Book excerpt: This updated go-to study guide provides the latest concepts, study strategies, and practice you need to dramatically raise your SAT Reading, Writing, and Language scores and reflects the latest test changes. McGraw-Hill Education: Top 50 Skills For A Top Score: SAT Reading, Writing & Language , Second Edition presents the heart of each of the 50 most important concepts in these subject areas. Within each topic, exercises help you build critical skills and illustrate how each concept is tested on the SAT. Written by a test-prep expert with years of experience with the SAT and ACT preparation, this easy-to-use book features: A pretest designed to identify your weaknesses in reading, writing & language areas the SAT traditionally focuses on Two-to-four page spreads with lessons that increase your knowledge in the 50 essential skills with step-by-step sample exercises A posttest designed to track the progress of each specific skill A full answer key with helpful explanations 2 extra tests online