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Practice Test
Take the practice test, which starts on page 35, to
rein-force your test-taking skills and to be more comfortable
when you take the SAT This practice test will give you a
good idea of what to expect on the actual test However,
the test you eventually take will differ in some ways It
may, for example, contain a different number of reading
passages, and its sections may be in a different order
Although some editions of the SAT may be slightly easier
or harder than others, statistical adjustments are made
to ensure that each score indicates the same level of
performance
Also, this practice SAT includes only six of the seven
sections that the actual test contains Section 4 has been
omitted on this test because it contains questions that
may be used in future editions of the SAT and because it
does not count toward the scores
The practice test will help you most if you take it under
conditions as close as possible to those of the actual test
FINDINGYOUR SCORES
Your raw test scores are placed on the College Board scale of
200 to 800 Use the table on page 63 to find the scaled scores
that correspond to your raw scores on this edition of the SAT
REVIEWINGYOUR PERFORMANCE
After you score your practice test, analyze your performance Asking yourself these questions and following the sugges-tions can help you improve your scores:
❚ Did you run out of time before you finished a section?
Try to pace yourself so you will have time to answerall the questions you can Don’t spend too much time
on any one question
❚ Did you hurry and make careless mistakes? You may
have misread the question, neglected to notice the word
“except” or “best,” solved for the wrong value, orreversed column A and column B in your mind
❚ Were there questions you omitted that you might have gotten right if you had guessed? Did you lose points because of random guessing? Read page 4 again
to determine when guessing might be helpful
❚ Did you spend too much time reading directions? You
should be familiar with the test directions so you don’thave to spend as much time reading them when you takethe actual test
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Time — 30 minutes
25 Questions
Directions: In this section solve each problem, using any available space on the page for scratchwork Then decide
which is the best of the choices given and fill in the corresponding oval on the answer sheet
Notes:
1 The use of a calculator is permitted All numbers used are real numbers
2 Figures that accompany problems in this test are intended to provide information useful in solving the problems.They are drawn as accurately as possible EXCEPT when it is stated in a specific problem that the figure is notdrawn to scale All figures lie in a plane unless otherwise indicated
The number of degrees of arc in a circle is 360
The measure in degrees of a straight angle is 180
The sum of the measures in degrees of the angles of a triangle is 180
b a c
c2 = a2+ b2
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Change inAccount Balance(in dollars)Monday +20
Tuesday −13
Wednesday −16
Thursday +9
Friday −12
3 The chart above shows the dollar amounts that were
added to or subtracted from Sid’s checking account on
each of 5 days According to the chart, the total change
in Sid’s account balance for all five days is equal to the
change in the account balance for which single day?
4 In the xy-coordinate plane, the coordinates of
three vertices of a rectangle are ( , ),1 5 ( , ),5 2
and ( , ).5 5 What are the coordinates of the
fourth vertex of the rectangle?
5 Francis bought a stereo for x dollars and sold it at
a 3 percent profit Which of the following gives the
amount of Francis’ profit?
K m
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6 In the equation above, K is a digit in the three-digit
number 4K8, and m is a positive integer Which of the following could be the digit K ?
(A) 1(B) 3(C) 4(D) 5(E) 7
7 If w x z and w y z, which of the following
statements must be true?
I w < z
II x < y
III y < z
(A) I only(B) II only(C) III only(D) I and III only(E) I, II, and III
6 2 1 3, , ,
8 If k is a number so that the sum of k and any number
in the set above is also in the set, what is the value
of k ?
(A) 5(B) 4(C) 1(D) 0(E) 1
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ground to the bed of a truck What is the slope of the
10 The average (arithmetic mean) of the 8 numbers listed
above is 88 Of the following, which pair of numbers
could be removed from the list without changing the
11 If n k = 64 and n and k are integers, which of the
following could NOT be a value of n ?
13 Four lines are drawn through the center of the rectangle
shown above What fraction of the area of the rectangle
is shaded?
