PART 1 — ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

57 QUESTIONS

Suggested Time: 90 Minutes

REVISING/EDITING

Directions: For questions 1 to 5, you will be asked to recognize and correct errors in sentences or short paragraphs.

6. Which edit is needed to correct Sentence 2?

7. What kind of error does Sentence 3 contain?

8. Which sentence would best precede Sentence 4 to serve as a topic sentence for the second paragraph?

9. Which revision makes proper use of commas In Sentence 4?

10. Which transition should be added to the beginning of Sentence 7?

11. Which sentence is least relevant to the content of the rest of the passage and should be removed?

12. Which revision of Sentence 13 best clarifies the use of pronouns?

13. How could Sentence 14 be rewritten to eliminate the use of “to be” verbs?

14. Which revision corrects the use of commas in Sentence 2?

15. Which sentence could be added after Sentence 5 to serve as a conclusion for the first paragraph?

16. Which revision is needed to correct Sentence 5?

17. Which revision corrects the use of passive voice in Sentence 6?

18. What kind of error is present in Sentence 8?

19. Which revision eliminates the dangling modifier in Sentence 9?

20. Which transition sould be added to the beginning of sentence 10?

Reading Comprehension
Questions 21-57
Directions: Analyze the passages below, and answer the commensurate questions. Only use information provided within the passage for your answers. There is only one answer for each question.

21. What is the main idea of the passage?

22. The study in paragraph 4 is used to illustrate:

23. According to the passage, which eighth grader is at greatest risk of criminal behavior?

24. Which of the following is not listed as an issue associated with frequent self-monitoring amongst adolescents?

25. What may also be considered “high-risk behavior” according to its usage in the passage?

26. Lines 21-23 are most likely used as an example of:

27.  What is this passage mostly about?

28. Cauchy defines a duel as:

29. What is one reason provided as to why duels would always have witnesses?

30. Gondebaud is important in the history of the duel because:

31. Duels originated in which country?

32. Dupin is most likely to prefer what modification to dueling practices?

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33. What is this passage mostly about?

34. Which of the locations was not listed as a potential location for the Capital?

35. New York City was rejected most fiercely as the location of the Capital by what group ?

36. At the end of the passage, how many capitals does the author suggest were likely be built?

37. What was the main reason noted by the author for why southerners rejected Philadelphia as the location of the Capital?

38. What does the author imply about the relationship between the north and south at the time directly following the American Revolution?

39.  Which of the following best tells what this passage is about?

40. Why do sea otters leave the water?

41. Which of the following, if it were to occur, could be caused in part by sea otters’ actions?

42. The passage implies that laws were passed banning the slaughter of sea otters because

43. Which of the following situations is most like the one involving sea otters and sea urchins as it is presented in the passage?

44. Which of the following does the passage mention as suffering the most from diminishing sea otter populations?

45. Which of the following best tells what this passage is about?

46. Which of the following best describes the way the second paragraph (lines 20-26) fonctions in the passage as a whole?

47. The passage suggests that before Harrison invented the marine chronometers, others trying to solve the longitude problem

48. Which of the following best describes how Harrison chose the materials used to build his marine chronometer?

49. It can be inferred that if the commissioners charged with awarding the longitude Act prize had not favored astronomers over mechanics.

50. The passage indicates that others took over Harrison’s work in order to

51. What is the main purpose of this passage?

52. Which of the following is not mentioned as a crow or raven found in the contiguous United States?

53. Which of the following is not mentioned as a place where the common raven is found?

54. What does the passage mention as a difference between ravens and crows?

55. According to the passage, crows and ravens are classified as songbirds because

56. The author most likely mentions Bernd Heinrich’s study to make the point that

57. Which of the following is mentioned as a method that ravens are known to use in obtaining food?

Mathematics
Suggested Time: 90 minutes
57 questions‭ – Grid-In Problems
Questions 58-62
Directions: The following five questions are grid-in problems. In lieu of a grid, enter your answer in the box below the question.  

59. The length of a rectangle is 3x – 1 and the width is 3x + 9, while the perimeter is 172. What is the area of the rectangle?

60. A fair coin is flipped 10 times. If the first 9 flips resulted in Heads, what is the chance the tenth flip will result in Heads? Make sure your answer is in decimal form.

61. A construction crane has a boom which extends 50 ft from the base. If the crane is stationed 50 ft from a building, how high up the building wall can the crane reach?

62. If (x – 8) / (x + 3) = 12 , solve for x

Multiple Choice Problems
Questions 63-114
Directions: Select the best answer from the choices given by carefully solving each problem.

