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PSAT® Reading & Writing Self-Paced


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Krishna Cart
Purchase for $495

Benefits:

Personalized Learning Path: Start with a tailored PSAT® Reading and Writing Diagnostic Test to identify your strengths and weaknesses, ensuring you focus on the areas where you need the most improvement.

Comprehensive Curriculum: Dive into detailed lessons covering every aspect of PSAT® Reading and Writing, including Command of Evidence, Inference, Words-in-Context, and Standard English Conventions.

Flexible Self-Paced Learning: Complete the course at your own pace with over 20+ hours of structured lessons and guided practice, allowing you to study when and where it’s convenient.

Expertly Crafted Lessons: Learn through focus lessons that cover scientific research, literary analysis, and quantitative evidence, all specifically designed to help you succeed on the PSAT®.

Interactive Practice: Strengthen your skills with PSAT®-style practice sets, including full-length practice tests and targeted question sets for every topic to boost your confidence and test-taking abilities.

Real-World Application: Master essential test-taking strategies, including how to approach pacing, punctuation, and complex text structure questions, with tips that are immediately applicable to the exam.

Proven Results: Designed to boost your PSAT® scores through strategic lessons, guided practice, and a curriculum aligned to the PSAT® structure.

Features:

  1. PSAT® Reading Diagnostic Test: A comprehensive assessment that identifies your current reading and writing skills, allowing personalized guidance and targeted improvement.

  2. Command of Evidence Units: Focused lessons on using textual, scientific, and quantitative evidence to support your answers, helping you master literary and non-fiction passages.

  3. In-Depth Practice for Inference and Conclusion: Build skills in making accurate inferences in poetry, nonfiction, and literary texts with guided practice and question sets to improve comprehension.

  4. Craft and Structure Unit: Develop a deep understanding of text structure, purpose, and cross-text connections with focused lessons and practice questions.

  5. Rhetorical Synthesis and Transitions: Enhance your writing skills with lessons on crafting strong rhetorical arguments, mastering transitions, and answering challenging PSAT® Writing questions.

  6. Standard English Conventions Mastery: Learn key grammar concepts like subject-verb agreement, verb forms, and pronoun-antecedent relationships with detailed lessons and practice questions.

  7. Full-Length PSAT® Practice Tests: Complete realistic practice tests to simulate the PSAT® experience and measure your progress over time, helping you build confidence for test day.

Here is the class outline:

1. PSAT® Reading and Writing Diagnostic Test

This assessment module is a prerequisite and requirement for this course so that we can help identify your strengths and needs and guide the instruction. The items here differ from the Free SAT Practice Tests you might have taken.

1 section
PSAT® Reading and Writing Diagnostic

2. PSAT® READING: INFORMATION & IDEAS UNIT

10 hrs, 7 min

1. COMMAND OF EVIDENCE: Textual: Scientific Research & Literary 2. COMMAND OF EVIDENCE: Quantitative: Data-Supported & Data Completion 3. INFERENCE: Poetry, Literary & Nonfiction.

