Strategies for Success on the Sat: Critical Reading & Writing Sections: Secrets, Tips and Techniques for Conquering the Sat from a Test Prep ExpertWith over 25 years experience as a professional tutor and test prep expert, Lisa Muehle offers her secrets, tips and techniques in two companion test prep guides for students tackling the SAT: Strategies for Success on the SAT: Mathematics Section & Strategies for Success on the SAT: Critical Reading & Writing Sections 25-Minute Written Essay: Tips for Writing a Winner! Sample SAT Essays: Different Score Levels with Full Scoring Explanation Grammar Made Easy: Spot Classic SAT Grammar Traps (Multiple-Choice Writing Questions) Keys to Unlock Critical Reading Selections: Short, Long, and Dual Passages Secrets to Sentence Completions: Proven Techniques to Succeed with Challenging Vocabulary! "My two oldest sons have attended the Colloquium Test Prep Course for the SAT for four years now, and with another son in the 6th grade, as a family we will attend for a total of nine years! Lisa Muehle provides dynamic instruction in a clear and comprehensive style. Not only have my sons increased their test taking abilities, their grades in their Honors English and Honors math classes continue to grow stronger. My sons are enthusiastic about the course and always come away with valuable instruction. Lisa's methods have given my sons the confidence they need to succeed on the SAT. I highly recommend Lisa Muehle's instruction to students looking to better their SAT scores." -Wendy Pierce, Laguna Beach, California -Steve & Sheena Bui, Orange, California |
Contents
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Critical | 65 |
Hear the Error | 83 |
Practice Exercises | 127 |
PARAGRAPH IMPROVEMENT QUESTIONS | 147 |
Writing 4 | 157 |
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Page 52 - I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
Page 52 - He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid ; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed — love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.
Page 37 - My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow; An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest; An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. For, Lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate.
Page 52 - Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.
Page 52 - I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure ; that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.
Page 52 - Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands.
Page 52 - I FEEL THAT THIS AWARD WAS NOT MADE TO ME AS A MAN, BUT TO MY work — a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before.
Page 52 - I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work — a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose and significance of its origin.
Page 177 - Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Page 52 - It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose and significance of its origin. But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand here where I am standing.