Comments on: How to Answer Inference Questions on SAT Critical Reading Passages http://satninja.com/sat-critical-reading/how-to-answer-inference-questions-on-sat-critical-reading-passages SAT Test Prep for Smart Students Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:04:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sam http://satninja.com/sat-critical-reading/how-to-answer-inference-questions-on-sat-critical-reading-passages/comment-page-1#comment-6597 Sam Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:07:20 +0000 http://satninja.com/?p=113#comment-6597 Excellent advice! I taught SAT Reading and Math for several years for the Princeton Review, and this was one of the little secrets that hadn't really made it into the books but which I always relied on to get perfect verbal scores. Actually, I think your simplification is good. The feeling you should get on answering one of those hard "inference" questions is, "That's not implied, that's just stated". E -- the next phrase goes on to talk about "balloon mania". Excellent advice! I taught SAT Reading and Math for several years for the Princeton Review, and this was one of the little secrets that hadn’t really made it into the books but which I always relied on to get perfect verbal scores.

Actually, I think your simplification is good. The feeling you should get on answering one of those hard “inference” questions is, “That’s not implied, that’s just stated”.

E — the next phrase goes on to talk about “balloon mania”.

]]> By: yo http://satninja.com/sat-critical-reading/how-to-answer-inference-questions-on-sat-critical-reading-passages/comment-page-1#comment-6435 yo Sun, 06 Mar 2011 04:38:37 +0000 http://satninja.com/?p=113#comment-6435 E E

]]> By: Kcazman http://satninja.com/sat-critical-reading/how-to-answer-inference-questions-on-sat-critical-reading-passages/comment-page-1#comment-5930 Kcazman Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:24:51 +0000 http://satninja.com/?p=113#comment-5930 I say E I say E

]]> By: hellosunshine http://satninja.com/sat-critical-reading/how-to-answer-inference-questions-on-sat-critical-reading-passages/comment-page-1#comment-5860 hellosunshine Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:22:17 +0000 http://satninja.com/?p=113#comment-5860 Can I ask you a more specific question? This was the passage: While the most prominent figures in the history of early aviation may be the Wright brothers, another pair of brothers, Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier, should perhaps be given a comparable distinction for their advances in that field. In 1782, the Montgolfier brothers discovered that they could make a fabric bag filled with heated air rise up for extended periods. That year, the Montgolfiers tested their hot-air balloons with unmanned flights. Their first passenger flight, executed before King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, included a rooster, a duck, and a sheep; lasted 8 mintures; and landed two miles from its point of origin. That flight, and subsequent flights carrying humans, inaugurated an era of "balloon mania" in France. 7. The author's mention of King Louis and his wife serve to introduce the idea that a)aviation would be remembered as a French invention b)members of the court frequently sponsored innovators and pioneers c)France had a stake in advancing aviation d)it was esstential that the flights include passengers e) interest in hot air ballooning was not strictly limited to the scientific community I don't have the answer key to this question so I was wondering what you thought the answer was. Can I ask you a more specific question?

This was the passage:
While the most prominent figures in the history of early aviation may be the Wright brothers, another pair of brothers, Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier, should perhaps be given a comparable distinction for their advances in that field. In 1782, the Montgolfier brothers discovered that they could make a fabric bag filled with heated air rise up for extended periods. That year, the Montgolfiers tested their hot-air balloons with unmanned flights. Their first passenger flight, executed before King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, included a rooster, a duck, and a sheep; lasted 8 mintures; and landed two miles from its point of origin. That flight, and subsequent flights carrying humans, inaugurated an era of “balloon mania” in France.

7. The author’s mention of King Louis and his wife serve to introduce the idea that
a)aviation would be remembered as a French invention

b)members of the court frequently sponsored innovators and pioneers

c)France had a stake in advancing aviation

d)it was esstential that the flights include passengers

e) interest in hot air ballooning was not strictly limited to the scientific community

I don’t have the answer key to this question so I was wondering what you thought the answer was.

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