The SAT I
Your
Guide to the SAT I
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The SAT is an essential for all students considering higher education in the United States. This guide will tell you what’s going to be on SAT and how you can best prepare.
Who Will Take These Tests?
Class of 2008 and beyond
What is the SAT I Test?
A required test for all university bound students to test critical reasoning, math, and reading. Most questions are multiple choice but students are required to write a 25- minute essay.
What is on the SAT I Test?
- Short reading passages added
- Challenging math questions, including Algebra II
- Combined essay and grammar section- A total potential score of 2400
- Test time will be 3 hours 45 minutes.
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Frequently Asked Questions About the New SAT I
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Is
there a fee change associated with the test?
What
is the order of the test?
Will
I need to have outside knowledge on the topic to do well on the essay?
Will
the essay increase the time it takes to receive my scores?
Will
colleges still require the SAT II writing test?
Will
all of the math questions be advanced concepts?
How
should I prepare for the SAT?
Math
Algebra II is on the test in four to five questions on the entire exam (less than 10% of the test); for a 600-level math student (who gets about 2/3 of the questions right), Algebra II will count for about 30 points on the SAT.
Critical
The SAT I rest focuses on “Critical Reading.” There will be a reading portion on the SAT which consists of several short passages (100 to 200 words long) with a couple of questions attached to each. We love these bite-size passages because you can find out what you need to know in a snap.
Writing
Writing, the SAT includes an essay question that, in addition to being scored, may be requested by colleges looking for an additional writing sample. We are positively thrilled about this section. The essay is extremely manageable. Do not lose a moment’s sleep here.
The SAT is scored 200 - 800 writing, 200 - 800 math, and 200 - 800 critical reading.
It is a 3.75 hour exam.
Total cost is $41.50.
Traditionally, multiple
graders are assigned to each essay looking for a combination of structure,
grammar, and organization of thought. Each reader will score the essay
independently. If the grades differ substantially, the essay will undergo an
independent review.
The 25-minute essay will always be the first section of the SAT, and the 10-minute multiple-choice writing section will always be the final section. The remaining six 25-minute sections can appear in any order, as can the two 20-minute sections. Test takers sitting next to each other in the same testing session may have test books with entirely different sections.
Will I need to have outside knowledge on the topic to do well on the essay?
Will the essay increase the time it takes to receive my scores?
The College Board is claiming that it won't take any longer.
Will colleges still require the SAT II writing test?
Will all of the math questions be advanced concepts?
No. The advanced math concepts will only account for about 10% of the math questions.
How should I prepare for the SAT?
The Princeton Review-Turkey was there for students and educators when the College Board overhauled the SAT I in 1994, and we're here for you now!
SAT I CoursesOur preparation course
addresses each of the SAT I topics thoroughly:
We offer the best and most complete analysis and instruction in Turkey for critical reading, sentence completion, and error identification sections of the SAT I exam. We can even show you how to get some of these problems correct when you don’t understand the words!
Our reading instruction teaches you how to get the most information from the least amount of text read. Work smarter, not harder!
Our SAT I Math instruction covers every topic on the test from beginning to end. We include both techniques designed specifically for the SAT I and normal math instruction.
Hundreds of practice questions in each of these areas and comprehensive vocabulary list reinforce what you learn in the classroom.
Chart: Current SAT I vs. New SAT I
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SAT |
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10
sections:
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Math |
Content:
Question Types:
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Verbal |
Name
of section will change from "Verbal Reasoning" to
"Critical Reading"
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Writing |
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Testing
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3
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The questions below are
samples of some of the types you will see on the test.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
published her first book and she was sixty-five years old then.
(A) and she
was sixty-five years old then
(B) when she
was sixty-five
(C) at age
sixty-five years old
(D) upon the
reaching of sixty-five years
(E) at the time when she was sixty-five
Answer: B
Directions
The following sentences
test your ability to recognize grammar and usage errors. Each sentence contains
either a single error or no error at all. No sentence contains more than one
error. The error, if there is one, is underlined and lettered. If the sentence
contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make
the sentence correct. If the sentence is correct, select choice E. In choosing
answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.
Example:
Theother delegates
(A)andhim
(B)immediately
(C)acceptedthe
resolutiondrafted
(D)by the neutral
states.No error
(E)
Answer: B
The following passage is
an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and
select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about
particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence
structure or word choice. Other questions ask you to consider organization and
development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written
English.
