The Reading-Writing Section
The Reading-Writing section has two modules that are 32 minutes each. Module 1 contains a mix of easy, medium and difficult questions. Module 2 becomes increasingly difficult or easy depending on your performance in Module 1.
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The Reading-Writing Section is broken down into four sections:
- Craft and Structure,
- Information and Ideas,
- Standard English Conventions, and
- Expression of Ideas.
Within the four sections outlined above, the majority of questions will focus on the following skills:
- Words-in-Context (Vocabulary)- Tests your ability to define words based on context clues or to determine the best word choice for a given context.
- Central Ideas & Command of Evidence- Requires you to determine main ideas and supporting details, and evaluate studies, quotes, graphs, and tables to support or refute claims and draw inferences and conclusions.
- Grammar- Tests your knowledge of grammar and transition words.
- Rhetorical Synthesis- Offers a list of notes on a given topic and ask you to identify the statement that best uses those notes to accomplish a particular rhetorical goal.