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Taking the SAT® I: Reasoning Test

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Scoring and Practice Sections

62 Taking the SAT I: Reasoning Test

Section 2

Five-choiceQuestions

Correct DifficultyAnswer Level1. A 12. B 23. B 24. E 25. B 36. E 37. C 48. C 59. C 4

10. E 511. D 112. C 113. B 214. A 315. E 116. E 317. B 318. B 319. C 320. A 421. A 422. B 523. B 524. E 325. B 326. A 527. E 428. D 429. A 330. D 231. E 432. A 433. C 334. C 435. A 3

number correct

number incorrect

NOTE: Difficulty levels are estimates of question difficulty for a reference group of college-boundseniors. Difficulty levels range from 1 (easiest) to 5 (hardest).

Correct Answers and Difficulty Levelsfor the SAT Practice Test

VERBAL MATHEMATICAL

Section 3

Student-ProducedResponse Questions

Correct DifficultyAnswer Level

16. 15 117. 2100 318. 4 319. 3 or 4 220. 9 321. 2/3, .666 or .667 322. 105 323. 18 424. 7/6, 1.16 or 1.17 425. 35/6 or 5.83 5

number correct(16-25)

Section 6


Correct DifficultyAnswer Level1. C 12. C 13. B 24. D 35. D 36. E 47. A 48. E 59. A 5

10. E 5

number correct

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Section 3

Four-choiceQuestions

Correct DifficultyAnswer Level1. A 22. B 13. A 14. C 15. D 26. C 27. B 28. A 29. A 3

10. D 311. D 412. A 313. D 514. A 315. C 5

number correct

number incorrect

Section 1


Correct DifficultyAnswer Level1. D 12. E 13. E 14. A 25. A 16. B 17. D 28. D 29. A 2

10. C 211. A 312. B 213. B 314. C 315. D 316. C 317. E 318. A 319. B 420. C 521. C 322. C 323. E 424. B 425. D 5

number correct

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Section 7


Correct DifficultyAnswer Level1. D 52. B 43. A 34. E 35. D 36. B 37. A 18. E 49. E 3

10. A 311. C 212. D 313. C 2

number correct

number incorrect

Section 5


Correct DifficultyAnswer Level1. C 12. E 23. A 24. B 35. C 36. E 37. E 48. D 59. B 4

10. A 111. E 212. B 313. D 414. E 315. B 516. C 117. D 318. C 319. B 220. D 321. D 322. D 523. E 424. C 225. A 326. D 327. E 328. B 329. D 230. C 3

number correct

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Score Conversion Tablefor the SAT Practice Test

Verbal Math Verbal MathRaw Scaled Scaled Raw Scaled ScaledScore Score Score Score Score Score

78 800 36 500 56077 800 35 500 55076 800 34 490 55075 790 33 490 54074 770 32 480 53073 760 31 480 52072 740 30 470 52071 730 29 470 51070 720 28 460 50069 710 27 450 49068 700 26 450 49067 690 25 440 48066 680 24 440 47065 680 23 430 46064 670 22 420 46063 660 21 420 45062 650 20 410 44061 650 19 410 43060 640 800 18 400 43059 630 790 17 390 42058 630 770 16 390 41057 620 750 15 380 41056 620 730 14 370 40055 610 720 13 360 39054 600 710 12 360 38053 600 700 11 350 38052 590 690 10 340 37051 590 680 9 330 36050 580 670 8 320 35049 570 660 7 310 34048 570 650 6 300 33047 560 650 5 290 32046 560 640 4 280 31045 550 630 3 270 30044 550 620 2 250 28043 540 610 1 240 27042 540 610 0 220 25041 530 600 –1 210 23040 530 590 –2 200 21039 520 580 –3 200 20038 520 580 and37 510 570 below

Scoring the SAT Practice TestCheck your responses with the correct answers on page 62.Fill in the blanks below and do the calculations to get yourverbal raw score and your math raw score. Use the tableto find your verbal scaled score and your math scaled score.

Get your Verbal Score.

How many verbal questions did you get RIGHT?

Section 2: Questions 1-35 _______________

Section 5: Questions 1-30 + _______________


Total = _______________ (A)

How many verbal questions did you get WRONG?Don’t count questions you omitted.




Total = _______________x 0.25 = _______________ (B)

A – B = _______________Verbal Raw Score

Round Verbal Raw Score to the nearest whole number. __________

Use the table to find your Verbal Scaled Score. _________________

Get your Math Score.

How many math questions did you get RIGHT?





Total = _______________ (C)

How many 5-choice math questions did you get WRONG?Don’t count questions you omitted.



Total = _______________x 0.25 = _______________ (D)

How many 4-choice math questions did you get WRONG?Don’t count questions you omitted.

Section 3: Questions 1-15 _______________x 0.33 = _______________ (E)

D + E = _______________ (F)

C – F = _______________Math Raw Score

Round Math Raw Score to the nearest whole number. __________

Use the table to find your Math Scaled Score. _______ This table is for use only withthe test in this booklet.

