Directions

The following quiz is intended to provide a brief overview of some of the types of math and verbal questions you will find on the SAT. Your final quiz score will be calculated after all twenty questions have been marked with an answer.

Three types of verbal questions will be presented in this quiz: sentence completion, improving sentences and identifying sentence errors. The mathematics section will consist of a series of multiple-choice quesitons.

Sentence Completion

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.

Identifying Sentence Errors

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.

Improving Sentences

The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A; if not, select one of the other choices.

In making your selection, follow the requirements of standard written English; that is, pay attention to grammar, choice of words, sentence construction, and punctuation. Your selection should result in the most effective sentence—clear and precise, without awkwardness or ambiguity.

Mathematics

For the multiple-choice math questions, solve each problem and decide which is the best of the choices given. Mark the appropriate circle next to your answer. You may use any available space for scratchwork.

Reference Information

The number of degrees of arc in a circle is 360.
The sum of the measures in degrees of the angles of a triangle is 180.

Notes The use of a calculator is permitted. All numbers used are real numbers. Figures that accompany problems in this test are intended to provide information useful in solving problems. They are drawn as accurately as possible EXCEPT when it is stated in a specific problem that the figure is not drawn to scale. All figures lie in a plane unless otherwise indicated. Unless otherwise specified, the domain of any function ƒ is assumed to be the set of all real numbers × for which ƒ(×) is a real number