Command of Evidence: Textual — Digital SAT SAT Reading and Writing revision notes
A 5-page visual revision sheet for Command of Evidence: Textual, written for Digital SAT SAT Reading and Writing. Formulas, diagrams and the traps that cost marks, laid out to be read the night before rather than the term before. Free, and it opens inside CapCompass.
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Command of Evidence: Textual in one look
one claim, four candidates: which one actually does the work
What the format gives you here
- Reading and Writing is 54 questions in 64 minutes, about 71 seconds each, in two modules of 27 questions in 32 minutes
- each question owns its passage, 25 to 150 words, and no other question shares it, so there is no long passage to skim ahead
- questions come grouped by domain and run roughly easiest to hardest inside the group, so a hard one is a fine one to flag and return to
- four choices, no penalty for a wrong answer, so eliminating down to two and guessing is always better than a blank
- module 1 decides whether module 2 arrives in the easier or the harder form
- pacing for this chapter: these are the slowest questions in the section, budget 90 to 100 seconds, and fund it from the vocabulary questions that close in 40
The passage sets something up. What exactly are you being asked to serve
- a stated claim about a work or an argument — Illustrate the claim: the right quotation must show the claim, not describe the subject
- a researcher's hypothesis or prediction — Support the hypothesis: the right finding must be what the hypothesis predicts and a rival does not
- asks what would weaken or challenge — Undercut it: same work, opposite direction, and the direction is easy to lose
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What this Command of Evidence: Textual sheet covers
- What the format gives you here
- A claim to illustrate against a hypothesis to test
- Claim to illustrate
- Hypothesis to test
- The four ways a candidate quotation fails
- On topic, off claim
- Reports, does not show
- Serves a different claim
- Points the other way
- A claim question, fully worked
- A hypothesis question, fully worked
- Traps that cost points
- Tricks that save time
How CapCompass uses this sheet
These notes are not a standalone PDF. CapCompass plans SAT Reading and Writing chapter by chapter against your real exam dates and free hours, and when the plan reaches Command of Evidence: Textual the sheet opens inside the study block itself — at the page covering the sub-topic that block is on, with the timer still running. Revision arrives at the moment the plan says revise, instead of having to be gone looking for.