Sarah needs to make a cake and some cookies. The cake requires 3/8 cup of sugar and the cookies require 3/5 cup of sugar. Sarah has 15/16 cups of sugar. Does she have enough sugar, or how much more does she need? A. She has enough sugar. B. She needs 1/8 of a cup of [...]
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Here is a good little article with some solid advice on vocabulary prep for the SAT.
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Identify the error, if any, in this sentence: If one is really concerned about starvation and poverty in Africa, you should think about joining the Red Cross in Africa. A. is really concerned B. about C. in D. you should think E. no error This one should not have been too difficult for you. [...]
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The questions are based on the following passage: The ground is full of seeds that cannot rise into seedlings; the seedlings rob one another of air, light and water, the strongest robber winning the day, and extinguishing his competitors. Year after year, the wild animals with which 5 [...]
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Which word best completes this sentence? While the winemakers were exhausted at the end of their first season, they took — in the fact that the vines would require much less effort in the coming years. (A) solace (B) prerogative (C) vagaries (D) urgency (E) divergence When a sentence begins with “while,” you can [...]
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This is a “grid-in” math question (a.k.a., a “student-produced answer”). On these, you do not make a choice; rather, you generate the answer yourself and grid in the response. |4x – 7| = 5 |3 – 8x| = 1 What value of x satisfies both of the equations above? If you’re like me, [...]
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Part of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. One time a candidate for the Democratic nomination for United [...]
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This Newsweek article dispels a few myths out there about the SAT. It also provides some very good advice for future testtakers!
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6 pints of a 20 percent solution of alcohol in water are mixed with 4 pints of a 10 percent alcohol in water solution. The percentage alcohol in the new solution is A. 16 B. 15 C. 14 D. 13 E. 12 If a 6 pint solution is 20% alcohol, then how much alcohol [...]
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The questions below are based on the following passage. “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 [...]
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Which pair of words will work best? There is great unevenness in his later plays; there are moments of the greatest ____ in the midst of great ____. A. lucidity – enlightenment B. frivolity – triteness C. insight – banality D. obscurity – ambivalence E. profundity – wisdom Well, if his later plays demonstrate “unevenness,” [...]
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Time to hone your editing skills today. Here’s a set of Improving Paragraphs questions. The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and [...]
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(A) 3/32 (B) 3/8 (C) 2/3 (D) 1 (E) 3/2 In case you’ve forgotten, the order of operations is as follows: do all work in parentheses first, then do all multiplications and divisions from left to right, then do all additions and subtractions from left to right. Here, then, we’re just going to go down [...]
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Let $ be defined for all nonzero integers a and b such that: What is the value of 2$3? The writers of the SAT math questions love to throw these in on occasion. They’ll invent some mathematical symbol that doesn’t exist in the real world of mathematics. All they’re asking you to do [...]
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Identify the error in this sentence, if any. After you have writtenA a definition in your vocabulary notebook, add a fewB ways to use the word orC a sentence to illustrate it’sD meaning. No errorE One of the most common errors students of mine have made is confusing “its” and “it’s.” We learned in [...]
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