About the SAT
True or False: Each section is divided into 2 equal length modules, and there is a 10-minute break between the Reading and Writing section and the Math section.
True
Correct the Sentence: Motorcyclists should inspect their helmets and check the motorcycle’s tires before you ride.
Motorcyclists should inspect their helmets and check the motorcycle’s tires before they ride.
Fill in the Blank: A Neapolitan pizza made with San Marzano tomatoes ______ considered more traditional than one made with any other type of tomatoes.
is
Subject: A Neapolitan Pizza
The journey was _____ . (quick / quickly)
quick
Multiple Choice: Consumed in the form of sugars and starches, _____________.
A. the human body uses carbohydrates as its primary source of energy
B. carbohydrates serve as the primary source of energy for the human body
C. the human body’s main source of energy are carbohydrates
D. carbohydrates’ role in the human body is the primary source of energy.
B. carbohydrates serve as the primary source of energy for the human body
True or False: The reading test only consists of passages.
False: There are graphs and tables on the exam as well.
When the team scored a touchdown, the crowd threw (its, their) hats in the air.
their
Multiple Choice: While many spiders use webs to catch their food, others capture prey using hunting or burrowing techniques. Spiders from the family Ctenizidae, often called trapdoor spiders, ______ their burrows with doors, using their silk for hinges.
A. Cover
B. Are covering
C. Will have covered
D. Had covered
A. Cover
He put the dishes away ____ (tidy / tidily).
tidily
Multiple Choice: Though skinny and awkward from the outset, Conan's sense of humor made him a television success.
A) Conan’s sense of humor
B) the sense of humor of Conan
C) Conan had a sense of humor that
D) sensing Conan's humor
C) Conan had a sense of humor that
How long is the reading section?
64 minutes total, two 32-minute sections
Multiple Choice: Photographer Ansel Adams’s landscape portraits are iconic pieces of American art. However, many of the ______ of landscapes were intended not as art but as marketing; a concessions company at Yosemite National Park had hired Adams to take pictures of the park for restaurant menus and brochures.
A. Photographers early photos
B. Photographers early photo’s
C. Photographer’s early photos
D. Photographer’s early photo’s
C. Photographer's early photos
Fill in the Blank: Neither my sisters nor my mother ____ going to sell the house.
is
Correct the Sentence: I have never been more surer of anything in my life.
I have never been more sure of anything in my life.
Correct the Sentence: Though durable and inexpensive, the purchase of plastic material harms the environment.
Though durable and inexpensive, plastic material harms the environment (when it is purchased).
What does it mean when we say the test is "adaptive"
The first module of each section contains a broad mix of easy, medium, and hard questions.
Based on how students perform on the first module, the second module of questions will either be more difficult or less difficult.
Anyone who wants a job should bring (his or her, their) application to me.
his or her
Correct the Sentence: The president or the vice president are speaking today.
The president or the vice president is speaking today.
Correct the sentence: You appear so happily that something great must have happened.
You appear so happy that something great must have happened.
Correct the Sentence: Swimming toward the shore, a little girl was building a sand castle.
Fix 1: Swimming toward the shore, I saw a little girl building a sand castle.
Fix 2: As I swam toward the shore, a little girl was building a sand castle.
List the Four Question Types on the Reading and Writing Test:
Craft and Structure
Information and Ideas
Form, Structure, Sense
Expression of Ideas
Fill in the Blanks: The effects of Dissociative Identity Disorder on ____ victims _____ catastrophic.
its, are
Multiple Choice: In 1881, French chemist Camille Faure redesigned the rechargeable lead-acid battery. Faure’s design greatly increased the amount of electricity that the original battery, which the French physicist Gaston Planté ______ fifteen years earlier, could hold.
A. is inventing
B. will invent
C. had invented
D. invents
C. had invented
Dogs rely on their noses as they can smell (extreme / good) ______. If that is true, why does dog food smell so ________(terrible) ?
extremely well, terrible
Multiple Choice: After missing an easy goal, the crowd booed the soccer player.
A) NO CHANGE
B) The crowd, after missing an easy goal, booed the soccer player.
C) Booing the soccer player, the crowd missed an easy goal.
D) After he missed an easy goal, the crowd booed the soccer player.
D) After he missed an easy goal, the crowd booed the soccer player.