What Does The Critical Reading Section Look Like?
The Critical Reading section of the SAT consists of three sections, with varying types of questions, including sentence completions and questions about short and long reading passages. The sections normally begin with five to ten sentence completion questions. The questions will test your vocabulary and understanding of sentence structure and organization by requiring you to select one or two words which best complete a given sentence. The bulk of Critical Reading questions is made up of questions in which you read short excerpts on social sciences, humanities, sciences, or personal narratives and answer questions based on the information in the excerpts. Certain sections may contain passages asking you to compare two related passages. Questions that follow the long and short reading passages are organized chronologically, rather than by difficulty.
