PSAT – Writing

Writing skills questions present sentences and paragraphs that contain the kinds of errors that students must look for and learn to correct in their own writing, including:

 

- Expressing ideas effectively in Standard Written English.

 

- Recognizing faults in usage and structure.

 

- Using language with sensitivity to meaning.

 

- Identifying sentence errors questions test knowledge of grammar, usage, word choice, and idiom. Students are required to find errors in sentences or indicate that there is no error.

 

- Improving sentences questions ask students to choose the best, most effective form of an underlined portion of a given sentence.

 

- Improving paragraphs questions require students to make choices about improving the logic, coherence, or organization in a flawed passage.