Bild 1: Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 About the Digital SAT ………………………………………………… 1
Chapter 2 Practice Test 1 ………………………………………………………………………. 13
Reading and Writing Module 1 …………………………………………………………… 14
Reading and Writing Module 2 …………………………………………………………… 26
Math Module 1 ……………………………………………………………………………….. 40
Math Module 2 ……………………………………………………………………………….. 48
Answer Key …………………………………………………………………………………… 55
Answers to Test #1 ………………………………………………………………………… 57
Chapter 3 Practice Test 2 ………………………………………………………………………. 87
Reading and Writing Module 1 …………………………………………………………… 88
Reading and Writing Module 2 …………………………………………………………… 102
Math Module 1 ……………………………………………………………………………….. 116
Math Module 2 ……………………………………………………………………………….. 124
Answer Key …………………………………………………………………………………… 132
Answers to Test #2 ………………………………………………………………………… 133
Chapter 4 Practice Test 3 ………………………………………………………………………. 161
Reading and Writing Module 1 …………………………………………………………… 162
Reading and Writing Module 2 …………………………………………………………… 178
Math Module 1 ……………………………………………………………………………….. 170
Math Module 2 ……………………………………………………………………………….. 196
Answer Key …………………………………………………………………………………… 207
Answers to Test #3 ………………………………………………………………………… 207
Chapter 5 Practice Test 4 ………………………………………………………………………. 239
Reading and Writing Module 1 …………………………………………………………… 240
Reading and Writing Module 2 …………………………………………………………… 254
Math Module 1 ……………………………………………………………………………….. 270
Math Module 2 ……………………………………………………………………………….. 278
Answer Key …………………………………………………………………………………… 295
Answers to Test #4 ………………………………………………………………………… 297
Chapter 6 Practice Test 5 ………………………………………………………………………. 317
Reading and Writing Module 1 …………………………………………………………… 318
Reading and Writing Module 2 …………………………………………………………… 332
Math Module 1 ……………………………………………………………………………….. 348
Math Module 2 ……………………………………………………………………………….. 356
Answer Key …………………………………………………………………………………… 364
Answers to Test #5 ………………………………………………………………………… 365
Bild 2: Reading and Writing Test
Reading and Writing Test
27 QUESTIONS | 32 MINUTES
DIRECTIONS
The questions in this section address a number of important reading and writing skills. Each question includes one or more passages, which may include a table or graph. Read each passage and question carefully, and then choose the best answer to the question based on the passage(s). All questions in this section are multiple-choice with four answer choices. Each question has a single best answer.
1
Allowing goats to graze an area is one potential solution for removing unwanted weeds in terrain that is too rocky and remote to allow for cutting or herbicide spraying. Goats significantly reduce the incidence of the unwanted plants, but must be quickly removed to prevent them from eating everything else as well: goats lack ___________.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) bias
B) prejudice
C) discrimination
D) bigotry
2
Anyone interested in a career in business needs superior communications skills. Not only are they essential to convey ideas to colleagues and explain plans clearly to ensure that work is completed effectively in a timely manner, but they also are needed to make proposals ___________ to clients and potential investors.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) charismatic
B) irresistible
C) attractive
D) fascinating
3
Explaining the coexistence of various plant and butterfly species is ___________ to truly understand the region’s biodiversity and the forces that sustain or reduce it. Such an understanding will help ecologists devise an appropriate plan that maximizes the limited funding available for conservation and that still allows for future development of the area.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) critical
B) perilous
C) condemning
D) analytical
4
The Hagia Sophia, built between 532 and 537 in Istanbul under the orders of the Roman Emperor Justinian I, has been alternately used for different religious purposes since that time. The cultural and historical value of the building and its contents are ___________ as a wealth of splendid and unique details has been added over the centuries since its construction.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) congenial
B) incalculable
C) cumbersome
D) voluminous
5
By analyzing more than one million surface ocean observations from the Drake Passage, the researchers detected subtle differences between the CO₂ trends in the surface ocean and the atmosphere that suggest a strengthening of the carbon sink that is most pronounced during winter. Although the researchers aren’t sure of the exact mechanism driving these changes, it’s likely related to winter mixing with deep waters that have not had contact with the atmosphere for several hundred years. These results contrast with previous findings that showed that the Southern Ocean’s CO₂ sink had been stagnant or weakening from the early 1990s to the early 2000s. “Given the importance of the southern Ocean to the global oceans’ role in absorbing atmospheric CO₂, these studies suggest that we must continue to expand our measurements in this part of the world despite the challenging environment,” says Colm Sweeney, lead investigator on the Drake Passage study.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
A) To emphasize the difficulty of collecting accurate data from the Southern Ocean
B) To illustrate the problems with amassing an adequate database on the Southern Ocean
C) To place the results of the Drake Passage study in the wider context of other studies
D) To highlight the need to correct the problem of CO₂ absorption before it is too late
Bild 3: Reading Test
Reading Test
27 QUESTIONS | 32 MINUTES
DIRECTIONS
The questions in this section address a number of important reading and writing skills. Each question includes one or more passages, which may include a table or graph. Read each passage and question carefully, and then choose the best answer to the question based on the passage(s). All questions in this section are multiple-choice with four answer choices. Each question has a single best answer.
1
Any country, city, or rural village could be, in fact, its own unique tourism magnet. The tourism business, though, is broader than just the destination. Considerations need to be made for transportation, hotels and guest accommodations, and services that link the various components of a trip, such as guide services in national parks or city bus tours.
As used in the text, what does the word “broader” most nearly mean?
A) more pronounced
B) more general
C) more spacious
D) more extensive
2
The following text is from Jane Austen’s 1811 novel, “Sense and Sensibility.”
Many were the tears shed by them in their last adieu to a place so much beloved. “And you, ye well-known trees,” said Marianne, “but you will continue the same, unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade! But who will remain to enjoy you?”
As used in the text, what does the word “insensible” most nearly mean?
A) comatose
B) negligible
C) unaware
D) insentient
