Guys before you begin this course I just wanna let you know that I've launched a website CPA test prep
dot com.
And on that site you have access to all these lectures including for all the other subjects so you can
get reading writing math and essays as well as more importantly thousands of practice questions to help
you rehearse and master each of the skills I teach in my courses and for those practice questions I
give a very detailed explanation videos to help you understand why each answer is right and why each
choice that's wrong is wrong.
If you're interested in learning more at the end of this other video I've also included a quick demo
video that shows you how the system works.
Hey guys I'm glad you decided to join me in my course.
We're about start on a fantastic journey to a city a city riding section.
Now I want to begin by looking at different types of questions that are present in this city riding
course.
So let's take a look.
There are many different types of questions and replacement centers edition said installation and this
can put combination that sentence placement paragraph placement so many different types.
But I need to tell you it doesn't mean it's not important the exact type of question is an important
well what is important.
It's the skills that are important.
The three types of skills that I mentioned before it's about logical or connected meaning it's about
grammar and it's about style.
So what does that mean.
Well connected meaning is about making sure your answer is connected to the other sentences around it
logically connected.
So that could be a sentence placement question.
It could be what I call an answer the question question.
It could be words relate to word and sentence meaning or transitions or graphs.
So many different types of questions but they all rely on the same skill connected meaning next.
Is no grammar.
Of course you have to understand basic grammar things like parts of speech nouns verbs etc. but beyond
that there are some more advanced grammar you need no sentence structure agreement issues modifiers
parallel construction and a few other rules as well.
But the first four or the first five are going to cover about 90 percent the rules you need finally
what it describes style style means speaking the most direct answer.
Style means picking a tone that's appropriate for the passage and style means using idiomatic expressions
but once you know those three things the strategy is simple simply determine what the question is test
your grammar meaning or style then you identify which rule applies to each and the choice that one No
it's being tested.
Step to identify what kind of skill you need within those categories
our syllabus.
Well the six things listed and we've done the fourth one already our syllabus is gonna go in order of
importance so connected meaning is you know probably accounts for around 20 percent of the questions
but this doesn't require any new skill.
It doesn't require that you learn any grammar.
It doesn't require that you learn it in your vocabulary.
It's just using your existing logic common sense to be able to answer 20 percent of the questions next.
Well on the grammar you need to answer about another 60 percent of the questions and finally how to
answer the style questions for the remaining 20 percent.
In the loss of John I'll tell you what you need to do to prepare for the test.
After this course is complete.
All right guys I'm looking forward to working with you whenever you're ready.
Get started on that first video
after signing up and logging in.
You pick which of these skills you'd like to practice when to start with S.A.T. writing.
From this page you can see all the different lessons and click on any of them to watch a lecture with
examples on how to complete that type of skill.
After you've watched the lesson go ahead and do some practice drills.
If you're stuck on a question you can press the hit button and a video will play giving you a tip on
what to think about as you attempt this problem.
If you get the question wrong
what's an explanation video to see why every answer choice is wrong and why the right choice is correct
even if you get the question right.
You can still watch the explanation video
press stop practicing anytime if you'd like to review what you've worked on go up to solve drills and
review different kinds of questions you got right and wrong.
After you've finished all the different skills I recommend practicing the official S.A.T. practice tests
and you can look here to see the explanations for every question.