Craft & Structure
The largest Reading/Writing category in the digital SAT — text structure, vocabulary in context, and cross-text connections.
What you need to know
1~28% of Reading/Writing questions
2Words-in-context: replace the word with each choice and read the sentence — not dictionary definitions
3Text structure: identify the author's PURPOSE for including a section, not just what it contains
4Cross-text: what would Author 2 say about Author 1's main claim? — the hardest paired-passage question type
About the SAT
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