You can take either the SAT I: Reasoning Test OR up to threeSAT II: Subject Tests on a given test date or testing period.Register separately for each date you plan to take tests.

We begin mailing Admission Tickets about 8 weeks beforethe test date. About 3 weeks after the test, we mail your scorereport to you, your high school, and institutions you designated.

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The SAT Question-and-Answer Service is available forthe October 12, January 25, May 3, and May 4 test dates.The Student Answer Service is available for all other test dates.

See the Registration Bulletin or www.collegeboard.comfor details.

Test Dates1 Oct. 12 Nov. 2 Dec. 7 Jan. 25 April 5 May 3 June 7Registration DeadlinesEarly (International) N/A Sept. 4 Oct. 9 Nov. 27 N/A March 5 April 9Regular (All) Sept. 10 Sept. 27 Nov. 1 Dec. 23 Feb. 28 March 28 May 2Late (U.S.) Sept. 14 Oct. 9 Nov. 13 Jan. 2 March 12 April 9 May 14

SAT I: Reasoning Test2 • • • • • • •SAT II: Subject TestsCode16 Writing • • • • • •31 Literature • • • • • •47 United States History • • • • • •17 World History • •32 Math Level IC3 • • • • • •53 Math Level IIC3 • • • • • •99 Biology E/M • • • • • •22 Chemistry • • • • • •23 Physics • • • • • •Languages

Reading Only33 French • • • • •34 German •13 Modern Hebrew •14 Italian •42 Latin • •41 Spanish • • • • •

Reading and Listening4

35 Chinese •55 French •54 German •24 Japanese •18 Korean •51 Spanish •56 ELPT (English Language Proficiency Test)5 • •

1Sunday administrations follow eachSaturday test date.

2We recommend that you bring anacceptable calculator to the test center touse on the math sections of this test.

3Some questions on these tests requirethe use of a scientific or graphing calcula-tor. Students who take these tests withouta calculator will be at a disadvantage.

4Available at centers designated forlistening tests (see Registration Bulletin).You MUST register by the late registrationdeadline and bring an acceptable cassetteplayer with earphones to the test centerin order to take one of these tests. On testday, you CANNOT substitute a listeningtest for another test.

5The ELPT is offered at many testcenters in November and January.ELPT is also offered at participating highschools in the United States, U.S.territories, and Puerto Rico on Tuesday,April 22, 2003. Contact your schoolcounselor by February 15, 2003, if youwant to take this test.

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About the Practice TestTake the practice test, which starts on page 35, to rein-force your test-taking skills and to be more comfortablewhen you take the SAT. This practice test will give you agood idea of what to expect on the actual test. However,the test you eventually take will differ in some ways. Itmay, for example, contain a different number of readingpassages, and its sections may be in a different order.Although some editions of the SAT may be slightly easieror harder than others, statistical adjustments are made to ensure that each score indicates the same level of performance.

Also, this practice SAT includes only six of the sevensections that the actual test contains. In this test theequating section is Section 4. This section has been omit-ted because it contains questions that may be used infuture editions of the SAT and because it does not counttoward the scores.

The practice test will help you most if you take it underconditions as close as possible to those of the actual test.

FINDING YOUR SCORES

Your raw test scores are placed on the College Board scale of200 to 800. Use the table on page 63 to find the scaled scoresthat correspond to your raw scores on this edition of the SAT.

REVIEWING YOUR PERFORMANCE

After you score your practice test, analyze your performance. Asking yourself these questions and following the sugges-tions can help you improve your scores:

❚ Did you run out of time before you finished a section?

Try to pace yourself so you will have time to answerall the questions you can. Don’t spend too much timeon any one question.

❚ Did you hurry and make careless mistakes? You mayhave misread the question, neglected to notice the word“except” or “best,” solved for the wrong value, orreversed column A and column B in your mind.

❚ Were there questions you omitted that you might

have gotten right if you had guessed? Did you lose

points because of random guessing? Read page 4 againto determine when guessing might be helpful.

❚ Did you spend too much time reading directions? Youshould be familiar with the test directions so you don’thave to spend as much time reading them when you takethe actual test.

MORE ABOUT SCORING

Your SAT answer sheet is scanned by machine and theoval you filled in for each question is recorded on a com-puter tape. Next, the computer compares the oval filled infor each question with the correct response.

1. Set aside 21/2hours of uninterruptedtime. That way you cancomplete the entire testat one sitting.

2. Sit at a deskor table cleared of anyother papers or books.You won’t be able to takea dictionary, books, ornotes into the test room.

3. Allow yourselfthe specified amountof time for each sec-tion. Have a timer orclock in front of you forpacing yourself on thesections.

4. Have a calcu-lator at hand whenyou take the math sections. This will helpyou determine how muchto use a calculator theday of the test.

5. Read theinstructions on page35. They are reprintedfrom the back cover of thetest book. On test day, youwill be asked to read thembefore you begin answer-ing questions.

6. After you finish, read page 63.

Practice Test Tips

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Section 4, the equating

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