SHSAT ELA – Reading and Writing – SAT, SHSAT & BCA Test Prep

SHSAT ELA

Begin with an official exam. Identify your weak topics below. Learn the topics and practice topic exercises to drive your scores higher.

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Revising/Editing Part A: Grammar

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Part A Grammar Question Categories (~10 min. each)

2. Get to know the question prompts.	Part A Answer Table
Precise Language	Lesson
Pronouns/Case Ambiguity	Lesson
Verb Tense & Agreement	Lesson
Misplaced Modifiers	Lesson
Run-Ons/Fragments	Lesson
Comma Rules	Lesson
Other Punctuation	Lesson

Passages

Identify your weak grammar topics in the Revise/Edit Part A column chart above. The low blue bars on the left side are your lowest scoring grammar topics. Learn more about each topic by clicking the topic lesson link to the left. Once armed with greater knowledge, it’s time to go into battle. Click the question prompt to the left and practice each weak topic to drive those blue bars upward! You can see your improved scores real-time in the chart. Moreover, you can drill down into the details of every Part A question you practiced by clicking the Part A Answer Table. Happy studies!

Passages are not applicable to Part A.

Overview

Know the material (concepts and theorems):

Learn the required half-dozen grammar rules and then practice the questions. This exam section is short.

Revising/Editing Part B: Passage-Related Questions

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Part B Passage-Related Question Categories

2. Get to know the question prompts	Part B Answer Table
Sentence Combination/Transitions	Lesson
Follow Intro-Thesis Claim	Lesson
Order Sentences	Lesson
Follow & Support-Body	Lesson
Irrelevant	Lesson
Follow Conclusion	Lesson
Precise/Concise Language	Lesson/Lesson

Passages – Exercises (~10 min. each)

3. Practice, practice, practice.

Overview

Know the material (concepts and theorems):

Students with reasonably good comprehension skills should ace this section every time. The passages and questions are always the same structure, so learn what to look for and identify the correct answer for each prompt.

Reading:

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Reading Question Categories

2. Get to know the question prompts	Reading Answer Table
Main Idea	Lesson
Paragraph Idea *(new)*	Lesson
Command of Evidence (new)	Lesson
Overall Structure (function) *(new)*	Lesson
Best Summary (new)	Lesson
Chart/Table Idea (new)	Lesson
Inferences	Lesson
Chronological/Sequencing (new)	Lesson
Author’s Viewpoint (new)	Lesson
Affects Tone/Cause Effect (new)	Lesson
Repetition/Parallelism (new)	Lesson
Rhetorical Development (new)	Lesson
Words in Context (new)	Lesson
Form (of Poem) (new)	Lesson
Personification (new)	Lesson
Risk-Danger *(new)*	Lesson

Passages – Exercises (~10 min. each)

3. Practice, practice, practice.

Poetry:
Bird Talk Not started N/a%
Cross Purposes Not started N/a%
Letter from Brooklyn Not started N/a%
Ode to Fireworks Not started N/a%
Serpent’s Mound Not started N/a%
Smallest Spark of Everything Not started N/a%
Snowy Mountains Not started N/a%

Narratives/Literary Excerpts:
Do Them No Harm Not started N/a%
First Flight Not started N/a%
The Highest Tide Not started N/a%
Indian Childhood Not started N/a%
In Search of the Unknown Not started N/a%
Niagara Falls Not started N/a%
Spirit of the Herd Not started N/a%
A Tramp Abroad Not started N/a%
A Voice in the Wilderness Not started N/a%
Winter Wheat Not started N/a%

Social Science:
Egyptian Scribe Not started N/a%
E-Waste Problem Not started N/a%
Food Business Incubator Not started N/a%
Going Solar in China Not started N/a%
Term Limits Not started N/a%
Uncovering the Past Not started N/a%

History:
Early Warning – Man and Nature Not started N/a%
Massachusetts – Lowell Not started N/a%
Ruins of a Fabled City Not started N/a%
Year Without a Summer Not started N/a%
Kennedy-Nixon Debate Not started N/a%

Biography:
Miracle Mile Not started N/a%
Champion of the Channel Not started N/a%

Overview

Know the material (concepts and theorems):

Learn to be proactive with the text to improve comprehension (#1 required ability), which means using word clues to identify the main idea and how ideas progress throughout the text in simplified terms. If you do it right you will pick up one or two simple, useful ideas from even the most complicated poem. If wrong, it will seem to others like you complicated even the most simple passage. Learn to recognize the difference.

Predict Your Answer Exercise
Learn the Art of Elimination

Get to know the actual question prompts you will see on the exam and learn tips how to solve each. Make sure you understand the conditions of each question. Do not read the question and then try to immediately circle an answer like most students. Instead, be able find the evidence quickly (it is an evidence-based exam) and then predict the answer in your simplified words. Match that prediction to the correct answer and develop critical answer elimination skills if you want to get consistently correct answers.