SAT: 1,001 Practice Questions For Dummies
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1,001 SAT practice questions—at your fingertips
Setting your sights on college? Ready to take the SAT? Get a head start on a high score with 1,001 SAT Practice Questions For Dummies. Inside, you'll find 1,001 practice questions on everything you'll encounter on the SAT. All of the question types and formats are here, so you can study, practice, and increase your chances of scoring higher on the big day.
Whether you're cramming on the go, pulling an all-nighter, or making useful time of study hall, 1,001 SAT Practice Questions For Dummies gives you the practice
you need to prepare for that all-important exam day. So roll up your sleeves, put your nose to the grindstone, and get the confidence to perform your very best.
- Includes free, one-year access to practice questions online
- Offers 1,001 SAT practice questions—from easy to hard
- Tracks your progress, so you can see where you need more help and create your own question sets
- Provides detailed, step-by-step answers and explanations for every question
Approach the SAT with confidence. Everything you need to succeed is a page away.
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About The Author
Ron Woldoff is the founder of National Test Prep, where he helps students achieve their goals on the GMAT, GRE, and SAT. He has taught prep courses at Arizona colleges, and is the author of SAT: 1,001 Practice Questions For Dummies, previous editions of GRE For Dummies, and GRE: 1,001 Practice Questions For Dummies.
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The SAT is a test designed to challenge your ability to remember everything you've learned how to do since your freshman year of high school. The test has undergone some recent changes, so understanding and preparing for the types of questions on SAT are key factors to your success.
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The SAT is a test designed to challenge your ability to remember everything you've learned how to do since your freshman year of high school. The test has undergone some recent changes, so understanding and preparing for the types of questions on SAT are key factors to your success.
Let's say you're the type of person who doesn't make long-term plans, and the SAT is next month or (gulp!) next week. This situation isn't ideal, but it's not hopeless either. Use the following plan to survive the SAT:
Purchase the latest edition of SAT For Dummies and read the chapters that cover the different sections of the SAT.
The first math section on the SAT doesn't allow the use of a calculator. These questions tend to be less math-heavy and more concept-based, and they cover the same topics that you cover in high school.If you're fresh out of math class, you'll probably be fine going through these quickly. However, if you haven't seen some of these topics since freshman year, you may want to work them carefully and pay close attention to the solutions.
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If you encounter a question on the SAT Math exam that gives you the equation of a circle, you'll probably need to convert that equation to the standard circle equation.The following practice questions give you the equation of a circle and ask you to find its radius and center.
Practice questions
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the following information.
The SAT Math exam contains word problems that require you to be familiar with functions. Some questions, like the first practice question, will be a simple matter of plugging in a number. Others, like the second practice question, may be trickier than they appear.
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This equation is a model of projected fish population at a lake, where w represents the number of weeks and f(w) represents the approximate number of fish.
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You are almost guaranteed to encounter a word problem on the SAT Math exam that deals with banking; for example, you may be asked to determine the present value of an account based on its future value, or vice versa.The following practice questions require you to build equations to calculate the present value of a savings account.
The SAT Math exam contains some problems, including word problems, that ask you to set up an equation based on information that you are given. They may look intimidating, but if you approach them logically, you can solve them fairly easily.The following practice questions ask you to set up an equation to find the area of a trapezoid, and to calculate the number of bottles of soda sold based on total sales of water and soda.
A weight capacity question will probably appear on the SAT Math exam in the form of a word problem. The following practice questions give you the weight capacity of a table, and ask you to calculate the maximum number of bottles of soda the table can hold, and then build an equation that supports your answer.
Practice questions
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the following information.
The SAT Math exam will throw some questions at you where you’ll be expected to know how to perform a FOIL operation—where you multiply a polynomial in the order, First, Outer, Inner, and Last.The following practice questions ask you to find the product of two binomials and the value of a variable using the FOIL method.
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If you are confronted by an SAT Math exam question involving time, rate, and distance, there's a handy little formula you can use to solve it: distance equals rate multiplied by time, or D = RT.The following practice questions are a little more challenging because they ask you to find average overall speed; fortunately, it's still all about applying the D=RT formula!
It's very likely that you will encounter some probability questions on the SAT Math exam. The following practice questions ask you to find how much more likely one vehicle will be sold compared to another, and how likely it is that a patron will choose a certain table at a restaurant.
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An auto dealer's lot has 50 vehicles, as shown in this table.
When you encounter a question on the SAT Math exam where you have to find the area of a triangle, you may end up treating it as a 30-60-90 triangle, even if it's equilateral. (Fun fact: an equilateral triangle can be thought of as two 30-60-90 triangles!)The following practice questions ask you to find the area of an equilateral triangle and then to find the area of a right triangle given only its hypotenuse and one of its angles.
Even though quadrilaterals have four sides, they can still look very different from each other. For example, the SAT Math exam may give you a question that involves anything from a square or rectangle, to a rhombus, to a parallelogram, to a trapezoid.The following practice questions ask you to find the areas of a parallelogram and a trapezoid.
The SAT Math exam may ask you to deal with, not a whole circle, but only part of it. For example, you may be asked to find the length of an arc (which is part of the circumference of a circle) or the area of a sector (which is part of the area of a circle).The following practice questions ask you to find the area of a sector as a fraction of the circle, and the circumference of a circle based on the length of an arc.
When you encounter questions on the SAT Math exam that deal with angles in a circle, you may need to convert from radians to degrees, and back. The following practice questions ask you to do just that.
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Both questions are based on the following information: in a circle with center O, points N and P lie on the circle, and angle NOP has a measure of
What is the degree measure of angle NOP?
The SAT Math exam contains questions where you'll need to know how to factor down a quadratic equation. The following practice questions ask you to do that, and then to plug in your solution to solve a given expression.
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What is the value of
if a – b = 1/3 and a + b = 6?
What is the value of p2 + q2 if p2 – q2 = 7 and p4 – q4 = 28?
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Chances are good that the SAT Math exam will ask you to solve a problem involving partial areas. In these questions, you're generally given a shaded area within another area, and asked to calculate just the shaded area.The following practice questions ask you to calculate shaded areas involving circles, squares, and triangles.
The SAT Math exam will probably ask you to calculate the volume of a three-dimensional shape, like a cube, sphere, or pyramid. Or, as in the following practice questions, it will ask you to find the total volume of two combined shapes.
Practice questions
Both questions are based on the following information.
What is the volume of the cotton candy machine in terms of pi?
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If you encounter a question with a graph of a parabola on the SAT Math exam, then you'll probably be dealing with a quadratic function. In the following practice questions, you'll need to find the forms of the equation that are equivalent to a given parabola.
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Which of the following equivalent forms of the equation shows the coordinates of the vertex of the parabola as constants in the equation?
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The SAT Math exam may ask you to graph a system of inequalities. You solve these in the same way as you would for a system of equations: by graphing each inequality and looking for where the shaded regions intersect.The following practice questions ask you to find the areas of intersection on the xy-plane, and then to identify which quadrants will contain them.
The SAT Math exam will probably contain questions about mean and median, but you may not always have to make calculations. Instead, you may be asked to explain the relationship between the mean and median for a set of numbers.The following practice questions ask you to explain why the mean and median are similar and different in two separate cases.
On the SAT Math exam, you may encounter a question that contains not one graph, but two. These kinds of questions ask you to explore the relationship between the two graphs, as in the following practice questions where you compare cold cereal sales in different counties.
Practice questions
Both questions are based on the following information.
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Along with the trigonometric ratios represented by SOH CAH TOA, the SAT Math exam may have a question where you'll have to work with secants, cosecants, or cotangents. Fortunately, it's just a matter of finding the reciprocal of the sine, cosine, or tangent:The following practice questions ask you to do some reciprocal work with a unit circle and a right triangle.
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On the SAT Math exam, you will probably encounter a quadratic function or two, so it’s important to remember that they come in two forms: y = ax2 + bx + c or f (x) = ax2 + bx + c. (Don’t panic; they mean the same thing.)The following practice questions may look scary, but they simply involve a little distribution, simplifying, and plugging in of values.
When you encounter a question on the SAT Math exam that contains radicals, it won't be as simple as "What's the square root of 9?" Instead, radicals will be just one part of the question.The following practice questions may look intimidating, but if you know how to solve radicals, you'll breeze through them.
