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REVISING/EDITING
Questions 1 – 20
Directions: For questions 1 to 5, you will be asked to recognize and correct errors in sentences or short paragraphs.
1. Read this sentence
Try not to become a man of success Einstein said, but rather try to become a man of value.
Which revision uses proper punctuation to format the quotation?
2. Read this sentence.
Although he was considered handsome and athletic in his youth, King Henry VIII of England become overweight because he enjoyed huge meals of many courses made from exotic ingredients.
Which edit should be made to correct the sentence?
3. Read this paragraph.
(1) Sir Isaac Newton made a number of key discoveries in the seventeenth century that earned him a reputation as the father of modern physics. (2) In 1687, he publishes his three laws of motion, which formed the foundation for the study of mechanics. (3) His first law stated that an object at rest will tend to stay at rest until acted upon by an outside force, while an object in motion will tend to stay in motion until acted upon by an outside force. (4) Newton’s second law explained for the first time how to calculate the amount of force an object generates. (5) The often quoted third law established that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Which sentence in the paragraph should be revised for verb tense consistency?
4. Read this paragraph.
(1) The tale of Grover Cleveland’s secret surgery is one of the most notorious stories about any American president (2) Shortly after beginning his second term, Cleveland took a fishing trip on a private boat from New York to Cape Cod with a group of friends. (3) A secret kept from almost the entire country, Cleveland had a cancerous tumor in his mouth that needed to be removed. (4) A team of six surgeons worked to excise the mass below the deck of the moving ship. (5) Although the procedure was a total success, most Americans didn’t hear the true reason for Cleveland’s bizarre fishing trip for more than twenty years.
Which sentence in the paragraph should be revised to correct a dangling modifier?
5. Read this sentence.
The fifteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brache was famous for both the accuracy of his planetary observations and his artificial nose, which he needed because of a dueling injury.
Which revision of this sentence eliminates the use of ‘to be” verbs?
6. What is the best way to combine sentences 1 and 2 to avoid repetition?
7. Which edit is needed to correct sentence 3?
8. Which revision of sentence 4 eliminates the use of passive voice?
9. Which sentence would best precede sentence 5 to serve as a topic sentence?
10. How could sentence 7 best be revised to clarify ideas and prevent reader confusion?
11. Which edit is needed to correct sentence 8?
12. Which revision best corrects the wordiness of sentence 10?
13. Which sentence is least related to the main idea of the third paragraph and should be removed?
14. How could sentence 2 be revised to communicate all the same main ideas with fewer words?
15. Which of the following sentences would best follow sentence 4?
16. What is the best way to combine sentences 5 and 6 to reduce wordiness and ensure clarity?
17. Which edit is required to correct sentence 7?
18. Which transition would fit best at the beginning of sentence 12?
19. How should sentence 13 be revised to ensure correct comma usage?
20. Which would make the best conclusion to follow sentence 15?
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 this passage mainly about?
22. The word “overran” (line 13) most nearly means
23. What was the importance of the discovery of the remains of the Inca on a mountain peak in Peru?
24. It can be inferred from the passage that the three sets of remains from the 1995 Ampato find were most likely those of
25. Which statement is NOT supported by the passage?
26. Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a reason that the Inca Empire was quickly conquered by the Spanish?
27. Which of the following best tells what this passage is about?
28. When does the yearly migration of the tribes begin?
29. The Bedouin have allowed certain modernizations when those changes
30. Which of the following facts most clearly suggest that the Bedouin have recently shared some of the wealth of Saudi Arabia?
31. Which of the following has had the least influence on the Bedouin lifestyle?
32. The story of the Bedouin elder who recognized a criminal’s footprint was included in order to illustrate
33. Which of the following best tells what this passage is about?
34. What is the approximate number of combinations possible with a 52-card deck?
35. Which of the following happened first?
36. According to the findings of Diaconis and Bayer’s common-sense analysis, if a deck of cards that had been shuffled six times were to be shuffled a seventh time, which of the following is least likely to happen?
37. What is ‘the problem” mentioned in line 33?
38. In Diaconis and Bayer’s fifty-two-dimensional hypercube, each possible point position is
39. The best description for the phrase four score and seven years ago is which of the following?
40. What is the setting of this text?
41. Which war is Abraham Lincoln referring to in the following passage?
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
42. What message is the author trying to convey through this address?
43. Which rhetorical device is being used in the following passage?
…we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that these this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
44. What is the effect of Lincoln’s statement in the following passage?
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate that we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
45. Which of the following best tells what this passage is about?
46. The word “rebuffed” (line 17) most nearly means
47. Which of the following is not mentioned as an invention attributable to Nikola Tesla?
48. The author would most likely agree that compared to Tesla, Edison
49. Which of the following is the primary reason that Tesla quit his job at Edison’s company?
50. What can be inferred about the relationship between Tesla and Westinghouse at the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company?
51. Which of the following best describes what this passage is mainly about?
52. The details in the first and second paragraph suggest that among Americans,
53. The author connects modern entertainment to boredom by suggesting that it causes us to
54. In the third paragraph, the author includes the example about driving on a highway in order to
55. How does Professor Eastwood’s work differ from previous research?
56. Which quotation provides the best evidence to support the claim that our surroundings arc not entirely responsible for triggering feelings of boredom?
57. As used in line 96, the phrase “hard as it may be to hear” most nearly means
Mathematics
Suggested Time: 90 minutes
57 questions
Grid-In Problems
Questions 58-62
Directions: The following five questions are write-in problems. Type in your answer in the space below.
