SESSION 1

VietAccepted Center
SAT DIGITAL INTRODUCTION
 BIGGEST CHALLENGES FOR
SAT DIGITAL 2023

• Không có tài liệu thực hành như các bộ đề QAS hiện tại cho phần Reading
(phần Writing và Math vẫn sẽ sử dụng được 1 phần từ Paper SAT)
• Việc làm sai sẽ bị trừ điểm nặng hơn khi đi thi do số câu hỏi ít hơn = trọng số
cho mỗi câu hỏi sẽ cao hơn
• Để được 780-800 Math sẽ khó hơn do phần Module 2 (Harder) sẽ có độ khó
cao hơn nhiều Paper SAT
 LỘ TRÌNH

Phase 1 Phase 2

Chia lớp theo level

Level 1: 1300-1400+
Level 2: 1450-1500+
Tập trung vào Mindset & Methods
Giai đoạn này sẽ tập trung vào luyện tập
cho phần Reading và Writing, đặc
giải đề theo Mindset & Methods của
biệt là Reading.
Phase 1
Làm quen hết các dạng bài +
Tài liệu
phương pháp để giải bài
• Bộ đề College Board
• Bộ đề & bài tập biên soạn của
VietAccepted
• Bộ câu hỏi từ China
 TÀI LIỆU

• Các buổi học sẽ có handout + ghi âm để ôn tập được up lên Google Drive
• Mỗi học viên sẽ có 1 account trên Platform của VietAccepted
• Trên account sẽ có
- Bài tập về nhà theo chuyên đề để thực hành sau các buổi học
- Lý thuyết tự học thêm cho phần Writing
- Video chữa bài tập về nhà để tự học
 Các dạng bài của đề thi Reading & Writing
Information and ideas
Craft and Structure
Expression of Ideas
Standard English Conventions
Textual Command of Evidence
Quantitative Command of Evidence
Inferences
Words in Context
Text Structure and Purpose
Cross-text connections
Transitions
Rhetorical Synthesis
Form, Structure, and Sense
Boundaries
 TIMING BÀI THI

• 27 câu hỏi – 32 phút trong đó 12-13 câu Writing và 14-15 câu Reading
• Thời gian trung bình: 1,2 phút/ câu
• Cần giảm thời gian ở phần Writing để tăng thời gian cho phần Reading
• Thời gian làm trung bình 1 câu Reading: 1,5 phút/ câu
• Với bài tập Reading cần tập trung vào Mindset & Methods để giải bài
POE – PROCESS OF ELIMINATION
INFORMATION AND IDEAS
 Textual Evidence

Quantitative Evidence

Inference

Dạng bài Textual Evidence (Science) và Inference sẽ yêu

cầu Logical Reasoning nhiều và là phần mới so với đề
thi SAT hiện tại
 INFORMATION AND IDEAS
TEXTUAL COMMAND OF EVIDENCE
 TEXTUAL EVIDENCE: SCIENCE

Jan Gimsa, Robert Sleigh, and Ulrike Gimsa have hypothesized that the sail-like
structure running down the back of the dinosaur Spinosaurus
aegyptiacusimproved the animal’s success in underwater pursuits of prey species
capable of making quick, evasive movements. To evaluate their hypothesis, a
second team of researchers constructed two battery-powered mechanical models
of S. aegyptiacus, one with a sail and one without, and subjected the models to a
series of identical tests in a water-filled tank.

Which finding from the model tests, if true, would most strongly support Gimsa
and colleagues’ hypothesis?

A The model with a sail took significantly longer to travel a specified distance
while submerged than the model without a sail did.
B The model with a sail displaced significantly more water while submerged
than the model without a sail did.
C The model with a sail had significantly less battery power remaining after
completing the tests than the model without a sail did.
D The model with a sail took significantly less time to complete a sharp turn
while submerged than the model without a sail did.
Quy trình làm bài:

Step 1: Đọc kỹ câu hỏi và xác định SCOPE của câu hỏi

Step 2: Đọc hiểu argument và xác định Main Point

Step 3: Prethinking

Step 4: POE (Process of Elimination)

 TEXTUAL EVIDENCE: LITERARY

“Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker” is a 1900 short story

by Paul Laurence Dunbar. In the story, the narrator
describes Mr. Cornelius Johnson’s appearance as conveying
his exaggerated sense of his importance: ______
Which quotation from “Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office-
Seeker” most effectively illustrates the claim?

