Rhetorical Synthesis SAT practice questions
Reading and Writing, Expression of Ideas. 652 questions
You get a list of notes and a goal, such as emphasizing a difference, and choose the sentence that uses the notes to meet that goal.
What this skill tests
- Using notes to achieve a stated goal
- Selecting relevant information
- Writing for a specific audience or purpose
How to approach it
- 1Read the goal in the question first; it decides the answer.
- 2Check every option against the goal only, not against the notes alone.
- 3An option can be accurate and still wrong if it does not do what the goal asks.
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