SAT Course Jeopardy Challenge

Math

100

On Saturday afternoon, Armand sent m text messages each hour for 5 hours, and Tyrone sent p text messages each hour for 4 hours. Write a formula to show the total number of text messages sent by Armand and Tyrone on Saturday afternoon.

What is 5m +4p?

200

(x²y-3y²+5xy²)-(x²y+3xy²-3y²)

Which of the following is equivalent to the expression above?

A) 4x²y^{2 .}  B) 8xy²-6y²

C) 2x²y+2xy² D) 2x²y+8xy²-6y²

What is C?

300

If 3x-y=12, what is the value of 8^x/2^y?

What is 2^12?

400

If (ax+2)(bx+7) = 15x²⁺cx+14 for all values of x, and a+b=8, what are the two possible values for c?

What is 31 and 41?

500

The Math Section - no calculator requires you to answer this many questions in 20 minutes.

What is 25?

Reading Strategies

100

Talking to the text is also called this. (HINT: It starts with the letter A)

What is annotation?

200

Write 1 way that choice reading will help you to improve your scores on the SAT test.

What is:

vocabulary

comprehension

drawing inferences

other answers as correct?

300

Reading only the first and last sentence of paragraphs or looking for key words or phrases is known as this skill. (HINT: It begins with the letter S)

What is skimming?

400

One strategy to increase your chances of answering correctly is to do what to answer choices that are obviously incorrect?

What is eliminate?

500

Most collegiate texts are written at or above this score (HINT: Think about your reading inventory score)

What is 1200+?

SAT Tests

100

The Social Studies and Science portions of the SAT test your ability to do this with content specific passages.

What is read?

200

Name 3 of the 4 sections of the SAT test.

What are:

Reading

Writing and Language

Essay

Math?

300

The reading section is 65 minutes long and includes 4/5 separate passages to read and answer this many total questions (Answers within 5 will receive points).

What is 52 questions?

400

Instead of asking for you to write an opinion/argument, the new SAT essay prompt requires you to write about how an author develops this.

What is his/her argument?

500

This website provides 20+ hours of personalized SAT practice questions and tests. Working 15 minutes a day on this "academy" will help you to raise your scores.

What is Khan Academy?

Pop Culture and News

100

Name one of the two teams playing in the Super Bowl this Sunday.

Who are the New England Patriots or the Los Angeles Rams?

200

This type of water was featured in photobombs by a model at the Golden Globe awards.

What is Fiji water?

300

The recent government shut down centered on a disagreement about paying for this.

What is a wall at the Southern border?

400

Tom Brady has won this many Super Bowl rings already.

What is 5?

500

Bradley Cooper starred with this famous vocalist in this Academy Award Best Picture movie nomination A Star is Born.

Who is Lady Gaga?

History

100

December 7, 1941 was the day Japan attacked the US at this place.

What is Pearl Harbor?

200

This Supreme Court case desegregated public schooling across the United States.

What is Brown vs. Board of Education?

300

The Gettysburg Address starts, "Four score and seven years ago" and was spoken by this famous US President.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

400

The bus boycott famously begun by Ms. Rosa Parks began in this Southern Alabama city.

What is Montgomery?

500

This Supreme Court case made the phrase "separate but equal" the law of the land.

What is Plessey vs. Fergeson?