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SAT Reading & Writing: Text Structure and Purpose (Drill 3)

Drill 3 · Reading & Writing · Text Structure and Purpose

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About This Drill

SAT Reading & Writing: Text Structure and Purpose (Drill 3) is a Reading & Writing practice drill covering Text Structure and Purpose. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.

Text Structure and Purpose questions ask you to identify what a text is doing and how it is organized. This drill focuses on comparative and argumentative texts, where identifying the author's structural choices, contrast, qualification, illustration, is key to answering correctly.

Questions in This Drill

  1. Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
  2. Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
  3. Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
  4. Which choice best describes the main purpose of the text?
  5. Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?