63. 3[9÷(-3)] + (-3 – (-8)] =

64. If (2000/2x) = 10, then what is √x

65. If x = 9, y = -9, and z = -1, what is the valuve of yz + √x + yz – √x ?

66. 1 dollar = 0.5 pillets and 4 coss = 1 dollar .

Lindsey has $20 to spend. She needs to buy exactly 2 pillets. She spends the remaining amount buying coss. How many coss does Lindsey purchase?

67. √100÷ √25 =

68. If x = -8, what is the value of (1/2)|4x – 4| ?

70. If 40% of x is 160, what is x?

71. When d is divided by 7, the remainder is 5. What is the remainder when d + 1 is devided by 7 ?

74. The average of 7 consecutive even integers is 20. What is the median?

75. What is 0.003815 in scientific notation?

76. If q = x + y and x = y + z, what is z in terms of y and q ?

77. What is ((5!)!) / 5! ?

79. It takes 3 cats 3 minutes to catch 3 mice. How many cats are needed to catch 99 mice in 99 minutes?

80. The sum of seven consecutive odd intergers is 749, what is the largest of the seven integers?

81. V = πr²h
Using the formula aboce, if r is doubled and h is divided by 2, what is the ratio of the original volume to the new volume?

82. A yellow cab has a base fare of $3.50 per ride, plus $0.20 for each 1/4 of a mile ridden. If a yello cab costs $22.50, how many miles long was the ride?

83. John works 40 hours a week, and his monthly salary in June was $4,000. In the month of July, John got a 4% raise on his monthly salary. In the month of July, what was John’s hourly rate? (Note: Assume there are four weeks in July)

84. If 8,575 = 5^x • 7^y, what is (xy) – 5 ?

85. When d is divided by 8, the remainder is 3. What is the remainder when d + 3 is divded by 8?

86.Tommy is making a 6 Letter password using only the letters A, B, C, D, E and F. How many different codes can Tommy make, if every letter can only be used once in each code?

87. -5(x – 3) ≥ 20
What is the solution to the inequality shown above?

88. Which number line below shows the solution to the inequality -2 < (x/3) ≤ 2 ?

89. After a 10% increase, a population was 55. What was the population before the increase?

90. The length of a rectangular solid is 10. The width, w and the height, h follow the relationship, w³h³ = 27. What is the volume of the rectangular solid?

93. If A = 3r²h², and (rh) increases by 100%, then the new A is how many times greater than the old A?

95. Set A = {1, 2, 3, a}
    Set B = {2, 4, 5, a², b}
What is A⌒B ?

96. 2√75 – (√25)(√3)

97. Express 0.0345/10 in scientific notation.

98. ☆ × ☆ = 3x, if x is even and negative OR
     ☆ × ☆  = 4x, if x is odd.
     Following the rule above, what is the value of ☆ – 23 ☆ ?

99. y = x³
  The only possible values of x are those in the set { (-1)/3 , 1/2, 1/3 }. What is the maximum value of y ? 

100. What is (x³y²z⁴) / (z³y³) equal to

103. A solution needs 5 mL of saline for every 8 mL of medicine given. How much saline is needed for 45 mL of medicine?

104. x, y and z are consecutive multiples of 5, counting from smallest to largest. What x + y in terms of z?

105. In a certain month, Latoya earned twice as much as Jaclyn earned. Pei-Lin earned three times as much as Jaclyn. If Pei-Lin earned $240, how much did Latoya earn?

106. A particular ball always bounces back to 2/5 of the height of its previous bounce after being dropped. After the first bounce it reaches a height of 175 inches. Approximately how high (in inches) will it reach after its fifth bounce?

107. One bottle contains 500 milliliters of juice. How many liters of juice are there in 24 of these bottles?

108. In a certain school, course grades range from 0 to 100. Adrianna took 4 courses and her average course grade was 90. Roberto took 5 courses. If both students have the same sum of course grades, what was Roberto’s average?

109. Jenny starts a game with twice as many marbles as Keiko. Jenny gives Keiko 5 marbles, but she still has 10 more than Keiko. How many marbles did Jenny have to start with?

110. In a scale diagram, 0.125 inch represents 125 feet. How many inches represent 1 foot?

111. The set of possible values of m is {5, 7, 9}. What is the set of possible values of k if 2k = m + 3 ?

112. The perimeter of a rectangle is 510 centimeters. The ratio of the length to the width is 3:2. What are the dimensions of this rectangle?

113. 1 dollar = 7 lorgs
        1 dollar = 0.5 dalt
Kevin has 140 lorgs and 16 dalts. If he exchanges the lorgs and dalts for dollars according to the rates above, how many dollars would he receive?

114. A box of colored pencils contain exactly 6 red pencils. The probability of choosing a red pencil from the box is 2/7. How many of the pencils in the box are not red?