SAT For Dummies

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Ron Woldoff. SAT For Dummies

SAT For Dummies® with Online Practice. To view this book's Cheat Sheet, simply go to www.dummies.com and search for “SAT For Dummies Cheat Sheet” in the Search box. Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Guide

Pages

Introduction

About This Book

Icons Used in This Book

Beyond the Book

Where to Go from Here

Getting Started with the SAT

What to Expect with the SAT

What About the ACT?

So What’s on the SAT?

Signing Up Before Sitting Down: Registering for the SAT

How to register

When to take the test

Special Needs Considerations

Learning disabilities

Physical issues

Financial help

Making the SAT Work for You as a Foreign Student

Examining Your Mind: What the SAT Really Looks For

Scoring on the SAT

Types of scores

Score reporting

Strategies for Success

Starting Early: The Long-Term Phase

Moving Along: The Medium-Term Phase

Getting Closer: The Short-Range Phase

Planning It Out: What to Do the Night Before Your SAT

It’s All You: What to Do the Morning of Your SAT

Bringing the right stuff

Taking control of the tension

Starting off

Focusing during the test

Pacing yourself

It Isn’t You: Testing Under Adverse Conditions

SHOULD YOU TAKE THE PSAT/NMSQT?

Mastering the SAT Reading Test

Getting Acquainted with the SAT Reading Test

Understanding the Reading Section

Managing Your Time with Key Strategies

Getting Each Question Right, Quickly, With More Key Strategies

Answering the Best-Evidence Questions

Putting the Strategies to Use

Starting with the line-number questions

Continuing with the detail questions

Ending with the inference and main idea questions

Taking On the Reading Passages

Distancing with social studies

Blinding me with science

Saving the literature for last

Where It Counts: Practicing the SAT Reading Test

Social Studies Passages

Passage I Answers

Passage II Answers

Science Passages

Passage III Answers

Passage IV Answers

Literature Passage

Passage V Answers

Conquering the Writing and Language Test and Writing a Killer Essay

Gearing Up for the SAT Writing and Language Test

Getting to Know the Writing and Language Test

Managing Your Time with Simple Strategies

Answering the easy questions before the hard questions

Using the 9-minute rule

Nailing the Common Questions

Starting with grammar and punctuation

Getting vocabulary in context

Writing with style, logic, and organization

Switching transitions

Moving in order

Killing It Softly: The SAT Grammar Review

Verb matching

Subject-verb agreement

Noun-pronoun agreement

Easing verb tension

Parallel writing

Casing pronouns

Using punctuation

Wording up

Answers

Taking It Further

Getting It “Write”: Practicing the Writing and Language Multiple-Choice Test

Passage 1

Passage I Answers

Passage II

Passage II Answers

Passage III

Passage III Answers

Passage IV

Passage IV Answers

Preparing for the Essay

Deciding Whether to Actually Write the Essay

Knowing the Assignment

Knowing What the Essay Scorers Look For

Getting Started

Identifying Other Writing Techniques in the Passage

Appeals to logic, authority, and emotion

Diction and tone

Organization

Other techniques

Trying Out a Sample Essay Question

The question

The answer

Reading

Analysis

Writing

Scoring your own essay

Examining graded responses

Response 1: A “poor” essay

Response 2: A “medium” essay

Response 3: A “great” essay

Practicing Essays

Practice Essay I — Momentum: Igniting Social Change

The question

The answer

Scoring your essay

Practice Essay II — Addressing Mathematical Innumeracy

The question

The answer

Scoring your essay

Practice Essay III — Nonsexist Language

The question

The answer

Scoring your essay

Owning the SAT Math Tests

Meeting Numbers Head-On: The SAT Math Tests

Starting with Formulas

Just Gridding

Getting Familiar with the Math Tests

CALCULATING THROUGH IT

Numbers and Operations

Starting with the Basics

Checking out types of numbers

Remembering the order of operations

Simplifying Numbers and Operations

Simplifying prime numbers

Simplifying percents

Simplifying ratios

Simplifying conversions

Simplifying exponents

Simplifying square and cube roots

Simplifying imaginary i

Simplifying projections

Algebra and Functions

Solving for X

Solving for x with a number

Solving for x with a y

Solving for x in a radical

Solving for x in a fraction

Solving for x in a reciprocal fraction

Solving for More Than One X

Solving an absolute value

Solving a quadratic

Solving the difference of squares

Solving an expression

Setting Up Equations

Setting up a story

Setting up a sum of numbers

Setting up interest

Simple interest

Compound interest

Setting up rates of change