A “He carried himself always as if he were passing

under his own triumphal arch.”
B “The grey Prince Albert was scrupulously buttoned
about his form, and a shiny top hat replaced the felt of
the afternoon.”
C “Mr. Cornelius Johnson always spoke in a large and
important tone.”
D “It was a beautiful day in balmy May and the sun
shone pleasantly on Mr. Cornelius Johnson’s very
spruce Prince Albert suit of grey as he alighted from
the train in Washington.”
Quy trình làm bài:

Step 1: Đọc kỹ câu hỏi và xác định SCOPE của câu hỏi

Step 2: Đọc hiểu argument và xác định Main Point

Step 3: Prethinking

Step 4: POE (Process of Elimination)

 INFORMATION AND IDEAS
QUANTITATIVE COMMAND OF
EVIDENCE
Quy trình làm bài:

Step 1: Đọc kỹ câu hỏi và xác định SCOPE của câu hỏi

Step 2: Đọc hiểu argument và xác định Main Point

Step 3: Prethinking

Step 4: POE (Process of Elimination)

The share of the world’s population living in cities has increased
dramatically since 1970, but this change has not been uniform.
France and Japan, for example, were already heavily urbanized
in 1970, with 70% or more of the population living in cities. The
main contributors to the world’s urbanization since 1970 have
been countries like Algeria, whose population went from ______
Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to
complete the assertion?
A
less than 20% urban in 1970 to more than 50% urban in
2020.
B
less than 40% urban in 1970 to around 90% urban in 2020.
C
around 40% urban in 1970 to more than 70% urban in 2020.
D
around 50% urban in 1970 to around 90% urban in 2020.
INFORMATION AND IDEAS
INFERENCE
Adaptations to cold temperatures have high metabolic costs. It is expensive,
in terms of energy use, for land plants and animals to withstand very cold
temperatures, and it gets more expensive the colder it gets, which means
that the lower the air temperature, the fewer species have evolved to survive
it. This factor, in conjunction with the decline in air temperature with
increasing elevation, explains the distribution of species diversity in
mountain ecosystems: you find fewer species high up a mountain than at the
mountain’s base because ______

A
there are relatively few environments hospitable to species that are
adapted to live in low air temperatures.
B
there are relatively few species with the adaptations necessary to
tolerate the temperatures at high elevations.
C
adaptations that allow plants and animals to survive in rocky
environments are metabolically costly.
D
some mountain environments are at elevations so high that no
plants or animals can survive them.
Many animals, including humans, must sleep, and sleep is known
to have a role in everything from healing injuries to encoding
information in long-term memory. But some scientists claim that,
from an evolutionary standpoint, deep sleep for hours at a time
leaves an animal so vulnerable that the known benefits of
sleeping seem insufficient to explain why it became so widespread
in the animal kingdom. These scientists therefore imply that
______

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A
it is more important to understand how widespread
prolonged deep sleep is than to understand its function.
B
prolonged deep sleep is likely advantageous in ways that
have yet to be discovered.
C
many traits that provide significant benefits for an animal
also likely pose risks to that animal.
D
most traits perform functions that are hard to understand
from an evolutionary standpoint.
INFORMATION AND IDEAS
PRACTICE
TEXTUAL EVIDENCE: SCIENCE

Q1/ Born in 1891 to a Quechua-speaking family in the Andes Mountains of Peru,

Martín Chambi is today considered to be one of the most renowned figures of Latin
American photography. In a paper for an art history class, a student claims that
Chambi’s photographs have considerable ethnographic value—in his work, Chambi was
able to capture diverse elements of Peruvian society, representing his subjects with
both dignity and authenticity.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the student’s claim?
A)
Chambi took many commissioned portraits of wealthy Peruvians, but he also produced
hundreds of images carefully documenting the peoples, sites, and customs of
Indigenous communities of the Andes.
B)
Chambi’s photographs demonstrate a high level of technical skill, as seen in his
strategic use of illumination to create dramatic light and shadow contrasts.
C)
During his lifetime, Chambi was known and celebrated both within and outside his
native Peru, as his work was published in places like Argentina, Spain, and Mexico.
D)
Some of the peoples and places Chambi photographed had long been popular subjects
for Peruvian photographers.
TEXTUAL EVIDENCE: SCIENCE

