How to Excel in SAT test entrance exam and Practice Free SAT test Sample Questions for 2013

Free SAT test Sample Questions for 2013

After the success of my blogs on Wonderlic Test Sample Questions, Auditing jobs, Administrative Jobs question and Accounting Jobs, now I want to create this blog for readers to do well in SAT test. In my first SAT test blog you learn little bit about the test and in my other coming blogs you will see some practice sample questions.

What is SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) test?

All four-year colleges in the United States require the SAT Reasoning Test for admission. The SAT Reasoning Test was formerly known as either the Scholastic Aptitude Test or the SAT I, and is now commonly called the SAT test. The SAT test has been developed by the College Board to measure the academic skills that will be necessary for success in college.

This test, also known as the SAT Reasoning Test, is used in the application process to colleges and universities in the United States. The SAT test is administered by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) at various locations across the country, and it is developed, published, and scored by the College Board.

 

SAT Process

The SAT test is given seven times a year in the United States. Specific test dates and test locations can be found online on the College Board's website. There are two ways to register for the SAT test, online or by mail. Online registration is completed on the website of the College Board. In order to register by mail, one needs a copy of the SAT Registration Booklet. This booklet can be obtained from a high school counselor, and it contains the registration form and envelope, as well as registration instructions. All fees must be paid when registering, whether online or by mail, and fee information can be found online or in the SAT Registration Booklet.

SAT test New Information

Types of SAT test

The SAT test has three sections: Critical Reading, Mathematics, and Writing.

The Critical Reading section

This lasts for 70 minutes, broken up into two 25-minute sections and a 20-minute section. Students will be presented with passages of varying length, followed by multiple-choice questions. These questions will evaluate the student's ability to complete sentences and evaluate a long passage. Analogies are no longer a part of the SAT test.

 

The Mathematics section

This test last for 70 minutes, broken up into two 25-minute sections and a 20-minute section. Students will be presented with questions in the following content areas: number and operations; algebra and functions; geometry; and statistics, probability, and data analysis. Some of the questions will be in multiple-choice format, while others will require the student to complete the problem on a special grid. Although students will be allowed to use a calculator in the Mathematics section, the test has been designed so that every problem can be completed without a calculator.

The Writing section

 

This is the newest addition to the SAT test; it lasts for 60 minutes, which are divided into 35 minutes of multiple-choice questions and a 25-minute essay. The multiple-choice questions will assess the student's ability to improve sentences and paragraphs, and identify linguistic errors. The short essay section will assess the student's ability to organize and express ideas, develop and support a thesis, and use language appropriately.

Besides the Critical Reading, Mathematics, and Writing sections, there will also be a 25-minute unscored section used to develop future versions of the exam.

The multiple-choice questions in this section may pertain to any of the three content areas. The short essay is always the first section of the SAT test, and the Writing multiple-choice questions are always the last; otherwise, the sections of the exam may be administered in any order. 138 of the questions on the exam will be scored; the raw score is the number of questions answered correctly minus a fraction of a point for every wrong answer. This raw score will then be converted into a scaled score. Students will receive scores for each of the three sections on a scale of 200 to 800. These scores are combined to calculate the total score. The SAT test is offered around seven times every school year at locations around the country.

Latest version of the SAT test:

Total amount of time allotted 

Critical Reading 70 min 

Mathematics 70 min 

Writing (multiple choice) 25 min 

Writing (essay) 25 min 

SAT score calculation

For the critical reading section, the mathematics section, and the multiple choice part of the writing section, the raw score is computed in the following manner. One point is given to each correct answer, and one quarter of a point is subtracted for each incorrect multiple choice answer.

Zero points are given to incorrect student produced responses in the mathematics section.

The raw scores are then converted to scaled scores, which take into account varying degrees of difficulty on different test versions.

For the mathematics and critical reading sections, scaled scores range from 200 (low) to 800 (high). For the multiple choice portion of the writing section, scaled sub-scores range from 20 (low) to 80 (high).

For the essay portion of the writing section, two trained readers each score the essay holistically on a scale of one (low) to six (high). This gives total scaled sub-score that can range from two (low) to 12 (high).

