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The arithmetic you are actually working inside, Where the time is banked, and where it is spent, What the screen itself gives you, Flag, Option eliminator, Highlighter, Timer, The section is adaptive: what that does, How a module is laid out, and why it matters, The clock, checked three times and no more, Our own second targets, by question type, The two-pass method inside one module.

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Reading Strategy and Pacing — Digital SAT SAT Reading and Writing revision notes

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54 questions, 64 minutes, and a plan for where every second goes

The arithmetic you are actually working inside

the section is 54 questions in 64 minutes, split into two modules of 27 questions and 32 minutes each
that is 71 seconds a question, and the same 71 seconds whether you do the arithmetic on the whole section or on one module
every question carries its own short passage, roughly 25 to 150 words, belonging to that question alone. There is no long shared passage to hold in your head
four options, and no negative marking. A blank scores exactly what a wrong answer scores, which makes a blank the only genuinely wasteful thing you can do here
71 seconds is a budget, not a speed limit. Some questions should close in 30 seconds and some deserve 110, and the whole skill is knowing which is in front of you

Where the time is banked, and where it is spent

the conventions questions (boundaries, verbs, pronouns and modifiers) are the most mechanical on the section: the four options differ only in punctuation or in a verb or pronoun form
because the passage's meaning barely matters on those, they close in 30 to 40 seconds each once you have drilled them
there are roughly 11 to 15 of them across the section. Answering each in 35 seconds instead of 71 banks about seven minutes
those seven minutes are not a bonus. They are what pays for the three or four questions that genuinely need 110 seconds
the expensive ones are always the same three: a pair of passages that disagree, a claim to be supported from a graph or a table, and a bulleted note list to be turned into one sentence

What the screen itself gives you

Flag: marks a question for the second pass and costs one tap; use it freely
Option eliminator: strikes out an option you have ruled out, so you never re-read it
Highlighter: marks the one line in the passage the question turns on
Timer: can be hidden, which is worth doing if the count is what makes you rush; it returns on its own with five minutes left

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What this Reading Strategy and Pacing sheet covers

The arithmetic you are actually working inside
Where the time is banked, and where it is spent
What the screen itself gives you
Flag
Option eliminator
Highlighter
Timer
The section is adaptive: what that does
How a module is laid out, and why it matters
The clock, checked three times and no more
Our own second targets, by question type
The two-pass method inside one module
Eliminating, when you cannot simply see the answer
Transitions: a 45 second question, always
When the question hands you a graph or a table
A words in context question, worked at speed
Traps that cost marks
Tricks that save time

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