28 sections
Section Duration
UNIT OVERVIEW: INFORMATION & IDEAS 1 min
I. COMMAND OF EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL AND QUANTITATIVE 1 min
PSAT® Literary Textual Evidence Focus Lesson & Guided Practice 34 min
PSAT® Practice: Literary Textual Evidence 21 min
PSAT® Scientific Textual Evidence Lesson & Guided Practice 40 min
PSAT®: Scientific Textual Evidence 25 min
PSAT® Quantitative Evidence Intro and Question Types 7 min
PSAT® Quantitative Evidence Focus Lesson 1 and Guided Practice 30 min
PSAT® Quantitative Evidence Focus Lesson 2 and Guided Practice 30 min
SAT® and PSAT® Quantitative Evidence Focus Lesson 3 and Guided Practice 30 min
Quantitative Evidence Practice (15 Items) 21 min
II. CENTRAL IDEAS AND DETAILS OVERVIEW 4 min
Central Ideas in Literary Passages Focus Lesson 1 & Guided Practice 30 min
Central Ideas Literary Passage Practice Sets 10 min
Central Ideas in Poetry Focus Lesson 2 & Guided Practice 30 min
Central Ideas Poetry Practice Sets (10 Items) 10 min
Central Ideas Focus Lesson 3 & Guided Practice 30 min
Central Ideas Nonfiction Passage Practice Sets 10 min
Nonfiction Details Focus Lesson & Guided Practice 34 min
Details Practice Sets: Nonfiction (15 Items) 15 min
Literary Details Focus Lesson & Guided Practice 25 min
Details Practice Set: Literary Fiction and Poetry (24 Items) 27 min
III. INFERENCE 2 min
Inference in Poetry Focus Lessons and Guided Practice 40 min
Inference in Poetry Practice Sets (15 Items) 15 min
Inference-Conclusion in Nonfiction Focus Lesson & Guided Practice 40 min
Inference-Conclusion in Nonfiction Practice Sets (15 Items) 15 min
INFORMATION AND IDEAS UNIT TEST (30 Items) 30 min

3. PSAT® READING: CRAFT & STRUCTURE UNIT

10 hrs, 13 min

1. WORDS-IN-CONTEXT 2. TEXT STRUCTURE AND PURPOSE 3. CROSS-TEXT CONNECTIONS

33 sections
Section Duration
UNIT OVERVIEW: CRAFT & STRUCTURE 2 min
I. WORDS-IN-CONTEXT INTRO & THE FOUR STRATEGIES 6 min
Context Clues & Vocabulary Strategies Practice (8 Items) 10 min
Discussion and Class Practice 1 10 min
Discussion and Class Practice 2 10 min
Discussion and Class Practice 3 10 min
Discussion and Class Practice 4 10 min
Discussion and Class Practice 5 10 min
Discussion and Class Practice 6 10 min
Words-in-Context Focus Lesson & Guided Practice 20 min
Words in Context Practice Sets (20 Items) 27 min
II. TEXT STRUCTURE & PURPOSE 5 min
Text Structure Types and Signal Words Focus Lesson 45 min
Text Structure Type Discussion 1 7 min
Text Structure Type Discussion 2 7 min
Text Structure Type Discussion 3 7 min
Text Structure Type Discussion 4 7 min
Text Structure Type Practice Sets 27 min
Focus Lesson & Guided Practice: Overall Structure of the Text 30 min
Overall Structure of the Texts: Nonfiction Practice (15 Items) 15 min
Overall Structure of the Text Practice Sets: Fiction and Nonfiction (15 Items) 20 min
Focus Lesson & Guided Practice: Overall Text Structure in Poetry 25 min
Overall Text Structure: Poetry Practice Sets (15 Items) 15 min
Focus Lesson & Guided Practice: Mastering Part-to-Whole Questions in Literary Fiction 30 min
Focus Lesson & Guided Practice: Mastering Part-to-Whole Text Structure in Nonfiction 30 min
Part-to-Whole Practice Set: Non-Fiction (15 Items) 25 min
Part-to-Whole-Practice Set: Fiction & Nonfiction (15 Items) 25 min
Focus Lesson & Guided Practice: How to Answer the SAT® Main-Purpose Passage Questions 40 min
SAT® and PSAT® Main Purpose Practice Sets Fiction and Nonfiction (25 Items) 30 min
III. CROSS-TEXT CONNECTIONS 3 min
Focus Lesson: Mastering Cross-Text Connection Passage Types 30 min
Cross-Text Connections Practice Sets (20 Items) 30 min
CRAFT & STRUCTURE UNIT TEST 35 min

