Particularly, there are 4 main categories of the type of questions which are being asked in digital SAT (reading and writing section). Through these questions, your knowledge related to proper punctuation, syntax and comprehension of the data in passages is tested. The 4 main categories of questions are:
- Craft and structure
- Information and ideas
- Standard English conventions
- Expression of ideas
The dimensions of craft and structure, information and ideas particularly deal with reading comprehension skills. On the other hand, the other two dimensions deal with writing and grammatical skills.
Craft and structure:
Overall, 13-15 questions in the digital sat come from this category. The type of questions in this category are:
- Structure: the questions which are framed on the basis as how the passage is organized, what the author does, order in which the passage is written.
- Main context: questions which are drafted on the basis as what the author wanted to convey, his main purpose of writing the passage, for e.g.- if the author argues about something, any explanation been presented.
- Fill in the blanks: there are questions in the passage that ask us to fill the blank with the most fitted answer choice, or the answer choice which fits the best in the sentence and gives the passage the right meaning. Vocabulary practice is needed to good in such questions.
- Cross text connections: this show case how questions in two shared passages are linked to each other, for something listed in passage 1 hints about something listed in passage
Information and ideas:
From this horizon, 12-14 questions on the digital SAT fall into this category. Following are the questions that are being asked from this category:
- Context-based: questions that are framed to identify the central idea of the passage given.
- Minute details: questions that are based on a specific idea in the passage typically talk about the idea being presented in a particular sentence of the passage.
- Inference: the statement that best completes the meaning of the passage requires your logical thinking.
- Textual: these are either literature-based or science-based passages. Particularly these either “illustrate the claim” from the passage or “strongly support the hypothesis” listed in the passage.
- Quantitative: these questions are based on a table or graph and ask us to complete the answer choices from the data been provided to us.
Standard English conventions:
Good number of 11-15 questions are being asked from this section in the digital sat. Basically, the question type in this category includes grammar questions and deals with the following:
- Subject verb agreement
- Nouns (plural, possessive)
- Forms of verb
- Placement of modifier
- Pronoun antecedent agreement
Also, this category carries the questions from the section: punctuation and sentence structure questions dealing with the following:
- How to punctuate the elements in the sentence that are not necessary, i.e. the extra information which is not required for the completion of the sentence
- Where to make use of punctuation, usage of commas, semicolons, dashes, and colons.
- How different clauses in a sentence could be linked by making use of punctuation or conjunctions.
So, in this category there will be a blank in the passage where we need to put the right answer choice.
Expression of Ideas:
So near to 8-12 questions are being asked in the digital SAT from this particular category, and the types of questions are
- Transition: these are framed to ask us to choose from the answer choices the right transition words in order to fill the blank in the passage with the right choice of word that may be present within the sentence or between two sentences. For eg. Though, therefore etc.
- Rhetorical synthesis: these are framed to select the answer choice that showcases a similarity or a contrast. These most effectively synthesize the targeted bulletin notes from the passage to reach a certain goal.