For the writing section of the test, the scaled sub-scores for both the multiple choice and the essay are then combined to give an overall scaled score for the writing section, ranging from 200 (low) to 800 (high).

 

Free SAT test Sample Questions for 2013

Free SAT test Sample Questions 1-30

Each underlined section corresponds to an answer choice. The first underlined section corresponds to choice A, the second to choice B, and so on. Please select the answer choice that either contains an error or select choice E, which is "No error."

Q 1

Whom did you talk to at the information desk at the airport? No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 2

Sona always got into more trouble than me. No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 3

The title of salutatorian goes to whomever has the second highest academic average. No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 4

 Do you feel good enough to go to the store? No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 5

 Bolivar, an idol between his contemporaries, has been the inspiration for many modern revolutions. No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 6

Birds fly south in the winter threw an instinct not completely understood by scientists. No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 7

 No animal has yet been discovered that can "see" infrared light with its eyes. No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 8

 Lying there in the half-dark of my room, I could see my shelf, with my books-some of them prizes I had won in high school. No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 9

 The man who sat beside Ben and I was running for the city council. No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 10

 Whom did you say sent this package? No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 11

There isn't scarcely room on the front steps to pose the entire class for a picture. No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 12

 Haven't none of you seen my dog? No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 13

 I found the expensive vase broken when I first came in the room. No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 14

Mrs. Clement, my English teacher, said that I could of improved my reading comprehension score if I had spent more time reading great literature. No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 15

 If you sign up as a volunteer for the special olympics, you will find that you receive as much as you give. No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 16

"Your themes," said Ms. Buchanan, will be due in class on September 7; late papers will lose one full grade." No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

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Free SAT test Sample Answers and Explanations 1-30

1. E: This sentence is correct as it is written.

2. D: "Than me" in the comparative is incorrect; it should be "than I." This can be deduced by adding a verb to the pronoun to finish the thought: "…than I am," not "…than me am."

3. B: "…to whomever" would only be correct if it is a direct object in all parts of the sentence, e.g. "…to whomever you want." However, in this sentence it is a subject in the prepositional phrase: "… to whoever has…" and thus should be "whoever" so "who" agrees with "has." "Whoever" as subject takes precedence over "whomever" as object.

4. B: How you feel is expressed by the adverb "well," not by the adjective "good," e.g. "I have good feelings."

5. A: "Between" only refers to two, e.g. "Between you and me;" when modifying more than two, as here since "his contemporaries" refers to many people, "among" is the correct preposition.

6. C: The correct spelling of the preposition meaning via or by means of, as it is used here, is "through." "Threw" is the past tense of the verb "to throw."

7. E: This sentence is correct as it is written.

8. E: This sentence is correct the way that it is written.

9. C: "Ben and I" as an indirect object is incorrect: it should be "Ben and me." The correct personal pronoun can be ascertained by removing the added "Ben and:" We would not write "The man who sat beside I," but "The man who sat beside me…" and this does not change when adding another object (Ben).

10. A: "Whom" is used to indicate an indirect object, e.g. "to whom" or "for whom" did you send this package? But this example asks the question, "Who sent this package?" and further specifies "Who did you say it was?" "Who" agrees with "sent," not with "did you say."

11. A: "Scarcely" means "barely" or "hardly;" i.e. it minimizes, indicating very little. Only a positive quantity, like the state of being indicated by "is," can be minimized. A negative, i.e. "is not," cannot be minimized, as nothing exists to be made smaller. Minimizer + negative is akin to a double negative and equally incorrect.

12. B: This is a double negative as written. With the negative "Haven't" goes "any," not "none."

13. D: One comes into a room; one cannot come "in" a room, house, or situation. This is a common usage error. "In" means already there; "into" indicates movement there from someplace else.

14. C: There is no such verb construction as "could of." "Of" is a preposition meaning belonging to or associated with. The subjunctive mood, present perfect tense is "could have." The auxiliary verb "have" indicates the action "improved" here as accomplished in the past (present perfect), and the auxiliary verb "could" indicates the subjunctive mood, expressing possibility as opposed to reality.

