PSAT® Reading & Writing Self-Paced
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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:
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PSAT® Reading Diagnostic Test: A comprehensive assessment that identifies your current reading and writing skills, allowing personalized guidance and targeted improvement.
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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.
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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.
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Craft and Structure Unit: Develop a deep understanding of text structure, purpose, and cross-text connections with focused lessons and practice questions.
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Rhetorical Synthesis and Transitions: Enhance your writing skills with lessons on crafting strong rhetorical arguments, mastering transitions, and answering challenging PSAT® Writing questions.
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Standard English Conventions Mastery: Learn key grammar concepts like subject-verb agreement, verb forms, and pronoun-antecedent relationships with detailed lessons and practice questions.
- 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 TestBefore we teach, we assess. This custom diagnostic helps us understand each student’s current skill level—far beyond what free PSAT® tests reveal. It’s how we personalize the path to higher scores from the start. 1 section
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2. PSAT® READING: INFORMATION & IDEAS UNIT
10 hrs, 7 min
This unit builds core reading skills tested on the PSAT®—pulling evidence from texts, analyzing scientific data, and drawing inferences across genres. With guided lessons, focused practice, and mini-assessments, students get sharp on the types of questions they’ll face on test day. 28 sections
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3. PSAT® READING: CRAFT & STRUCTURE UNIT
10 hrs, 13 min
Students learn to tackle tricky vocabulary in context, break down complex structures in fiction and nonfiction, and make connections across passages. This unit sharpens reading strategy and boosts confidence with every practice set. 33 sections
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4. PSAT® WRITING: EXPRESSION OF IDEAS
3 hrs, 33 min
This writing unit focuses on the heart of SAT® revision—how to reorganize, strengthen, and smooth out ideas across a passage. Students master transitions and rhetorical synthesis to edit like pros. 12 sections
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5. PSAT® WRITING. Standard English Conventions: Forms, Structure & Sense
3 hrs, 10 min
Grammar, but make it clear and test-ready. This unit focuses on subject-verb agreement, verb tenses, modifiers, and pronouns. Each topic comes with targeted lessons and high-yield practice to build mastery. 12 sections
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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
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7. FULL-LENGTH PRACTICE TESTS
3 hrs, 15 min
This module gives students five full-length, timed practice sets that mirror the real PSAT Reading & Writing test format. Each test helps build endurance, improve pacing, and reinforce skills learned in earlier modules. It’s the final prep step—turning practice into performance and strategies into score gains. 5 sections
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