Despite being called the writing section, you won’t actually need to do any writing. All of the 25 questions are multiple choice. However, unlike most other tests measuring your understanding of grammar and conventions, this test doesn’t just ask you general questions about the rules of the language. Instead, you’ll be asked to edit short passages that are provided. So each question will provide you with a few possible changes you could make and you have to choose the one that would be the best improvement on the text. The first five questions will all be based on the same literary text. The next 20 questions will be divided across four different informational texts. Each of the passages were specifically commissioned for this test, meaning they have carefully chosen mistakes and definite correct answers. In order to determine the best choice for improving the passages provided, you’ll need a firm understanding of: How to develop an idea, organize a text, and use the English language effectively. Standard English conventions including sentence structure, conventional uses, and proper punctuation. Fundamental spelling and grammar rules. Don’t just memorize the difference between an adverb and an adjective. Develop a sense of how to make a sentence not only grammatically correct but interesting to read. You’re going to encounter a lot of questions where there are a couple choices that seem fine grammatically so you need to learn to think like an editor and choose the stronger of two or three seemingly correct options.