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Gruber, Gary R.
Gruber’s complete SAT reading workbook / Gary R. Gruber.
p. cm.
1. SAT (Educational test)—Study guides. 2. Reading comprehension—Exami-
nations—Study guides. 3. Reading—Ability testing. 4. Test-taking skills. I. Title.
II. Title: Complete SAT reading workbook. III. Title: SAT reading workbook.
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Recent and Forthcoming Study Aids From
Dr. Gary Gruber
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Gruber’s Complete SAT Guide 2009 (12th Edition)
Gruber’s SAT 2400
Gruber’s Complete SAT Math Workbook
Gruber’s Complete SAT Writing Workbook
Gruber’s SAT Word Master
Gruber’s Complete SAT Guide 2010 (13th Edition)
Gruber's Complete ACT Guide 2010
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Contents
Purpose of This Book / vii
How to Use This Book Most Effectively / viii
Important Note about This Book and Its Author / ix
INTRODUCTION x
I. Important Facts about the SAT / x III. Format of the Critical Reading
Part of the SAT / xvi
II. What Are Critical Thinking Skills? / xv
PART I
SIXTEEN VERBAL (CRITICAL READING) STRATEGIES 1
Sixteen Easy-to-Learn Strategies / 2 Summary / 19
Four Sentence Completion Strategies / 3 About the Double-Reading Passages / 20
Practice Your Sentence Completion Strategies / 10 Nine Reading Comprehension Strategies / 21
Answers to Sentence Completion Questions / 11 “Double Passage” Reading Questions / 37
Critical Reading Strategies / 12 Three Vocabulary Strategies / 42
PART II
FIFTEEN READING QUIZZES 49
PART III
VOCABULARY BUILDING THAT IS GUARANTEED TO
RAISE YOUR SAT SCORE 67
Knowing Word Meanings Is Essential Words Commonly Mistaken for Each Other / 99
for a Higher SAT Score / 68
Vocabulary Prefi x-Root-Suffi x Test / 102
Ten Steps to Word Power / 69
Vocabulary Review List / 104
A Gruber Prefi x-Root-Suffi x List that Gives You the
Four Vocabulary Practice Tests / 158
Meaning of Over 200,000 Words / 70
Answers to Vocabulary Tests / 166
A List of SAT Words Appearing More Than Once on
Actual SAT Exams / 90
The Most Important/Frequently Used SAT Words
and Their Opposites / 92
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PART IV
TWO SAT CRITICAL READING PRACTICE TESTS 167
Three Important Reasons for Taking These SAT Critical Reading Practice Test 2 / 203
Practice Tests / 168
Answer Key for the SAT Practice Test 2 (Critical Reading
Ten Tips for Taking the Practice Tests / 169 and Writing) / 221
SAT Critical Reading Practice Test 1 / 171 Explanatory Answers for Practice Test 2 / 225
Answer Key for the SAT Practice Test 1 (Critical Reading What You Must Do Now to Raise Your SAT Critical
and Writing) / 189 Reading Score / 232
Explanatory Answers for Practice Test 1 / 193
What You Must Do Now to Raise Your SAT Critical
Reading Score / 201
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Purpose of This Book
The Critical Reading questions on the SAT test contain reading passages with questions and
sentence completion questions. The reading questions test your ability to read and understand
a passage and get involved with what the writer is saying. The sentence completion questions
test whether you can fill in one or two words in the sentence so that the sentence is meaningful.
All these questions also indirectly test your vocabulary skills. The purpose of this book is to
get you to master the methods of answering these questions and enable you to quickly answer
them. You don’t necessarily have to know the meaning of the words if you can figure them out
in the context of the rest of the sentence or passage, the process that is described in this book.
You may also figure out the meaning of words or how to use them in the sentence through Dr.
Gruber’s strategies, which are all in this book.
Dr. Gruber has developed powerful, time-tested strategies for the Critical Reading ques-
tions on the SAT. He is the originator of the critical thinking skills used on standardized tests,
and he is the leading authority on test preparation.
Note that this book can be used effectively for learning shortcuts and strategies, and prac-
tice for all reading and sentence completion questions on any test.
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How to Use This Book Most
Effectively
1. Read through the Introduction to familiarize yourself with the SAT and construction of the
Critical Reading part.
2. Read Part I to learn all the strategies necessary for the Critical Reading parts of the SAT.
3. Take the Reading Quizzes in Part II to see how you are doing with reading comprehen-
sion.
4. If you want to further increase your vocabulary, read Part III and perhaps take the
Vocabulary Practice Tests.
5. Take the two SAT Critical Reading practice tests (Part IV) and look at the explanatory
answers to see the best approach. When the answer refers to a strategy, make sure that
you’ve learned it.
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Important Note about This
Book and Its Author
This book was written by Dr. Gary Gruber, the leading authority on the SAT, who knows more
than anyone else in the test-prep market exactly what is being tested for in the SAT. In fact, the
procedures to answer the SAT questions rely more heavily on the Gruber Critical Thinking
Strategies than ever before, and this is the only book that has the exact thinking strategies you
need to use to maximize your SAT score. Gruber’s SAT books are used more than any other
books by the nation’s school districts, and they are proven to get the highest documented
school district SAT scores.
Dr. Gruber has published more than thirty books with major publishers on test-taking and
critical thinking methods, with more than seven million copies sold. He has also authored more
than 1,000 articles on his work in scholarly journals and nationally syndicated newspapers, has
appeared on numerous television and radio shows, and has been interviewed in hundreds of
magazines and newspapers. He has developed major programs for school districts and for city
and state educational agencies for improving and restructuring curriculum, increasing learn-
ing ability and test scores, increasing motivation, developing a “passion” for learning and prob-
lem solving, and decreasing the student dropout rate. For example, PBS (Public Broadcasting
System) chose Dr. Gruber to train the nation’s teachers on how to prepare students for the
SAT through a national satellite teleconference and videotape. His results have been lauded by
people throughout the country from all walks of life.
Dr. Gruber is recognized nationally as the leading expert on standardized tests. It is said that
no one in the nation is better at assessing the thinking patterns of how a person answers ques-
tions and providing the mechanism to improve faulty thinking approaches. SAT score improve-
ments by students using Dr. Gruber’s techniques have been the highest in the nation.
Gruber’s unique methods have been and are being used by PBS, the nation’s learning
centers, international encyclopedias, school districts throughout the country, homes and work-
places across the nation, and a host of other entities.
His goal and mission is to get people’s potential realized and the nation “impassioned” with
learning and problem solving so that they don’t merely try to get a “fast” uncritical answer, but
actually enjoy and look forward to solving the problem and learning.
For more information on Gruber courses and additional Gruber products, visit www.
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