Graphing Coordinate Geometry

Graphing a line

Graphing two lines

Graphing an inequality

Graphing a parabola

Graphing a circle

Standard form

General form

Graphing a function

Geometry and Trigonometry

Drawing Basic Shapes

Drawing angles

Right angle

Acute angle

Obtuse angle

Complementary angles

Supplementary angles

Vertical angles

Transversal angles

Drawing triangles

Calculating the area of triangles

Using the Pythagorean Theorem

Saving time with common right triangles

Drawing rectangles and squares

Drawing trapezoids and parallelograms

Drawing circles

Drawing overlapping shapes

Drawing parts of circles

Drawing 3-D Shapes

Drawing rectangular solids and cubes

Drawing cylinders and cones

Volume of a cylinder

Volume of a cone

Drawing spheres

Solving Trigonometry Problems

Solving right triangles with SOH CAH TOA

Solving unit circles and radians

Solving trigonometric equations

Statistics and Probability

Defining the Mean, Median, and Mode

Defining the mean

Defining the median and mode

Defining the range

Defining Probability

Measuring Graph Data

Measuring bar graphs

Measuring circle or pie charts

Measuring line graphs

Measuring scatter plots

Measuring multiple graphs

It’s All You: Taking Practice SAT Exams

Practice Exam 1

Answer Sheets

Section 1: Reading Test

Section 2: Writing and Language Test

Section 3: Math Test — No Calculator Allowed

Section 4: Math Test — Calculator Allowed

Section 1: Reading Test

Section 2: Writing and Language Test

Section 3: Math Test — No Calculator Allowed

Section 4: Math Test — Calculator Allowed

Section 5: The Essay

Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations

Answers for Section 1: Reading Test

Answers for Section 2: Writing and Language Test

Answers for Section 3: Math Test — No Calculator Allowed

Answers for Section 4: Math Test — Calculator Allowed

Answer Guidelines for Section 5: The Essay

Reading

Analysis

Writing

Scoring your essay

Answer Key

Practice Exam 2

Answer Sheets

Section 1: Reading Test

Section 2: Writing and Language Test

Section 3: Math Test — No Calculator Allowed

Section 4: Math Test — Calculator Allowed

Section 1: Reading Test

Section 2: Writing and Language Test

Section 3: Math Test — No Calculator Allowed

Section 4: Math Test — Calculator Allowed

Section 5: The Essay

Practice Exam 2: Answers and Explanations

Answers for Section 1: Reading

Answers for Section 2: Writing and Language Test

Answers for Section 3: Math Test — No Calculator Allowed

Answers for Section 4: Math Test — Calculator Allowed

Answer Guidelines for Section 5: The Essay

Reading

Analysis

Writing

Answer Key

How Did You Do? Scoring Your Practice SAT

Finding Your Reading and Writing Score

Finding Your Math Test Score

Finding Your Killer Essay Score

Recording Your Final Scores

First practice exam

Second practice exam

Third practice exam

Fourth practice exam

The Part of Tens

Ten Mistakes Other Test-Takers Make That You Won’t

You Won’t Forget Your Wristwatch

You Won’t Bubble Everything at the End

You Won’t Let Your Calculator Batteries Die

You Won’t Run Out of Steam

You Won’t Forget Snacks and Water

You Won’t Work the Reading Test Straight On

You Won’t Rush Through the Questions

You Won’t Get Stuck on a Question

You Won’t Choke on the Essay

You Won’t Change Your Morning Routine

Ten Ways to Get the Most from the Practice SATs

Practice an Entire SAT in One Sitting

Practice Not Making Mistakes Under Pressure

Practice with Others in the Room

Practice as a Dress Rehearsal

Practice Your Competitive Edge

Practice Your Test-Taking Strategies

Practice Using the Bubble Sheet

Practice Finding Your Areas of Focus

Review the Practice SAT Answers and Explanations

Review the Practice SAT with Other Students

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z

About the Authors

Dedication

Authors' Acknowledgments

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Years ago, during an early gig as a consultant, I sat at a desk that had a For Dummies book on the shelf. The book was something office related, like SQL For Dummies. I took a sticky note and wrote the word “Ron” with a black marker, then placed the sticky note over the word “Dummies” on the spine of the book, so it read, “SQL For Ron.” It fit nicely.

Since starting my test-prep company, I’ve had students who would go on to do great things, and many have gone on to have amazingly successful careers. You, too, are in this group of future success stories. How do I know? Because you’re on your way to a good school for a college degree, which will open lots of doors, and you’re oh-so-close to getting started. You just need to get past this one hurdle called the SAT.

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