SAT Reasoning Test

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SAT Reasoning Test A Standardized Test for
College Admission in the United States
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Critical Reading

• 25 minutes x2
• 20 minutes x1
• __________
• 70 minutes

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25 minutes MC x1 25 minutes Essay x1 10
minutes MC x1 ___________ 60 minutes
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25 minutes x2 20 minutes x1 ____________ 70
minutes
Math
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Test Content
1/3 Easy
1/3 Hard
1/3 Medium
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How is the SAT Scored?
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AVG.
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Math 800
Reading 800
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Writing 800
Total 2400
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Correct 1 pt Incorrect -0.25 pt Skip 0 pts
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RegistrationDeadlines
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WWW.COLLEGEBOARD.COM
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Registration Location
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Registration The Process
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WWW.COLLEGEBOARD.COM
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4 Score reports
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Change until Monday after you take the test
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Tips
Understand the SAT
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Know What Your Goals Are
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Get Study Materials
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Diagnostic Test
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Tip 2 Goals
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Tip 3 Get Materials
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Tip 3 Get Materials
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Tip 4 Diagnostic Test
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Improving from ___ to ____Time Needed
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Tip 5 Study Plan
Goals
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Tip 5 Study Plan
Stick To Your Plan!!!
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Date and Time
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Place
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Assignment
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End Time
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Understand the SAT
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Know What Your Goals Are
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Get Study Materials
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Diagnostic Test
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Verbal Help
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Critical Reasoning
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Sentence Completion
Hoping to ------- the dispute, negotiators
proposed a compromise that they felt would be
------- to both labor and management. (A) enforce
. . useful (B) end . . divisive (C) overcome . .
unattractive (D) extend . . satisfactory (E) resol
ve . . acceptable
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Critical Reasoning
Passage Based Reading
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"The rock was still wet. The animal was
glistening, like it was still swimming," recalls
Hou Xianguang. Hou discovered the Line 5
unusual fossil while surveying rocks as a
paleontology graduate student in 1984, near the
Chinese town of Chengjiang. "My teachers
always talked about the Burgess ShaleLine 10
animals. It looked like one of them. My hands
began to shake." Hou had indeed found a
Naraoia like those from Canada. However, Hou's
animal was 15 million years Line 15 older than
its Canadian relatives.
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In line 5, "surveying" most nearly
means (A) calculating the value of (B) examining
comprehensively (C) determining the boundaries
of (D) polling randomly (E) conducting a
statistical study of
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Mathematics
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Multiple Choice
A special lottery is to be held to select the
student who will live in the only deluxe room in
a dormitory. There are 100 seniors, 150 juniors,
and 200 sophomores who applied. Each senior's
name is placed in the lottery 3 times each
junior's name, 2 times and each sophomore's
name, 1 time. What is the probability that a
senior's name will be chosen? (A) 1/8 (B) 2/9
(C) 2/7 (D) 3/8 (E) 1/2
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Mathematics
Student-Produced Response
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Writing
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Improving Sentence
Laura Ingalls Wilder published her first book
and she was sixty-five years old then. (A) and
she was sixty-five years old then (B) when she
was sixty-five (C) at age sixty-five years
old (D) upon the reaching of sixty-five
years (E) at the time when she was sixty-five
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Writing
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Identifying Sentence Errors
The students have discovered (A) that they (B)
can address issues more effectively through
(C)letter-writing campaigns and not (D)
throughpublic demonstrations. No error (E)
(A)  (B)  (C)  (D)  (E) 
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Writing
Improving Paragraphs
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Which of the following would be the most suitable
sentence to insert immediately after sentence
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computer. (B) I have found the computer somewhat
difficult to learn to operate. (C) Many people
are understandably intimidated by
computers. (D) They are now so common that they
have a profound effect on daily life. (E) Modern
telephones belong to the family of computers.
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What to Bring
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What to Bring Tips After
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Admission Ticket
No.2 Pencil
Official Photo ID
Snack
Calculator (Batteries)
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Tips
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Sleep! Eat breakfast. Arrive at by 745 a.m
Answer easy questions first Make educated
guesses. Skip ?s that you really can't answer.
(Rule of ¼) Limit your time on any one question.
Before The Test
During The Test
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Keep track of time. Use your test booklet as
scratch paper. Mark the questions in your booklet
that you skipped
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Check your answer sheet Fill in the entire
circle darkly and completely. Erase it as
completely as possible.
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Subject Test Content
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French German Modern Hebrew Italian Latin
Spanish
Chinese French German Japanese's Korean Spanish
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Subject Test Price and Registration
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International Fee 26
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(Lang. w/ listening 20)
(Additional Test 9)
Total 46 ?
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Can NOT be taken same day as general SAT
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One, two, or three subject test a day.
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