SAT Reading Tips: How I Answered All 52 Reading Questions in 8 MINUTES

These SAT Reading Tips and Strategies will help you improve your reading score significantly and make sure you NEVER run out of time again. My initial SAT reading score was a 540 but after developing these reading strategies, I started to consistently score in the 720 to 780 range on practice tests and ended up with a 740 on the real deal. Besides improving my reading score, these tips and strategies helped me complete ALL 52 reading questions in 8 minutes, giving me plenty of time to double check my answers.

The goal here is for you to stop running out of time and improve your SAT reading score up to the 700's range. In order to do this, we'll be going over 6 SAT reading tips and tricks that will help you answer questions quickly and accurately. That way, if something goes wrong on test day and you end up getting a harder than normal SAT reading passage or something along those lines, you won't have to worry about timing since you'll have plenty of time to spend on that passage.

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[ShivVZG]

To any SAT testers who see this comment...










You're gonna nail the SAT. Your hard work will pay off, just stay on the grind!! : D

[shabnamyasin]

“The whole SAT in general is a waste of time” finally someone said it

[butterplayz_yt]

Honestly, getting all the questions right is a quite impressive, but getting all of them wrong is WAYYY more impressive

[bepper.pepper]

him answering 52 questions in 8 minutes: me still on question 1 after 8 minutes:

[glassapple]

For cramming peeps:
1. Spend more time reading passages than answering questions
2. Only refer back to passage if absolutely necessary
3. For “which line best supports ___”, think about when you saw the evidence in the text and search there. Don’t go through each choice unless you need to
4. Do not choose primary definition answers (main definition of words)
5. “Eat” the science and history passages. Bring butter. Legitimately, you must read these sections carefully for details.
6. Cross out extraneous answers (unless evidence questions); it will keep you from overthinking your answers

[fawaz]

Imagine you're in his assessment room and you see him flipping 3 pages per minute

[KartikeySankhdher]

My Video : *_How I completed the Reading Section using all the time and still got 20 wrong_*

[lanip.]

All high school juniors, hit the like button for good luck!

[da]

Jehovah, I pray that everyone watching this VERY helpful vid scores a 1500+ on the upcoming SAT. amen!!!!

[matthewyao]

This man deadass talking about the SAT like its a video game that he has to speedrun

[dorothynasir]

You really catfished us with the voice in the beginning

[brucexu]

I saw my friend finish reading section in like 30 minutes and was chilling during the test and he ended up with 1590

[eneapane]

I answered 52 questions in 1 minute. I got all of them wrong though.

[elyset]

Just using your first tip alone, I went from a 1250 to a 1410 within a couple days. Thanks so much!

[jerrykurtin]

I got a 1590 on my SAT using strategies similar to the ones you recommend, so this guy is legit y’all. If you get anything out of this, it’s to take the time to fully understand the passage!! The only caution I’d have with your strategies is to avoid any sort of generalizing as you did with finding the word that fits in context. While that is the case most of the time, I’ve seen collegeboard switch it up before. (they’re rude like that) You’re killing it tho; keep up the good content!

[matinyazdi]

"The whole SAT in general is a waste of time, but this is also a waste of time" - I'm sooo

[UndefinedUser]

Bonus tips:
1.) On the writing section, if you're unsure of the answer, it's almost always the *shortest answer that makes sense*. This is usually the case since they oftentimes throw in redundant phrases to test your ability to recognize them.

2.) On the math free response questions, if it asks you to round to the nearest ____, then the answer's probably going to be a decimal. With this in mind, it's also important to pay attention to what the question is asking you to round to, since if it asks for the nearest integer but you write out the entire number, then you'll get it wrong.

3.) Shading the answers in usually takes me a while. Instead of orienting your Scantron slip vertically, rotate it horizontally and slide the tip of it under the paper. This way, you can immediately shade in the answer as soon as you figure it out and don't have to move your arm much. As a bonus, you can move the paper sideways underneath the test booklet to cover questions you've already answered so you don't accidentally shade in the wrong circle. This usually saves me about a minute and reduces the risk of having to erase many answers since you skipped a row.

[Majestic]

Bro, you are actually a god. I just took the SAT today and it went so well. The only thing I did from my previous attempt in August is try using your strategy and my performance magically improved. I swear I’ve spent so much time trying to improve; I practiced over 3000 questions, read prep books, and studied under tutoring, yet my score decreased every attempt through the past year. However, you were the only one who was able to help me (only other channel is Supertutor TV ) Also, this happened to be the last SAT I could ever take since I’m a senior. Just wanted to say thank you so much!!

[dapz]

I've got no clue why this was recommended to me after I've been attending college for 2 weeks lol

also reading the description, thats some mad improvement, and fight on!

[barkupmytree]

The reason why he's this fast isn't because of his tips alone. Finishing the section this fast can mean two things: he consistently reads (reads in his free time) or he's done a large amount of practice. I've been taking practice SAT tests (weekly) for about 5 months now and I, most of the time, still can't finish the reading section. However, I have become a lot faster, so I'll share some of my strategies:

1. If you're stuck on a question, skip it. At most, you should only spend about a minute per question on the reading section. You can either come back to it later or take a guess (educated or wild, there is no penalty for guessing).

2. Choose the type of prompt you're best at. On every test, there will be literature, science, and history (or politics); from past experience, choose the passage structure that you're most comfortable with and save the harder ones for later. This will help you score higher on the easier passages rather than rushing through them at the end because you spent too much time on a harder or less comfortable passage.

3. If you're absolutely running out of time, identify the vocabulary in context questions and answer them first before moving onto other questions; for example, questions like "In line 25, the word '___' most nearly means". The reason behind this is because these questions don't require you to read the entire passage for an answer. Just go back to the lines that the question instructs you and read around the sentence. By doing this, you can answer at least a couple more questions correct rather than spending your last minutes on questions asking for purpose (which leads to you guessing on the vocab in context questions). By the way, if you have read the whole passage, still answer these questions first and then move onto the questions that require full text understanding.

There are several more strategies that you can use, but the strategies that you use are your choice. These three are the most suitable strategies for me. Try to incorporate these strategies next time you take a practice test and see which one works the best for you. If you're not taking the SAT this year, *READ*. Improving on the reading section is harder than improving on the math sections. I've incorporated some more reading into my life and now I can concentrate and actually understand what the passages are saying. Anyways, good luck to those of you taking the SAT!