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100
What is the highest score you can get on the SAT?
1600
The national average is around 1029–1050.To be exempt from Talon, you need a 480 on Reading/Writing & 530 on Math.
100
The Boston Saloon was one of the most popular African American–owned establishments in nineteenth-century Nevada. _______ by businessman William A.G. Brown, the saloon was known to offer elegant accommodations and an inclusive environment.
A) Created
B) Creates
C) Creating
D) Create
A) Created
100
Researchers Amit Kumar and Nicholas Epley investigated how _______ In a series of experiments conducted in 2022, they found that people performing small acts of kindness underestimated the positive effect their actions had on others.
A) do people perceive acts of kindness.
B) do people perceive acts of kindness?
C) people perceive acts of kindness?
D) people perceive acts of kindness.
D) people perceive acts of kindness.
100
Though not closely related, the hedgehog tenrecs of Madagascar share basic _______ true hedgehogs, including protective spines, pointed snouts, and small body size—traits the two groups of mammals independently developed in response to equivalent roles in their respective habitats.
A) examples of
B) concerns about
C) indications of
D) similarities with
D) similarities with
100
What is the most populated city in Texas?
Houston
200
What are the sections of the SAT?
Reading & Writing (54 Qs, 64 min) and Math (44 Qs, 70 min)
200
In a painting titled “The Milkmaid” by Johannes Vermeer, the artist prominently features a bread basket, milk pitcher, and bowl. Such quotidian objects, depicted in exquisite detail by Vermeer, a painter celebrated for his naturalism, _______ the daily minutiae of a seventeenth-century Dutch household.
A) was revealing
B) has revealed
C) reveals
D) reveal
D) reveal
200
Louise Bennett (1919–2006), also known as “Miss Lou,” was an influential Jamaican poet and folklorist. Her innovative poems _______ the use of Jamaican Creole (a spoken language) in literature.
A) popularized;
B) popularized,
C) popularized
D) popularized:
C) popularized
200
200
What central Texas university hosts "Dr. Pepper Hour" where students are served ice cream floats made with the beloved soda that was invented in the same town?
Baylor University (also Ms. Knight's alma mater!)
300
When are we taking the SAT this year?
Wednesday, March 4th (try to be in your testing room by 8:50!)
300
“He was just the man for such a place, and it was just the place for such a man.” This line is from Frederick Douglass’s autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845). It’s an example of antimetabole, a writing technique that _______ emphasis by repeating a statement in a reversed order.
A) create
B) are creating
C) have created
D) creates
D) creates
300
300
In editor Lisa Yaszek’s introduction to her anthology The Future Is Female! More Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, Yaszek identifies an increasing sense of _______ feminist mode of writing in the 1970s, in contrast to many woman-authored science fiction stories of the 1920s to 1960s whose politics were less deliberately signaled.
A) a prudently
B) an overtly
C) a cordially
D) an inadvertently
B) an overtly
300
This fantasy adventure comedy film based on a popular game was the US's highest grossing film of 2025, beating Wicked: For Good and Lilo & Stitch.
A Minecraft Movie
400
If you are unsure of an answer, is it better to guess or leave it blank?
Guess!
You don't lose points for wrong answers!
400
400
Jamaican British artist Willard Wigan is known for his remarkable _______ so small that they are best viewed through a microscope, Wigan’s sculptures are made from tiny natural materials, such as spiderweb strands.
A) microsculptures creations
B) microsculptures, creations
C) microsculptures. Creations
D) microsculptures and creations
C) microsculptures. Creations
400
_______ the long-standing trend of overemphasizing teenagers and young adults in research on social media use, scholars have recently begun to expand their focus to include the fastest-growing cohort of social media users: senior citizens.
A) Exacerbating
B) Redressing
C) Epitomizing
D) Precluding
B) Redressing
400
What British monarch is best known for his 6 marriages and his creation of the Church of England?
Henry VIII
500
What should you bring with you to take your SAT?
- charged Chromebook & charger
- School ID
- Jacket (leave hoods & hats off!)
- Snacks/Drinks (cannot be at desk!)
500
In the search for extraterrestrial life, astrobiologists Stuart Bartlett and Michael L. Wong propose that scientists avoid using the term “life.” _______ researchers should use another word: “lyfe.” This new term, they argue, could be used to draw distinctions between the known characteristics of life on Earth and the potentially differing characteristics of lyfe on other planets.
A) Previously,
B) Regardless,
C) There,
D) Instead,
D) Instead,
500
Consider the mechanics of the pinhole camera: light passes through a small hole, resulting in a focused projected image. A ray diagram reveals how this _______ the hole’s small size restricts light to a single ray, all light passing through the hole can only arrive at a single destination, eliminating diffraction and ensuring a clear image.
A) works because
B) works. Because
C) works, it’s because
D) works: it’s because
B) works. Because
500
While recent scholarship has undermined claims that the works of twelfth-century Islamic philosopher Ibn Rushd were _______ other Muslim philosophers of his time, it is indisputable that his location in the Muslim-ruled area of what is now Spain meant that his works were primarily available thousands of miles west of the era’s center of Islamic thought.
A) controversial among
B) antagonistic toward
C) imitated by
D) inconsequential to
D) inconsequential to
500
During his "Love on Tour," how many times did Harry Styles perform in Austin?
6 (and Mrs. Hall went to ALL of them!!!)