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What is the value of y in this equation?
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You will probably encounter some questions on the SAT Math exam that deal with systems of equations. In the following practice questions, you're given the system of equations, and you have to find the value of the variables x and y.
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Based on this system of equations, what is the value of
7x + 3y = 4
3x + 2y = 2
Based on this system of equations, what is the value of x + y?
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If you encounter a question on the SAT Math exam that deals with systems of inequalities, you can solve it using the same approach as for a system of equations.The following practice questions ask you to find the minimum and maximum possible values of a y-coordinate in a given solution set.
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In the xy-plane, if a point with the coordinates (c, d) lies in the solution set of this system of inequalities, what is the minimum possible value of d?
You'll probably encounter several questions on the SAT Math exam that require you to work with exponents. The following practice questions deal with like bases, fractions, and exponents in parentheses!
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In this equation, what is the value of x – y?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
What is the value of a in the equation if b2 = 5 and a
A.
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When you run into a math question on the SAT where you need to work with supplementary angles, the special number to keep in mind is 180: this is how much supplementary angles total when you add them together.In the following practice questions, you're asked to combine this property of supplementary angles with some algebra to get your answers.
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The SAT Reading Comprehension exam often contains inference questions, where you make certain conclusions based on what you've read. After reading the following passage, you'll have to infer the author's opinion about a topic discussed in the passage, and also identify the sentence from the passage that best explains your conclusion.
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Some questions on the SAT Reading Comprehension exam will ask you to interpret a chart, graph, or diagram—usually in passages dealing with science and history.The following practice questions are based on a figure extracted from a scientific passage.
Practice questions
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the following information.
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Vocabulary-in-context questions are usually pretty straightforward on the SAT Reading Comprehension exam. As in the following practice questions, you read a passage, and then identify the meaning of a selected word in the context of the passage.Note: the following are excerpts from passages; actual passages are much typically longer.
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The SAT Reading Comprehension exam contains several passages that you will have to read. In some cases, you will have to determine the main or general theme that the writer is trying to convey.After you read the following passage, the practice questions will ask you to identify the main theme, and also point out which sentence best expresses this idea.
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As you'd expect, the SAT Writing and Language section contains several questions that test your knowledge of grammar or punctuation. For each of the following practice questions, you need to read a brief passage, and then decide whether an underlined word or phrase is correct.
Practice questions
Question 1 is based on the following information.
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Some questions on the SAT Writing and Language section will test your logic and organizational skills. You will have to decide whether a passage has expressed the idea in the best way possible.In the following practice questions, you first have to select the best sentence that links two other sentences, and then decide on the best location to insert a supporting quotation.
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The SAT Writing and Language section contains several questions related to parallel structure—that is, whether the parts of a sentence doing a particular job are grammatically consistent. For example, a subject and verb must agree by both being single or plural, and verb tense must also be consistent.In the following practice questions, you have to decide whether the verbs are agreeing in number with the nouns they describe.
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You'll encounter a few vocabulary-in-context questions in the SAT Writing and Language section. As in the following practice questions, you'll have to decide on the best word to use based on the surrounding text.
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Question 1 is based on the following information.The following text is an excerpt from Dendroclimatic Studies: Tree Growth and Climate Change in Northern Forests, by Rosanne D'Arrigo, Nicole Davi, Gordon Jacoby, Rob Wilson, and Greg Wiles (Wiley-Blackwell).
Beginning in March 2016, the SAT has a new format. Question types are different; scoring is different. Check out the following table for a side-by-side comparison of the old and new exams.
Old SAT versus New SAT
Old SAT
New SAT
Critical Reading: 67 questions, 70 minutes
Reading: 52 questions, 65 minutes
Essay: Mandatory, 25 minutes, respond to a prompt with your own point of view and evidence
Essay: Optional, 50 minutes, analyze writing techniques in a passage
Multiple-Choice Writing: 49 questions, 60 minutes
Multiple-Choice Writing and Language: 44 questions, 35 minutes
Mathematics: 54 questions, 70 minutes, divided into 3 sections Calculators allowed for all 3 sections.
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