The last administration of the SAT II Writing was on 1/22/05.
Beginning 3/12/05, parts of the SAT II Writing test will be
included in the New SAT. You should be studying the New SAT
book. Go there! How to Approach Improving Sentences Questions
When answering questions in this section, use these eight rules
to help you. We briefly list the rules below and then explain
them in more detail, using them to answer the sample question.
Now to apply these steps to the sample question, which is
reprinted below: 1. Read the sentence and try to hear the
problem. A good ear will take you far on Improving Sentences
questions. If you can read a sentence and figure out what about
the underlined part sounds strange or wrong, you’re on your way
to a right answer. You might read the sample sentence and
immediately recognize that wordiness is the problem—the phrase
but for her being a participant should be rewritten in a more
compact form. If you don’t come up with the specific term
“wordiness,” you might sense that something a