American Diploma · Digital SAT · Reading and Writing
Digital SAT Reading and Writing — Complete Course
Every Reading and Writing question type on the Digital SAT, taught step by step with original examples, a practice quiz on every page and full timed practice tests.
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How the test works and how to manage your time.
- The Digital SAT: Complete OverviewHow the Digital SAT is built, how the adaptive modules and scoring work, what every Reading and Writing question looks like, and a 6–8 week plan to use this course.
- Time Strategy and How to Attack Every QuestionA time plan for every module, the two-pass method, a five-step attack for every question, and the seven trap-answer families that catch most students.
Craft and Structure
Words in context, purpose and structure, and comparing two texts.
- Words in ContextHow to choose the most logical and precise word and how to find what a word most nearly means: a seven-step method, the classic traps, four worked examples and a 12-question quiz.
- High-Value Vocabulary for SAT Reading and Writing130 academic words grouped by meaning — doubt, support, weakening, research verbs, tone, change, size and cause — each with a definition, Arabic meaning and example, plus word-part tips and a 12-question quiz.
- Text Structure and PurposeLearn to name the job of every sentence so you can answer main purpose, overall structure and underlined-sentence function questions quickly and accurately.
- Cross-Text ConnectionsMaster the paired-text questions: summarise each text, name the relationship between them, and predict how one author would respond to the other.
Information and Ideas
Main ideas, evidence from texts and from data, and logical conclusions.
- Central Ideas and DetailsFind the main idea of any text, avoid too-narrow and too-broad traps, answer detail questions exactly, and read older prose and poetry with confidence.
- Command of Evidence: TextualLearn how to choose the finding that supports or weakens a hypothesis and the quotation that best illustrates a claim, with a clear method, four worked examples and a 12-question practice quiz.
- Command of Evidence: QuantitativeUse tables, bar graphs and line graphs to back up a claim: read the data fast, match the claim and not just the numbers, and avoid the true-but-irrelevant trap — with four worked examples and a 10-question quiz.
- InferencesLearn to complete a text with the most logical conclusion: find the gap in the argument, handle if/only-if and contrast logic, and avoid too-strong endings — with four worked examples and a 12-question quiz.
Standard English Conventions
Every grammar and punctuation rule the test checks.
- Sentence BoundariesFind the clauses, test them, and choose the one correct way to join or separate them — comma splices, run-ons, fragments and “however” traps, with 12 practice questions.
- Commas and Extra InformationEssential vs extra information, matching pairs, appositives, names and titles, which vs that, lists — and every place a comma is NOT allowed, with 12 practice questions.
- Colons, Dashes and SemicolonsExactly what each mark is allowed to do, the SAT/ACT semicolon rule for complicated lists, and a step-by-step method for choosing between , ; : and — with 12 practice questions.
- Subject–Verb AgreementFind the true subject every time — even when it is hidden behind phrases, inverted, collective or Latin — and choose the verb form the SAT expects.
- PronounsMatch every pronoun to its antecedent, choose the right form (who/whom, I/me), avoid unclear pronouns and never confuse its/it's, their/they're/there or your/you're.
- Verb Tense, Aspect and FinitenessChoose the right tense from time clues and the rest of the passage, and know when a sentence needs a finite main verb and when an -ing or to-verb form is correct.
- Modifiers, Parallel Structure and ComparisonsDangling and misplaced modifiers, the possessive trap, parallel structure and faulty comparisons — the rule, the 3-step method, worked examples and a 12-question practice quiz.
- Plurals and PossessivesScientist's, scientists or scientists'? Irregular plurals, its/it's, whose/who's, their/they're/there and joint possession — rules, method, worked examples and a 12-question practice quiz.
Expression of Ideas
Transitions and rhetorical synthesis (notes questions).
- TransitionsThe logic families, the exact meaning of every common transition, the before-and-after method, the same-family trap, four worked examples and a 12-question practice quiz.
- Rhetorical Synthesis (Student Notes)Student-notes questions made easy: read the goal first, check every part of it, and avoid the true-but-off-goal trap — goal types, four worked examples and a 10-question practice quiz.
Full practice tests
Timed, two modules, 54 questions each, with your score by skill and an explanation for every question.
- Digital SAT Reading and Writing — Practice Test 1A full, timed Reading and Writing section in Digital SAT format: two 32-minute modules of 27 questions each, with an explanation for every answer and your score by skill.
- Digital SAT Reading and Writing — Practice Test 2A complete timed Reading and Writing section — two 32-minute modules, 54 original questions — with an explanation for every answer and your results by skill.
- Digital SAT Reading and Writing — Practice Test 3A full, timed Reading and Writing practice test in two 32-minute modules (54 original questions), with an explanation for every answer and your score by skill.