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Free SAT Central Ideas and Details Practice Questions
The SAT tests central ideas by asking what a passage is mainly about, or what it states about a specific point. The correct option summarizes the whole text; the wrong ones are accurate about one sentence of it.
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How the SAT tests central ideas and details
You identify a main idea across a short passage and locate explicitly stated details that support it.
Where the points go
Choosing an option that is true of a single line but too narrow to be the passage's main claim.
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