Graphs, Charts and Student Notes

Graphs and charts make up about five to eight questions on the test.
These questions require synthesizing information from two sources: a graph or chart and a short informational reading.
No prior knowledge is needed; all information is within the graph/chart and reading.
The question and answer choices provide a lot of information.
Begin by reading the passage, focusing on the last sentence, and the question itself.
Be careful in interpreting the graph/chart because multiple answer choices will have information from the graph, but only one option will be correct.

The first and last sentences of the reading are key, with the last sentence being the most important, as it often contains the researcher's conclusions or hypothesis.

Always examine the x and y axes of the graph to understand what is being measured.
Identify the variables being presented in the graph.

Language that's synonymous, meaning that it's a synonym of what's in the passage in the answer choices.
- In the passage, it said "most". Most is synonymous with preferred.
- Most readers, meaning more than 50%.

This is both a graphic analysis question and what we call text a completion because we have to fill in this blank to complete the text.

You don't actually have to look at all the notes.
The answer and the question provide a lot of information.
These were created specifically for the digital SAT.
They're always gonna be short bullet points on a topic that the student has supposedly researched.
The answer will always be contained in the question itself.
The correct choice is just going to rephrase it, and that's why you don't really need to look at the bullet points at all.
Every notes type of question will give you a specific focus.
The information that follows that is the keyword phrase.

Comparison and contrast.
- Is the reader or student familiar or unfamiliar with the information.

We're looking for either a similarity or a difference.
It will either compare or contrast two topics, or sometimes it will ask for information for three different things, three different variables.
- If the answer choice doesn't have two things and it's asking for you to compare two things, then it's wrong.
- If the answer choice doesn't have three things and it's asking you to contrast three things, then it's wrong. Right?

If it's unfamiliar, then they need to provide background info.
If it doesn't provide background info and it says that the reader is unfamiliar with the topic, then the answer is wrong.
If it says the reader is familiar, then it doesn't have to provide background info.
Questions don't have to contain background information.
- Whereas, unfamiliar questions will contain some kind of background or historical information.
Because they have to provide background information, correct answers to unfamiliar questions will generally be longer.

Transitions play a big role here because if we're looking for a similarity, the answer choices are almost always gonna have continuers when it comes to student notes.
If we're looking for a difference, it's gonna contain contradictors.

Graphs and charts make up about five to eight questions on the test.
These questions require synthesizing information from two sources: a graph or chart and a short informational reading.
No prior knowledge is needed; all information is within the graph/chart and reading.
The question and answer choices provide a lot of information.
Begin by reading the passage, focusing on the last sentence, and the question itself.
Be careful in interpreting the graph/chart because multiple answer choices will have information from the graph, but only one option will be correct.

The first and last sentences of the reading are key, with the last sentence being the most important, as it often contains the researcher's conclusions or hypothesis.

Always examine the x and y axes of the graph to understand what is being measured.
Identify the variables being presented in the graph.