4. PSAT® WRITING: EXPRESSION OF IDEAS

3 hrs, 33 min

1. RHETORICAL SYNTHESIS 2. TRANSITIONS

12 sections
Section Duration
UNIT OVERVIEW: EXPRESSION OF IDEAS 3 min
I. RHETORICAL SYNTHESIS 3 min
Focus Lesson & Guided Practice: Rhetorical Synthesis 25 min
Rhetorical Synthesis: Average to Challenging (15 Items) 23 min
Rhetorical Synthesis Practice Set : Emphasis (10 Items) 12 min
Rhetorical Synthesis Practice: Comparison (10 Items) 13 min
Rhetorical Synthesis Practice Per Category. (15 Items) 20 min
II. TRANSITIONS 8 min
Focus Lesson & Guided Practice: Transitions 18 min
Transition Practice Set 1 (24 Items: 3 Items Per Transition Type) 30 min
Transition Practice Set 2 (20 Items Mixed) 28 min
UNIT TEST®: PSAT WRITING. EXPRESSION OF IDEAS (25 Items) 30 min

5. PSAT® WRITING. Standard English Conventions: Forms, Structure & Sense

1 hr, 8 min
12 sections
Section Duration
UNIT OVERVIEW: FORM, STRUCTURE & SENSE 1 min
Focus Lesson & Guided Practice: Subject-Verb Agreement 13 min
Focus Lesson & Guided Practice: Verb Forms 13 min
Focus Lesson & Guided Practice: Subject-Modifier Placement 18 min
Focus Lesson & Guided Practice: Pronoun-Antecedent 13 min
Focus Lesson & Guided Practice: Plural & Possessive Nouns 10 min
Verb Forms Practice Sets (15 Items)
Pronoun-Antecedent Practice Sets (15 Items)
Subject-Modifier Placement Practice Sets (15 Items)
Subject-Verb Agreement Practice Set (15 Items)
Plural and Possessive Nouns Practice Sets (15 Items)
UNIT TEST: Form, Structure & Sense (30 Items)

6. PSAT® WRITING: Standard English Conventions: Boundaries

3 hrs, 16 min

These are curated lessons, resources, and skill-builders about boundaries (punctuation), their complexities, and how they are tested in PSAT and SAT. They also involve several test-taking strategies and tips after each focus lesson. Have a notebook in front of you because you will reflect on some test-taking tips and be required to write them down in the Discussion Board.

25 sections
Section Duration
Overview: Standard English Conventions. Boundaries 1 min
Boundaries: Lesson & Resources 7 min
Sample Boundaries Question 3 min
PSAT® Test-Taking Strategies. Punctuation. 6 min
PSAT® Practice: Punctuation Practice (16 Items) 20 min
Punctuation Marks Infographics: SAT® and PSAT® 1 min
Punctuations Infographics 2: SAT® and PSAT® 1 min
Independent and Dependent Clauses and Punctuation 4 min
Boundaries and Linking Clauses 9 min
PSAT® Test-Taking Strategies. Boundaries and Linking Clauses 7 min
PSAT® Practice: Boundaries and Linking Clauses (10 Items) 12 min
Sentence Supplements and Punctuations 11 min
PSAT® Test-Taking Strategies. Boundaries and Supplements 8 min
PSAT® Practice: Boundaries & Supplements (11 Items) 12 min
Focus Lesson: Commas, Semicolons and Colons 3 min
Ten Comma Rules: SAT® and PSAT® Resource 1 min
Semicolon and Dash 1 min
Colon 1 min
PSAT® Test-Taking Strategies: Commas and Dashes 8 min
PSAT® Test-Taking Strategies: Semicolon 7 min
Hyphen 1 min
Hyphens En Dash and Em Dashes Handout 1 min
PSAT® Test-Taking Strategies. Punctuating Lists 4 min
PSAT® Practice: Boundaries Unit Test (32 Items) 32 min
UNIT TEST: Standard English Conventions (33 Items) 35 min

7. FULL-LENGTH PRACTICE TESTS

3 hrs, 15 min

Collection of Full-Length Practice Tests

5 sections
Section Duration
PSAT® RW Full-Length Practice Set 1 39 min
PSAT® RW Full-Length Practice Set 2 39 min
PSAT® RW Full-Length Practice Set 3 39 min
PSAT® RW Full-Length Practice Set 4 39 min
PSAT® RW Full-Length Practice Set 5 39 min
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