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Registration deadlines for the SAT this spring:
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|Feb. 10, 2010
|Mar. 13, 2010
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|Mar. 31, 2010
|May 1, 2010
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|May 5, 2010
|June 5, 2010
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Cost is only $45, and you can register online. Fee waivers are available for homeschoolers if they qualify and have some type of counselor send the form in.
Let's focus now specific types of questions that are asked.
== Sentence Completion Questions ==
== Sentence Completion Questions ==
18 out of 67 questions on the "critical reading" section ask students to "complete the sentence." Thus over a quarter of your score (more than 35%) on this exam depends on how well you can figure out these "fill-in-the-blank" types of questions Let's look at some examples and improve our ability to answer this type of question.
18 out of 67 questions -- more than 25% -- of the "critical reading" section ask students to "complete the sentence" by filling in two missing words. Let's look at some examples and improve our ability to answer this type of question.
Example:
Example:
Once the underdog Republican Scott Brown defeated the favored Democrat Martha Coakley for the U.S. Senate seat long held by the late Democrat Ted Kennedy, it became clear that __________ between the Republicans and Democrats would ___________.
Once the underdog Republican Scott Brown defeated the favored Democrat Martha Coakley win the election for the U.S. Senate seat long held by the late Democrat Ted Kennedy, it demonstrated the __________ between the Republicans and Democrats would likely ___________.
:(A) agreement ... continue
:(A) agreement ... continue
:(B) conflict ... persist
:(B) conflict ... persist
:(C) bipartisanship ... occur
:(C) bipartisanship ... end
:(D) cooperation ... prevail
:(D) cooperation ... prevail
:(E) negotiations ... be unthinkable
:(E) negotiations ... be unthinkable
This type of question is like filling in a jigsaw puzzle. You are given an idea of the "point" or message of the sentence, and then asked to fill in two missing "pieces" or words to complete the sentence. This is no different from having an almost-complete jigsaw puzzle and trying to find the pieces that can fit into and fill the remaining gaps.
It's impossible to complete a jigsaw puzzle until you first understand what the final picture is supposed to look at. The same is true for these sentences. '''Be sure to understand the point of the sentence before trying to fill in the blanks'''.
In the above example, the point of the sentence is that a Republican won a Senate seat that was long held by the opposite party, the Democrats. The contest between Republicans and Democrats was not a friendly one, but one of tension. This immediately points to (B), which uses the word "conflict", as a "fit" for the gap in the sentence.
The key to success on these sentence completion questions are the following:
The key to success on these sentence completion questions are the following: