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100

What are three things you must remember to take with you the day of the test?

admission ticket, ID, calculator

100

You will always read this before you begin to read the passage

what is the blurb at the beginning?

100

A semi colon is comparable to...

a period

100

The question difficulties progress in what way...

From easy to medium to hard.

100

What is the first name of one of the math instructors that you had during this class?

Alexa, Jeff

200

True or False: You should review all the material that we learned in class on the night before the test.

False: You should do no studying.

200

The 3 types of passages in the Reading section are..

Literature, Hx, Science

200

True or False: The SAT prefers answers be simple.

True

200

what is the equation for a line

y = mx + b

200

The company who facilitated this SAT class is called....

Surfer Math

300

You have _____ amount of minutes to read and answer each passage + questions in the Reading section

13

300

True or False: The questions proceed from easy to medium to hard in this portion of the test.

False

300

what is one strategy you can use to answer these questions?

ex: PoE

300

If you don't know the answer to a hard questions you should..

guess and come back if you have time

300

Julie attended ______ for college.

UCLA

400

In what order of difficulty do the questions in the reading and writing/language portion proceed?

they are mixed up

400

True or False: You should always leave questions blank that you don't know and then return to them after you have completed the ENTIRE reading portion.

False, you should guess before you continue to the next passage.

400

How many passages will appear in this section?

4

400

The main difference between the math sections is that...

In the first you can't use a calculator and in the second section you can.

400

Alicia majored in __________ in college.

math
500
all points on the SAT are worth...

1 point

500

You should do the questions connected to a paired passage in this order.

You would first do all the questions attached the the first passage and then then the ones attached to the second passage, after you read the first and second passages respectively.

500

You should always read the whole passage before answering these types of questions...

main idea, purpose, tone

500

What is one piece of information that is provided to you at the beginning of the math section?

how to find volume of certain shapes, info about triangles/angles/arrays

500
Tom is a _____ teacher.

Math