(A) 38(B) 14(C) 18(D) 110(E) 116
14 If 7x is 24 more than x, then x2 is how much more
than x ?(A) 49 − 7(B) 24(C) 14(D) 2 6(E) 6Note: Figure not drawn to scale
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16 If a is greater than 4, then, of the following, which
will always have the least value?
17 A circle of radius 4 and a circle of radius 5 have
exactly one point in common If P is a point on
one circle and Q is a point on the other circle, what
is the maximum possible length of segment PQ ?
18 The sum of five consecutive whole numbers is less
than 25 One of the numbers is 6 Which of thefollowing is the greatest of the consecutive numbers?(A) 6
(B) 7(C) 8(D) 9(E) 10
19 If x( +2) (n x 2) = (x +2) x2 4 for all values
of x, what is the value of n ?
(A) 1(B) 2(C) 3(D) 4(E) It cannot be determined from the informationgiven
20 The coordinates of three points are given in the figure
above Which of the following must be true?
I b = c
II f > e
III a +d = 0(A) None(B) I only(C) I and II only(D) II and III only(E) I, II, and III
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among c classes The school wants to order enough
health textbooks so that each student will have a book
and each class will have 2 extra books How many
health textbooks does the school need to order?
22 When a coin is tossed in an experiment, the result is
either a head or a tail A head is given a point value
of 1 and a tail is given a point value of 1 If the sum
of the point values after 50 tosses is 14, how many of
the tosses must have resulted in heads?
23 If a triangle has exactly one of its vertices on a circle,
which of the following CANNOT be the number of
points that the triangle and the circle have in common?
24 One number is to be selected at random from each
of the lists above What is the probability that both ofthe numbers selected will be less than 5 ?
(A) 19(B) 29(C) 13(D) 49(E) 59
25 How many positive integers less than 1,001 are
divisible by either 2 or 5 or both?
(A) 400(B) 500(C) 540(D) 600(E) 700
S T O P
If you finish before time is called, you may check your work on this section only.
Do not turn to any other section in the test.
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Time — 30 minutes
35 Questions Directions: For each question in this section, select the best answer from among the choices given and fill in the correspondingoval on the answer sheet
Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank
indicating that something has been omitted Beneath the
sentence are five words or sets of words labeled A through
E Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in
the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a
whole
Example:
Medieval kingdoms did not become constitutional
republics overnight; on the contrary, the change
was -
(A) unpopular (B) unexpected
(C) advantageous (D) sufficient
(E) gradual A B C D E
1 The critics reacted to the new book with enthusiasm:
not one of their reviews was -
(A) derogatory (B) professional (C) episodic
(D) didactic (E) unsolicited
2 Marie Curie’s more achievements often
-the contributions of her daughter, Irène Joliet-Curie,
even though each woman won a Nobel Prize for
(E) inspiring complement
3 Oddly, a mere stranger managed to - Joanna’s
disappointment, while even her closest friends
remained oblivious
(A) arouse (B) perceive (C) warrant
(D) discredit (E) misrepresent
4 Although they never referred to it -, the two actors
had a - agreement never to mention the film that
had almost ended their careers
(A) vaguely clandestine
(B) systematically presumptuous
(C) longingly haphazard
(D) obliquely verbose
(E) directly tacit
5 Company employees were quite pleased with their
efficient new work area because it provided an idealclimate - increased productivity
(A) inimical to (B) conducive to (C) shadowed by (D) stifled by (E) precipitated by
6 Crumbling masonry is - of the - that long
exposure to the elements causes to architecture
(A) refutation damage(B) reflective uniformity(C) indicative amelioration(D) denial weathering(E) evidence havoc
7 At bedtime the security blanket served the child as
- with seemingly magical powers to ward offfrightening phantasms
(A) an arsenal (B) an incentive (C) a talisman (D) a trademark (E) a harbinger
8 Military victories brought tributes to the Aztec empire
and, concomitantly, made it -, for Aztecs ingly lived off the vanquished
increas-(A) indecisive (B) pragmatic (C) parasitic (D) beneficent (E) hospitable
9 Unlike sedentary people, - often feel a sense of
rootlessness instigated by the very traveling thatdefines them
(A) athletes (B) lobbyists (C) itinerants (D) dilettantes (E) idealists
10 The researchers were - in recording stories of
the town’s African American community during theDepression, preserving even the smallest details
(A) obstreperous (B) apprehensive (C) compensatory (D) radicalized (E) painstaking
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or phrases, followed by five pairs of words or phrases
