Ron Woldoff - 1,001 SAT Practice Questions For Dummies

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1. Table of Contents

Between you and your goal is the SAT: a test designed to challenge your ability to remember everything youve learned how to do since freshman year. To clear this hurdle, you need some practice and pointers on how best to answer the questions. This book provides that and more: It goes beyond providing relevant practice questions by showing simple and effective ways to solve challenging SAT problems.

This book serves as an effective standalone refresher of SAT basics or as an excellent companion to the latest edition of SAT For Dummies (Wiley). Either way, this book helps you identify subject areas you need to work on so you can practice them until youre a pro and thus prepare for test day. If you get a problem wrong, dont just read the answer explanation and move on. Instead, come back to the problem and solve it again, this time avoiding the mistake you made the first time. This is how you improve your skills and figure out how to solve the problems correctly and easily. Whatever you do, stay positive.

The challenging problems in this book arent meant to discourage you; theyre meant to show you how to solve and master them.

• Reading comprehension: The SAT gives you five reading passages or pairs of passages along with ten or eleven questions based on each. The questions challenge your ability to discern the purpose of the passage and the significance of the details.
• English/Writing: The SAT also gives you four writing passages, each with eleven questions, that give you the opportunity to correct for grammar, rewrite a phrase for style and clarity, or add or move a sentence for logic and flow. These questions are designed to see how well you write clearly and effectively.

Also, about a fourth of these questions arent multiple-choice: Instead, you fill in the answer. These questions cover the following topics:

• Arithmetic: These questions are based on core arithmetic concepts, including prime numbers, absolute values, decimals, fractions, and ratios. Dont be fooled by their simple nature: These questions can be as challenging as any that you find on the SAT.
• Geometry: Geometry covers basic shapes, such as triangles, circles, and squares. These questions also go into basic 3D solids, including cylinders, boxes, prisms, spheres, and cones.
• Algebra: These questions are extensions of arithmetic, going into exponents, square roots, and numeric sequences. They explore variations of solving for x and linear equations having x and y.
• Word problems: No set of word problems is complete without the two trains coming from Chattanooga. These questions cover those types of problems along with averages, probability, and setting up equations from a story.