15. A: "Special Olympics" is a name, i.e. a proper noun, and hence the initial letters of both words should be capitalized.

16. A: The open-quotation mark is missing before "will be" to show that the dialogue resumes following the non-dialogue insertion of said Ms. Buchanan.

17. D: The close-quotation mark should immediately follow "again" and the question mark should come after it. Punctuation marks such as commas, periods, semicolons, colons, etc. are placed inside of quotation marks when the punctuation is part of the line of dialogue or quotation; however, when the punctuation mark is part of the outer sentence that contains the dialogue or quotation, it is placed outside of the end-quotation mark.

18. A: The contraction of "Who is" is spelled "Who's." The word "Whose," used incorrectly here, is the possessive personal pronoun meaning "belonging to whom," e.g. "Whose coat is this?"

19. E: This sentence is correct as it is written.

20. B: The word "congratulate" is misspelled here with a "d" instead of a "t" as it should be spelled.

21. E: The title Librarian of Congress is capitalized on the U.S. Library of Congress website whether it includes a specific name (e.g. "Librarian of Congress Billington") or not. It is a title similar to President of the United States.* If the sentence read only "the librarian/president," i.e. not a title or referring to a specific individual, "librarian/president" would not be capitalized. (NOTE: This is an exception; so is POTUS.* Normally, when not naming an individual, such terms are lower-case.)

22. C: "Everyone" is a collective noun. To agree with it, the modifying clause should read "because they had worked…" , not "because all had worked…".

23. D: The correct spelling for the intended meaning here is "assent," i.e. agreement. The word spelled "ascent" as it is here means a climb or upward progress, e.g. one's ascent up a mountain or one's ascent to leadership, success, fame, wealth, etc. rather than agreement.

24. C: The correct spelling of the contraction of "it is" has an apostrophe: "It's my turn." "Its" as spelled here is the possessive impersonal pronoun, e.g.: "This coat is missing its buttons."

25. A, Have similar meanings. Both credit and credence can refer to a belief in the truth of something.

26. B, Have opposite meanings. Vintage refers to something old, while novelty refers to something new.

27. C, Have neither the same nor different meanings. To aspire to something is to set it as a goal, while a spire is the pointed top of a building, especially a church.

28. B, Have opposite meanings. To produce something is to bring it into existence, while to reduce it is to take part of it out of existence.

29. B, Have opposite meanings. To abstain from something is to refuse it, while to retain something is to keep it with oneself.

30. A, Have similar meanings. Both of these words can mean to change the purpose or direction of something.

 

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Q 17

 What should I do when the computer says, "Sorry, try again?" No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 18

 "Whose in the office now?" asked Mom. No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 19

Parking her car at the depot, Ms. Jones decided to take the bus to town. No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 20

 In 1936, Adolph Hitler refused to congradulate the great Jesse Owens, winner of four gold medals in the Berlin Olympics. No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 21

 Preserving rare and valuable books is one of the challenges facing the Librarian of Congress. No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 22

 Everyone is excited about graduation because all had worked so hard for it. No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 23

Without saying a word, the major gave a nod of ascent. No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

Q 24

Just as they were about to go to bed, Jane told her mother, "It’s my turn to wind the clock." No error.

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

 Q 25

 CREDIT CREDENCE these words:

A: Have similar meanings.

B: Have opposite meanings.

C: Have neither similar nor opposite meanings.

Q 26

 VINTAGE NOVELTY these words:

A: Have similar meanings.

B: Have opposite meanings.

C: Have neither similar nor opposite meanings.

Q 27

 ASPIRE SPIRE these words:

A: Have similar meanings.

B: Have opposite meanings.

C: Have neither similar nor opposite meanings

Q 28

 PRODUCE REDUCE these words:

A: Have similar meanings.

B: Have opposite meanings.

C: Have neither similar nor opposite meanings.

Q 29

 ABSTAIN RETAIN these words:

A: Have similar meanings.

B: Have opposite meanings.

C: Have neither similar nor opposite meanings.

Q 30

 CONVERT INVERT these words:

A: Have similar meanings.

B: Have opposite meanings.

C: Have neither similar nor opposite meanings.