In this lesson, we'll review how to determine the main idea of texts and the main purpose and function of pieces of those texts; we'll also discuss how to strategically approach the questions that ask you to characterize the main idea or purpose of the entire text or a portion of the text.

In this lesson, you'll learn how to navigate questions that ask for the approximate meaning of various words that appear in texts.

You'd think this topic would be pretty simple, and some of its questions certainly are, but the SAT manages to throw some more difficult solving equations questions at us from time to time. We have a lot of segments here but stick around to learn how to tackle lots of different problems!