Writing Sample
Questions: I essay response
Time: 25 minutes
What is measured? Your essay will be used by admission officers to assess vour writing skills. The exercise is not scored by SAT. but a copy of vour essay is forwarded to each school you request as a score recipient.
Directions: Read the following topic carefully. Take a few minutes to think about the topic and organize your thoughts before you begin writing. Use the scratch paper and pen provided. Be sure that your nandwriting is legible and that you stay within the lines and margins.
Sample Topic: It is better to be safe than sorry.
Assignment: Do vou agree or disagree with the topic statement?
Support your position with one or two specific examples from personal experience, the experience of others, current events, history, or literature.
Multiple-choice Test
Bach question is followed by five answer choices. After you have selected your answer, find the row on the answer sheet numbered the same as the guestion. and till in the circle with the same letter as vour answer. Each guestion has only one correct answer.
Reading Comprehension
Questions: 40 (multiple-choice), based on 6-/ reading passages
Time: 40 minutes
What is measured? Your ability to read guickly and to understand what vou read.
Directions: Kead the passage carelully and then answer the guestions (-3) about it. For each
question. decide on the basis of the passage which one of the choices best answers the question.
We had had a consuming desire to see a pony rider. but somehow or other all that passed us
streaked by in the night. and so we heard onlv a whiz and a hail, and the swift phantom was gone.
But now the driver exclaims, "Here he comes!" Every neck is stretched and every eve strained.
Away across the endless dead level of the prairie a black speck appears against the skv. Soon it becomes a horse and rider, rising and falling, sweeping nearer and nearer, and the flutter of hoots comes faintly to the ear. Another instant a whoop and hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the riders hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited laces and go winging away like a belated fragment of a storm!
1. At the driver's call, the people became more
disappointed
eager
frightened
puzzled
hysterical
2. The people waiting to see the pony rider were most probably
at a hotel
on a grandstand
on a stagecoach
at a farm
in a theater
The land where the people were watching was
flat and treeless
hilly and rocky
desert-like
farmland
cut by deen crevasses
According to the graph, who owns the most CD's?
Bob Cheryl Linda Marion Mike
If 5 + 9 + _ = 6 + 8 + 1, then _=
1 5 6 8 9
If 3/4 of a number is 48, then 1/4 of the same number is
12 16 24 144 192
What is the perimeter of an equilateral triangle if one side of the triangle has the same length as the side of a square with an area of 25?
30 20 15 10 5