labeled A through E Select the pair that best expresses a
relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair
18 MOLT : SKIN ::
(A) shear : wool(B) shed : hair(C) stimulate : nerve(D) fracture : bone(E) prune : tree
19 COURSE : SWERVE ::
(A) ritual : observe(B) consensus : agree(C) topic : digress(D) arrival : depart(E) signature : endorse
20 TABLE : DATA ::
(A) ledger : transactions(B) microscope : specimens(C) flask : liquids
(D) chart : presentations(E) experiment : facts
21 GLUTTON : VORACIOUS ::
(A) stickler : fussy(B) snob : congenial(C) host : kindly(D) defector : national(E) tourist : residential
22 IMMATERIAL : RELEVANCE ::
(A) unnatural : norm(B) superficial : profundity(C) improbable : skepticism(D) polished : refinement(E) questionable : rebuttal
23 DRONE : INFLECTION ::
(A) shriek : screaming(B) thunder : subtlety(C) hush : encouragement(D) carp : castigation(E) sip : thirst
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Questions 24-35 are based on the following passages.
The two passages below discuss the detective story.
Passage 1 was written by Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957),
a British literary critic and writer of detective stories.
Passage 2 was written by Raymond Chandler (1888-1959),
an American writer of detective stories.
Passage 1
As the detective ceases to be impenetrable and infallible
and becomes a person touched with feeling for our
infirmi-ties, so the rigid technique of the art necessarily expands a
little In its severest form, the detective story is a pure and
analytical exercise and, as such, may be a highly finished
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work of art, within its highly artificial limits There is one
respect, at least, in which the detective story has an
advan-tage over every other kind of novel It possesses an
Aristo-telian perfection of beginning, middle, and end A definite
and single problem is set, worked out, and solved; its
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conclusion is not arbitrarily conditioned by marriage or
death It has the rounded (though limited) perfection of a
triolet.1 The farther it escapes from pure analysis, the more
difficulty it has in achieving artistic unity
It does not, and by hypothesis never can, attain the
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iest level of literary achievement Though it deals with the
most desperate effects of rage, jealousy, and revenge, it
rarely touches the heights and depths of human passion
It presents us only with a fait accompli,2 and looks upon
death with a dispassionate eye It does not show us the
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inner workings of the murderer’s mind— it must not, for
the identity of the criminal is hidden until the end of the
book The victim is shown as a subject for analysis rather
than as a husband and father A too-violent emotion flung
into the glittering mechanism of the detective story jars the
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movement by disturbing its delicate balance The most
successful writers are those who contrive to keep the story
running from beginning to end upon the same emotional
level, and it is better to err in the direction of too little
feeling than too much
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Passage 2
In her introduction to the first Omnibus of Crime,
Dorothy Sayers wrote that the detective story “does not,
and by hypothesis never can, attain the loftiest level of
literary achievement.” And she suggested somewhere else
that this is because it is a “literature of escape” and not “a
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literature of expression.” I do not know what the loftiest
level of literary achievement is; neither did Aeschylus or
Shakespeare; neither did Miss Sayers Other things being
equal, which they never are, books with a more powerful
theme will provoke a more powerful performance Yet
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some very dull books have been written about God, and
fairly honest It is always a matter of who writes the stuff,and what the individual has to write it with As for litera-ture of expression and literature of escape, this is critics’
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jargon, a use of abstract words as if they had absolutemeanings Everything written with vitality expresses thatvitality; there are no dull subjects, only dull minds Allpeople who read escape from something else into what liesbehind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be
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argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.All people must escape at times from the deadly rhythm oftheir private thoughts It is part of the process of life amongthinking beings It is one of the things that distinguish themfrom the three-toed sloth I hold no particular brief for the
55 detective story as the ideal escape I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek or The
Diary of the Forgotten Man To say otherwise is to be an
intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living
I think that what was really gnawing at Dorothy Sayers’
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mind was the realization that her kind of detective storywas an arid formula that could not even satisfy its ownimplications It was second-rate literature because it wasnot about the things that could make first-rate literature
If it started out to be about real people (and she could
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write about them— her minor characters show that), theymust very soon do unreal things in order to conform tothe artificial pattern required by the plot When they didunreal things, they ceased to be real themselves Theybecame puppets and cardboard lovers and papier-mâché
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villains and detectives of exquisite and impossible gentility.The only kind of writer who could be happy with theseproperties was the one who did not know what reality was.Dorothy Sayers’ own stories show that she was annoyed bythis triteness: the weakest element in them is the part that
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makes them detective stories, the strongest the part thatcould be removed without touching the “problem of logicand deduction.” Yet she could not or would not give hercharacters their heads and let them make their own mystery.1
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24 In Passage 1, a necessary limitation that Sayers finds in
the detective story is its(A) exclusive concern with the criminal(B) use of illogical plot developments(C) emphasis on violent behavior(D) careless use of language(E) failure to explore emotions and motivations
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detective story for
(A) the suspense it provides
(B) its adherence to a well-defined pattern
(C) its lack of artificiality
(D) the complexity of its situations and characters
(E) its uniquely straightforward style
26 Sayers says that “it is better to err in the direction of
too little feeling than too much” (lines 29-30) because
she believes that
(A) the story should focus on the solution of a problem
(B) real emotions appear contrived in a detective story
(C) a complex plot can provide enough emotional
satisfaction to readers
(D) the expression of too much emotion implies that
the feelings are false
(E) violent passion is not really the cause of most
crimes
27 According to Sayers, as the characters in a detective
story are made more real, the story becomes
(A) more obviously factual
(B) more likely to meet with critical approval
(C) more open to varying interpretations
(D) less emotionally satisfying
(E) less viable as a detective story
28 In the first paragraph of Passage 2, Chandler regards
the distinction between “literature of escape” and
“literature of expression” as
(A) more useful for beginning writers than for
experienced ones
(B) helpful in establishing the true place of the
detective story within the realm of literature
(C) a concept that is less appropriate for critics than
for creative writers
(D) an example of literary criticism that means less
than it appears to
(E) an example of the separation of a story’s structure
from its content
29 Chandler indicates that the detective story is like other
types of literature in that it
(A) offers an alternative to the reader’s own inner
world
(B) evokes a feeling of excitement in the reader
(C) is meant to be instructive as well as entertaining
(D) permits the reader to understand the motives of
fictional characters
(E) accurately reflects a writer’s deepest personal
concerns
30 In context, “properties” (line 73) most nearly means
(A) special capabilities(B) pieces of real estate(C) articles used on stage(D) characteristics(E) titles
31 The primary implication of Chandler’s final sentence
(lines 78-79) is that(A) Sayers’ characters are far more interesting thanSayers herself
(B) the mystery in Sayers’ novels owes too much toher concern with character development(C) too little prior planning went into the writing ofSayers’ novels
(D) authors who are themselves mysterious are able towrite good detective stories
(E) plot evolves from character in a well-writtendetective story
32 What positive element in a good detective story does
each passage emphasize?
(A) Passage 1 emphasizes artistic unity; Passage 2emphasizes a concern for realism
(B) Passage 1 emphasizes tragic potential; Passage 2emphasizes literary greatness
(C) Passage 1 emphasizes emotional impact; Passage 2emphasizes formal precision
(D) Passage 1 emphasizes originality of plot; Passage 2emphasizes ornate style
(E) Passage 1 emphasizes character development;Passage 2 emphasizes escape from reality
33 Passage 2 suggests that Chandler would most likely
view the writers described by Sayers in lines 26-30with
(A) awe(B) envy(C) disapproval(D) amusement(E) tolerance