Craft and Structure · ~28% of Reading & Writing
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Cross-Text Connections gives you Text 1 and Text 2 on the same subject and asks how one author would respond to the other, or how their positions relate. It is the only Reading & Writing question type that requires holding two arguments in mind at once, which is why it is consistently one of the hardest.
Before reading the choices, write each author's claim in your own words in five or six words — "wage rises cut jobs" versus "study found no job loss". Then decide the relationship between those two summaries: agree, disagree, or agree-with-a-qualification. Only then read the choices, and reject any that misstate either author, however well it describes the other.
Answering with what Text 2 says instead of how Text 2 bears on Text 1. Half the wrong choices are accurate summaries of one text that have nothing to do with the relationship between them. The right answer always describes both.
Text 1: Economist Renata Silva argues that tariffs on imported steel protect domestic manufacturing jobs by making foreign steel less price-competitive. Text 2: Economist Louis Bergman contends that tariffs on imported steel raise costs for domestic industries that use steel as a raw material, such as automakers and construction firms, potentially eliminating more jobs downstream than the tariffs protect upstream.
Which choice best describes how Bergman's argument relates to Silva's?
Answer: A. Silva focuses on benefits to steel manufacturing jobs; Bergman raises a broader downstream cost affecting steel-using industries that Silva's argument doesn't address—a different angle on the same policy, not agreement or an unrelated topic.
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Vocabulary in context, what a sentence is doing rather than what it says, and how two short texts relate to each other.
Cross-Text Connections gives you Text 1 and Text 2 on the same subject and asks how one author would respond to the other, or how their positions relate. It is the only Reading & Writing question type that requires holding two arguments in mind at once, which is why it is consistently one of the hardest.
Before reading the choices, write each author's claim in your own words in five or six words — "wage rises cut jobs" versus "study found no job loss". Then decide the relationship between those two summaries: agree, disagree, or agree-with-a-qualification. Only then read the choices, and reject any that misstate either author, however well it describes the other.
Cross-Text Connections sits in the Craft and Structure domain, which is ~28% of the Reading & Writing section — roughly 13–15 of its 54 questions. The College Board publishes weights by domain, not by individual skill, so an exact per-skill count is not something anyone can promise you.
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