Information and Ideas · Lectura y escritura
Central Ideas and Details en el SAT
Central Ideas and Details asks what a passage says. Some questions want the main point in one sentence, and others want the specific detail the passage states.
- Sección
- Lectura y escritura del SAT
- Dominio de contenido
- Information and Ideas
- Peso en la sección
- 26%
- Preguntas que cuentan
- Unas 13 por examen
De las preguntas que cuentan en esa sección
De 50 preguntas que cuentan en la sección
Cómo son las preguntas
One short passage of about 100 words, then either a main idea question or a detail question that points at a named claim, person, or finding in the text.
El error que cuesta puntos
Choosing a true statement over the right one. Wrong answers are often accurate facts lifted from the passage that answer a different question or cover only part of it.
Cómo resolverlas
Read for the point the author is making rather than for the facts. Then test each choice against the whole passage: a main idea choice has to cover everything the text says, and a detail choice has to match the text closely enough to survive a reread.
Practica Central Ideas and Details ahora
Diez preguntas sobre esta destreza, sin cronómetro y con la explicación después de cada respuesta. No hace falta cuenta; si inicias sesión, la misma práctica también alimenta la precisión por destreza que lee tu plan de estudio.
Preguntas sobre Central Ideas and Details
- How is the main idea different from a summary on the SAT?
- A summary retells the passage in order. A main idea answer states the claim the passage was built to support, so it can be much shorter than the text and still be correct. Choices that retell details in sequence are usually wrong for that reason.
- Should you read the questions before the passage?
- On these questions it rarely helps, because the choices are full sentences and reading them first just loads four wrong ideas. Read the passage once for the point, then match choices to it.
- How many Central Ideas and Details questions are on the SAT?
- College Board does not publish a count per question type, only per content domain. Information and Ideas makes up about 26 percent of the Reading and Writing section, which is roughly 13 of the 50 scored Reading and Writing questions on a full form. Questions on this skill come out of that share.
Más destrezas de Information and Ideas
- InferencesInferences asks you to complete the passage's logic.
- Command of EvidenceCommand of Evidence gives you a claim and asks which piece of evidence supports it, usually by choosing a quotation from a passage or a finding from a study.
- Command of Evidence: QuantitativeThe quantitative version of Command of Evidence asks which statement is best supported by a table, graph, or chart.