Like Mr. Concepción, everyone runs at least one reading section, using an intensive phonics program.
And does the story provide enough grist for a reading section?
The number who passed the reading section fell by 20 percentage points.
Soon I came to a reading section, with a long passage about writing and running by Haruki Murakami.
A "try reading" section lets children practice reading and saying short words with a simple matching game.
On the SAT's, New Rochelle High school students scored an average of 556 on the critical reading section and 572 on the math.
The test's famous section on word analogies would be dropped, but related questions would be worked into the test's reading section.
After that, systematically reading section by section — foreign, national, business and so on — can almost replicate the print experience, and can provide some extras, like video.
Average SAT scores in 2006 at the high school, which has an enrollment of 1,150, were 556 on the verbal, 591 on the math and 557 on the reading section.
While Mr. Danihy says reading the passage in the critical reading section is a waste of time, the College Board urges students to read it carefully and to underline important points.
