Sample Critical Reading Questions for the New SAT: The Princeton Review offers these sample questions, complete with answers and explanations.

1		EXERCISE: Try the questions. How did you do? How might you do better?

What Is Critical Reading?: Dan Kurland created a series of thorough, informative pages on critical reading and related topics. (You might be interested in particular in What Is Critical Thinking? and Critical Reading vs. Critical Thinking.)

2		EXERCISE: Does the information provided here differ at all from the explanations you read in your text? If so, how? What do you make of the differences? Did you learn anything new on the site?

“Your Mother Is in Your Bones”: In this article in The New York Times, Orville Schell reviews Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club.

3		EXERCISE: Use this article to practice your critical reading skills. After skimming, and reading it twice, write answers to the following: What is the author’s purpose? Who is his intended audience? What does his position, or point of view, on his subject appear to be? What tone does he use? What does he mean to communicate about Tan and her book?