading comprehension. Tips are provided for approaching sentence completion questions, such as reading for clues in the sentence before looking at answer choices. Sample questions with answer explanations are included to illustrate the question format and skills tested.

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SAT Sentence Completion Strategies

This document provides information about the Sentence Completion section of the SAT critical reading test, including test basics, question types, strategies for answering sentence completion questions, and sample questions. It discusses what the College Board aims to test with the critical reading section, such as vocabulary, reasoning skills, and reading comprehension. Tips are provided for approaching sentence completion questions, such as reading for clues in the sentence before looking at answer choices. Sample questions with answer explanations are included to illustrate the question format and skills tested.

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Scholastic Aptitude Test:

Sentence Completion

test basics and


testing strategies
SAT critical reading
Question types sections
• sentence • 2 sections of M-C
25 minutes, 24 questions
completion • sentence completion and
• reading reading comprehension
(short, paired, and long
comprehension passages)
(short, long, • 1 section of M-C
20 minutes, 19 questions
and paired • sentence completion and
passages) reading comprehension
(usually one long passage)
Critical Reading section:
what the College Board is testing
1. Vocabulary
your knowledge of words and ability to
determine meaning through context
2. Reasoning Skills
your ability to determine relationship
between words and ideas
3. Reading Skills
your understanding of what you read (main
idea, tone, details, content)
Sentence-Completion strategies
• Answer the sentence-completion questions
first because they will take less time.
• Read the sentence for clues (Circle them!)
before reading answer choices.
• Predict the answer before reading choices.
• Select the best match.
• Insert your answer choice into the sentence
to check to correctness and clarity.
Sentence-Completion strategies
• Pay attention to introductory and
transitional words (but, although,
however, yet, even though, and,
therefore).
• Be aware that some of the most difficult
questions contain negatives.
• Consider the tone (attitude of the
sentence) to help you choose apt
answers.
Sentence-Completion tips
• The sentence-completion questions are the only
verbal questions ranged from simplest to most
challenging.
• When the questions become too difficult, skip to
shortest reading-comprehension passage.
• In questions with two blanks, focus on the easiest
blank first—crossing out choices that do not fit.
Then, move to the remaining choices for second
blank.
• Avoid tricky wrong answers (antonyms and overly
complicated words).
Sentence-Completion sample
1. Although this small and selective publishing
house is famous for its __________
standards, several of its recent novels have
appealed to the general population.

(A) proletarian
(B) naturalistic
(C) discriminating
(D) imitative
(E) precarious
Sentence-Completion sample
2. The king’s _______ decisions as a diplomat
and administrator led to his legendary
reputation as a just and __________ ruler.

(A) quick . . . capricious


(B) equitable . . . wise
(C) immoral . . . perceptive
(D) generous . . . witty
(E) clever . . . uneducated
Sentence-Completion sample
3. Granted, Janice is extremely _________; still,
it is difficult to imagine her as a professional
comedian.

(A) dull
(B) garrulous
(C) effusive
(D) conservative
(E) witty
Sentence-Completion sample
4. These latest employment statistics from the
present administration are so loosely
documented, carelessly explained, and
potentially misleading that even the most loyal
senators will _______ the __________ of the
presidential appointees who produced them.

(A) perceive . . . intelligence


(B) understand . . . tenacity
(C) recognize . . . incompetence
(D) praise . . . rigor
(E) denounce . . . loyalty
Sentence-Completion sample
5. Despite her _______ of public speaking
experience, the student council member was
surprisingly cogent and expressed the
concerns of her classmates persuasively.

(A) anticipation
(B) depth
(C) routine
(D) lack
(E) harmony
Sentence-Completion sample
6. Once Murphy left home for good, he wrote
no letters to his worried mother; he did not,
therefore, live up to her picture of him as her
_______ son.

(A) misunderstood
(B) elusive
(C) destructive
(D) persuasive
(E) dutiful
Sentence-Completion sample
7. Although its publicity has been __________,
the film itself is intelligent, well-acted,
handsomely produced, and altogether
__________.

(A) tasteless . . . respectable


(B) extensive . . . moderate
(C) sophisticated . . . amateur
(D) risqué . . . crude
(E) perfect . . . spectacular

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