The questions below are
based on the following passage:
(1) Many times art
history courses focus on the great "masters," ignoring those women who
should have achieved fame. (2) Often women artists like Mary Cassatt have worked
in the shadows of their male contemporaries. (3) They have rarely received much
attention during their lifetimes.
(4) My art teacher has
tried to make up for it by teaching us about women artists and their work. (5)
Recently she came to class very excited; she had just read about a little-known
artist named Annie Johnson, a high school teacher who had lived all of her life
in
(10) There are portraits
and there are landscapes. (11) The thing that makes her work stand out are the
portraits. (12) My teacher described them as "unsentimental." (13)
They do not idealize characters. (14) Characters are presented almost
photographically. (15) Many of the people in the pictures had an isolated,
haunted look. (16) My teacher said that isolation symbolizes Johnson's life as
an artist.
1. In context, which is
the best revision to the underlined portion of sentence 3 (reproduced below)?
They have rarely
received much attention during their lifetimes.
(A) In fact, they
had
(B) Too bad these
artists have
(C) As a result,
these women have
(D) In spite of
this, women artists
(E) Often it is
the case that the former have
Answer: C
2. In context, which of
the following revisions to sentence 7 is most needed?
(A) Delete
"Thanks to".
(B) Move
"Thanks to Bruce Blanchard" to the end of sentence 7.
(C) Delete
"who".
(D) Change
"her" to "Johnson's".
(E) Change the
period to a comma and combine sentence 7 with sentence 8.
Answer: E
3. In context, which of
the following is the best version of sentence 10 (reproduced below)?
There are portraits and
there are landscapes.
(A) (As it is now)
(B) You can see
both portraits and landscapes.
(C) Therefore,
both portraits and landscapes are among her works.
(D) Johnson
painted both portraits and landscapes.
(E) Among them Johnson has portraits and landscapes.
Answer: D
You have twenty-five
minutes to write an essay on the topic assigned below. DO NOT WRITE ON ANOTHER
TOPIC. AN OFF-TOPIC ESSAY WILL RECEIVE A SCORE OF ZERO.
Think carefully about
the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:
A sense of happiness and
fulfillment, not personal gain, is the best motivation and reward for one's
achievements. Expecting a reward of wealth or recognition for achieving a goal
can lead to disappointment and frustration. If we want to be happy in what we do
in life, we should not seek achievement for the sake of winning wealth and fame.
The personal satisfaction of a job well done is its own reward.
Assignment: Are people
motivated to achieve by personal satisfaction rather than by money or fame? Plan
and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue.
Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading,
studies, experience, or observations.
Each sentence below has
one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted.
Beneath the sentence are five words or sets of words labeled A through E. Choose
the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the
meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Example:
Hoping to _______ the
dispute, negotiators proposed a compromise that they felt would be _______ to
both labor and management.
(A) enforce . .
useful
(B) end . .
divisive
(C) overcome . .
unattractive
(D) extend . .
satisfactory
(E) resolve . .
acceptable
Answer: E
The passages below are
followed by questions based on their content; questions following a pair of
related passages may also be based on the relationship between the paired
passages. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in the
passages and in any introductory material that may be provided.
The questions below are
based on the following passage.
"The
rock was still wet. The
animal
was glistening, like it was
still
swimming," recalls Hou
Xianguang.
Hou discovered the
Line 5
unusual fossil while surveying rocks
as
a paleontology graduate student
in
1984, near the Chinese town of
Chengjiang.
"My teachers always
talked
about the Burgess Shale
Line 10
animals. It looked like one of them.
My
hands began to shake."
Hou
had indeed found a Naraoia
like
those from Canada. However,
Hou's
animal was 15 million years
Line 15
older than its Canadian relatives.
Some of the reading
passages in the SAT are as short as a paragraph or two, about 100 words in
length. You will also find one or more pairs of related short passages in each
edition of the test. Such material can be followed by two to five questions that
measure the same kinds of reading skills as are measured by the questions
following longer passages.
Some questions ask you
to recognize the meaning of a word as it is used in the context of the passage.
In line 5,
"surveying" most nearly means
(A) calculating
the value of
(B) examining
comprehensively
(C) determining
the boundaries of
(D) polling
randomly
(E) conducting a
statistical study of