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The Critical Reading Sections

In March 2006, the SAT's Verbal section was renamed "Critical Reading." The SAT I contains three critical reading sections: two of them take 25 minutes, and the other takes 20 minutes. Expect to find lots of reading passages followed by questions that test your ability to read for critical information. You will also encounter sentence completion problems.

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