Born in 1891 to a Quechua-speaking family in the Andes Mountains of Peru, Martín

Chambi is today considered to be one of the most renowned figures of Latin American
photography. In a paper for an art history class, a student claims that Chambi’s
photographs have considerable ethnographic value—in his work, Chambi was able to
capture diverse elements of Peruvian society, representing his subjects with both
dignity and authenticity. Which finding, if true, would most directly support the
student’s claim?
TEXTUAL EVIDENCE: SCIENCE

A)
Chambi took many commissioned portraits of wealthy Peruvians, but he also produced
hundreds of images carefully documenting the peoples, sites, and customs of
Indigenous communities of the Andes.
B)
Chambi’s photographs demonstrate a high level of technical skill, as seen in his
strategic use of illumination to create dramatic light and shadow contrasts.
C)
During his lifetime, Chambi was known and celebrated both within and outside his
native Peru, as his work was published in places like Argentina, Spain, and Mexico.
D)
Some of the peoples and places Chambi photographed had long been popular subjects
for Peruvian photographers.
Q2/ In the mountains of Brazil, Barbacenia tomentosa and Barbacenia macrantha—two
plants in the Velloziaceae family—establish themselves on soilless, nutrient-poor patches of
quartzite rock. Plant ecologists Anna Abrahão and Patricia de Britto Costa used microscopic
analysis to determine that the roots of B. tomentosa and B. macrantha, which grow directly
into the quartzite, have clusters of fine hairs near the root tip; further analysis indicated
that these hairs secrete both malic and citric acids. The researchers hypothesize that the
plants depend on dissolving underlying rock with these acids, as the process not only
creates channels for continued growth but also releases phosphates that provide the vital
nutrient phosphorus.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers’ hypothesis?
A)
Other species in the Velloziaceae family are found in terrains with more soil but have root
structures similar to those of B. tomentosa and B. macrantha.
B)
Though B. tomentosa and B. macrantha both secrete citric and malic acids, each species
produces the acids in different proportions.
C)
The roots of B. tomentosa and B. macrantha carve new entry points into rocks even when
cracks in the surface are readily available.
D)
B. tomentosa and B. macrantha thrive even when transferred to the surfaces of rocks that
do not contain phosphates.
Q2/ In the mountains of Brazil, Barbacenia tomentosa and Barbacenia macrantha—two
plants in the Velloziaceae family—establish themselves on soilless, nutrient-poor patches of
quartzite rock. Plant ecologists Anna Abrahão and Patricia de Britto Costa used microscopic
analysis to determine that the roots of B. tomentosa and B. macrantha, which grow directly
into the quartzite, have clusters of fine hairs near the root tip; further analysis indicated
that these hairs secrete both malic and citric acids. The researchers hypothesize that the
plants depend on dissolving underlying rock with these acids, as the process not only
creates channels for continued growth but also releases phosphates that provide the vital
nutrient phosphorus.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers’ hypothesis?
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers’
hypothesis?
A)
Other species in the Velloziaceae family are found in terrains with more soil but
have root structures similar to those of B. tomentosa and B. macrantha.
B)
Though B. tomentosa and B. macrantha both secrete citric and malic acids, each
species produces the acids in different proportions.
C)
The roots of B. tomentosa and B. macrantha carve new entry points into rocks
even when cracks in the surface are readily available.
D)
B. tomentosa and B. macrantha thrive even when transferred to the surfaces of
rocks that do not contain phosphates.
Q3/ Psychologists Dacher Keltner and Jonathan Haidt have argued that experiencing awe—a
sensation of reverence and wonder typically brought on by perceiving something grand or powerful—
can enable us to feel more connected to others and thereby inspire us to act more altruistically.
Keltner, along with Paul K. Piff, Pia Dietze, and colleagues, claims to have found evidence for this
effect in a recent study where participants were asked to either gaze up at exceptionally tall trees in a
nearby grove (reported to be a universally awe-inspiring experience) or stare at the exterior of a
nearby, nondescript building. After one minute, an experimenter deliberately spilled a box of pens
nearby.
Which finding from the researchers’ study, if true, would most strongly support their claim?
A)
Participants who had been looking at the trees helped the experimenter pick up significantly more
pens than did participants who had been looking at the building.
B)
Participants who helped the experimenter pick up the pens used a greater number of positive words to
describe the trees and the building in a postexperiment survey than did participants who did not help
the experimenter.
C)
Participants who did not help the experimenter pick up the pens were significantly more likely to
report having experienced a feeling of awe, regardless of whether they looked at the building or the
trees.
D)
Participants who had been looking at the building were significantly more likely to notice that the
experimenter had dropped the pens than were participants who had been looking at the trees.
Q3/ Psychologists Dacher Keltner and Jonathan Haidt have argued that experiencing awe—a
sensation of reverence and wonder typically brought on by perceiving something grand or
powerful—can enable us to feel more connected to others and thereby inspire us to act more
altruistically. Keltner, along with Paul K. Piff, Pia Dietze, and colleagues, claims to have found
evidence for this effect in a recent study where participants were asked to either gaze up at
exceptionally tall trees in a nearby grove (reported to be a universally awe-inspiring
experience) or stare at the exterior of a nearby, nondescript building. After one minute, an
experimenter deliberately spilled a box of pens nearby.

