(1)Cicero said, “A room without a book is a body without a soul.” (2) Certainly when I enter someone’s home for the first time, I am likely to gravitate to the bookshelf, in part to glean further insight into the personality of its owner. (3) But now that the family encyclopedia is likely to have [...]
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(1)Cicero said, “A room without a book is a body without a soul.” (2) Certainly when I enter someone’s home for the first time, I am likely to gravitate to the bookshelf, in part to glean further insight into the personality of its owner. (3) But now that the family encyclopedia is likely to have [...]
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In the xy-coordinate plane above, line contains the points (0,0) and (1,2). If line m (not shown) contains the point (0,0) and is perpendicular to , what is an equation of m?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
There’s one very important rule you need to know here in order to answer this question correctly. Lines that are perpendicular to one [...]
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For the next four days, we’ll be picking apart this passage-based reading test. There will be eight questions about it; I’ll give two a day for the next four days.
Source: majortests.com
A stout old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of a
street in Petrograd to the great confusion of the [...]
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Most of you are aware that in 2005, Collegeboard did a major overhaul of the SAT. This article explains some of the differences. Bottom line, the new SAT is a much better indication of college preparedness. Read it here.
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A stout old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of a
street in Petrograd to the great confusion of the traffic and with no
small peril to herself. It was pointed out to her that the
pavement was the place for pedestrians, but she replied: ‘I’m going
5 to walk [...]
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A stout old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of a
street in Petrograd to the great confusion of the traffic and with no
small peril to herself. It was pointed out to her that the
pavement was the place for pedestrians, but she replied: ‘I’m going
5 to walk [...]
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For the next four days, we’ll be picking apart this passage-based reading test. There will be eight questions about it; I’ll give two a day for the next four days.
Source: majortests.com
A stout old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of a
street in Petrograd to the great confusion of the [...]
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The crowd,
which
clamored for the play to begin,
were
surprisingly
A
B
rowdy for
a Broadway
audience
.
No error
.
C
D
E
This question is from Sparknotes.com.
The word “crowd” is a collective noun. It is considered singular, even though a crowd contains numerous individuals. Here, it should say “The crowd, . . ., was surprisingly rowdy. . . .”, not “were.” The answer is (B).
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The projected sales volume of a video game cartridge is given by the function where s is the number of cartridges sold, in thousands; p is the price per cartridge, in dollars; and a is a constant. If according to the projections, 100,000 cartridges are sold at $10 per cartridge, how many cartridges will [...]
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Question for Friday, March 21st, 2008:
From majortests.com comes the following question. This is from the Improving Sentences portion, in which the student first needs to determine whether there is a grammatical error of some sort, and then chooses the option which best corrects the error. If there is no error, the choice will be (A), which is always just [...]
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Question for Thursday, March 20th, 2008
There is no doubt that Larry is a genuine ——- : he excels at telling stories that fascinate his listeners.
(A)
braggart
(B)
dilettante
(C)
pilferer
(D)
prevaricator
(E)
raconteur
Thanks to collegeboard.com for this question.
If you read my article You Complete Me then you might remember how persistently I emphasized the need for extensive vocabulary [...]
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“Should I guess on SAT multiple choice questions?” “Is there a penalty for guessing?” For answers to these questions, and others, go to http://testprep.about.com/od/satfaqs/f/ShowingScores.htm.
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So you think YOU’VE got it bad?? Check out these sample questions taken from the very first standardized college entrance exam from the Collegboard, which came out in 1901. Glad I’m tutoring now!!!
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