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SAT Reading and Writing course

Fifty-four questions, two adaptive modules, four content domains — and every question is a short passage of its own, so there is no long reading to survive. This course teaches each domain three times, Foundations then Medium then Advanced, and finishes with a highest-difficulty challenge set and a grammar drill-book you can work rule by rule.

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The orientation lesson is on its way.

Information & Ideas

about 26% of Reading and Writing questions

Craft & Structure

about 28% of Reading and Writing questions

Expression of Ideas + Conventions

about 46% of Reading and Writing questions

Foundations

What each question type actually asks, and the first move that answers it — the vocabulary and habits every harder question assumes.

Information & Ideas
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Central ideas and details, command of evidence (textual and quantitative), and inferences — what the text says and what it lets you conclude.

Craft & Structure
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Words in context, text structure and purpose, and cross-text connections — how the text is built and why the writer built it that way.

Expression of Ideas + Conventions
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Transitions and rhetorical synthesis, plus the Standard English rules: sentence boundaries, punctuation, agreement, verb forms, and modifiers.

Medium

The questions that fill the middle of both modules: denser texts, closer answer choices, and traps built from real reading rather than carelessness.

Information & Ideas
Coming soon

Central ideas and details, command of evidence (textual and quantitative), and inferences — what the text says and what it lets you conclude.

Craft & Structure
Coming soon

Words in context, text structure and purpose, and cross-text connections — how the text is built and why the writer built it that way.

Expression of Ideas + Conventions
Coming soon

Transitions and rhetorical synthesis, plus the Standard English rules: sentence boundaries, punctuation, agreement, verb forms, and modifiers.

Advanced

Abstract passages, two-text comparisons, quantitative evidence, and the conventions questions where two choices are both grammatical and only one is right.

Information & Ideas
Coming soon

Central ideas and details, command of evidence (textual and quantitative), and inferences — what the text says and what it lets you conclude.

Craft & Structure
Coming soon

Words in context, text structure and purpose, and cross-text connections — how the text is built and why the writer built it that way.

Expression of Ideas + Conventions
Coming soon

Transitions and rhetorical synthesis, plus the Standard English rules: sentence boundaries, punctuation, agreement, verb forms, and modifiers.

Go further

After the grid: the hardest questions the section reaches, and every conventions rule in one place to drill.

Challenge: highest-difficulty practice
Only the question types that decide a 700+ Reading and Writing score, at the difficulty the harder second module actually reaches.
SAT grammar practice
Every Standard English Conventions rule the SAT tests, each with the test it can be settled by, and drilled one rule at a time.

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