63. Convert 7/20 to decimal form.
64. The value 500,000 + 400 + 5 is
65. If x = 4 and y = 3, what is (x + y)2?
66. (√144)(√16) =
67. 1 Knot = 3 Vines
2 Shings = 4 Knots
How many Shings are in 9 Vines?
68. What number is halfway between 2 • (3/6) and 4?
70. -2 + 5(-18 ÷ 3 + 9) – 13 =
71. The area of a square is equal to the area of a circle, whose diameter is 10. What is the length of a side of the square?
72. 4a(3b – 6)
74. In a scaled diagram, 1 inch represents 20 feet. How many square inches on the diagram represent 1 square foot?
75. What is the greatest common factor of 2,240 and 5,360?
76. What is the radius of the largest sphere that can be placed inside a cube of volume 64? (Volume of a sphere is 4/3πr3)
77. The perimeter of a rectangular rug is 42 feet. If the width is 3 feet, what is the area of the rug?
78. Warren has paint in 7 different colors. If he paints one side of a sheet of wood one color and the other side with another color, how many different ways can he paint the sheet of wood?
79. Richard walks at 330 feet per hour. At 1 p.m., he starts to walk laps around a circular lake with a diameter of 280 feet. At what time will he finish 2 full laps around the lake? (use π = 22/7)
80. Terry has 21 coins (quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies) with a total value $1.91. He spends 4 quarters, 2 dimes, 6 nickels and 6 pennies on some candy. Which coins does Terry have left?
81. Shania works 8 hours a day at a sandwich shop. This does not include a 45-minute lunch break. If she starts working at 7:25 a.m. and takes her lunch break at 1:15 p.m., at what time does she finish working?
82. If there is a 40% chance of rain on Tuesday and a 60% chance of rain on Wednesday, what is the probability of rain on at least one of the two days?
83. R = 3 • 3 • 7 • 11
S = 3 • 5• 7 • 7
What is the least common multiple of R and S?
84. If x = 2 and y = 4, then xy / yx =
85. In a certain month, Irene earned three times as much as Jan earned. Jan earned half as much as Kevin earned. If Irene, Jan, and Kevin earned a total of $180, How much did Kevin earn?
86. There are 108 apples to be placed into baskets. Each basket can hold 14 apples and every basket are filled except the last basket. How many apples are in the last basket?
87.
90. If the product of 3 and x is equal to 2 less than y, which of the following must be true?
91. The graph above represents the number of applications submitted to Ivy State College each year for a six-year period. If the number of applications increases from 2018 to 2019 by the same percent as they increased from 2013 to 2014, how many applications will be submitted to Ivy State College in 2019?
93. Nadia put 23 coins (nickels, dimes, and pennies) with a total value of $1.22 into a jar. She removed seven dimes, seven nickels, and seven pennies. Which coins remain in the jar?
94. An internet café charges a one-time $2.00 connection fee plus $0.15 for each 256 Kilobyte (KB) of data used. Stella’s session cost exactly $20.00, how many Megabytes (MB) of data did she use during this session? (1 MB = 1,024 KB)
95. Twelve index cards, numbered 2 through 13, are placed in an empty box. If one card is randomly drawn from the box, what is the probability that a prime number will be on the card?
96. A class of 40 students is to be divided into smaller groups. If each group is to contain 3, 4, or 5 people, what is the largest number of groups possible?
97. A triangle’s two sides have lengths 8 and 12. Which value below CANNOT be the length of the third side of the triangle?
98. A rectangular bedroom has length of 2x ft and a width of 5x ft. A rectangular living room has a length of 3x2 ft and a width of 8 ft. In terms of x, how much more carpeting does she need for her living room than her bedroom?
100. In the figure above, A and B are points along the circumference of a circle with center O. What is the area of the sector?
101. In an office, there are 50 workers. A total of 60% of workers are women, and the chances of a woman wearing a skirt is 50%. If no men wear skirts, how many workers are wearing skirts?
102. Ten students take a test. Five students get a 50. Four students get a 70. If the average score is 55, what was the last student’s score?
103. A company invests $50,000 in a building where they can produce saws. If the cost of producing one saw is $40, then which function expresses the amount of money the company pays? The variable y is the money paid and x is the number of saws produced?
104. A six-sided die is rolled. What is the probability that the roll is 1 or 2?
105. A line passes through the origin and through the point (-3,4). What is the slope of the line?
106. An equilateral triangle has a perimeter of 18 feet. If a square whose sides have the same length as one side of the triangle is built, what will be the area of the square?
108. Katie works at a clothing company and sold 192 shirts over the weekend. 1/3 of the shirts that were sold were patterned, and the rest were solid. Which mathematical expression would calculate the number of solid shirts Katie sold over the weekend?
109. Which measure for the center of a small sample set is most affected by outliers?
110. There are x seats in the Ralston Theater and y seats in the Baker Theater. The Baker Theater has 3 more than twice as many seats as the Ralston Theater. What is the value of y in terms of x?
111. What is the probability of randomly picking the winner and runner-up from a race of 4 horses and distinguishing which is the winner?
112. Which of the following could be used in the classroom to show 3/7 < 5/6 is a true statement?
113. One side of a square is 10 units long and lies on the y-axis of a coordinate system. Another side of the square lies on the x-axis of the coordinate system. What must be the coordinates of one corner of this square?
114. Add 1.001 + 5.629