Which finding from the researchers’ study, if true, would most strongly support their
claim?
Which finding from the researchers’ study, if true, would most
strongly support their claim?
A)
Participants who had been looking at the trees helped the experimenter
pick up significantly more pens than did participants who had been
looking at the building.
B)
Participants who helped the experimenter pick up the pens used a
greater number of positive words to describe the trees and the building
in a postexperiment survey than did participants who did not help the
experimenter.
C)
Participants who did not help the experimenter pick up the pens were
significantly more likely to report having experienced a feeling of awe,
regardless of whether they looked at the building or the trees.
D)
Participants who had been looking at the building were significantly
more likely to notice that the experimenter had dropped the pens than
were participants who had been looking at the trees.
Q4/ Many archaeologists will tell you that categorizing excavated fragments of
pottery by style, period, and what objects they belong to relies not only on
standard criteria, but also on instinct developed over years of practice. In a recent
study, however, researchers trained a deep-learning computer model on thousands
of images of pottery fragments and found that it could categorize them as
accurately as a team of expert archaeologists. Some archaeologists have expressed
concern that they might be replaced by such computer models, but the researchers
claim that outcome is highly unlikely.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers’ claim?
A)
In the researchers’ study, the model was able to categorize the pottery fragments
much more quickly than the archaeologists could.
B)
In the researchers’ study, neither the model nor the archaeologists were able to
accurately categorize all the pottery fragments that were presented.
C)
A survey of archaeologists showed that categorizing pottery fragments limits the
amount of time they can dedicate to other important tasks that only human
experts can do.
D)
A survey of archaeologists showed that few of them received dedicated training in
how to properly categorize pottery fragments.
Q4/ Many archaeologists will tell you that categorizing excavated fragments of
pottery by style, period, and what objects they belong to relies not only on
standard criteria, but also on instinct developed over years of practice. In a recent
study, however, researchers trained a deep-learning computer model on thousands
of images of pottery fragments and found that it could categorize them as
accurately as a team of expert archaeologists. Some archaeologists have expressed
concern that they might be replaced by such computer models, but the researchers
claim that outcome is highly unlikely.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers’ claim?
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers’ claim?
A)
In the researchers’ study, the model was able to categorize the pottery fragments
much more quickly than the archaeologists could.
B)
In the researchers’ study, neither the model nor the archaeologists were able to
accurately categorize all the pottery fragments that were presented.
C)
A survey of archaeologists showed that categorizing pottery fragments limits the
amount of time they can dedicate to other important tasks that only human
experts can do.
D)
A survey of archaeologists showed that few of them received dedicated training in
how to properly categorize pottery fragments.